Joseph Friswell was my great great great grandfather.
According to what I can find online, he was born in Bedworth, Warwickshire somewhere around 1810, married Elizabeth Matthews at Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire on 20 October 1834, and died in Bedworth at the end of 1894, by which time Elizabeth had pre-deceased him and he was living in the alms houses, which are a bit of a landmark in the town.
It also looks as if he might have livened things up a bit by going to prison for two years in 1852, with others, for going equipped for poaching.
He comes up on four trees on Ancestry, none of which can take me any further back with any degree of certainty or any validated source. There is a suggestion that his parents may be John Friswell and Ann Broadbent, who married at Bedworth on 25 March 1816, almost certainly noticeably after his birth. A John and Ann Friswell certainly took a son Joseph to be baptised at Bedworth, but not until 1 February 1824!
Here he is on the 1861 census:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...&usePUBJs=true
I can't find him on the 1871, so here's the 1881:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...423.1570966371
Any thoughts as to where I might go from here?
Thanks