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Somerset / Burrowbridge Somerset
« on: Thursday 10 February 11 01:08 GMT (UK) »
I have been trying to locate my Gr Gr Grandfather's baptism, so that I might at least find his mother as he was stated as illegitimate on his marriage certificate which took place in St Michaels church Burrowbridge Bridgwater. George Bathe Kiddell was born abt 1826 but thats all I know except it was in Somerset, and as he had married in his home location (Gr Gr Grandmother Mary Hart Baker was born and lived in Exeter Devon), I am presuming he possibly may have been born in Bridgwater.
I cannot locate him either on census records, or after his marriage either - all 6 except for the 7th were born in Somerset..the family emigrating to Australia in 1869/70.
Another puzzle is that one of their sons born 1858 was apparently born at sea off Melb Victoria Australia yet his birth is registered in Bridgwater. I obtained this information off his marriage certificate. Also cannot find Mary Hart Kiddell (nee Baker) death in Australia, NZ, Tas, or UK. She had apparently died prior to George, who died in 1911 in Victoria.
I cannot locate him either on census records, or after his marriage either - all 6 except for the 7th were born in Somerset..the family emigrating to Australia in 1869/70.
Another puzzle is that one of their sons born 1858 was apparently born at sea off Melb Victoria Australia yet his birth is registered in Bridgwater. I obtained this information off his marriage certificate. Also cannot find Mary Hart Kiddell (nee Baker) death in Australia, NZ, Tas, or UK. She had apparently died prior to George, who died in 1911 in Victoria.