Hello Michael, Just a comment. It was not unheard of, although uncommon, for people to be enumerated in two places, particularly if one was not their usual home, and the stay was temporary. Was Thomas COOPER or his wife a relative, do you know? George BRIDGMAN's parents may have mistakenly put him down on the form. I have one where a grandmother was entered twice and although the relationship was not given, it became obvious that she was livng alternatively between two of her daughter's homes. Regards Vicki -- Message sent with Supanet E-mail -----Original Message----- From: MICHAEL BAYLISS <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [King] George BRIDGMAN (c. 1878), Ashford Hill > Here’s a poser for Listers with BRIDGMAN interests. I > have recently been having another look at the extended > family of my great-grandmother Esther BRADLEY (1833) > at Ashford Hill, and in particular the link via her > sister Eliza BRADLEY with the BRIDGMAN family. In so > doing, I have found something curious in the 1891 > census. > > In 1891, Thomas COOPER, a shoemaker at Ecchinswell > ("Itchingswell")has as lodgers in his household Alice > BRIDGMAN (8)and George BRIDGMAN (13) - John LEWIS > shows this on his website. Alice & George look to be > the two youngest children of Dennis BRIDGMAN & Hannah > [WYTHE], and grandchildren of Daniel BRIDGMAN & Eliza > [BRADLEY]. However, "over in another part of the > forest", we find that Dennis and Hannah are at > Plaistow Green and have with them their sons Frederick > BRIDGMAN(22) and George BRIDGMAN(13). So - was George > ‘moonlighting’ in two places at once?! Were there two > Georges both born circa. 1878 at Kinsgclere? I > certainly don’t know of another pair of George & Alice > BRIDGMAN of those ages - although I note that the > George lodging with Thomas COOPER is said to have been > born at Ecchinswell, whereas Dennis BRIDGMAN’s son > was, I believe, born in the Woodlands area. > > Any ideas? > > Mike > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for > your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.html > ---------------------------------------- > >From Kingsclere.If you get unsubscribed and did not ask to be unsubscribed, please contact List Admin. > ---------------------------------------- > Changing your Email address, > unsubscribe with your old address and Subscribe to the List with your new email address. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message http://www.Tpad.com - "The New Way to Make and Receive Cheap/Free Calls"

On Sun, 20 May 2007 12:14:02 BST [email protected] wrote: > Just a comment. It was not unheard of, although uncommon, for > people to be enumerated in two places, particularly if one was not > their usual home, and the stay was temporary. Was Thomas COOPER or > his wife a relative, do you know? George BRIDGMAN's parents may > have mistakenly put him down on the form. I have one where a > grandmother was entered twice and although the relationship was not > given, it became obvious that she was livng alternatively between > two of her daughter's homes. Regards Vicki The closest blood relationship I know of is that George & Alice's grandfather Daniel had a brother Stephen who married Keziah Foster who was a cousin of Thomas Cooper (and my 2xgt-aunt) . Thomas was buried at St Laurence, Ecchinswell in 1930, his wife Sarah Rosalinda buried there in 1909 and her un-married sister Mary Ann Norton who lived with them was also buried there in 1913. I have no idea how close these families were in social terms. I know that despite having lots and lots of relations in and around the Kingsclere area when we visited my gt-aunt Sarah Ann Hunt (aka Nan) in the 1940s we actually made contact with very few. I still have the notebook Nan used as an address-book and the names in there are mostly of her brothers & sisters. So I suspect that by that time any social links between these related families had diminished. -- John Lewis Debian (Sid) with the GeneWeb genealogy package