Thanks Eve, I have just had an e mail back from Beds RO, saying that there are no mention of them in settlements and the poor law union records have not survived, Think more digging required. You have given me something to think about!! Diane >From: Eve McLaughlin <eve@varneys.demon.co.uk> >Reply-To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com >To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [BDF] Need some ideas please - Green deaths?? >Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:17:07 +0000 > >In message <MABBLMMEBBFIBCCILIAIMECPHCAA.terry.barcock@153.co.uk>, >"Terry Barcock, 153 Ltd" <terry.barcock@153.co.uk> writes > >Try Overseers Accounts to see when the relations started receiving parish > >relief > >and whether children are mentioned. > >Too late for the overseers' accounts, since the Poor Law changed in >1834. You need the Gurardians' records for the Union - workhouse or >outrelief (in this case). Usually if the householder was receiving poor >relief, they would not be allowed to take in 'inmates' not also >receiving relief, so you stand a good chance of having some details - >assuming they survive, which the earlier records do not always do. > > >I have a George and Ann(e) Green. Married 1830 in Clifton. In 1841 they >are > >living in Clifton with their children including my gt.gt.grandfather >William > >aged 6. > > > >By 1851 there is no sign of them, 2 of the children are living with > >relations in receipt of parish relief. My William I believe I have >located > >in Gamblingay Cambs aged 16. > It is always possible that the parents migrated elsewhere(X) in the >'Hungry Forties', in search of work, but found only disease and death. >If the children were returned from X after this, the Guradians' minutes >should show a record. >-- >Eve McLaughlin > >Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians >Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society > > >==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== >To SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE send a message to: >Bedford-L-request@rootsweb.com (if you are in mail mode i.e. receiving the >messages >individually or want them individually) > >or > >Bedford-D-request@rootsweb.com (if you are in digest mode i.e. receiving a >digest of multiple >messages or want this mode) > >In the BODY of the message (not the subject line) type the word subscribe >or unsubscribe. >