A Stubborn Brick Wall

[vita]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

Is the Robert born 1789 who you mentioned in your first post as having Thomas's son as a witness at his wedding, the same Robert who I posted in post #22 or a different one? Where and when did he (your Robert) marry, please?
Edit - I see you have already answered the second of these questions!

Sorry, didn't answer first question - don't know, I afraid. Never come across him
until a couple of weeks ago when I saw another researcher asking about him.

[kiterunner]

It does look to be the same Robert whose marriage you mentioned, because his wife is Susanna on the 1841 census:
1841 census ancestry

Kingsbury Street, Marlborough, Wiltshire
Robert Headland 45 Publican Y
Susanna Do 35 Y
Frederecca Do 15 Y
Robert Do 15 Bankers Cl Y
Mary Do 7 Y
Charles Do 5 Y
Susanna Do 2 Y
Eliza Swepson 15 Y
Thomas Gibbons 25 Ind Y

[kiterunner]

Presumably Robert was a widower when he married Susanna?

[kiterunner]

It looks like Robert's first wife was called Hester as there is a baptism on FamilySearch for Robert jr, 3 Sep 1823 at St Mary, Marlborough, Wiltshire, parents Robert and Hester.

[kiterunner]

Robert Headland otp and Esther Arnetta Carpenter otp married by banns 25 Nov 1819 St George Hanover Square, witnesses William Thomas and Mary Ann Davis.

[kiterunner]

You probably have this already, but Christiana Atkinson was baptised 3 Mar 1788 at St Andrew Holborn, parents Thomas and Mary Ann. (From FamilySearch.)

[Shona]

Originally Posted by ElizabethHerts

I see from the non-conformist registers on Ancestry that Thomas and Christiana's children's births were recorded at Uxbridge.

There's also an unnamed daughter buried there on 15 Dec 1813.

[kiterunner]

The baptism of Isaac and Sarah's son John is listed at St Margaret Uxbridge under the surname Edland (transcribed on ancestry as Ealand) - 30 Aug 1781. (Then he was buried at Denham, Bucks, just a few days later. Denham is only a few miles from Uxbridge.)

So anyone who was searching for H*dl*d or something like that, (like me), needs to repeat their searches without the H!

[HarrysMum]

Hello Vita and welcome to GF.

Sorry. it's very early in the morning here and I'm going from one page to another so if this has already been put up, please ignore it...

Thomas Hughes Headland was born 19th Jan 1806 in Uxbridge.
He was the son of Thomas and Christina and grandson of Thomas Atkinson.

Henry William was born 1808
Mary Ann 1810


We then skip to Matilda Jane born in Clerkenwell in 1821, daughter of Thomas and Christiana. No grandfather given on that one.

Vita....have you the images of these? Sometimes the witnesses hold clues.

Edit......there s some mention of witnesses earlier??

[HarrysMum]

Christiana is still have babies in 1831 so not 100% sure if she is the earlier Christina.