david benbow

[ozzie2006]

please can anyone help? I'm trying to trace my gggrandfather david Benbow. I know he was born in wern llandinam 1841 to a Mary benbow but cant trace who she was and who her parents were on 1841 census

[Lloydy]

Hello Ozzie, and Welcome to Rootschat

I have had a look at the 1841 and I can see a small number of possibilities for Mary. 

Do you know roughly what year she was born?

I know he was born in wern llandinam 1841

Can I ask where you got this information from?


I'm just going to see if I can find any birth record for David.

[ozzie2006]

I have his birth certificate 25/6/1841 which only lists his mother. I know nothing further about her and have not been able to find a place called wern in llandinam.
thanks for your reply

[Lloydy]

Well, we now know that David won't be listed in the 1841 as it was taken on the 6th June, so he missed it by 19 days

I assume that Wern, Llandinam is on the birth certificate - could you just confirm for me please?

[Lloydy]

I have looked through the Llandinam images in the 1841 and can only find the following, which might be a possibility:-


HO107/1436/2 folio 36 page 3 - Hill, Llandinam

Edward Benbow 65 Farmer Y
Ann Benbow 60 Y
Mary Benbow 25 Y

Wrongly transcribed as BEMBOW

[ozzie2006]

it definately says wern llandinam on the birth certificate. Does such a place exist? Would mary have then moved in the few days following his birth? I have found a david Benbow (Bemboow) in 1851 living his grandfather Edward age 65 so it looks promising with the one you found though edward hasn't aged in 10 years!
Thanks for your help

[Lloydy]

I have checked the 1841 image for Edward and it definitely states his age as 65, but it wasn't uncommon for them to lie  

I have just looked through the census images for Llandinam and I have found two families living at Wern (it appears in the "Place" column)!!!! No Benbow's though There's Thomas Carter, Farmer and family, and Richard Rees, Labourer and family.  There's a possibility that Mary Benbow came to Llandinam to give birth, but where did she move from?

[ozzie2006]

 :)thanks so much for your help. It's nice to know wern actually exists!! maybe one of the people living there was the father - there is no father on the birth certificate.
Do you know if the 1861 census is complete? I have been trying to find another relative Zachariah Williams and he is in every census apart from 1861!
Jackie

[RuthieB]

Funnily enough, I know that family that currently live at Wern; I've been checking the censuses for them to give a little information of the house's history. Haven't come across any Bembow/Benbow yet though. I have Thomas Carter in the 1851 still at the Wern.

I've seen Benbow transcribed as Bembow a couple of times; one of my Radnorshire Mantles married a Richard Bembow from Montgomeryshire.

RuthieB