Whether the other brother, Francis who also was a Carpenter/Wheelwright, ever reached East Sheen in Middlesex we can not yet tell. But we know he marries Elizabeth Hoad (1773-1851) in 1802 at Linchmere, then in the county of Surrey on the border with Sussex, about ten years after his brother married. He and his wife have one daughter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clearly the brothers could not have set out in 1747 more likely, say, the late 1780s. One wonders what prompted them to leave Bosham? The total number of family members at that time was very small, there were only three other surviving grandsons of our original Francis at that time. Maybe the brothers were unable to find work. Historically the family has a long line of Carpenters, Joiners and Wheelwrights. Perhaps too many craftsmen in wood in one small village was just too uneconomic. Whatever their reasons it was a momentous journey, since they ended up being the first family members to live outside the county of Sussex.

 

One wonders what the brothers from rural, coastal West Sussex made of the great metropolis of London. Perhaps the pavements were not "paved with gold", since they both ended up marrying and living back in the Shires (Berkshire/Surrey).