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Title: Surname interests
Post by: Manchester Rambler on Wednesday 16 February 05 09:36 GMT (UK)
I'm interested in the following families in Somerset:

Dowding (Bath - possibly originally from Gloucs)
Jones (Bath)
Jennings (Weston & Bath)
Hawkins (Combe)
Harding (Bath - originally from Bristol.  Dynasty of chemists!)
Brodribb (Clutton)
Osman (???)
James (Bath)

Any connections?
Title: Re: Surname interests
Post by: Mike Baldock on Thursday 05 February 09 12:32 GMT (UK)
George Hawkins and Fanny/Francis Hawkins St Nicholas Combe c1900?

Title: Re: Surname interests
Post by: Manchester Rambler on Thursday 05 February 09 19:17 GMT (UK)
Sorry, not a connection that I know of...  I have Mary (c1825), daughter of Robert, who married John Jennings in Bath in 1848. 

Rambler   ;)
Title: Re: Surname interests
Post by: Totnor on Wednesday 24 April 13 10:07 BST (UK)
I have Jones connections in Bath and also a lot on the Brodribb family in Clutton & area. Have you any specific queries I can help with?
Title: Re: Surname interests
Post by: Manchester Rambler on Wednesday 24 April 13 10:39 BST (UK)
Hello - nice to get an answer on an old post!

Brodribb is a connection, rather than direct line, and I've pretty much sorted them out as far as I want to go with the link to my family (Anna Maria, b. 1825, m. Richard Osman Harding 1847.)

Jones is one of my main lines, and any link would be welcome!  I have William Jones, a coach builder, who I believe married Sarah Hoffman in Bath in 1788.  They had at least 3 children: Charles Luderwick (1789), John (1791 - my line) and William (1799).  William moved to London, while the others reamined in Bath.

Anything connected to this family is of interest to me - I have a lot of info on John's descendants, but less on his brothers, and I haven't anything on William's parents.

Rambler
Title: Re: Surname interests
Post by: Totnor on Wednesday 24 April 13 11:29 BST (UK)
Thank you for your reply. The Brodribbs are a side line with me also!

Sadly my Joneses aren't related to you, unless you can go back a long way. In 1791 a Benjamin Jones moved to Somerset from Wales, and the family mostly lived around the Kilmersdon, Holcombe, High Littleton area until my grandfather moved to Bath. Sorry!

Totnor
Title: Re: Surname interests
Post by: Manchester Rambler on Wednesday 24 April 13 14:11 BST (UK)
Oh well, with a name like Jones it's always worth a shout - we need all the help we can get with them!  Given the proximity, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that my line originated in Wales too, but whether I'll ever get any further back is another matter...  ::)

Rambler
Title: Re: Surname interests
Post by: dafpilot on Wednesday 24 April 13 17:57 BST (UK)
hello there, looking for a Harriett Hawkins, born around 1820, married to Nicholas olden butt, and living on Guernsey, is she lurking in your tree??

regards
         dafpilot
Title: Re: Surname interests
Post by: Totnor on Wednesday 24 April 13 18:25 BST (UK)
Sorry, dafpilot, no Harriet in my tree. Sorry!
Title: Re: Surname interests
Post by: syljun on Monday 06 May 13 08:31 BST (UK)
I have Henry Harding marrying Eliza Johanna Osman around 1870 presumably Bristol. (cannot find marriage) 1st child Annie born 1 Norfolk St. Bristol 1871.
Henry's occupation shoemaker born Chilton Polden, Somerset. Died 1898 Kensington, London.
Eliza died 1905, Kensington, London.
Would very much like to know when and where marriage took place as Bristol Record Centre could not find one.
Any connection?
Syljun
Title: Re: Surname interests
Post by: Manchester Rambler on Monday 06 May 13 11:29 BST (UK)
I'm afraid my (indirect) Osman connection is a lot further back - since my original post I've found out that they were from Cornwall.

Jane Osman m. Thomas Tuck in Cornwall in 1784, and their daughter Ann Osman Tuck m. William Harding in Cornwall in 1813, but then moved to Bristol where their children were born.

Rambler