Hi All,
A couple of comments using the IGI, FamilySearch and FreeBMD (though my first response on this thread - #3 - seemed to fall into the RC 'invisibility' hole
).
Frederick SMALLHOOD/SMALLWOOD who has been mentioned is possibly the Frederick SMALLWOOD, birth, December quarter 1855, Newent, Volume 6a, Page 193. While Billy's Frederick may well have understated his age, that birth seems surely to be too early?
Frederick HAYNES b Hartpury who was married to Harriet (SMITH), is listed on the 1881 census as aged
22 - a good match for the Sep qtr 1858 illegitimate Frederick John HAINES (who may very well be Billy's Frederick).
A Harriett HAINES, age 29, death was registered September quarter 1885, Newent, Volume 6a, Page 149.
This would fit nicely with the fact that Billy's Frederick HAINES married as a widower in Newent in the June quarter 1886.
The household in Maisemore in 1881 is Charles ETHERIDGE, Head, Widower, 62, Carpenter, b Maisemore and Elizabeth HAINES, boarder, unmarried, 44, Housekeeper, b Hartpury (i.e. b ca 1837) and Harry HAINES, boarder, 15, Farmers Boy, b Maisemore (i.e. b ca 1866) in the 1881.
Henry HAINES is on the IGI as bap 14 Jan 1866, Maisemore, Gloucester(shire), England, mother Elizabeth HAINES, no father recorded.
And there's also Alice HAINES on the IGI also bap 14 Jan 1866, Maisemore, Gloucester, mother Elizabeth HAINES, no father recorded.
And Harry is presumably the Henry HAINES, birth, December quarter 1866, Gloucester (that district included Maisemore), Volume 6a, Page 247.
Alice perhaps an earlier birth in Gloucester - March quarter 1862
I wonder who Henry/Harry and Alice gave as their father when/if they married (perhaps Charles Etheridge HAINES
).
Billy, RootsChat is a great site and very helpful indeed - and RootsChatters love puzzles. As Dave said in response #1 on this thread, and I repeated in post #3 on this thread, it really does help if you tell us all the info you already have. Then people aren't spending time teasing out info which you already know e.g. that Fred was a widower when he married in 1886 etc, and that Elizabeth had three illegitimate children and their names.
Very best of luck,
JAP