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« on: Monday 02 February 04 22:15 GMT (UK) »
Hello Jen,
Thank you very much for taking the trouble to look up my Hamptons. It's very good of you.
William Hampton, the head of household in 1881, is indeed the two year-old William in Swansea in 1851.
Thomas, aged five in 1881, was my great grandfather.
Wiliam senior, the one born in Worcestershire, married Eliza Thornton - from Merthyr Tydfil I believe - in St Mary's Church, Swansea, in 1835, so I did rather hope to find them on the 1841 census, somewhere in South Wales. They were living in King Street by 1848.
I'd like to know whereabouts in Worcestershire William came from. I have found some possible candidates, but nothing more than that.
As for a link with those other Hamptons - that is what I have been wondering. Is there a connection - or perhaps not? If anyone is researching that line - and knows the answer, I'd love to hear from them.
Thanks again.
All the best.
Tricia