----- Original Message ----- From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 4:44 AM Subject: Re: [B&S] Charles WHITE brick wall, Bristol, 19th C (was Elizabeth Sarah STRATFORD ...) > On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:34:46 -0000, Sandy Gianni <slgianni@newkenmore.com> > wrote: > >> Thank you, Josephine. I went and got the marriage certificate and saw >> the occupation of CharlesWhite, the father of Charles White, was >> Coachmaker. I went to my Ancestry tree and had alreadyentered that >> information and had already found his father in the 1841 census. I'd >> forgotten. > >> The family, without son Charles, was on Somerset Street one page of the >> census (image 7 of 28)before Elizabeth White and her sister Jane >> Stratford (image 8 of 28). > >> I'm trying to find anything about the birth or death of Charles White, >> husband of Elizabeth SarahStratford. > > Hi Sandy, > > Who was in the household of the elder Charles WHITE in the 1841 census and > what were their ages? Chas White 55 Margaret White 56 Elizabeth White 20 Sarah White 5 Of course, the relationship is not given. Son Charles would probably have been about 31 at this point. So the span in ages of children would have been wide, if these two were also their children. > > Were the people in the household of the elder Charles WHITE born in county > or not? > All were born in county > This information is important in trying to find the baptism of the younger > Charles WHITE because if his mother and any younger siblings were listed > in the 1841 census with his father, the elder Charles WHITE, then baptisms > for any younger children with father's occupation coachmaker could perhaps > be found. > > These possible baptisms could perhaps lead to the baptism of the younger > Charles WHITE, your brickwall, if the WHITE family used the same church or > a nearby church for their children's baptisms. > > Was the elder Charles WHITE recorded as coachmaker in the 1841 census as > well as on the 1837 marriage certificate? Yes, that's why I assumed that I had the right Charles White. Though White is such a common name that it is possible that there might be more than one Charles White in that area who was a coachmaker. > > Josephine > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >