===================================================================== Match: Bowles Source: [email protected] From: "Lee Paltridge" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [B&D] BOWLES William, Keynsham, SOM, 1832 Thanks Josephine for this extra snippet. >>William BOWLES was entitled to vote in the 1832 Somerset election in Keynsham. His abode was Keynsham and his qualification to vote was freehold land at Hempshord, though I don't know where that was. << I have looked on the old maps but cannot find a Hempshord either, or a name anything like it in the vicinity. I wondered if it might really have been Kempsford, which is the name of a town in the Cotswolds, about 50km north-east from Keynsham, which might have been used here as a local farm name. Given the strange ways that both the capitals H and K were written, it seems quite possible. William BOWLES was on the 1851 census as a farmer of 14 acres, which is not a very large farm. In 1851 and 1861, he lived in West End in Keynsham, so the farm was probably around that general area. In March 2007, in answering a question on B&S from a new CANTLE lister, Chris Hollins, I put in my two penn'orth about the CANTLE basket makers*, and the many references to the name in Keynsham parish and Baptist registers, but said I had no connection to the CANTLE family myself. Wrong! William BOWLES, after the death his wife Elizabeth DERRICK in 1846, lived with the family of farmer John CANTLE, and his relationship is described as 'Uncle'. I mentioned in this week's query that Thomas DERRICK snr and his wife Elizabeth FRANKHAM had four children - Elizabeth 1777 (whose marriage to William BOWLES you found for me), Thomas 1779, John 1782, and my 3xgm Hannah 1784. John DERRICK married Ann LEWIS at St Augustine in 1805, and I have now found that their daughter Elizabeth b 1806 married John CANTLE - a very late marriage - both in their 40s. Thus William BOWLES was uncle by marriage of Elizabeth DERRICK CANTLE - who was therefore my first cousin 4 times removed! (* you added lots of wonderful stuff about osier cutting) I'll keep my eye out for this Hempshord/Kempsford name - so thank you again. Lee =======================================================