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[scault]

I have a Charles jackett 1796 born Bromley kent
He is a Blacksmith and has his first child a son Rueben born 1835 walcot  he is next captured in cheltenham Glos when he marries Ruebens mother Elizabeth Jones in 1838. trying to find out where the family were in 36 and 37. I wonder if he was a travelling Blacksmith. The whole family finally end up in marylebone in London.

 Sue Ault

[rosie99]

Maybe he was only moving around as he was looking for work 

Reubens birth names his father as Charles Litchford Jackett 
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NBYF-VBJ

Catherine Matilda Jacketts birth was registered in Dec qtr 1838 in Oxford registration district

[KGarrad]

Maybe he was a Journeyman Blacksmith, and not yet a Master?

A journeyman usually didn't have his own (permanent) forge, and couldn't employ an apprentice.
He hired out his services by the day (journee in French!)

[scault]

yes thank you I was wondering this, and isn't it amazing the distance these ancestors traveled. So from somerset he heads to Gloucester and I think from Gloucester to oxford where my X2 Great Grandmother is born in 1838, then the family appear in London Marylebone.


                                     Sue 

[rosie99]

Somerset, Gloucester, Oxford & London are not that far apart, Somerset to London is just over 100 miles. People were travelling from the UK to America, Canada etc around these times.