GARSDON is a small village just outside MALMESBURY. The VINCENTS seem to have been mostly agricultural labourers and there are many links by marriage with the STONEHAMS, a family of stonemasons, later to become builders. Both families were prolific and there must be many descendants - probably now dispersed nationwide. Although most of the families remained in Wiltshire throughout the 19th century, a number emigrated to the New World - Canada, New Zealand and Australia (see emigration page). In the 1870's there was quite an exodus on the part of both Stonehams and Vincents to Lancashire, where industrial expansion no doubt offered good work prospects for stonemasons .Noah Walther Stoneham (married to Harriet Louisa Vincent) moved north to Lancaster in the 1870's. Harriet Louisa's sister Sarah Ann Vincent (later to marry James CAMERON from neerby BEETHAM) also accompanied them. In Lancaster Noah Walter settled at SKERTON and established a building firm with an Alfred KNAPP who came from LEA, Wilts, just a few miles from Garsdon and who was married to a third Fanny Vincent, sister to Harriet Louisa and to Sarah Ann. Noah Walther's brother Gilbert Theophilus also joined them to work in the building firm, but later emigrated with his family to South Australia in 1901. So entwined are the two families that I suspect that many descendants have both Vincent and Stoneham predecessors.