Hi Lesley

I see you are still on the trail of our ancestor James WHITTINGTON. I had found a baptism, in the FOD database, for a James WHITTINGTON son of Thomas WHITTINGTON for 7th May 1809, English Bicknor and had thought that this could be a possible contender. I also found a marriage for Thomas WHITTINGTON and Eleanor LAWRENCE 30 November 1790 in Newland Parish.

On Ancestry, there is someone researching Thomas and Eleanor and they have uploaded a death certificate for Eleanor who died in English Bicknor at mid-day on the 8th October 1838. The informant was Anne WHITTINGTON, her daughter-in-law of Lydbrook. I believe that Anne was the wife of Thomas WHITTINGTON nee BROWN.

We know that there three men named James WHITTINGTON living in different places: Joyford; Coalway and Lydbrook, and you have suggested that the James who married Hannah HORSHAM in 1845 could have been the one who was a single coal miner in 1841 and living in Lydbrook.

Therefore, could Eleanor WHITTINGTON have been his mother and perhaps we can exclude this baptism as being our ancestor?

Dee