1861 Census lookup please: Matthew HODGES

[Philcandy]

Hi

Can someone please look up Matthew and Charity HODGES in the 1861 census?

He was a tailor, born in Deptford, Kent in 1811; she was born in Ashwick Somerset in about 1807.

I am keen to see if other members of the family may have been visiting the family at the time of the 1861 census.

In 1851, they were in Shepton Mallet in Somerset, and in 1871, they were in Roath in Glamorgan.

Matthew had a number of brothers and sisters, many of whom seem to have disappeared from Somerset, and I wonder if they had moved to Glamorgan as well.

Thanks in anticipation.

Philip Candy

[wozzle]

1861
RG9/4036/72/28
matthew hodges age 50. b. deptford. occ. tailor. head.
charity age 54. b. askwick,somerset. wife.
eliza.a.charles age 29. b. somerset. daughter.
henry charles age 25. b. weymouth. occ. railway blacksmith. son-in-law.
john.w.hodges age 14. b. shepton mallett. occ. ship brokers clerk.  son.
frances.e.hodges age 12. b. ditto. daughter.
matthew.j.hodges age 8. b. ditto. son.
living at ;1,loudan place,st.marys,cardiff

[Philcandy]

Many thanks

It looks as if there weren't other members of Matthew's extended family staying with him, at least at the time of the 1861 Census.

Thanks for the quick response.

Kind regards

Philip Candy

[wozzle]

maybe if you could give names and birthdates and birthplaces of the extended family
we might be able to track them down in 1861.

[Philcandy]

Wozzle

I would be pleased to find any sign of the following (I left left out children who I know died in infancy - these are the ones that might have or definitely did reach adulthood).

Matthew HODGES was born in Deptford in 1811 and died in Glamorgan in the 1890s.

William Carter HODGES was born in Deptford in 1812 and died in Somerset in the 1890s. He and his wife Zipporah didn't have any children.

John HODGES was born in Shepton Mallet in 1817. I can't see him anywhere except perhaps in the 1841 Census with the wrong age (14 instead of 24).

George HODGES was born in Shepton Mallet about 1818. The only sighting of him so far is as a married, unemployed cheese monger in Stepney, London in 1861. I don't know where he was either before or after then.

Ann HODGES was born in Shepton Mallet in 1821. She was still living with her parents in the 1851 Census in Shepton Mallet, aged 27, but I think she may have married between 1851 and 1861. One possibility is that she married John DAVIS in Shepton Mallet.

James Hodges was born in 1825 in Shepton Mallet, but I can't seem him in later censuses.

Eliza Charlotte Hodges was born in 1830 in Shepton Mallet. I don't know what happened to her, although I have found an Eliza aged 15 (not 10) with John and Ann Hodges in Shepton Mallet in 1841.

So if you or anyone else can identify what happened to these people after they were born and baptised it would be great. The only ones I have traced for sure are the oldest two: Matthew and William.

Kind regards

Philip Candy

[suzard]

There is a marriage FreeBMD which may be worth checking out
Dec qtr 1847
Shepton Mallet
Eliza Charlotte Hodges
10 623
unfortunately don't know who to

Suz

[medhist]

Looks as those Eliza Charlotte Hodges married George   Devinish   Waterman  Medway in 1847 at Shepton Mallett Oct-dec 1847 10 683.
In 1851 she is living with him in Croscromb, Stoke Lane, Shepton Mallett somerset.
He was a baker 26 born Stoke st Gregory, Somerset
she is wife 23 born Shepton Mallett no children
HO107 1933 631 p7
He Died 1857 jan -mar at Shepton Mallett 5c 424

[suzard]

You have John Hodges as b. 1817 , but state he is  wrong age in 1841 - is it possible he was born 1827 and the 1841 entry is correct???

There is (what looks like) the George you have in 1861 -and brother John is with him in 1851

1851
Lambeth Surrey
George Hodges head M 32 Cheesemonger Shepton mallet
Louisa wife 30 St Geo in the East mddsx
Henry son 8 lambeth Surrey
Charles son 4 |lambeth Surrey
George son 2 lambeth Surrey
John Hodges Brother U 24 Warehouseman Shepton mallett
HO107 1571 406 12

Suz

[medhist]

Eliza Charlotte Medway died Shepton Mallett Jan-mar 1856 5c 387
A Harry Medway died same reference so she maybe died in childbirth.  You would need to get Parish Register or certificates to check