Hi Paul, You might try searching for WOODIN families. I have ancestors with that spelling--it eventually became WOODING. See my Rootsweb page at: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dave_carlsen&id=I175 My WOODIN(G)s stayed around Emberton, but my John was married in Olney in 1790. So, you may find some clues there. Regards, Dave Carlsen davecarlsen@gmail.com P.O. Box 446, Harlem, GA 30814-0446 USA http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rhutch/genuki/BKM/bucksurname.html On Oct 25, 2009, at 1:00 AM, Paul Wooding wrote: > John Wooding appears in the 1851 census with a birthplace of > Buckingham. He > was a tanner, aged 45. He must have been a journeyman as he married > Harriet > Alexander in Milton next Sittingbourne, Kent in 1828, had daughters > born in > Sittingbourne in 1830 and 1831, sons born in Hertford in 1833 and > 1834, a > son in Northamptonshire in 1836, and a daughter and son (John, my > g-grandfather) in Bermondsey in 1837 and 1841. In the 1841 census he > and > family were in Olney. In 1851 John and daughter Harriet were > boarders in > Rochester while wife and rest of children were in Leighton Buzzard. > Harriet > was a widow in 1861 and she, her daughters and youngest son John all > emigrated to New Zealand at various dates between 1858 to 1865. > > > > I have not been able to find any birth/baptism records for John > Wooding > around 1805. A Mark Wooding was a tanner in Buckingham in 1841, and > other > Woodings born in "Buckingham, Buckinghamshire" show up in some census > records, so there were clearly Woodings living there. > > > > And a second question: Would it have been common for a tanner to > move around > so much in the 1830s and 1840s? > > > > Paul Wooding > > New Zealand > > > > *************************************** > > 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