Looking for Eynon Ponsford

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Yes thanks Mort I've got John & Ann's marriage cert, and think I've found more of their children the Ponsford name is sometimes written as Pounsford when you back further, I guess possibly because some of these people were classed as labourers and maybe couldn't write very well.

I think I managed to find a father for John - Thomas but not gone any further back than that.

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So how about further thoughts on the Eynon situation - Birt & Death info etc?

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Elusive in the 1881 census (both England & Wales)

He is staying with his brother Thomas in Cardiff in 1881 in Harold Street.

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So how about further thoughts on the Eynon situation - Birt & Death info etc?

My cousin says she will email me the info she has for Eynon, it sounds like it won't be much but it might be enough to get somewhere.

[Mort29]

Elusive in the 1881 census (both England & Wales)

He is staying with his brother Thomas in Cardiff in 1881 in Harold Street.

where he is a 'Goods Carter' - so as you know his occupation in 1891 / 1901, that doesnt leave much scope for being a Mayor in Somerset?

Altho, one should never forget that the census is a snapshot of 1 night in 10 years .....

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Elusive in the 1881 census (both England & Wales)

He is staying with his brother Thomas in Cardiff in 1881 in Harold Street.

where he is a 'Goods Carter' - so as you know his occupation in 1891 / 1901, that doesnt leave much scope for being a Mayor in Somerset?

Altho, one should never forget that the census is a snapshot of 1 night in 10 years .....

That's true he wasn't that old when he left Somerset, maybe the rumour is about someone else in the family.