I would welcome suggestions on tracking William Gould. He married Jane Lawrence, 12th Oct. 1811 in Datchet. He could have been born 1786, as was Jane. Jane was on the 1841 census, living with daughter,Mary and son-in-law James Barnes, in Datchet, but no sign of William. Jan. 1842 his daughter Amelia married Thomas Clarke,Datchet, and William was father, labourer. He may not have been present at wedding, but he was alive. How can I track his wedding of 1811,and his whereabouts in 1841. Any help appreciated. Pat, Australia

> I would welcome suggestions on tracking William Gould. > He married Jane Lawrence, 12th Oct. 1811 in Datchet. > He could have been born 1786, as was Jane. > Jane was on the 1841 census, living with daughter,Mary and son-in-law > James Barnes, in Datchet, but no sign of William. Jan. 1842 his > daughter Amelia married Thomas Clarke,Datchet, and William was father, > labourer. He may not have been present at wedding, but he was alive. > How can I track his wedding of 1811,and his whereabouts in 1841. His wedding is in Datchet church but will give no further information about his parentage (doesn't happen till 1837). There is a William Gould, farm servant, in Datchet in 1798, so if he was 16 (+) at the time, this could be him. In 1841 the census was taken in June, and he could very well have been 'getting in the Middlesex hay' like many other Bucks ag labs at the time. Because 'nightsoil' from London was spread about the fields in outer Middlesex, the hay came on 3 weeks before the Bucks hay, and many men went up to reap it, coming back with pockets full of money (if not boozed away) in a lean time of year. You could trawl the farms in Middlesex - eg Hammersmith and points west - for him, but it would be a long trawl. However, the mere mention of a father's name on a marriage certificate does not prove he was alive, merely that he was the father.

He was not necessarily alive when his daughter married. In some cases, it would be noted after his name & occupation if the father was dead, e.g. John Smith, Labourer (decd), but by no means always. I have marriage certificates of people whose fathers I know were dead (in one case, his burial was at the same church exactly a week before the marriage), but on which there is simply his name & occupation, with no reference to him being dead. Paul Patricia Sinfield wrote: > I would welcome suggestions on tracking William Gould. > He married Jane Lawrence, 12th Oct. 1811 in Datchet. > He could have been born 1786, as was Jane. > Jane was on the 1841 census, living with daughter,Mary and son-in-law James Barnes, in Datchet, but no sign of William. > Jan. 1842 his daughter Amelia married Thomas Clarke,Datchet, and William was father, labourer. > He may not have been present at wedding, but he was alive. > How can I track his wedding of 1811,and his whereabouts in 1841. > Any help appreciated. > Pat, Australia > *************************************** > > BGS Website: http://www.bucksgs.org.uk/ > BFHS Website: http://www.bucksfhs.org.uk/ > Bucks Genuki Website: http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BUCKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

> I would welcome suggestions on tracking William Gould. > He married Jane Lawrence, 12th Oct. 1811 in Datchet. > He could have been born 1786, as was Jane. > Jane was on the 1841 census, living with daughter,Mary and son-in-law > James Barnes, in Datchet, but no sign of William. Jan. 1842 his > daughter Amelia married Thomas Clarke,Datchet, and William was father, > labourer. He may not have been present at wedding, but he was alive. > How can I track his wedding of 1811,and his whereabouts in 1841. His wedding is in Datchet church but will give no further information about his parentage (doesn't happen till 1837). There is a William Gould, farm servant, in Datchet in 1798, so if he was 16 (+) at the time, this could be him. In 1841 the census was taken in June, and he could very well have been 'getting in the Middlesex hay' like many other Bucks ag labs at the time. Because 'nightsoil' from London was spread about the fields in outer Middlesex, the hay came on 3 weeks before the Bucks hay, and many men went up to reap it, coming back with pockets full of money (if not boozed away) in a lean time of year. You could trawl the farms in Middlesex - eg Hammersmith and points west - for him, but it would be a long trawl. However, the mere mention of a father's name on a marriage certificate does not prove he was alive, merely that he was the father.

There is a William GOULD, 60, Farm Lab.b Windsor in the 1851 census at Datchet, but he is married to a Mary, 51, born Horton BKM. If this is him he must have remarried. They have children Thomas 20 b Datchet, William 13 b Datchet & granddaughter Caroline, 8, b Upton. This William is in the Eton Union Central Workhouse in 1861, aged 69. No Jane GOULD is found in Bucks in the 1951 or 1861 censuses. A William GOULD died in Eton district in 1838 - From FreeBMD - Dec qtr 1838, vol 6 p 224 A Jane GOULD died in Eton district in 1847 - Sep 1857 qtr vol 6 p 258 Paul Patricia Sinfield wrote: > I would welcome suggestions on tracking William Gould. > He married Jane Lawrence, 12th Oct. 1811 in Datchet. > He could have been born 1786, as was Jane. > Jane was on the 1841 census, living with daughter,Mary and son-in-law James Barnes, in Datchet, but no sign of William. > Jan. 1842 his daughter Amelia married Thomas Clarke,Datchet, and William was father, labourer. > He may not have been present at wedding, but he was alive. > How can I track his wedding of 1811,and his whereabouts in 1841. > Any help appreciated. > Pat, Australia > *************************************** > > BGS Website: http://www.bucksgs.org.uk/ > BFHS Website: http://www.bucksfhs.org.uk/ > Bucks Genuki Website: http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BUCKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >