On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:22:59 +0100, Jan Boyes <markandjanboyes@ntlworld.com> wrote: > I've just looked at the image, trying to see if it was bad handwriting > for > JOSEPH, and it isn't. > It really does look like JEFFERIS, so I don't think this is your man. Hi Jan, Thanks very much for looking in the 1851 census for me. The husband's first name and wife's first names were right and their approximate birth years could have fitted with their baptisms. (Benjamin JOSEPH was baptized in 1827 and Caroline WOODBRIDGE was baptized in 1830.) But as you say, the clear writing of JEFFERIS indicates that the Mangotsfield couple isn't the Bedminster couple for whom I am looking. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com