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Re: Silver watch fob pendant - help with origin and markings?
« Reply #9 on: Monday 08 August 11 02:34 BST (UK) »
No matter. I found them. (Not that it helps find your whose mystery initials are on your fo)b.

I'm not sure if you already have this:

1901
Okeford Fitzpaine
Sturminster Newton
Philip Chas Adams head mar 46 farmer employer b Dorset Okeford Fitzpaine
Sarah J wife mar 43 b Okeford Fitzpaine
Emily E daur 23 do
Ellen A daur 18 do
Leopold son 15 do
Colin son 11 do
William Adams brother single 28 farmer's help do
+ servt
RG13/1970/29/17

1891
Fiddleford
Okeford Fitzpaine
Sturminster
Philip C Adams head mar 36 farmer b Fiddleford
Sarah J wife 33 do
Emily daur 13 do
Philip C son 11 do
Ellen A daur 8 do
Wilfred son 5 do
Winnie daur 3 do
Colin son 1
RG13/1632/114/24

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Re: Silver watch fob pendant - help with origin and markings?
« Reply #10 on: Monday 08 August 11 02:37 BST (UK) »
This looks like Leopold's birth:
Births Mar 1886
ADAMS  Wilfrid Leopold  (note registered with first name Wilfrid rather than Leopold)   
Sturminster 
5a 245

And perhaps his parent's marriage:
Marriages Dec 1876
Adams  Philip Charles       
Wilds  Sarah Jane     
Sturminster 
5a 549


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Re: Silver watch fob pendant - help with origin and markings?
« Reply #11 on: Monday 08 August 11 02:47 BST (UK) »
And the 1881:
Fiddleford Village
Brewery
Charles Adams head mar 26 Maltster Brewer (& Labourer) b Okeford Fitzpaine
Sarah wife b Childe Okeford
Emily daur 3 b Okeford Fitzpaine
Philip son 1
+ servt
RG11/2086/144/23

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Re: Silver watch fob pendant - help with origin and markings?
« Reply #12 on: Monday 08 August 11 03:05 BST (UK) »
Now this is interesting. Here is Leopold's father Philip C with his parents and siblings:

1871
Fiddleford Brewery
Child Okeford
Philip C Adams head mar 47 maltster b Hants S...ham? [difficult to read]
Emily E wife 40 b Dorset Harlebury Brain?
Philip C son 16 b Dorset Child Okeford
Theophilus son 14 do
Walter son 11 do
Alpheus son 9 do
Sidney son 7 do
Clement son 5 do
Septimus son 2 do
+ 2 servts
[fabulous names!]

... and ... 2 doors away, is what appears to be Philip's future wife Sarah J Wilds with her parents and siblings:

William Wilds head mar 49 farmer of 120 acres emp 4 men and 1 boy b Dorset Marnhull?
Mary wife 55 b Lancashire Rochdale
John son 17 b Rochdale
Sarah J daur 13 b Child Okeford
Annie daur 7 do

RG10/1974/83/33
[place names will need checking as some are difficult to read]


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Re: Silver watch fob pendant - help with origin and markings?
« Reply #13 on: Monday 08 August 11 03:13 BST (UK) »
And perhaps Leopold's grandparent's marriage:
Marriages Sep 1852 
Adams  Philip Charles   
GOODFELLOW  Emily Elizabeth     
Sturminster  5a 383   

Further investigation required but this may be Leopold's other grandparent's marriage:

Marriages Mar 1850 
Chadwick  Mary    Rochdale  21 602   
Wilds  William     Rochdale  21 602

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Re: Silver watch fob pendant - help with origin and markings?
« Reply #14 on: Monday 08 August 11 03:38 BST (UK) »
And both families in the 1861 census, living a few doors from eachother:

Fiddleford, Child Okeford
Philip C Adams head mar 37 maltster and brewer b Hants Enham
Emily E wife mar 30 b Dorset Hazelbury Brian?
Ellen A daur 8 scholar b Fiddleford Child Okeford
Philip C son 6 do
Theophilus son 4 do
Walter A son 1 do
Elizabeth Cross sister (married but separated from her husband  :o) 33 governess b Hants Enham
RG 9/1330/91/34

Fiddleford, Child Okeford
William Wilds head mar 40 wool agent and farmer of 84 acres emp 1 labourer b Dorset Marnhull
Mary wife mar 45 b Lancashire Rochdale
John son 7 do
Sarah Jane daur 3 b Child Okeford
RG9/1330/91/33

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Re: Silver watch fob pendant - help with origin and markings?
« Reply #15 on: Monday 08 August 11 03:54 BST (UK) »
1851
Travellers Rest
Fiddleford
Okeford Fitzpaine
Susanna Adams head wid 50 innkeeper b Hat...down Hants
Philip son unmar 27 b Wildham Hants
John son un 20 draper b Fiddleford
+servt
Ho107/1852/283/1

1851
53 Manchester Road
Castleton
Rochdale
William Wilds head mar 29 warehouse man (wool) b Dorset Marnhull
Mary wife mar 34 b Rochdale
HO107/2244/450/33

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Re: Silver watch fob pendant - help with origin and markings?
« Reply #16 on: Monday 08 August 11 04:07 BST (UK) »
1841
Okeford Fitzpaine
Susana Adams 35 victualler Not born in county
Phillip 17 N
Elizabeth 13 N
HO107/293/7/8

1841
N..iside
Marhnhull
John Wilds 54 ag lab Y
Priscilla 50 Y
Rachel 25 y
John 20 y
William 20 y
Charles 15 y
Sarah 15 y
Eli 15 y
Francis 13 Y
HO107/293/37/7

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Re: Silver watch fob pendant - help with origin and markings?
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 10 August 11 17:20 BST (UK) »
Many thanks, Ruskie

I have already looked at these census results - they form the basis of Leopold's tree.

I was trying to find out more of his history around the period 1900-1920 as we just don't know what he was up to then. Think it's a fact that the more modern stuff is harder to discover than all those census years!

But again, many thanks for all your interest.

Viv