I to am descended from John & Sabina via their daughter Maria (c1821-1878) and Charles Pointing. Charles & Maria married in Radstock in 1842(On the marriage cert a witness John Elford (could possibly be either Maria's father or brother)signed with an X.

When Charles died in 1850, the Informant on the death cert was Charles' mother-in-law, Sabina Elford. On the 1851 census Maria and her children are living next door to Sabina and her daughter Hestor and William Dunford in Westfield. Both Maria and Sabina are classed as "paupers"

Colleen