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Can anybody give any information about a locality known as Wittick Green, or Wittock Green, somewhere around the village of Bletsoe in Bedfordshire?

I suspect it may have been a farm or some kind of rural district. Several generations of my ROWNEY family seem to have lived there working as agricultural labourers throughout the 19th century, and some of the children used the name as their place of birth, so it would seem that it might have been more substantial than a simple farm. A Google search turns up nothing at all.

I can access www.oldmaps.co.uk for an old map of Bletsoe, so any advice which might help me locate Wittick Green on the map would be ideal.

Many thanks,
Marc

I would be very thankful if somebody could provide census details from 1841 for the household of George Hutton WOODCOCK. I believe he was living around Tattershall or Tattershall Thorpe at that time.

Assuming all his children lived long enough, his family should bear some resemblance to the following in 1841, but my information is a bit unreliable:

George Hutton WOODCOCK aged 49, birthplace and occupation unknown.
Maria WOODCOCK aged 54, born at Tattershall
Ann WOODCOCK aged 28, born Gedney
Maria WOODCOCK aged 27, born Gedney
Samuel Hutton WOODCOCK aged 26, born Gedney
Naomi WOODCOCK, aged 20, born Tattershall
Benjamin Hutton WOODCOCK, aged 18, born Tattershall
Thomas WOODCOCK, aged 13
George WOODCOCK, aged 13, born Tattershall

My line of interest is via the son Benjamin, so if he is not in the household, and if it is not too much extra trouble, would it also be possible to locate his whereabouts. George died in 1842, and Benjamin is believed to have emigrated to Australia in 1850, so the 1841 census is the only one with useful information on those two ancestors.

Many thanks for any assistance,
Marc Roberts

I would greatly appreciate census details for the household of my GGGG-Grandmother Ann ROBERTS from 1841 and 1851, if possible. I am trying to trace her death, which I believe took place in 1853, and as her name is so common I need some good information on her whereabouts around that time.

In 1841 her family should be:

Ann ROBERTS (W) aged 54 (believed born in Stoke Goldington BUCKS)
Mary Ann ROBERTS aged 26 (born Stoke Goldington BUCKS)
Anna Maria ROBERTS aged 19 (birthplace unknown)
Amelia (or Emily) ROBERTS aged 15 (probably born in London MDX, possibly Holborn or Marylebone)

The following information is what I know of her family's whereabouts around the relevant period. I'm hopefull that it might make the job of locating her family in the census a little easier.

The last two daughters were christened in Holborn in 1826.

Ann's husband Samuel ROBERTS died at 51 Richmond Street in St Johns Wood, Marylebone, in 1839, but I'm unsure whether that was his own address.

Another child not listed above was married at St George's Hanover Square (SGHS) in 1839 and lived at Camden Town.

Daughter Mary Ann was married by 1851 and living around Marylebone at that time, but I'm not sure how long before that she was married. There was a Miss Mary Ann ROBERTS with a milliner's business in Old Bond Street (near Hanover Square) in the 1846 London Post Office Directory, which could have been her. Her future husband, William GIBSON appears to have been a solicitor with an office on Lincolns Inn Fields near Holborn at that time.

In 1841, I think it is most likely that Ann and her family are still living in the Marylebone area. I don't know the fates of the two youngest daughters, so it would be interesting to find out whether they were in her household at that time.

In 1851, it is still likely that Ann is living in Middlesex, but possible that she may have moved to Battersea if she were living near her son Samuel and his family at that time.

Any information on Ann ROBERTS at these times would be most helpful. Information on other members of the family would also be greatly appreciated if no extra trouble is involved.

Many thanks,
Marc Roberts.