On 02 Mar, les barber <lbarber@fauxdeco.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: > Is Westbury on Trym near Frampton Cotterell? > Was Thomas a hatter also by trade do you know? On 03 Mar, derby2 <derby2@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > I am in Australia, and never having been overseas I cannot > tell you whether Westbury on Trym is near Frampton Cotterell or not but > Josephine Jeremiah will know. Bristol is her stomping ground and she is > on the mailing list. Her knowledge is incredible so I am sure she will > be able to help you, perhaps even tell you Thomas' profession. Hi Les and Debby, How could I resist adding to the thread when I read Debby's kind words this morning:-) Thomas TANNER, who had sons John and Thomas baptized at Henbury in 1815 and 1818, was a labourer. At the 1826 baptism of his son Edwin at Winterbourne, Robert TANNER was a hatter with abode at Watley's End, Winterbourne. The same occupation and abode was listed at the 1836 baptism of his daughter Harriet, but I haven't checked the occupation and abode at the baptisms of the other four TANNER children. To see the locations of Frampton Cotterell and Westbury-on-Trym, take a look at the following page on my web site where you will see Bolton's Map of the Environs of Clifton and Bristol c. 1857: http://www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com/places/bristol/bolton.htm Frampton Cotterell is in the top right-hand corner and Winterbourne is south west of it. Westbury is south west of Winterbourne and Henbury is north west of Westbury. Josephine -- Josephine's Books, Ian's Pages, The Clutton 'Do' and the Glamorganshire Canal. http://www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com