Apologies in advance for the length, but I wanted to say what I already have. I have a brickwall family of PARTRIDGEs, parents James and Elizabeth (nee VASPER). All their 5 children were baptised at Harmondsworth St Mary's between 1817 and 1825. I know what happened to their 2 sons, James and John, as they both immigrated to South Australia at different times. James was in the Royal Sappers and Miners, and his service papers give as his birthplace "the parish of Pyle in or near the Town of Staines..." I know this is Poyle. I know Elizabeth and her family were from Harmondsworth which could be why her children were baptised there. There were 3 other children, Caroline, Ann and Henry, and I can't find what happened to them, nor can I find definite deaths for James and Elizabeth. There are some perhaps possibles: A James Partridge, died 19 Oct 1844 at Middlesex Hospital. This fits in beautifully with information on John's marriage certificate that his father was dead by Feb 1845....the earlier marriage of his brother, James, in June 1844, does not say he is deceased. There are also discrepancies in the occupations given...Guard in one and Gardener in the other....both very clearly written. The death certificate of the one dying in the Middlesex Hospital says he was a Baker, otherwise I would probably claim him. An Elizabeth Partridge, died 22 Dec 1866 Union Workhouse Isleworth. Right age for mine, and a Garden Labourer. So to help decide, I need local knowledge re whether it is possible that James and Elizabeth were respectively in the Middlesex Hospital and the Isleworth Workhouse, when Staines had its own workhouse. And while I'm on it, I can't find any of the family in the 1841 census...in 1851 John was in Middlesbrough, and James was already carrying out the survey of Adelaide. And I have no idea where James Partridge senior was from or his parentage. Thanks for reading this far. Jan South Australia