In the 1851 Census at the Brewers Arms in Stanwell St Henry gave his place of birth as Woodbridge Suffolk. Entries of a marriage and subsequent births at St Marys, Woodbridge tie up more or less with names and dates of the family of William taken as at 1841 census in Colchester, but which gives the surname sometimes as Hamilton, and sometimes as Hamblin, and he concluded that it was the same family. In 1814 at the time of the marraige, William was in The Royal Horse Artillery and by 1815 was given as a shoemaker. When he died he was given as a coltbreaker. The records of The Royal Horse Artillery, record a William Hamilton who had joined up aged 20 in 1808 and was discharged in 1814, which ties up with the given at St Marys Woodbridge. This soldier's place of birth is given as Needham, Suffolk.