Congratulations Dallas on finding the SIMMS entered as BOBB by the enumerator - an excellent piece of detective work on your part! Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dallas Window" <d.window@cqu.edu.au> To: <gloucester@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 11:59 PM Subject: Re: [GLS] Williams Henry SIMS (b.~1875, Mangotsfield) > Hi Louise, > > As far as finding the John Hendy SIMMS and family in 1881, I found them > transcribed as - wait for it - BOBB !!! The transcriptions for 1881 and > 1891 also appear below. There is no doubt it is the same family. > > Hope this helps. Let me know if you would like census images. > > Cheers > Dallas > THE BOBB FAMILY in 1881 > > 1881 England Census > about Alice Bobb > Name: Alice Bobb > Age: 2 > Estimated birth year: abt 1879 > Relation: Daughter > Father's name: John > Mother's name: Mary > Gender: Female > Where born: Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire, England > > Civil parish: Bitton - Oldland > County/Island: Gloucestershire > Country: England > > Street address: Upper Soundwell > Education: > > Employment status: View image > > Registration district: Keynsham > Sub-registration district: Oldland > ED, institution, or vessel: 8 > Neighbors: View others on page > Household Members: Name Age > Alice Bobb 2 > David Bobb 7 > George Bobb 1 > John Bobb 39 > Mary Bobb 29 > Mary Bobb 4 > William Bobb 5 > > > > THE SIMMS family in 1891 > > 1891 England Census > about Alice Sims > Name: Alice Sims > Age: 13 > Estimated birth year: abt 1878 > Relation: Daughter > Father's name: John Hendy > Mother's name: Mary Ann > Gender: Female > Where born: Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire, England > > Civil parish: Mangotsfield > Ecclesiastical parish: St James > Town: Mangotsfield > County/Island: Gloucestershire > Country: England > > Street address: > > Occupation: > > Condition as to marriage: > > Education: > > Employment status: View image > > Registration district: Keynsham > Sub-registration district: Oldland > ED, institution, or vessel: 5 > Neighbors: View others on page > Household Members: Name Age > Alice Sims 13 > David John Sims 18 > Fred Sims 7 > George Sims 11 > Henry Sims 4 > John Hendy Sims 49 > Kate Sims 6 > Mary Ann Sims 38 > Mary Ann Sims 14 > Sarah Ann Sims 2 > Sydney Sims 9 > William Henry Sims 15 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Louise Dennis [mailto:lad@csc.liv.ac.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, 11 April 2007 8:08 PM > To: GLOUCESTER@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GLS] Williams Henry SIMS (b.~1875, Mangotsfield) > > Dear All > > I'm trying to track down my great-grandfather, Williams Henry SIMS. > > He was married in Llanhilith, Monmouthshire on the 11th August 1902 to > Emily Susan Monks CORDY and gives his father's name as John and his age > as 27. > > I'm having trouble tracing William any further back than this. > > According to family legend Emily and William had met when younger and > William had an additional middle name: William Henry Edny SIMS > > Emily was born in Fishponds, Gloucestershire, and the CORDY family have > been pretty well-documented in the Fishponds/Mangotsfield/Stapleton area > for generations by Adrian Sheppard (fh.sheppardfamily.us). > > I have found a William Sims (father John) of the right age in the 1881 > Census in Mynyddylwyn, Monmouthshire. > > But I'm more interested (from the point of view of this list at least) > in a William Henry Sims (father either John Henry or John Hendy Sims) in > the 1891 Census at Mangotsfield, also born in Mangotsfield. Although I > can find the family in other census' I can't seem to find William Henry, > nor can I find the registration of his birth (For reference: Q1 1875 > Clifton 6a 174 (father William Henry), Q1 1873 Cheltenham 1873 6a 441, > Q1 1874 Monmouth 11a 19, Q3 1878 Barton Regis 6a 151 (father not John > according to the GRO)). > > I'm wondering if there is SKS on this list who might have access to the > Mangotsfield Parish Registers for the right period who could check for a > baptism. > > ... and also if there is someone with, perhaps, a better knack for > searching who can find William Henry in other census' > > I've contacted (through Genes Reunited) someone descended from a cousin > of John Hendy Sims and their family moved to Llanhilith following work > (which is encouraging) but they don't know anything about my William > Henry. Hendy is a family name on their side which might account for the > strange "Edny" of my family legend. > > Many thanks for any help with this brick wall! > Louise > > _____________________________________________ > > Browse the list archives at: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GLOUCESTER/ > > Keyword search - any or all lists: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GLOUCESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > _____________________________________________ > > Browse the list archives at: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GLOUCESTER/ > > Keyword search - any or all lists: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GLOUCESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >