Please forgive me if this is a duplicate message. I had some trouble subscribing to the list and am not sure if my first message got through. I am a new member to the list seeking information on the HILTON family, originally of Sharnbrook, Bedford, specifically Jane Frances (Cook) Hilton (b. 1850 in Devon) and James Hilton (b. ~1855 in Sharnbrook), married April 1877 in Sharnbrook. They remained there until the 1901 census which lists them in Rushden?, Northhamptonshire. I lose them after that. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has done research on the HILTON family. Jane Hilton was my great grandmother and I know nothing of her descendants. With thanks, Eleanor Stardom Winnipeg, Canada

Hello Jim, Thanks for this - I've only just joined the list and I'm amazed at the speed of replies! I don't know yet if Thomas Dawson and Eaton Socon fits my tree. Fascinating stuff though. Kind regards, Kathy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Bundy" <jbundy48@comcast.net> To: <BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 6:18 PM Subject: [BDF] Eaton Socon Overseers (of the Poor) Account book 1800, note 57 > (Date) (Name/Item) (Amount) > > 1800 Brot Forward 41/2/4 > > Pd W Stokes 2/6 T Townsend 4/ 0/6/6 > > Wid Thody 4/ James Jarvis 1/ 0/5/0 > > Thos Martin 2/ Mat Appleby 4/ 0/6/0 > > Jno Quick 4/ Thody's Child 2/ 0/6/0 > > Witherow's Child 3/ W Gardner 4/6 0/7/6 > > Richardson 10/ Johnson 4/ W Foot 1/ 0/15/0 > > Wid Brown 4/ Rowlett 3/ Wid Day 2/ 0/9/0 > > Pd Cross 2/6 Jno Medley 4/ 0/6/6 > > Thos Dawson 2/ W Valentine 3/ 0/5/0 > > Eliz Boulton 1/ Rt Smith 4/ 0/5/0 > > Thos Finding 2/ Fulch 3/6 0/5/6 > > Nutty & Child Briggs 10/ Attwood 3/ 0/13/0 > > S Braybrooks 3/ Wid Roy 2/6 0/5/6 > > Mary Oakley 7/6 Wid Gardner 5/ 0/12/6 > > T Rowlett 5/ Sallaway 2/6 0/7/6 > > Wid Simpson 3/ Gobby 3/ 0/6/0 > > Wid Thornton 1/6 T Walker 2/ 0/3/6 > > Will Barker 3/ W Taylor 4/ 0/7/0 > > Geo Mayes 2/6 S Bolton 5/ 0/7/6 > > Pd Wid Harper 0/6/0 > > Pd Jno Barker a Bill 1/5/0 > > Rt Waterfall a do 0/13/0 > > T Chesham 4/ W Valentine 2/ 0/6/0 > > S Sallaway 2/6 0/2/6 > > M Abbott a Bill 1/6/6 > > 26 Pd Mary Tattman 1 Months pay 0/16/0 > > Do a Month pay to 23 of Aug 0/16/0 > > T Rowlett 2/6 Hull 1/ Attwood 3/ 0/6/6 > > T Walker 1/6 W Valentine 2/ 0/3/6 > > Rt Smith 1/6 0/1/6 > > 28 Geo Emery a Bill 1/2/0 > > W Valentine 2/6 J Newman 4/ 0/6/6 > > Jno Oakley 1/ Shadbolt 6/ 0/7/0 > > Ma Shelton 2/ Gammons 2/6 0/4/6 > > Jarvis Child 1/ James 1/ 0/2/0 > > S Sallaway 5/ G Townsend 4/ 0/9/0 > > Jno Mason 3/ Wid Allison 2/6 0/5/6 > > Card on 57/0/10 > > > ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== > The Bedfordshire Surnames List can be viewed at: > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/bedf.html > > >

cathy Questions: why "cathy" when it says "AudreyJoyceMcC", and are Peter and MaryLou involved in the Slater hunt? The "Robin" of course is a misprint, should be Robert. Now obviously you are one of the people that I stupidly deleted the other evening just before going to bed, because I don't see a folder for you here, I deleted the first few up as far as "H" before I realized to my Horror what I had done, and presume you were the very first one on the list. So would it be too much to ask if you would resend me what you have, because I don't understand : ""a connection with Yorkshire? See:"" Of course I can always blame it on my 85 years. Owen ----- Original Message ----- From: <AudreyJoyceMcC@aol.com> To: <BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [BDF] Slater > Owen [& Peter & Mary Lou] > > There is a Robin SLATER [aged 16] born & living in Stevenage on the > 1901...a > connection with Yorkshire? See: > > http://www.1901censusonline.com/ > > > Annie Slater 34 Hertford Stevenage > Annie Slater 72 York Richmond Hertford Stevenage > Ellen Slater 18 Cambs Tadlow Hertford Stevenage Housemaid > Domestic > Minnie Slater 35 York Richmond Hertford Stevenage > Robin Slater 16 Herts Stevenage Hertford Stevenage > Walter Slater 30 York Richmond Hertford Stevenage School > Master > & Organist > > But these are the only SLATERs listed in Stevenage in 1901 > > cathy > > > > > ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== > The Bedfordshire Surnames List can be viewed at: > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/bedf.html > >

Owen [& Peter & Mary Lou] There is a Robin SLATER [aged 16] born & living in Stevenage on the 1901...a connection with Yorkshire? See: http://www.1901censusonline.com/ Annie Slater 34   Hertford Stevenage   Annie Slater 72 York Richmond Hertford Stevenage   Ellen Slater 18 Cambs Tadlow Hertford Stevenage Housemaid Domestic Minnie Slater 35 York Richmond Hertford Stevenage   Robin Slater 16 Herts Stevenage Hertford Stevenage   Walter Slater 30 York Richmond Hertford Stevenage School Master & Organist But these are the only SLATERs listed in Stevenage in 1901 cathy

Donna It is likely she was from Cranfield as the BASS/Es were very numerous around there in the 17th C but her name didnt make it on to the PR If Jane was b mid 1750s - and you look up BASS [batch number P003851] You will see there are other children being christened around that time with her surname...father John [mothers: Elizabeth or Martha - he probably had two wives] But short of their being a Will in Beds Archives or a Poor Law Record I dont think any other document would conect her to a particular family cathy

This give you a list of all the churches in Bedfordshire - as you see there are five known as St James... http://www.countyviews.com/beds/church.htm Then perhaps you can marry it up with the IGI? http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyBedford.htm#PageTitle You may try Beds Archives Search site: http://blars.adlibsoft.com/beginner/indnms.html There wouldn't be a filiation record if the father acknowledged the child - as they were only concerned with people who didnt want to maintain their babies. You know his mother, Sarah SIMPSON, died some time between 1784 and 1799 - either in Bedfordshire or London? You could try a look-up for her burial on rootschat? http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,2.0.html cathy

(Date) (Name/Item) (Amount) 1800 Brot Forward 41/2/4 Pd W Stokes 2/6 T Townsend 4/ 0/6/6 Wid Thody 4/ James Jarvis 1/ 0/5/0 Thos Martin 2/ Mat Appleby 4/ 0/6/0 Jno Quick 4/ Thody's Child 2/ 0/6/0 Witherow's Child 3/ W Gardner 4/6 0/7/6 Richardson 10/ Johnson 4/ W Foot 1/ 0/15/0 Wid Brown 4/ Rowlett 3/ Wid Day 2/ 0/9/0 Pd Cross 2/6 Jno Medley 4/ 0/6/6 Thos Dawson 2/ W Valentine 3/ 0/5/0 Eliz Boulton 1/ Rt Smith 4/ 0/5/0 Thos Finding 2/ Fulch 3/6 0/5/6 Nutty & Child Briggs 10/ Attwood 3/ 0/13/0 S Braybrooks 3/ Wid Roy 2/6 0/5/6 Mary Oakley 7/6 Wid Gardner 5/ 0/12/6 T Rowlett 5/ Sallaway 2/6 0/7/6 Wid Simpson 3/ Gobby 3/ 0/6/0 Wid Thornton 1/6 T Walker 2/ 0/3/6 Will Barker 3/ W Taylor 4/ 0/7/0 Geo Mayes 2/6 S Bolton 5/ 0/7/6 Pd Wid Harper 0/6/0 Pd Jno Barker a Bill 1/5/0 Rt Waterfall a do 0/13/0 T Chesham 4/ W Valentine 2/ 0/6/0 S Sallaway 2/6 0/2/6 M Abbott a Bill 1/6/6 26 Pd Mary Tattman 1 Months pay 0/16/0 Do a Month pay to 23 of Aug 0/16/0 T Rowlett 2/6 Hull 1/ Attwood 3/ 0/6/6 T Walker 1/6 W Valentine 2/ 0/3/6 Rt Smith 1/6 0/1/6 28 Geo Emery a Bill 1/2/0 W Valentine 2/6 J Newman 4/ 0/6/6 Jno Oakley 1/ Shadbolt 6/ 0/7/0 Ma Shelton 2/ Gammons 2/6 0/4/6 Jarvis Child 1/ James 1/ 0/2/0 S Sallaway 5/ G Townsend 4/ 0/9/0 Jno Mason 3/ Wid Allison 2/6 0/5/6 Card on 57/0/10

Hi all I have the transcription of the parish registers for Eversholt from 1602 - 1812 if anyone would like a look up doing. Just email me if so. TTFN Kate padkat.familytree@ntlworld.com

Hello everyone, If anyone has any information regarding: Joseph Rootham 1787-1854, Riseley; wife Elizabeth unknown, 1790,-1859, Higham Ferrers, Northants; their children: Daniel 1810-1827; William 1815-1831; Selina, born 1817; Sarah, born 1817; Matilda, born 1821; Mary Elizabeth, born 1826. also: Daniel Rootham 1751-1831, m Mary Coley 1766-1822; Thomas Rootham 1714-1772, m Elizabeth Goss 1721-1765; Thomas Rootham 1681-1752, m Martha Keystone 1688-1739 (born Turvey); Thomas Rootham 1656-1690, m Elizabeth unknown 1659-1717; Robert Rootham 1620-1671, m Ruth unknown 1624-1657; Wiliam Rootham c1600-1665, m Margaret Shawler c1594-1635. I would be most grateful. Yours hopefully, Kathy

Hello everyone, If anyone has any information regarding: William Dawson, dob c1810? a labourer; his wife - unknown; son Henry, born 1834 St. Cuthbert's; any other siblings. Henry's wife Sophia (nee Thompson, born c1834 St. Paul's); married St. Paul's 15.07.1856. Sophia's father William Thompson, dob c1810? a maltster; his wife - unknown; any other siblings. Henry and Sophia's children: Emma Louisa born 1864 East Indies; Mary Ann Elizabeth born 1866 Aldershot; Harry born 1869 Canada; James Robert born 1872 Bermuda. I would be most grateful. Yours hopefully, Kathy

Hi everyone, Does anyone have access to the 1851 census at ancestry.co.uk? I had access but it just ran out and I am looking for a Katherine ENDERSBY b.c.1835. Can anyone do a search for me? Thanks for your time, Donna

Owen, Try an Advanced Search at www.multimap.com Trinity Road shows as the start of Sish Lane, just near the roundabout. Trinity Place is also nearby. Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Owen" <oclarke4@comcast.net> To: <BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 3:03 PM Subject: [BDF] Stevenage > Does anyhone have a 1900 map of Stevenage, showing Trinity Road, nothing > on today's map. > Owen > > > ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== > For any updates our info about the status of this list go to > http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com >

Donna - I could look for you, but need some more info, do you know where she was born ? Eunice Donna Bailey wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Does anyone have access to the 1851 census at ancestry.co.uk? I had access > but it just ran out and I am looking for a Katherine ENDERSBY b.c.1835. Can > anyone do a search for me? > > Thanks for your time, > Donna > > > ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== > When REPLYING to a message sent to the list decide if this is information that all the list members would like to know about or whether it would only be of interest to the individual you are replying to. > > -- > This email has been verified as Virus free > Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net > >

Dear Listers, This is a rather vague request, I know, but I don't know how else to find John's birth. As per the father's will,John Vattas, (written 19th Dec 1793) JOHN SIMPSON, my son begotten by me on LATE SARAH SIMPSON of Bedfordshire deceased, born on 2 Nov 1784, christened and registered in parish register of St James Church. From IGI, John was christened at St James Westminster but this was in 1799, AGED 15 (after will was written) and after father's death (will proved 1795). Perhaps there is a St James in Bedfordshire, I am guessing, probably many. Can anyone shed some light on where I could go or what I need to do to try and find this illegitimate birth. Gary Gary & Donna Parker PO Box 89 Albany Creek Qld 4035 Australia pH 07 3862 8767 garyndonna@hotmail.com

>> Children in the nineteenth-century were also subjected to the opium >> problem. Parents with teething children, mostly poor parents, used >> opium-based cures for the pain. > >Gosh, Stella, that is pretty awful! I cant imagine parents or country GPs & >pharmacists would have access to opium out here in the sticks in >Bedfordshire...and the poor wouldnt have been able to aford it. Cheap patent medicines in common use. (And for that matter, a couple of GPs in rural Bucks won a prize for growing opium for medicinal; purposes.) -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

Does anyone have a map showing Brick Kiln Lane in the 1890s Stevenage? Owen

Does anyhone have a 1900 map of Stevenage, showing Trinity Road, nothing on today's map. Owen

Owen, Further to earlier replies from Mary Lou and myself. If you go back to 1881 census at www.familysearch.org and look at the family of pensioner John Slater + Anne, you will find two additional sons John 21 and William 19. Both have left home by 1891. It's possible one of these or even an older brother still was the father of your Robert. You might like to check FeeeBMD for a marriage for John or William between 1881 -1885. And then, why was Robert with his grandparents. Did both parents die between 1884-1891? Something else to check on FreeBMD Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Owen" <oclarke4@comcast.net> To: <BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:46 PM Subject: [BDF] Slater >I have started a Family History for my wife, and am beginning with her >father who, she thinks, was born in Stevenage, he is Robert SLATER born 15 >September 1888, according to her memory, which is not all that perfect. Any >help anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated. > Owen > > > ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== > For any updates our info about the status of this list go to > http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com >

Nan, I have no connections. The name caught my eye because I happen to be looking for a KEANE family from Ireland who migrated to Australia. I always like to do a couple of quick searches to get a bit of a feel for the family. I found the christening for William was actually in 1832 at Eversholt. The father was Thomas and the mother Ann. Clicking on the batch number and searching for just the Keen surname with father Thomas you will find six children between 1831 -1844. But before I go on. Looking for a Thomas KEEN marriage to Ann, shows there were two in the same week in 1829 at Eversholt. One to Ann Green and one to Ann Rayner. So it's possible that there are two lots of parents with the same names in Eversholt. So when you get back to the children you can't be sure which is which. There was Joseph (1) 1831, William 1832, Anne (I) 1835, Anne (II) 1836, Henry 1839, and Joseph (II) 1844. Normally where a name is used twice, I would assume the first child has died, but in this case there could be one in each family. You would probably have to look for both families in 1841 or 1851 to be sure. 1861 may be a bit late, as some could have married. You could also look for deaths on FreeBMD or the like. As for the father Thomas Keen, there are couple of user submitted records suggesting birth circa 1811. But there is a parish records in1809 giving parents as James + Martha. Again, you don't know which of the two Thomases this is. And finally, if you go to Family Trees at www.rootwseb.com and search for Zacariah Keen you will see an old submission from 2000 and an email contact. This Zachariah also comes from Eversholt and descends from the same James + Martha. He looks like a cousin to your William. But the email address may have expired. However, I hope this is some help. You might need to obtain a birth certificate for william that should give his mother's maiden name. Good luck Peter in Sydney > According to 1861 census William Keen was born about 1835 in Bedford. He > had a brother Joseph 10 years younger. > Their father was a Thomas Keen. Both William and Joseph worked on the > railway. > William married Eliza Reed 1859 St. Pancras Middx.

Hi guys, Is anyone connected to the WOODSTOCK family of Cranfield in the 1600s? Donna