Hello Dave > For some reason this family never seem to > have registered their children's births. Have you checked the variant spellings - GARDNER, GARDENER etc? Also sometimes the initial letter was hard to read and has been transcribed as something else. This goes for the whole name sometimes. One of my DANIEL rellies is transcribed in the 1881 Census as DRAINER! Same initial letter, but she was most elusive. A kind lister found her in the end by using a wildcard in her search. Re Fareham and South Stoneham, according to Parish Locator (downloadable free if you don't have it), the distance between the two is only 7.5 miles, so moving from one to the other wouldn't have been at all difficult. Cheers. Pam cliveden@acenet.net.au Beaudesert, Queensland, Australia

If I read it right, the 1850 death occurred in South Stoneham Registration District, not necessarily South Stoneham parish, itself several miles long. One should be careful using the parish locator, as it identifies the position of a parish not as the parish church, which would make sense, but to where the start of the name is printed on the Ordnance Survey map, which sometimes is not even within the actual parish!. But I agree, especially for a railwayman, that moving around was getting much easier in the mid 1800's Cheers, Dave Jacobs =============== At 11:54 25/09/2005, you wrote: >Hello Dave > > > For some reason this family never seem to > > have registered their children's births. > > Have you checked the variant spellings - GARDNER, GARDENER etc? Also >sometimes the initial letter was hard to read and has been transcribed as >something else. This goes for the whole name sometimes. One of my DANIEL >rellies is transcribed in the 1881 Census as DRAINER! Same initial letter, >but she was most elusive. A kind lister found her in the end by using a >wildcard in her search. > > Re Fareham and South Stoneham, according to Parish Locator > (downloadable >free if you don't have it), the distance between the two is only 7.5 miles, >so moving from one to the other wouldn't have been at all difficult. > > Cheers. > > Pam > cliveden@acenet.net.au > Beaudesert, Queensland, Australia > > > > > > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx " Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910) Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. -George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)