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From: "Janet Cridland" <>
Subject: Re: [UK-CENSUS-HELPERS] LOOK UP ONLY please
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 21:20:08 -0000
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Hi Petra

The Withycombe parish records show the family as GRIFFITH, so you're
probably right there.

I thought Bridget's pob was in Kent and began with a B but I couldn't get
any further. I'll take your suggestions and have another look at the
gazeteer in the morning when I'm a bit fresher.

Occupation as Out Pensioner is a stroke of genius! I was floundering around
trying to make it Oat Brewer but I knew that was wishful thinking.

Thank you very much.
Jan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Petra Mitchinson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CENSUS-HELPERS] LOOK UP ONLY please


> Hi Jan,
>
> Ancestry has them as William and Bridget GRIFFITH, with her PoB as SOM,
> East Geminford.
>
> Personally I think you are right, the surname looks more like GRIFFETH but
> the enumerator probably just forgot the dot above the i, which he
> occaionally seems to have done.
>
> Her first name is down as Brdget - this time the enumerator did not just
> forget the dot but the whole i!
>
> Regarding her PoB, I think Ancestry are way out. Nowhere does it say
> Somerset. The first word should be the county, and I think the most likely
> one is Kent, although the K loooks a bit dubious. The place looks like
> Brumford or Brennford. It definitely ends on ...ford, and I'm pretty sure
> it starts with Br...
>
> The only place in Kent which starts with Br and ends in ford that I could
> find in the GENUKI gazetteer was Broad Ford which does not at all look
> likely.
>
> Possibly Broomfield? Broom and Brum sounds about the same, and if said
> quickly, ford and field are not that dissimilar. You can't expect an
> enumerator in Somerset to know obscure villages in Kent! (I had never
> heard of Broomfield, and I live in London...)
>
> I'd just record it as Brumford in Kent!
>
> William's occupation looks like Out Pensioner, although the initial O is a
> bit dubious!
>
> In 1841, they are called William and Bridget GRIFFITH, and they already
> live in Old Cleeve. He is age 50, and Ag. Lab., born SOM, she is age 40
> and born SOM. They also have a 15-year-old Jane with them.
>
> I could not find Bridget after 1851 to throw more light on her birth
> place, sorry.
>
> Petra
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janet Cridland" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 5:56 PM
> Subject: [UK-CENSUS-HELPERS] LOOK UP ONLY please
>
>
>> Help - I think my eyes have just gone. I can't get this at all!
>>
>> 1851 HO107-1920, Old Cleeve ED3, Folio 336, Page 24, Sch 93
>>
>> William GRIFFETH (I think its GRIFFETH not GRIFFITH) - what is his
>> occupation?
>> Wife - I think she's BRIDGET - can't make head or tail of her place of
>> birth - KENT somewhere?
>>
>> Many thanks
>> Jan
>
>
>
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