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Please can anyone help decipher the birth location of Robert Thomas in the 1851 census, ref HO107/1949/302/28, in which he is stated to be a Painter & Chelsea Pensioner, also that he is deaf.

My first impression was that it reads as Oxford Heyshire. However, besides being an unknown county, what appears to be a ‘y’ is different to that letter in his wife Sarah’s birthplace of Co. Mayo Ireland.

Michael.

Help needed with this brick wall, please, anyone.

I am trying to find the birth of John Luxton, born c.1803 – 1805, and his marriage to Ursula James who was born about the same time as him. I have two Surrey birth certificates in which John is named as the father, with Ursula Luxton formerly James named as the mother. The first is for Mary b.2 Nov 1839 and the second is for George b.13 Dec 1841. I know of 9 children in all from three census records.

In 1841, HO107/1705/26/14, John and Ursula are both 36, living in Kingston Surrey, where they and their children are all down as born 'in county'.

In 1851, HO107/1603/422/14, the ‘where born’ entries are rather indistinct, but possibly John was born in Cheriton Devon and his wife Ursula was born in Launcells Cornwall. Both are aged 47.

The 1861, RG9/455/34/24, just says 'Devonshire' for the parents, both age 58. Incidentally, they seem to age 11 years between each census! 

The Surrey death certificates say age 61 for John Luxton in Dec 1864 and age 62 for 'Asella' in Jan 1865.

All the John Luxton births in Devon seem to have been accounted for through the Luxton FHS except the John Luxton illegitimate son of Elizabeth Luxton, baptised 5th Jan 1805 in Wembworthy; and John, son of William Luxen of the parish of Crediton and Ann his wife, baptised at Cheriton Bishop 21st October 1803. No-one seems to know what happened to these two, especially the second as this seems the most likely.

This query was first posted on the Cornwall Rootschat forum re Ursula, and the answers confirm that there is just one marriage in the Cornwall records for an Ursula James, that being the one in Launcells to a John Coles on 15 Aug 1822. The only birth on IGI in Launcells for an Ursula James is 13 Sept 1805, father Thos. James.

Is the Ursula James married to John Luxton the same Ursula who married John Coles and is the Launcells birth record for the same person? I don't think it could be a second marriage as the Surrey birth certificates for two of her children clearly state 'Ursula Luxton formerly James' and no mention of 'previously Coles'.

I have details of the families after this date, but can't get any further back and would dearly love some help, please.

Michael J.