Hi Paulene
I don't know why, but there are a lot of illegible pages in Beds on Ancestry where the image on my CDrom set from Stepping Stones is perfectly clear. I find I have to refer to the CDrom a lot.
And by so doing I think I may have found him! There's an Ephraim Albon aged 10 at reference HO107/3/1 folio 17A page 32. He's the 5th entry from the top. Don't tell me you missed it too! (don't worry if you did, the whole family is totally blank)
Edward Stanford 76 farmer Not b in Beds
Mary Stanford 70 B in Beds
Elizabeth Stanford 29 B in Beds
William Stanford 20 ag lab b in Beds
Ephraim Albon 10 ag lab b in Beds
It would have been nice if he'd been with his family, but I don't think it's necessary.
Mary Stanford's maiden name was Cooper, and she was a sister of my 4xg grandfather! But I'm pretty certain that she wasn't connected to the Albons.
I agree with your line back to Abraham. His first wife, the mother of Ephraim, was Elizabeth Cobb, baptised at Arlesey (all vital events are Arlesey unless stated otherwise) 17 Mar 1793 which ties in with the burial of Elizabeth Albon aged 38 on 5 June 1830. That leaves the way clear for Abraham to have married Sarah Hall at Langford on 11 Sep 1830. I believe she was the widow of John Hall and her maiden name was Hine. In 1851 their grand daughter Jane Hall age 12 was living with them (and probably in 1841 as well aged 2 but enumerated as Albon, transcribed as Abbon). She was baptised on 16 Apr 1843 aged 5, daughter of Sarah Hall, who was the daughter of John and Sarah. In 1841 Abraham and Sarah also had Thomas aged 15 living with them - I think he too may have been baptised at Astwick (my parents married there!) but the PR may be in error as his father is named as Edward, and mother Elizabeth. I haven't double checked to see if there really was an Edward and Elizabeth Albone.
Abraham was baptised on 14 April 1796, the son of Thomas and Mary.
Thomas Albon married Mary Lyne on 2 Apr 1793. Thomas was baptised on 9 Dec 1770, the son of Abraham and Ann
Abraham Albon married Ann Myatt on 8 Mar 1770.
And that was as far as I got last night before I got sidetracked by the cricket, which ended up in an anticlimax, at least for me!
I'll carry on this afternoon if my son and his two little friends will allow me to use the computer
I noticed that Ephraim gave Langford as his birthplace in one of the late censuses, 1901, I think, from memory. Glad you've sorted that out!
You say "Then, on the 1851 census he and Mary are living with her parents David and Phoebe Newberry". Phoebe was actually David's daughter, not his wife.
More later
David
