My ggggrandfather, John Dalton, lived and died in Croydon. However, when he married in 1805, he was possibly living in London as the marriage record stated that he was a member of the parish for what that might be worth. As I have said in earlier posts, his will gave no names of his relatives other than his wife and children. The only other name was that of the executor, his brother-in-law. His death record contained an age that would place his birth about 1774. The problem is that I have yet to find any likely birth of a John Dalton, reasonably near London/Croydon, with one exception. That John Dalton died as an infant according to the parish record for that parish. However, when his first child was born, in Croydon in 1807, he is listed as a joiner. That was also the same occupation on the next two births and then he is listed as a grocer on the following birth records. There is the possibility that his wife was actually the grocer. According to an old map there was a "Dalton's Court" in Croydon and I have always wondered if he was involved in that due to the listing of his being a joiner. He also, at his death, owned several houses in a row. But, the number of houses in Dalton's Court matched the housed he listed in his will. Tax records show that he was obtaining houses early in the marriage but the location is not given. I have spent some time looking to see if there were two Dalton families living in the parish of St. Brides Fleet Street but so far have not found anyone other than ancestors of another Dalton who are not a genetic match to me. The assumption I was working on was that the family moved to St. Brides after his birth. Given that he was listed as a joiner in Croydon for those first three births is there some sort of registration that would have had to happen so he could show that he had completed an apprenticeship before coming to Croydon? Or, might he have been required to have done or something to enter into the trade of grocer in Croydon? If so, where might I look? Bill Dalton, Gig Harbor, USA