At last!!!!!! a free moment to come into the forum!!!

Some good ideas and information wanted here, please.

I'm trying to find out some information about a family member (well-deceased) on Ma diapason's side who IS SAID to have been an organ builder in his time - what his exact skill in the field was, she is not sure.
All she can tell me is that he, JAMES SARGENT was her cousin - the son of her Aunt - and they lived in/near Norwich. Ma thinks he would have been born around the turn of the century - 1890's / 1900's

Some time around the 1940's - early '50's perhaps, Ma says that some family members visited him in Orpington, Kent, and related that he had built a pipe organ in the bungalow - address unknown.

It is also anecdotal amongst ancient elderly family members that at some time, he produced a piece of work for "a large exhibition in London" - something organ-related........was it a an organ case, a console design, a small chamber organ........who knows......and which exhibition?

With the Norwich connection, can anyone tell me who the organ builders were in that area? Didn't Norman of HN&B have a location there?

All a bit vague, but somewhere there will be a record of his employment.

Also, although I suppose I'm hoping for a miracle, I'm trying to trace Dad's side of the family......the AUSTINs. He was very unforthcoming about family history, but thinking about the AUSTIN ORGAN CO. of Hartford, Connecticut USA, it was founded by John Turnell Austin who emigrated from England......but where he was born and lived prior to the emigration I have yet to discover.

There's always a chance there could be a tenuous connection..............isn't there?