Read this with caution ... it might be a Wethered Wild-Goose Chase :)
However ...
On page 29 of "Nigeria and its Tin Fields" (http://tinyurl.com/5ncthh),
Messers Walter and Oliver Wethered are named as pioneers of Northern
Nigerian Tin.
Walter was said to be the mover in this, and persuaded his brother Oliver
and a Mr. S. R. Bastard to join him.
Looking on ancestry.com for Wethered families with a Walter and an Oliver as
brothers I found just one on the 1861 census, when they lived in Bray,
Maidenhead. Father was George, aged 29, a coal merchant, born in Little
Marlow in Bucks; sons were Arthur aged 2, Walter aged 1 and Oliver aged 6
months - all three were born in Maidenhead.
Digging a bit further back I can find (quickly) only one George Wethered on
the 1851 census aged 19 in the right area (ie Little Marlow). He's shown as
the son of a 60-year-old William Wethered who is a farmer at Pigeon House
Farm, it's 760 acres and he has 29 labourers.
MAYBE this is the correct family for Oliver Wethered but given that this
morning's search was a bit rushed, maybe not :)
John
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