i have just joined this list and would like some advise on joseph WOODBRIDGE. The 1871 census gives Joseph born about 1843 ALSHAM Bucks. However according the Family History Site this place doesn't exist. On the 1881 census he said he was born in the "Country". Can anyone help. Brian Foster

"Brian Foster" <blf@paradise.net.nz> wrote : >i have just joined this list and would like some advise on joseph >WOODBRIDGE. >The 1871 census gives Joseph born about 1843 ALSHAM Bucks. >However >according the Family History Site this place doesn't exist. On the >1881 census he >said he was born in the "Country". There is a Joseph WOODBRIDGE in the 1851 census, aged 7, born and living in Haddenham; parents Matthew and Anne, siblings Edward and Thomas. I could see a badly heard or written 'Haddenham' eventually getting mangled to 'Alsham', I think. John B Leic., Eng Access the latest "Helpful Advice & urls for London Listers" at http://tinyurl.com/57ert

In message <001f01c4c213$92c2bea0$670cf6d2@T300>, Brian Foster <blf@paradise.net.nz> writes >i have just joined this list and would like some advise on joseph WOODBRIDGE. >The 1871 census gives Joseph born >about 1843 ALSHAM Bucks. Nothing like that - the nearest is perhaps Haversham, but you don't get Woodbridges there. {erhaps it was a mishearing of Haddenham, where there were/are Woodbridges fairly recently. The main locations for the family are in this area, though none of the other three places is even slightly like Alsham. When was he born? -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society