Can anyone with intimate knowledge of the Portsea area in the period 1830-1850 help me trace an ancestor named Joseph Strang? He was born at Clichy in France about 1829, to John and Sophia Strang. Later documents say that John was a surgeon or doctor. Family tradition is that Joseph came from Brighton. I strongly suspect that Joseph was the son of a Scots naval surgeon named John Strang and his wife Sophia, who lived at Hampshire Terrace, Portsea, Portsmouth at the time of the 1841 census. Joseph, although aged only about 12, was not recorded as an occupant of John's house in that census, nor have I found any evidence of Joseph being with John at later censuses. The naval John did finally live in retirement in Brighton. Bob K.