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    1. [LON] Brick Wall - GEORGE ROBSON WAGNER
    2. Valerie Bayliss
    3. I have been struggling with this individual for ages. He was a nephew of my 4xgt-grandfather; his parents were James Wagner and his wife Louisa, nee Robson. George was baptised in Feb 1834 at St Saviour, Southwark [with his sister]. I have him in the 1841 census, boarding at a school in Lambeth. After that, he seems to have disappeared: 1 He is not the George Wagner who married Letitia Saffery in 1849 [our George would only have been 15 at the time, and the family details are wrong]. 2 The George Wagner, potman, in Bermondsey in the 1851C is almost 10 years too young, which even by standards of the time makes it unlikely this was my man - though it can't perhaps be ruled out. 3 There is a bankruptcy petition in the London Gazette in 1855-6 and a record of conviction for larceny and housebreaking in 1887, both for a George Wagner, but nothing to tell me if it was George Robson Wagner. 4 There is a possible death in FBMD in 1890; George Wagner, aged 63 - about right - in Fulham. And that's it, except that in 1876-7 he [with his younger brother Henry Robson Wagner, who I have traced] was a co-plaintiff in a family legal action with my 3xgt-grandfather, his first cousin, for which I have a copy of part of an affidavit which gives their full names. I have traced his family in successive cenuses after 1841 and George is not with them. So I'm at a standstill! Any ideas, please? Help very gratefully received! from Valerie in sunny Sheffield UK

    10/30/2011 09:08:52