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Edward Dash c 1840 - Steve's 3xgreat grandfather Edward Dash was born in London on 3 November 1818 and baptised at St Ann, Blackfriars on 28 November 1818 to parents Jacob Dash and Charlotte Lawson. Jacob and Charlotte had married in Kensington, London in 1809 where Jacob worked as a labourer, carman and brickmaker. Despite eight out of twelve children dying in infancy, Edward seemed to gain a good education which took him into his adult life and soon demonstrated that he was highly literate and numerate much more so than might be expected as the son of a labourer. As was the times, young Edward became a wheelwright but census records and entries in his notebook show that in the 1840s and 1850s he also involved himself in a number of other occupations such as bookkeeper, grocer and confectioner. He was a committed member of the Baptist church. In the early 1700's Dash (or Daish) families were living in Hampshire in the south of England but later moved to the Isle of Wight.