Hi Eileen Not that it helps terribly much but if you look at the 1851 the name is enumerated as BUTLERSOME But does not seem to appear in any other record There is a W B of the right age and birthplace in an asylum in 1861 but as a grocer so perhaps not he Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 27/11/2014 14:53, eileen/pat via wrote: > I have just found a copy of the 1851 census for Maidstone in > Kent.piece HO107 1617 page 45 I obviously had it for a Frances > Davis listed as a house servant as I had marked it. but I was > mystified by an entry for a comedian lodging with the Davis family. > It looks like William Butlerson aged 34 so I thought I would do a > google but he obviously wasnt famous enough and I wondered if anyone > had encountered him on other records? Just curious. Eileen.