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I was out most of today but did try to follow Robert and his wife Mary Ann back through the censuses and birth registers. They had a lot of children and several died young. Practically all were christened at St Peter and Paul, Ormskirk. But in one census (1851) Robert says he was born in "Alkin", Flintshire. This is, I think, "Halkyn". So, if you do get a subscription to findmypast, I would try to find this:

Name Robert Lloyd
Event Type Baptism
Event Date 04 Jan 1829
Event Place Halkyn, Flintshire, Wales

You can also "pay as you go". I've done this a few times in the past. I don't know whether this site is generally better than ancestry, but in some areas the sites have different amounts of information.

Anyway, I'm wondering whether Robert's father William and Peter were brothers, making Benjamin and Robert cousins. No proof yet, of course.

There was an interesting baptism at St Peter and Paul, Ormskirk in 1837 of a Margaret to a WILLIAM LLOYD and MARY, the only baptism to this couple. Robert's father was dead by 1847, but could the above William be him? In the death registers for Lancashire, a Mary Lloyd is noted as dying in Lathom agd 50 in 1854. There was no burial at the church.

Linda