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Title: JERRERY Stoke Dameral where did they go?
Post by: Big Jen on Tuesday 26 August 08 16:18 BST (UK)

Hello
Am trying to trace my Mums family but they seemed to disappear on a couple of censuses.
John Jeffery (b 1819 Saltash Cornwell) and married to Mary Ann Rowden (b 1819 Devon) unsure when they married. In 1851 he was recorded as a Dockyard Shipwright and they lived at 4 South Hill Buildings Devonport. I can't find them (or their offspring) in any of the 1861 or 1871 Censuses but he turns up again as a Shipwright pensioner in 1881 in Stoke Dameral. Where did they go? They had 5 children

Charles H (b 1853)
William (b 1854)
John H (b 1856)
Harry (b 1858)
and
Samuel who was my great great grandfather (b 1849) went to sea on the Royal Adelaide and was recorded as a Maid Room steward in 1871.

Mary Ann Jeffery was recorded as widowed in 1891 and had moved back to Saltash in Cornwall (or is it Devon)

If it had just been John that went missing I might have thought he'd gone to sea (or prison!?! :o)but for 2 decades there is no trace of them as a family. I've tried the Cornwall censuses as well but am now at a dead end. ???

Any ideas??

Big Jen

Title: Re: Jeffery' Stoke Dameral where did they go?
Post by: ricky1 on Tuesday 26 August 08 16:25 BST (UK)

Hi Big Jen
1861

Is this them

John Jeffrey head mar 42 shipwright Cornwall Saltash
Mary    "       wife mar 41                                  "
Samuel  "     son u/m 12                     Kent Deptford
Wm       "     son u/m 9                       Cornwall Saltash
Chas Hry "   son u/m 7                        Devon Stoke Dameral
Jm  Hry    "   son u/m  5                                 "
Harry Richard "  son u/m 3                            "

living at Hamilton Street, Deptford, Kent
Rg9/ 395
folio 176
page 3

ricky

Title: Re: Jeffery' Stoke Dameral where did they go?
Post by: ricky1 on Tuesday 26 August 08 16:33 BST (UK)

1871

John Jeffrey head mar 52 ?? shipwright Cornwall Saltash
Mary     "      wife mar 51                                     "
William H  "  son u/m 19 lab H.M.D yard               "
John H    "  son u/m 15 seamer?  "         Devon Devonport
Harry R   "  son u/m 13 scholar                          "
Abraham Richards head mar 52 smith   Cornwall  ??
Sarah            "       wife mar 52              Devon  ??
Harriett?        "      dau u/m 16               Devon Devonport

living at Stoke Dameral, Devon
Rg10/ 2136
folio 17
page 26

ricky

Title: Re: Jeffery' Stoke Dameral where did they go?
Post by: Big Jen on Tuesday 26 August 08 16:57 BST (UK)

Thanks so much Ricky, you were soon on the ball, fancy them sneaking off to kent!!!!! I searched the censuses until I was blue in the face ( and red on the bum!!!) you are a hero!!!

Jen

Title: Re: Jeffery' Stoke Dameral where did they go?
Post by: ricky1 on Tuesday 26 August 08 16:59 BST (UK)

Hi Jen

Your welcome
they sure got about  ;D ;D

regards
ricky