FORD of Keynsham

[DS]

 

Marriage Registration

1863 Bristol AMJ quarter 6a 88

Ambrose Ford
Emma March

Not yet matched up on FreeBMD but both on GRO Index at same reference.

DS

[DS]

 
This is where the carriage business originated from.....

1861

Keynsham RG9/1702 Folio 42 Page 11

James Light Head M 52 Carrier Somerset Keynsham
Mary do Wife M 48 Somerset Keynsham
William do Son U 21 Farm Labourer Somerset Keynsham
Emma March Daur U 14 Somerset Keynsham

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1851

Keynsham HO107/1944 Folio 661 Page 34

Mary Marsh Head W 38 ? and Annuitant Keynsham Somerset
Emma do Daur 4 Keynsham Somerset
Harriet Hudson Lodger U 20 Laundress Keynsham Somerset

In the same year James Light is shown as a Widower

Marriage Registration

1852 Bristol AMJ quarter 6a 18

James Light
Mary March

DS

ps James appears on the 1841 census with his first wife (also called Mary) and some children. Details can be provided if required.

[DS]

Hi frod

We were so engrossed in trying to find your family that we neglected to say Welcome to RootsChat.

There are quite a few siblings identified above for Ambrose and quite a few children for Ambrose and Emma. If you would like us to try to find out what happened to any of them on later censuses, could I suggest that you begin a new thread for each one (otherwise this thread might become very confused) ?

Just to clarify one thing from above, toni* has identified a marriage in 1893 for a Richmond Ford. The bride was Martha Jane Thomas but the groom was not Ambrose’s brother who (I think) died in the second quarter of 1851.

DS

[frod]

Thanks DS and toni for all your research on Ambrose Ford and family. I had already looked at the census data from 1841 to 1901 so was familiar with most of Ambrose's brothers and sisters and children.
Thankyou for the information about the marriages of some of Ambrose's children. I recognise some of the names from what my great aunt and grandfather told me about their cousins.