On Thu, 1 May 2003 19:07:37 -00 Nigel Gerdes wrote: > A Kingsclere stray found on 1891 census for East Hamlet, > Ludlow, Shropshire. RG12/2080 > Hawkins William 17(60) Head 117 Fishmore Road 48 Coachman > (Domestic) Kingsclere, Hants 480 The only William born about 1843 in Kingsclere was baptised at St. Mary on 10 Jan 1844 to Ann Hawkins, pauper, Union House, Kingsclere, of Baughurst Parish I cannot see William in 1851 at Baughurst or Kingsclere so he seems to have strayed pretty early!! Cannot identify which of the several Anns I have recorded as his mother. <snipped> -- John Lewis