Hello, Thanks to Peter Calver's "brick wall challenges" in his Lost Cousins Newsletter, I have been trying to find new ways of accessing information about my Rawlins family in Middlesex. Yesterday, I found something that may hold possible clues to the identity of my 3rd great grandfather, Samuel Rawlins, watch finisher, who baptized his three children in Oct 1845 at St. Barnabas Finsbury. As a list member pointed out, this was a "mass baptism" . In searching names I found the family of Samuel Ferdinand Stanley and his wife Mary Rawlins Pinnick Stanley. Most of their children were baptized between 1820 and 1835 at St. Barnabas Finsbury and the address given for most of the baptisms was Rahere Street. Stanley appears to have made stained glass. Looking at records for Mary Rawlins Pinnick Stanley, it seems that she came from Hampshire and was the daughter of a John Pinnick and a Mary Davis Rawlins. The Stanleys moved to Clerkenwell by 1835. Their son Samuel F. Stanley became a watchmaker with two assistants in Clerkenwell. I should add that Alfred James Rawlins, a watchmaker from Portsea, Hampshire was in business in the 1830s in Clerkenwell. While my ancestors were living on Rahere Street some time after the Stanleys, I cannot help noting the connection to St. Barnabas Finsbury. I have looked at Directories for Rahere Street and found no Rawlins listings in the 1840s, however, I would love to find directories online for Middlesex from the 1830s to see if I could actually find an address for the Stanleys. Finally, having researched the baptisms from 10/26/1845 I found four people in the watch and jewelry trade living on Rahere Street, including my ancestors. While most of the records are listed alphabetically, the last few pages of names seemed to have been entered arbitrarily. A few entries from my Samuel Rawlins was an entry for a John Steward and wife Kitty. They baptized two young children, Samuel and James. James Steward Sr. is listed as a watch maker. I have been wondering if this is the same James H. Steward listed later in Loomes' Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World and the same James H. Steward found in the 1851 census. Unfortunately, this entry lists a wife Aquilla and two children born within a year or so of the census. Children and wife listed in the baptism are not found anywhere. The only Kitty Steward that I have found in census records was a 40 year old woman from Ireland visiting relatives in Liverpool in 1841. Perhaps this is the same person, but she appears to be considerably older than the above James H. Steward. I continue to "plug" away at this, If anyone has thoughts I would appreciate it. Usually these brick walls contain surprising twists and turns. Thanks, Bev W