Hi Julie and other members - thinking about the situation, Elizabeth Bassett must have met William Balston sometime before their marriage, in St. Helier, at the end of 1844, and birth of their first daughter in the same town, early the following year; so at the latest in the Spring of 1844. This leaves me with the unanswered question of how the son of an agricultural labourer from Broadmayne in Dorset met the daughter of a mason from Bigbury in Devon; their villages being separated by around 100 miles. Elizabeth was in Bigbury and William was in Broadmayne as late as the Spring of 1841 (when the Census was taken); so, we have a window of 3 years before they married in St. Helier. By 1851, the Bassett family lived in Plymouth. If the Bassetts had moved from Bigbury after 1841, did Elizabeth go with them and meet William Balston there? I would think it more likely that William Balston was living away from his family than Elizabeth. What might he have been doing in Plymouth? Looking for work? Did they go separately and meet in St. Helier; a place where work was available? Did they elope together? I found another marriage for Richard Bassett of Bigbury (the the son of a mason called James Bassett), just before Elizabeth's. Did she follow a brother to St. Helier. Any thoughts?