On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Diane <dpkms20042000@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi there, please could anyone with access to Ancestry kindly look up the > 1881 for JOSIAS GOSLING and tell me what he did for a living do you think? > > He lived at 18 Flint Street Bromley. > > He lived with James Woodley Gosling > Ann > Mary A > and Jane who was 86 In the 1881 census (10 Flint Street, Bromley) are widower James W. Gosling, 20-year-old daughter Mary A., and 30-year-old son James (occupation "smith"). The 1871 census that you had probably looked at (which had 51-year-old wife Ann and 86-year-old mother Jane) had the family at 10 Flint Street, not 18 (you may have misread the 10 as an 18). In that census, the 21-year-old son is listed as Josiah, a blacksmith. So the 1871 Josiah and the 1881 James appear to be the same man. Drew Smith

One quick correction: I miswrote "Josias" as "Josiah". Drew On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Drew Smith <drewsmithtpa@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Diane <dpkms20042000@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> Hi there, please could anyone with access to Ancestry kindly look up the >> 1881 for JOSIAS GOSLING and tell me what he did for a living do you think? >> >> He lived at 18 Flint Street Bromley. >> >> He lived with James Woodley Gosling >> Ann >> Mary A >> and Jane who was 86 > > In the 1881 census (10 Flint Street, Bromley) are widower James W. > Gosling, 20-year-old daughter Mary A., and 30-year-old son James > (occupation "smith"). > > The 1871 census that you had probably looked at (which had 51-year-old > wife Ann and 86-year-old mother Jane) had the family at 10 Flint > Street, not 18 (you may have misread the 10 as an 18).  In that > census, the 21-year-old son is listed as Josiah, a blacksmith. > > So the 1871 Josiah and the 1881 James appear to be the same man. > > Drew Smith