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I've been looking into this for a week now...with a combination of harvesting information from threads on this board and other traveller message boards and some detective work in the BMD index, I have gathered a lot of information. However, there are still a lot of missing pieces to the puzzle which I'd appreciate some help with.

First, a few errors/comments:

Hi Sanda

 I have no marriage for william and amy, In the book that was wrote i found he was with a Amy Deacon they settle around mitcham common surrey. I have some of her sibings.. I found some other children of theirs but no dates of birth for some them,they had 7 children in all Minty,amy,Levy,Jasper,Rachel,Reuben,Emily Then i found unity cooper so their must of been 8? children  unity i found married Venus Pidgeley 1919 seven Oaks kent. Hope this all helps?   

  jew

I think you're confusing generations here.

William and Amy had the following children: Amy, Patience, Unity, Rachel, Levi, Elizabeth.

The final child, Elizabeth married Darby Smith and had the children you mention.

Found Amy with her parents and siblings in 1881 as DEEKINS/DEAKINS living in a tent at Cheam, Surrey:

...
Un-named Female Infant aged 3 months born Cheam, Surrey
...

The unnamed female would turn out to be Rebecca Deakins.

Now I'm completely confused! I had also found Unity marying Venus PIDGELEY but no mention of some of the other children you have now named. You also haven't included Elizabeth (wife of Derby) in the list of children. So was she really the daughter of William/Bundle and Amy?

You are correct. See my comments above.

If anyone else is researching this family and wants to swap info, please let me know.

Thanks for the link, just ordered a copy

I've got a pretty incomplete record of the family (it's all in a GEDCOM file together with references to all the sources I've used), however we may be able to fill in some gaps on each others understanding. Would you like to swap info?

Hi berri,

Richard and Lucy were my direct ancestors. Their son Job married Christiana Powell, and they had a son called William Francis Franklin, who was my g-grandfather. His son was Thomas Franklin who jumped the railway bridge in Coulsdon in 1957 (my grandfather).

I haven't been able to go any further back than Richard and Lucy, and I haven't looked into the marriages/children of Job's siblings.

Do you have a link to the book?

aa1webb - He could figure into it somewhere, but I haven't quite got that far back yet

jew - it's certainly possible. I haven't yet come across a Harriet - what timescale are you talking about?

Casalguidi - this is what I know for sure: Lavinia Cooper married a William Walter Reading in 1916. The marriage record says her father was called John Cooper. The only person I can find in the Surrey area called John Cooper on the 1901 census with a daughter called Lavinia/Lavenia was married to a woman called Amey (he was also the only John Cooper that was a travelling gypsy). I couldn't find John and Amey's marriage, but I found someone with a similar tree to mine on Ancestry, and their John Cooper married an Elvinia (for which I can find a marriage record in 1872). They haven't answered my messages, so right now, that's all I've got.

Parents Edward Dixey and Sarah Eastwood.

Nel, I am extremely interested in everything you know about these two. I believe they had a child who was called Cinementy (or some variant) - I'm her descendent and I cannot find anything about her! Could you shed any light?