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Thanks, BC Wench - unfortunately this is still a brickwall I haven't got through (even with a posting in Who Do You Think You Are magazine!). Please leave active if possible - just in case.

Thanks for marriage info for Joseph and Florence. If Ben was deceased at the time, would the St Edmunds register say so? If not, this suggests he was a labourer at age 66?

Thanks to all of you who replied so quickly! linell - I'd never though of trying Worton - obvious now - so I'll see what I can find. markcdodd - the Stone one isn't him (from probate search), and the other 2 seem a bit far away though I will follow up. rockyfowler - these are the details I have. nor...

I have gleaned a lot of information about my great great grandfather, Benjamin Morton, but I have reached the proverbial "brickwall" about the latter years of his life. He was born in Ocker Hill, Tipton in 1836 (baptised 7 February "“ the son of Samuel Morton and Mary Duffell), married Ann Elizabet...