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If you look at Public Members Tree on Ancestry - named 'Buckpont'

you will find

James MERRETT - christened at Slimbridge - 12 August 1798

married 1st to Mary WILLIAMS 30 December 1824 in Arlingham (died Dec 1839) - FOD records say Mary WILKINSON

married

Eliza MOORE c1825 - June 1872 in Wheatenhurst District

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FOD records

Marriage at Arlingham - 30 June 1872

James MERRETT age 74, Widower, labourer, Arlingham
father: James MERRETT, Farmer

married

Eliza MOORE age 45, Spinster residence, Arlingham

father: William MOORE, labourer, by banns

witnesses: George & Hannah ANDREWS

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and gives this as well

Eliza MERRETT is on the 1881 Arlingham age 56

1881 Census Arlingham
Cottage

Eliza MERRETT - M - 56 - born Arlingham
Elizabeth Ellen MORE - daughter - unmarried age 18 - Servant, born Arlingham

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FOD records

Marriage at Arlingham - 30 December 1824

James MERRETT - Bachelor, Arlingham
married
Mary WILKINSON - Spinster, Arlingham

by licence

witnesses: Enoch WILLIAMS and Eliza MERRETT

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Gloucestershire Archives - Arlingham - 24 March 1825

Agreement between William VIZARD and James MERRETT for letting two fisheries in the River Severn and other premises at Arlingham

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The Newspaper article from The Argus (Melbourne) - talks about the Murder of Amelia Selina PHIPPS in Arlingham - James MERRETT, brother-in-law of the deceased - and 'The 17 August was what is locally kown as 'Arlingham Feast- and James MERRETT's house in Arlingham

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/5866055?searchTerm=Thomas+John+Griffin+Murderer

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Flickr - have a website + Charles Edward BUTT - triple hanging 1874

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/5046573971/

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The James in the Newspaper article - could be James son of Henry MERRETT in Arlingham - there appear to be 3 brothers farming in Arlingham from Slimbridge, James 1798 - who married Eliza MOORE, Henry c1804 and John - 1801.

1881 Census Arlingham
James MERRETT - 47 - Farmer of 100 acres, born Arlingham
Esther Charlotte MERRETT - 43 - born Stroud (nee PHIPPS)
William PHIPPS - son - 14
Walter - 12
Charles - 10
Ellen - 8
Charlotte - 5
Maurice John - 2

GloucestershireBDM - James MERRETT married Esther C PHIPPS, Stroud, Whitshill St Paul 1866

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FOD records

Baptism at Arlingham 5 Jan 1834

James MERRETT, parents Henry (School Master) & Sarah - residence, Arlingham

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and googling - right up-todate.

T J MERRETT, Oldbury Farm, Overton Lane, Arlingham