On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 03:13:15 -0000, Cheryl and John <johnthebricky@hotmail.com> wrote: > Glad your back on track. I know how things are when you have an old > computer hope you can get the newer one working well again soon. Hi Cheryl, Thanks for your e-mail. My husband is making some progress with getting the newer computer going while I am still writing on the old one. I am getting used to the noise and the slow speed of the old one :-) > Still some gaps in the Chidgey family some of the sibling info needs > tracking down, but have found more Randall info most of the census with > the help of you and other and did make contact with a distant Chidgey > line. CHIDGEY is an unusual name, but I think I recall the name from my youth. It's likely that I went to school with someone with that name, but I can't recall anything about him other than the surname. But I do recall that the father your Louisa CHIDGEY was recorded as a mason at her baptism on 12th. September 1824 at the church of St. James, Bristol. I've come across the surname CHIDGEY in the B & A FHS Bristol Apprenticeship Books Vols 1(o) to 1 (z) Index & Transcripts 1724-2009. Henry CHIDGEY, whose father was James CHIDGEY, mason, of Bristol, was apprenticed to George JONES, mason, on 1st. August 1812. (George's wife was Hannah) If you don't already have these two CHIDGEYs who were masons, they may fit in your tree somewhere. And here's another CHIDGEY mason, whom you probably have but nothing ventured nothing gained: Robert CHIDGEY, mason, Horfield-lane, was in the First Company of the Bristol Volunteers in 1798. He was listed in the following: The Rise, Progress & Military Improvement of the Bristol Volunteers with an Alphabetical List of the Officers and Privates correctly arranged by James Brown, Serj. of the 10th Comp. published by W. Matthews, at No. 62, Broadmead, 1798. Some information about the Bristol volunteers is on the following web page: http://fishponds.org.uk/revwar.html Josephine