At 19:36 28/07/2003 +0100, Alan J Brown wrote:] >Hi, Helen, > >I think you are probably looking in the wrong place! > >I've looked at the 1861 Census, and reading the 'Enumerators Walk' for >Morden, it mentions "cottages near Wareham on Poole Road, Sandford Farm, >Station House, Railway Hotel and three cottages opposite". I agree. I have just done the same 'tour' myself. The district boundaries are not clear in 1871 and I had not realised that Sandford would have been included in with Morden rather than Wareham. I am now going back to my maps. I had been looking too far to the north and west. Sandford would make more sense but I just hadn't considered looking so close to Wareham itself. For such a tiny scattering of houses, the parish of Morden covered a very large area! Emmanuel and family were still in Affpuddle in 1861 but his son, born in 1864, though baptised in Affpuddle, gives Wareham as his birthplace in the 1881 census onwards. Thanks to Ray for your suggestions too. If anyone else is researching Marshall in the Affpuddle/Morden area, please contact me. Emmanuel's sons all became Gamekeepers and by 1901 were scattered all over southern England. The family can be traced back to Kingston Deverill in Wiltshire and I am fairly sure that before that they were Gypsies. Helen Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list

Hello Helen If we ignore the "Carey" reference (or its significance has changed over the years) then I would definitely agree with Alan that it is the area immediately to the east of Wareham station that you are looking for. The pub there was called the Railway until a very recent change to a new trendy name, there would definitely have been some sort of accomodation for a crossing keeper as the railway and road crossed on the level and accomodation for the station master was almost always called the station house. Hope this helps. Ray Collins Weymouth, Dorset ----- Original Message ----- From: "Helen Jones" <hsj@melcombe.freeserve.co.uk> To: <ENG-DORSET-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 9:13 PM Subject: RE: [DOR-LIFE] Morden and the railway > At 19:36 28/07/2003 +0100, Alan J Brown wrote:] > >Hi, Helen, > > > >I think you are probably looking in the wrong place! > > > >I've looked at the 1861 Census, and reading the 'Enumerators Walk' for > >Morden, it mentions "cottages near Wareham on Poole Road, Sandford Farm, > >Station House, Railway Hotel and three cottages opposite". > > > I agree. I have just done the same 'tour' myself. The district boundaries > are not clear in 1871 and I had not realised that Sandford would have been > included in with Morden rather than Wareham. I am now going back to my > maps. I had been looking too far to the north and west. Sandford would make > more sense but I just hadn't considered looking so close to Wareham itself. > For such a tiny scattering of houses, the parish of Morden covered a very > large area! > > Emmanuel and family were still in Affpuddle in 1861 but his son, born in > 1864, though baptised in Affpuddle, gives Wareham as his birthplace in the > 1881 census onwards. > > Thanks to Ray for your suggestions too. > > If anyone else is researching Marshall in the Affpuddle/Morden area, please > contact me. Emmanuel's sons all became Gamekeepers and by 1901 were > scattered all over southern England. The family can be traced back to > Kingston Deverill in Wiltshire and I am fairly sure that before that they > were Gypsies. > > Helen > > > > > > Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset > http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk > List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and > British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list > > > ==== ENG-DORSET-LIFE Mailing List ==== > For lots of useful Dorset information, see Brian Tomkins 'Dorset Page': http://www.thedorsetpage.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >