"Anne Chambers" wrote in message news:avdpm8Fi3q9U1@mid.individual.net... Kate wrote: > > > Hi Renia > > Yes I have always noted the "female" and it's a sound idea but in > grandmother's Will he was definitely one of > her grandSONS (all being named) and as she was living with one of Sydney' > brothers, and named her > granddaughter Joanna, their sister, there hardly seems room for doubt > about gender. > > As you suggested I have been constantly searching for information about > West Africa, Sierra Leone, Freetown, I > have not been able to find anything specific relating to who was there on > a personal level. There were > Clergymen, Missionaries, Civil personnel, British Naval vessels trying to > intercept slave ships. I'm even > trying to search cemeteries. I can't even find ships taking passengers to > West Africa at that time. I'm fast > running out of ideas. > At present I'm searching Google books, It seems most documented > information relating to British presence, even > though the coastal area of SL was declared a British Colony around 1808, > came in later years. > > Always willing to listen to any new ideas and I thank you all for trying > to assist. > > Regards, Kate > (Sydney, Australia) > > Ancestry have the image, indexed as Timpson http://search.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/BookView.aspx?dbid=1624&iid=31281_A101442-00047 he is definitely 'son of' David & Elizabeth Simpson -- Anne Chambers South Australia anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com Good one Anne, thanks. I wondered how Family Search IGI had found it, I had searched those records so many times and with variations. Now all we have to do is find him yet again, this time at the end of his life. Regards, Kate (Sydney, Australia)