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William Babbage
« on: Friday 01 April 05 17:37 BST (UK) »
Looking for William Babbage born in London in 1858 can anyone help please.
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Re: William Babbage
« Reply #1 on: Friday 01 April 05 20:25 BST (UK) »
Hi
Have you got any more info about William,like who is parents were , or did he have siblings?
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Re: William Babbage
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 02 April 05 13:27 BST (UK) »
Hi Joe

Iam sorry but that is the only infomation I have on him ,he could have been a customs tax inspector.
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Re: William Babbage
« Reply #3 on: Friday 26 February 10 19:38 GMT (UK) »
A possibility:

William Babbage born 22 Apr 1859 Bute Street, Kensington (near South Kensington Tube station).

He was baptised 21 May 1859 at Holy Trinity, Brompton Road, Kensington.

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Re: William Babbage
« Reply #4 on: Friday 26 February 10 19:41 GMT (UK) »
A possibility that might lead to a mine of information, was he a descendant of Charles Babbage, the father of modern computing who invented the "difference engine" c1822
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Re: William Babbage
« Reply #5 on: Friday 26 February 10 20:28 GMT (UK) »
Hi

'In 1827, at the age of 35, Babbage's wife, Georgiana, died, leaving him with three surviving children, Benjamin Herschel, Henry Prevost, and Georgiana.  Babbage never remarried.'

http://www.blackwood.org/Bab3.htm

Benjamin Herschel Babbage went to South Australia. Henry Provost Babbage was a Lieutenant Colonel in the army in 1871. His two daughters who were with him on the 1881 census were born circa 1858 and 1861 both in India.


William Babbage aged 41 on the 1901 census and born Kensington was in Croydon on the 1901 census. His occupation was a land surveyor and in 1891 he was a sergeant in the Royal Engineers.

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Re: William Babbage
« Reply #6 on: Friday 26 February 10 20:33 GMT (UK) »
Just association of ideas, could William Babbage be the son of Henry Provost Babbage, and hence the grandson of Charles Babbage?
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Re: William Babbage
« Reply #7 on: Friday 26 February 10 21:34 GMT (UK) »
Hi

The Babbage family were a wealthy and prominent one. Lieutenant Colonel's in the army don't have sons who were sergeants. In the C19th officers were gentlemen.


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Re: William Babbage
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 27 February 10 00:27 GMT (UK) »
1881
William BABBAGE, boarder unm 22, Surveyor & Examiner (of taxes), born London, Middlesex
a boarder in the house of Richard Henry KEAR/REAR, a Collector of Taxes, at Malson/Walson Cottage, Skenfrith, Monmouthshire.
RG11/5226/100/1

Can't see him in 1871 or 1861.

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