In message <[email protected]>, Celia Renshaw >Because I had never heard of a Speen in Bucks, I checked the GENUKI list of >places and there it says Speen is in Berkshire, registration district That is so, but there is definitely a Speen in Bucks, part of Princes Risborough, and I think that Absalom may belong to one of the Baptist families which clustered round the chapel there. >Newbury, so it could be that the Berks list will help more with the bap >you're after. > Stick with this one. >I presume you have the 1851 census entry for Absalom? If not, I'll happily >provide. I'll check for Sarah KEEN too if you give a little more info about >her. And as for Keens, they are very thick on the ground there. > >I looked for George and Elizabeth HODKINSON (with variants) in Bucks 1851 >but no joy I'm afraid, the only George is 16 born and living in West >Wycombe. There is a chairmaker named George Hodgkinson, who turns up later on. -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

Dear Eve, As George's grandson became a carpenter it is possible one of his children went into that trade as well and I now know there was another George. As the HUNT family they married into came from Fulbrook to live in Bucks I will give the Berks list a try. Thanks this is a great list and very helpful. Regards Joan in Devon