On 01/03/2015 08:48, Caroline Bradford wrote: > It certainly doesn't look very hopeful. What else do you know about "your" > Sophia? Nothing! I've tracked back to the marriage on 5 June 1843 in Limehouse of William David JOHNSON, blacksmith, (s of John Plummer JOHNSON, shipwright, and Martha HOPKINS) and Sophia JOHNSON, (d of William JOHNSON, shipwright). Bride and groom were both given as "full age". They are in the 1851 census where Sophia says she was born in Limehouse. Her age is given as 29. I haven't found the family in the 1861 or subsequent censuses. The only entry in the 1841 census that has a daughter Sophia with father William has the mother as Sophia. There's also another daughter, Prudence. William is given as 40 (+/-), master mariner, Sophia snr as 50 (+/-), florist, Sophia jnr as 18 (+/-) and Prudence as 15 (+/-). All were born in Middlesex. Ancestry has a baptism of a Prudence Elizabeth Barlow JOHNSON, d of William (mariner) and Sophia, in Limehouse on 11 Aug 1834 but with no DoB, making her at least 7 in 1841 but possibly older. There is no corresponding Sophia baptised around 1821/1823 or later with a DoB around those years. There are other Sophias in the 1841 census in Middlesex of around the right age but they are working so no help. I've found 16 children with parents William and Sophia between 1816 and 1834, with 8 different occupations for the father ranging from labourer to gold and silver refiner, 5 of the occupations are connected to the water. -- Connie http://oursalmons.wordpress.com/