(Kent) 1861 / 1871 Census Lookup Requests Please For Thomas Rossiter

[rcuser]

Hi,

I am doing a one name study of the Rossiter family and am looking for information please about the parents and siblings of Thomas Rossiter born circa 1851 in Bethersden.

He married Ruth Baker at Blean in the March Qtr of 1868.

Any information would be greatly appreciated please. TIA.

Best wishes

rcuser.

[CatOne]

The closest I can find is this one  -

1861 RG9/552 Folio 49 Page 29
List of persons not in houses, In the lanes of Cheriton, Kent
Thomas Rosetor 50 Fairkeeper Kent Canterbury
Barbara 50 Sussex Eastborne
James 26 Kent Milton
Caroline 23 London
Sally 22 Kent Pluckley
Harriet 20 Kent C.......berrow?
..any/ary? female 18 Surrey Epsom
Thomas 15 Kent Charlton
Walter 12 Kent Mulling
Elizabeth 8 Kent Sheerness
Margaret 5 Kent Maidstone
Jacob grandson 4 Kent Maidstone

[CatOne]

In 1871 a widowed Barbara Rositer (68 Hawker Milton Kent), daughters? Sarah (30 Hawker Pluckley), Martha (24 Hawker Epsom Surrey), Elizabeth (20 Hawker Ph..... Kent) and Margret (17 Hawker Maidstone) are living at 6 West Street (a lodging house) Minster, Kent

Also living there -
James Rositer 39 Hawker Milton and Elizabeth (his wife?) 24 Bath Somerset and Elizabeth Heath 3 Kent ..... Heath (Elizabeth's daughter??)
Jacob Rositer 16 Hawker Maidstone
James Rositer 2 Ramsgate

RG10/987 Folio 51 Page 31

[rcuser]

Hi CatOne,

Many thanks for the posts.

I suspect Thomas born 1851 is related to the families you have listed but infortunately I cannot prove it at the moment.

Is there any way of accessing Thomas's marriage record please to see who his father is?

He could fit in between Walter born 1848 and Elizabeth born 1852 but I don't understand why he does not appear on the censuses.

Best wishes

rcuser

[bearkat]

There are lots of ROSSITERS on this site 

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gypsy/gypsy.htm

but I can't see the baptism of Thomas ROSSITER born 1851.

[rcuser]

Hi bearkat,

Thanks for that.

I tried FreeBMD but could not find a birth record for him in 1851 either.

I have him here in the 1881 Census:-
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/Census/household_record.asp?HOUSEHOLD_CODE=1881BR_1047178&HOUSEHOLD_SUB=1&frompage=99

Assuming he is a romany/gypsy/traveller he may be at the same location in the previous census.

The only other one I could find was Thomas Rositer born March Qtr 1852 in the St George Of The East Registration district.

Just wondering if the Thomas born Charlton, Kent in 1846 earlier in the thread and this Thomas born 1851 are one and the same.

Best wishes

rcuser

[CatOne]

In 1881, on the same page as your Thomas, theres also a James Rossiter, born Milton Kent, thats why I thought maybe this could be the same family. Traveller families seem to have varying names/ages from census to census  Will check out other censuses...

added: theres also a Jacob Rossiter aged 28 over the page, born M....stone, who would fit with grandson Jacob in 1861 (age out a few years)

[rcuser]

Hi CatOne,

Thanks for that.

Maybe another census will produce a different birthplace or birth year for Thomas. This has happened in other Rossiter branches so it is a possibility.

Kent Rossiters have turned up in Milton, Sittingbourne, West Malling, Elham, Charlton, Dover, Canterbury, Ashford, West Ashford to name but a few!! LOL!!

Best wishes

rcuser

[CatOne]

Also, in 1881, there is a William Harris and wife Elizabeth in the next caravan. I think this could be his sister from the 1861 census born Sheerness -

Marriage -

Elizabeth Rossiter March 1874 Milton Vol 2a Page 943
Grooms - William Harriss or William Henry Bloxham