Favour requested: If available, I would much appreciate a few moments of someone's time at the Newport Record Office before the weekend. I have been dragooned into doing a presentation this weekend on their ancestors to a sibship that are among my brother's in-laws. (My heart is not really in it.) I am having trouble finding teenagers in the 1841 census - none I look for seem to have living parents! For a William Garnett, born 1824 in the Portsea area, I find two possibilities - a Labourer in Alton and an Upholsterer (apprentice, I think) in an upholsterer's household in West Cowes, each listed as 15. I am somewhat inclined to the second being the lad that 10 years later was an auctioneer in Portsea. I can recommend to the family concerned that they check the Newport RO card index for any mention of William Garnett's apprenticeship, but it would make a more satisfying presentation to know if there is any such indication (or a baptism in the IoW around 1824-6, which would reduce the likelihood that the lad in Cowes is the one I want). If anyone is going to the Newport Record Office before the weekend, and has enough time to check, it would be much appreciated. But not if it prevents anyone's own work, since the family concerned can do it later for themselves.