On 7 Feb 2011 at 21:29, Josephine Jeremiah wrote: > On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:11:18 -0000, Susan Moziar <smoziar@rogers.com> > wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me if there is any information that I can find about > > the birth of Arthur James Scheaff HINTON who was born 17 June 1877 > > in Bedminster, Somerset at Hope Cottage, Bath Road, Bedminster? > > Specifically I am trying to find out who the mother is? > > Hi Susan, > > According to the new familysearch site that Chris Jefferies gave us on > 20th. January, Arthur James Sheaff Hinton was baptized on 2nd. Jul > 1887 at Holy Nativity, Bedminster. Father was William James Hinton and > mother was Maria. > > The third name of the child is spelt Sheaff rather than Scheaff. > > Josephine < Mysteriouser and mysteriouser, as Alice said. I can find no fewer than THREE marriages for a William James Hinton at Bedminster with FreeBMD - in 1882, 1886 and 1888 - but none to a Maria Sheaff or any other Maria. Also, if Arthur James Sheaff Hinton was born in 1877 - as his death record at Ancestry in 1974 suggests - then he was baptised when he was 9 or 10 years old. Was William James Hinton a serial bigamist and womaniser or are we talking different men here? And why can I not find Arthur James Sheaff Hinton or his mother in any census, yet he seems to have been made a lieutenant in 1941 at the age of 63 or 64 and before that to have been awarded the MBE. The only Maria SHEAFF I can find appears to have been born at Nonington, Kent, about 1860 and in the 1881 census was a servant to a widowed school mistress and her children at Maidstone. There is, as the OP said, a Maria Sheaff who appears to have married an Albert Bunting at Fulham in 1882 but I cannot find them in the later censuses, either, and it seems uncertain as to whether this was the same woman. If it was, then what was SHE up to? Truly, this is the stuff of mysteries! Let's have more of it, please ! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE

-----Original Message----- From: Roy Stockdill Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 5:20 PM To: bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [B&S] Arthur James Scheaff HINTON b. 17 Jun 1887 in Bedminster,Somerset, England ----------------------------------> snip Was William James Hinton a serial bigamist and womaniser or are we talking different men here? And why can I not find Arthur James Sheaff Hinton or his mother in any census, yet he seems to have been made a lieutenant in 1941 at the age of 63 or 64 and before that to have been awarded the MBE. -------------------------------------->snip It appears that William James HINTON may have been a bigamist. I am wondering if the bit you found in the Gazette referred to his son who may have also been called Arthur James Sheaff HINTON Births Jun 1915 Hinton Arthur J Busby Rugby 6d 1506 I will have to do a bit more digging. Susan