Hi listers, Some progress has been made, i'm thankful to say! Eli SLADE and Fanny NIXEY’s marriage entry showed his father to be Edward Slade. The familysearch.org website came up trumps where it had Eli correctly indexed as SLADE in the 1841 Census of Westbury in Wiltshire, rather than ancestry's hash of indexing the surname as HEDE. There I found Eli with his father Edward, mother Jane, and sibblings William, Charles and Sarah. This ties up with an Eli SLADE I found in the 1861 Census in Cheshire, and the 1871 Census in Paddington, Eli was said to have been born at Dilton Marsh and Westbury in those censuses, and in both cases his wife Ann was there. Also I found on FreeBMD the death of an Ann SLADE aged 38 in the Oct-Dec qtr of 1872 at Kensington. Eli was recorded as Widower on his marriage record to Fanny on April 7,1873 at St Marylebone, so, at the moment this is all looking very very good. Currently, there is still no sign of anything post 1873 though, no censuses nor deaths for either Eli or Fanny. If anyone should somehow stumble over them, I would dearly like to hear from them! Very best wishes, and thanks to all who have tried to help so far, Jon