Averil, we have four mini-threads running here. I am posting replies to your latest four and I expect you will post a reply to each of those. Could I ask, please, that you post each as a reply to the one that it relates to, rather than to your own previous message that you have just posted. That way anyone clicking on the link next to “In Response To:” will be able to find easily which reply goes with which message.

Now I understand the significance of the only son. You have raised a new principle, or I have missed it before. It is so important, and of general application, that I have put it onto a new thread in the hope of attracting comment from a good number of different readers.

I’m not sure what happened in 1802 that John one needed to be alive for, or there again dead, but I notice that Margaret Hutchen, one of the Mrs. Johns, died that year.