Can anyone find George Newman, B 1811 St Lukes and Harriot/Harriet Newman 1812 Woolwich, and family on the 1841. I should be delighted. They have George 1836, Mary Ann 1839, Henrietta 1839 and possibly John 1840. In (1851 they are in Finsbury with more family, Amelia 1844,Thomas 1848,Rebecca 1848 amd possibly Martha 1851. In 1861 they are still in Finsbury but have moved, George is an Artesian Well Borer.) However its the 1841 I am most interested in because another searcher has found George's parents on the IGI- Joshua and Martha who I should also like to find on the 1841. Very Many thanks. Eileen.

Hi Eileen I cannot, for the life of me, find George and family in 1841! But Joshua and Martha are, I think, in St Bartholomew the Great in 1841 (HO10/724 Book 6, Folio 25). Having had a bit of a look at the family, I would think that Joshua and Martha are good candidates for George's parents. Unusually, this appears to be a case when a mistake over a place of birth is a godsend to the researcher. In 1861, George gives his place of birth as "Hants, Romsey". This is also the birthplace of Martha Snr (as per 1851 census, when she is a widow in Whitecross Street, which is in the parish of St Luke (Romsey mistranscribed by Ancestry as "Runcey"). Annoyingly, the page of the parish register of St Leonard's Shoreditch on which George's 1811 baptism probably lies is missing from the images on Ancestry. But there are baptisms there of a Martha (1823) and William Henry (1825). FamilySearch also offers the baptism of a Jemima NEWMAN to a Joshua and Martha in Romsey in 1808. I think she is probably the Jemima who married William WELLER in 1840 in Lambeth (father on marriage registration is Joshua, a carpenter - same trade as on the St Leonard's baptisms above). So we seem to have a Joshua and Martha NEWMAN arriving in London from Romsey (where there is a considerable NEWMAN clan) sometime between 1808 and 1811. Does this help? Caroline > Can anyone find George Newman, B 1811 St Lukes and Harriot/Harriet > Newman 1812 Woolwich, and family on the 1841. I should be delighted. > They have George 1836, Mary Ann 1839, Henrietta 1839 and possibly John > 1840. In (1851 they are in Finsbury with more family, Amelia > 1844,Thomas 1848,Rebecca 1848 amd possibly Martha 1851. In 1861 they > are still in Finsbury but have moved, George is an Artesian Well > Borer.) However its the 1841 I am most interested in because another > searcher has found George's parents on the IGI- Joshua and Martha who I > should also like to find on the 1841. Very Many thanks. Eileen.