Hello Chris, Staffordshire Name Indexes website hold the wills of 3 WAKELINs from Uttoxeter - unfortunately not one for Edward snr - including one for a William in 1696 and one for a Dorothy, widow in 1704 - could these perhaps be your Edward snr's parents or grandparents? The National Burial Index shows the burial at Abbots Bromley (pretty close to Uttoxeter) of an Edward WAKELIN on on 9 April 1729 which would fit in pretty well with Edward jnr's apprenticeship records although Staffs Name Indexes also shows several WAKELIN wills in Abbots Bromley so perhaps this is not your Edward. Unfortunately, Uttoxeter records are not very prevalent via the web although a lot of other Staffordshire parishes are. I have not found any PR transcriptions that are available to purchase and there are few WAKELIN of Uttoxeter records on the IGI, Ancestry or FMP. Janet I have been researching my WAKELIN family for some years and have recently found that Edward Wakelin born about 1718 (estimate) was the Edward WAKELIN who founded the silversmiths company in London that eventually went on to become Gerrards. They lived in Panton St, Westminster. Edward's apprenticeship records show that when he became an apprentice in 1730, he was the son of the late Edward WAKELIN, deceased, of Uttoxeter, a baker.