James Wade - conviction Leicester 1849

[Truebrit]

This is my previous Topic when researching James Moulding Wade.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=705126.msg5480736#msg5480736

I had wondered if father James Wade and Benjamin Brown were one and the same.  However, when James Moulding Wade got married he did not put a father.  That was strange in view of the fact he could be found with his mother Elizabeth and Benjamin Brown/Wade on previous census'.  I am therefore thinking that his father was perhaps James Wade who was transported in 1849.

Unfortunately i cannot find Benjamin Brown in 1841 to establish if there are two people.

Regards

TB

[Annie65115]

From recollection though, the 1881 census has both James Wade and Benjamin Brown so they must have been 2 separate people.

[Truebrit]

Yes Annie

Although this assumes that our James Wade was transported and then managed to get back to Leicester rather than him using an alias of Benjamin Brown.

The only quirk is that in 1851 the family are under Benjamin Brown, before reverting to Benjamin WADE in 1861, and the back to Brown in 1871 and 1881.  The 1861 may simply be  mother and father out of the home and the elder children just stating their name as Wade (which it was) when the census was recorded.

And if the 1881 census is our James Wade, how did he get back from Australia -he clearly had no money!

Regards

TB

[DB67]

Are the people looking into James Wade aka Benjamin Brown and James Wade / Moulding relatives of these men. I have recently discovered they are my Great Great Great Grandfather and Great Great Great Grandfather.