Hi Diana, I suspect that there is a spelling or handwiting mistake (not a transcibing error) in the original. Both FreeCen and the Cornwall Online Census Project have it as "Formley House Servant". Unless someone else can turn up a Formley House or similar, my guess is that it should say "Formerly" a house servant. On the same census of St Dominick there is a 9 year old boy who was 'formerly' a farm servant. Quite a few people on the 1851 and 1861 census were described as "Formerly House Servant". Also, not invariably, but usually a house servant would be enumerated IN the house for which she was a house servant (i.e. live in). In the 1861 census, Caroline's widowed mother Margaret, brothers Daniel, Stephen and Richard, and younger sister Rebecca/Rebecka (various spellings) were in St Dominick. In addition to Caroline, her brothers William and Frank were also missing. Images of the Burial registers for St Dominick are online at www.familysearch.org If this works, this is the link to Caroline's father's burial on April 14th 1852 (p.9 of the register for 1846-1894 burials) https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11852-33397-8?cc=1769414&wc=M6NN-5NG:138123201,141250201,141258201 You can also see it transcribed at http://www.stdominick.info/main/burials1800s_2.htm (this one also has her mother Margaret's burial at age 63 on April 12, 1868 - you can also find that on the familysearch images). The registration district for St Dominick was Liskeard. FreeBMD has the death of a Caroline BENNETT in the June quarter of 1860, regitration district of Liskeard, Vol. 5c, p.42. However, I don't think this is your girl. Both of her parents were buried in the parish of St Dominick, yet there is no record of a burial of a Caroline. I think it's far more likely that (as she was 20 in 1851, and her father died the next year) Caroline left home (again) before the 1861 census, yet she doesn't turn up in the 1861 census as Caroline BENNETT. St Dominick is separated from the county of Devon by the river Tamar. She would not be the first person from Cornwall to wind up in Devon. Sure enough, in the 1861 census, Stoke Damerel, Devon, there is a Thomas BOTTERILL (32, labourer, born Devon) with his wife Caroline (30, born St Dominick, Cornwall) and their two sons William (7, born St Dominick) and George (6, born Stoke Damerel, Devon). FreeBMD has the marriage in the June quarter of 1852 of Caroline BENNETT and Thomas BOTTERELL, in the registration district of Stoke Damerel, vol.5b, p.558. 1871 census (data from LDS site) shows Thomas (41) & Caroline (40) BOTTERELL with 17 year old son William in the parish of St Andrew, Plymouth, Devon. FreeBMD has the death of a Caroline BOTTERELL, age 46, in the December quarter of 1878, registration district of Plymouth, Devon, Vol.5b, p.213. It's hard to say without ordering the certificate if this is your Caroline, but the age is close, and there is the death of a Thomas BOTTERELL in the March quarter of 1876, age 44, also in the registration district of Plymouth, Vol.5b, p.216. I can't find either Thomas or Caroline in 1881 census, so that is some support for their deaths occurring before that time, as is the fact that they were living in the Plymouth area in 1871. I also can't find their son George in the 1881 census. His birth is on FreeBMD as George BUTTERELL, registered in the December quarter of 1854, registration district of Stoke Damerel, Vol.5b, p.284. That would make him about 19 years old in the September quarter of 1873 which is when the death of a George BOTTERELL (19) was registered in the registration district of Plymouth, vol.5b page 164. The Cornwall OPC database shows Thomas and Caroline's eldest son was christened on July 10, 1853 in St Dominick as William Henry BOTTRELL. They were then living in the area of Etherick. FreeBMD has William Henry BOTTERELL married to Jessie CLATWORTHY in the March quarter of 1879, registration district of Plymouth, Vol.5b, p.343. William and Jessie are in the 1881 census in Plymouth St Andrew, Devon at 11 Morley Place. William was 27 and a mason & plasterer. With them was their 1 year old daughter Ellen F BOTTERELL (born Plymouth). LDS site shows William H BOTTERELL and family in census of Plymouth St Andrew in 1891 and 1901 too. Joanne Toronto, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diana Bennett via" <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> To: <Cornish-Gen@rootsweb.com> Cc: <meeson.canberra@fsmail.net> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 4:02 PM Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] Caroline Bennett - Formley House > Can anyone identify Formley House which is in the vicinity of St Dominick. > > Trying to track Caroline Bennett b1831 St Dominick. Found her at home in > the 1851 Census for St Dominick - identifies her as servant at Formley > House. After that I lose her. > > ... Diana > meson.canberra@fsmail.net > ------------------------------- > Listmom: ybowers@gmail.com or CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com > > Visit the OPC (Online Parish Clerk) web page for transcription information > http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CORNISH-GEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >