Having cleverly zapped the original message while intending to reply further There is a reference on 'British Newspapers' to the death of 'Mr Philip Wright, senior verger..' in the Hampshire Chronicle of 20 June 1808 on page 4. As it is 98 words, there may well be something on the lines of 'Born in Heckmondwike/Penzance/ Shoreditch..... he came here with his wife An... ' so it may be worth buying the download of the actual article. Although -as he was living in Burwash for at least 3 weeks before marriage, looking in Sussex seems likely to be fruitful, sometimes church officials were imported from a distance because they knew someone on the staff already. (For instance, Marlow, Bucks, acquired as parish clerk a man from Kingswinford, Staffs, because the vicar's brother in law's brother had connections there. Only his extremely uncommon name- and the fact that i had recently seen the name of his father as parish clerk of Kingswinford, enabled the link to be made. ) EVE Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society