Mar quarter 1840 Grabriel appears to marry Sophia WICKSON Thame 16 143 D-I-L often means Step Daughter So it appears Sophia is Elizabeth's mother Ron Lankshear -Sydney NSW (from London-Shepherds Bush/Chiswick) try my links http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lankshear/ On 2011-06-28 6:08 PM, graham rolls wrote: > I hope some kind person can help me with my Brick Wall! > > Elizabeth WICKSON b 30 August 1832 Abingdon Berkshire parents Elizabeth and > Joseph WICKSON.(Non Conformist records). > > She married William SMITH 25th August 1856.in Haseley Oxford > > On the 1841C she was residing with Gabriel and Sophia BILLING in the civil > parish of Great Haseley Oxfordshire. > > On the 1851C she was still living with the above and this time she was > described as Daughter in Law. She was not a Daughter in Law in the modern > sense! so therefore does this mean that she was adopted? because I could not > find any records of her parents.