Hi Josephine Thank you for looking. I have tried looking for a baptism using James as his fathern which I tend to believe as his eldest son was named James who unfortunately died in 1828 but Henry again named his last child as James. I have tried looking at early trade directories for a Beard Gunsmith named James without success. I am sure he will surface at some time. A Henry Beard married a Francis Harden 20th December, 1807 at St. Martins, Salisbury, Wilts. but have not found any children for them and my Henry and Frances were having children from 1815 to 1833 but will try a post on a Wiltshire board. Regards Tony -----Original Message----- From: Josephine Jeremiah Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 1:47 PM To: bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [B&S] BEARD On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 10:55:57 -0000, Tony Harrison <a.harrison@tesco.net> wrote: > Henry Beard b abt 1794 Somerset (1851 census) married a Frances sometime > before 1815 after which they have 7 children born in Lyncombe Somerset > and all baptised at St Thomas a Becket Widecombe Somerset a further > child was > born in Milk St Bath and was baptised at St Swithin Bath, Frances died in > Holloway Lyncombe and was buried 28 Sep 1840 at St Thomas a Becket > Widecombe. > Any help in finding Henry's birth or burial or details of his marriage > to Frances would be much appreciated. Hi Tony, I looked in the B & A FHS marriages for Somerset 1754-1837 and for Bristol 1754-1812 and 1813-1837 for a marriage between a Henry Beard and a Frances. I also looked in the Gloucestershire Marriage Index 1800-1837, but had no result. Perhaps Henry used another forename when he married the first time. Unfortunately there are a lot of Beard entries and on two of the CDs the brides' names are not included in the groom's index, so that searching for a Beard who married a Frances would mean looking through all the Beard entries in the different parishes. Even if a Beard, with a different forename, who married a Frances, was found in this way, the bride and groom might not be the couple you are researching. 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