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Hello Gladys
Some 4yrs ago you posted a query for a Census lookup of Naomi Thackray in Bedfordshire, and received the information quoted below. Yesterday I did a search on Rootschat for my Thackray family in Doddington and arrived at your post.

The family in the 1851 Census reply includes my 3.gtGrandparents and my 2.gtGrandparents. How can this be? .... well, the parents William and Sarah are my 3.greats, and their daughter Mary married William Haynes - the apprentice currier at the bottom of the list.

What I'm getting around to is .... do you have any information on the ancestors of either William Thackray or his wife Sarah nee Hensman?

Hope this reaches you.

John 

Thanks Sandy, that saved me double checking Eversholt. He was actually in Toddington in 1841,

HO107/005-34-2 folio 9B
Dunstable St Toddington
William Thackray 45 Currier Not born in county
Sarah Thackray 45 Not bic
Elizabeth Thackray 25 Not bic
Mary Thackray 23 Not bic
Sarah Thackray 21 bic
John  Thackray 19 bic
Ruth  Thackray 12 bic
Caroline  Thackray 10 bic
Naomi  Thackray 8 bic
Rebecca  Thackray 6 bic
Timothy  Thackray 14 bic
William Haynes 21 apprentice bic

So the Thackray family could put out a complete football team, and take the apprentice along as the referee!

Regards

David

Wow, what great detectives ! Thank you so much Valda (x2), winston, Willow & sillgen.

It will take me a while to absorb and check all the clues and links provided, so I'll report back with my findings and let you know the progress.

Ancestry's transcribing of the 1851 Census blows my mind away - no wonder I couldn't find John Betteridge - I can't wait to have a look at the image at my local library tomorrow.

Again, thanks for ALL the information. Rootschatters are the tops!

John 

Hello,

In 2005 a kind person on RootsChat found a relative of mine in the 1851 Census. Since then I've had access to the Ancestry version of this census through my local library, but have never been able to locate the entry myself.

Could someone please check to see if they can find the image for the following household:

Eastbourne, Sussex:
HO 107 1637 F130 (is reference I was given)

John Betteridge  Hd widower 71  b Gls Stoke
Ellen                   dau laundress 30 b Eastbourne

I have still not been able to trace the baptism of John Betteridge. He died before 1861, so the 1851 census reference is my only clue to his place of birth.

If you find the image, could you please give me the full reference (including page no), and also check the image to see if the transcription "Gls Stoke" is correct. Could it be something else?

I've assumed Gls Stoke means  Gloucestershire, and "Stoke" is possibly Stow-in-the-Wold (I've been told that locals just refer to the village as "Stow"), and a Cotswold accent in Sussex in 1851 could easily transcribe "Stow" to "Stoke".

Fun stuff this detective work!  Anyone got other suggestions?

John
 

Hi Alli,

Thanks for the BIVRI lookups for my BETTERIDGE family.

At first glance I thought that your John Betteridge find in Abson,Glocestershire was too far from Stow [0n-the-Wold].  But I should explore further, as the only reference I have to his place of birth is "Stoke [or Stow], Glos." from the 1851 Census.

Close to Abson I have found "Stone", "Stone Easton", "North Stoke" ....... so the hunt continues.

John

Hi Josephine
Thanks very much for the links. I'll see what I can find.
John