On Wed, 18 May 2011 04:01:26 +0100, Bob Aubie <[email protected]> wrote: > Researching the Marsh Family of Ontario, Canada. William Marsh was > born in Somerset (1870) I believe and married a Sarah Searle (1876) from > Cardiff, Wales about 1898 or 1899. They are listed as such in the 1911 > Ontario Census. They came to Canada in 1906 and settled in Toronto. I > am unable to locate, with certainty, his parents. He is referred to as > William Chamberlain Marsh by his descendants On Wed, 18 May 2011 09:21:19 +0100, Sheila Beer <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it might be him in 1881 in Llandaff, Glamorgan, Wales - that > would give you his parents name Following Sheila's hint about the Marsh family being in Llandaff at the time of the 1881 census, I see that the parents of 13-year-old William Marsh were Richard Marsh, aged 37, and Eliza Marsh, aged 33. Both William and bis father were born in Glastonbury, Somerset. The registration district for Glastonbury was Wells. (The birth of William Chamberlain Marsh was registered at Wells in the June quarter of 1868.) A likely baptism for the father could be that of Richard Chamberlain Marsh, son of Edward and Charlotte, who was baptized on 17th September 1843 at St. John the Baptist, Glastonbury. Abode was North Load Street and father's occupation was labourer. Source FreeReg www.freereg.org.uk The marriage of Richard Marsh was registered in Wells in the March quarter of 1867. A possible bride was Eliza Hembery. Source FreeBMD www.freebmd.org.uk It looks like the possible Chamberlain/Marsh marriage I gave in my previous message was not the one for William's parents. -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com