On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 11:54:07 -0000, Jenny Davis <jenny.davis@zen.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Josephine, > I too saw the programme, in which the pronunciation of the village name > was Wod*e*ford; but note, locals know it as *Wodford* Hi Jenny, Thanks for that. It's always good to know local pronunciation. > The village is largely a part of the parish of Combe St Nicholas, When I looked for Wadeford on the map, I saw Combe St. Nicholas nearby and thought of you and your family research there. > Thus said William HARRIS is to be found within Chard returns in the 1901 > census and in Combe returns tenyears earlier. I wondered if anything could be found out about him, but I don't have access to the online censuses so I didn't go looking for him. > Listers may be interested to know that my family history studies embrace > the entire population of Combe St Nicholas. My database has no fewer > than four with the name William Harris, but there is little doubt (in my > mind) the > tobacco tin was given to the William who was born in 1860 at Bishop's > Lydiard. It's interesting how an object like this tobacco tin with a name and place inscribed on it can lead to all sorts of other fascinating information. The brass oval tobacco tin, belonging to William HARRIS, was also interesting to me as we have a similar oval one in a silvery metal. The brass one was made by Thomas Evans of Treherbert in Glamorgan. I've just looked inside ours and the maker is the same. The owner of ours was a distant Somerset-born relative through marriage, William GRIFFIN, the son of John and Sarah GRIFFIN, who was baptized on 20th. November 1842 at Walcot Church. He died on 25th. November 1919 and was buried at Cardiff Cemetery. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com