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Looking for descendents of John Joseph Hill - born in Holborn in about 1811, and listed as an ironmonger in 1851, an accountant in 1861, and a 'General Agent' in 1871 - and his wife Mary Ann Eckstein (married 1834), born in Holborn in about 1815. Their children were Jacob Pratt Hill (b about 1839), John Edward Hill (b about 1840), Josephine Hill (later Josephine Churchman, b about 1842), Hardy Hill (that might be Masterman Hardy Hill, after the captain of HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, b about 1844), Augusta Hill (later Augusta Waters, b about 1846), Eliza Hill (b about 1850), Claudius Hill (b about 1853), Lucy Hill (b about 1855) and George Henry Hill (b 1860). Also anything about the piano-making company of Dunmo Ellis and Hill that started in the Dalston/Hackney area in the late 1880s or early 1890s and continued making pianos until about 1930. John Edward (and his son Charles W. Hill), Claudius and George Henry, and Jacob's sons Edward Jacob Hill and Charles Hill, were all piano-makers at some time in their lives. Dunmo could have been Thomas Dunmo, born in St Luke, Middlesex in 1852. Thanks - John Hill