Thanks to a Minehead resident, booster and historian (thanks so much, Daphne, for your digging), I am in possession of the last will and testament of Ebenezer Floyd's grandfather, Ebenezer. It makes the link I was hoping it would make: to Ebenezer the elder's son, John (who received one guinea in the distribution of Ebenezer the elder's estate), whom I had tagged as the likely father of Ebenezer-father-of-Emma.
It also helps cement the notion that the John Floyd living close to the Ebenezer Floyd family in Bristol in the 1830s was Ebenezer's brother John, named for their father -- as Ebenezer was for his grandfather.
John Floyd the elder -- our Ebenezer's father -- parlayed the guinea from his father into a thriving merchant business (complete with 'ship-owning' which I suspect means owning-cargo rather than owning-vessell) and the appellation "gentleman" by the time Ebenezer was in his teens. Ebenezer's grandfather rode down the Minehead marine economy, his father was a self-made petit bourgeois, and Ebenezer a derascinated (for sure) labor radical (I think) -- I don't know how much neater things could get, in terms of synecdoche -- Emma's patrimony was, truly, the pattern of 100 years of history in miniature.
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