I am hitting a brick wall with my maternal x3 great grandfather William Eden.
This is what I know:
He married Mary Ann Phipps in Hook Norton 20 Apr 1834.
The following children were baptised to them in Hook Norton:
Arminda 27-3-1836
Rose Phipps 5-12-1841
Joseph 11-5-1845
Mary 11-5-1845
Hannah 17-5-1849 - my x2 great grandmother
Amelia(Mele) 4-4-1847
William 6-7-1851
I have William on the 1851 census
Park Farm - Hook Norton
William Eden head age 37 ag lab born Great Barford Oxon
Mary Ann Eden wife age 37 born Hook Norton
Joseph Eden son age 6 born Hook Norton
Amealia dau age 4 "
Hannah dau age 2 "
In the 1841 census Mary Ann Eden is living with Arminda (Minda) who is 5 and Hannah Phipps age 65 (her mother), no sign of William her husband.
In 1861 - 1881 census again there is no sign of William, Mary is alone but not a widow, described as labourers wife.
Previous posts suggest there is no baptism for him in Great Barford (Barford St Michael)
They married before 1837 so I can get no further information from a marriage certificate.
Where was he in 1841 - they obviously were together in the 1840s as several children were born, then where did he go? If he was in prison how could I find out, or would the census indicate that?
