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Well Katie......I'm so glad you haven't changed your email address since your last post 5 years ago!

From the censuses I knew about Hannah's 2 marriages and Henry Hobbs living with his half brother George Chapman by 1861 at the age of 14.

By 1871 Henry had moved to Marylebone (London) presumably for work as he was then lodging with the Olds. By 1881 Henry Hobbs was married to Elizabeth (Smith), had had 3 children and had moved to Willesden (NW London). Their eldest child Hypatica (b.1873) still lived in Willesden when she died in 1967. I knew her for the last 10 years of her life. She had married William Beaver about 1895. My grandfather Frederick was their 3rd child born in 1900 and died in 1991. My father Martin (b.1931, d.2003) moved from London to North Staffordshire with his job in 1960, and that is where I still live today. I have a son aged 29 and two grandsons aged 5 and 0.5 who are therefore also distant relatives of yours Katie.

Anyway Katie, you still living local to Stanford Dingley, will probably know far more than I do about Hannah and her life in Berkshire.

Please can someone look up George Chapman (b. 1837 - Stanford Dingley) in the 1841 Stanford Dingley Census. He would be 4 so hopefully there will be details of his parents and where they lived etc.

By 1851 census he was working in Reading as a boot maker's apprentice. In 1861 census he had a son William George Chapman (b.1856 - Wallingford) and stepson Henry Hobbs (b. 1847 - Stanford Dingley).  Trying to find out who's the mother and continue tracing further back.

I've just come across this thread (via google) which I see is six years old.

Unfortunately I can't send PM's yet so I thought I would just add here that Henry Hobbs (b.1847) is my great great grandfather and Hannah Hobbs/Chapman (b.1810) is my great great great grandmother.

Did you find that Hannah was in fact an ancestor of yours too Katie?