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Title: COMPLETED 1861 Census HELP ! Findmypast has my man but not Ancestry
Post by: cockney rebel on Friday 05 February 10 18:03 GMT (UK)
Hi there
on the 1861 census,findmypast has an entry for "Robert Backwith" aged 10 in Altrincham Cheshire but Ancestry (where I have a subscription) hasn't got anything even resembling this.

Is somebody able to send me the census reference so that I can check it out?

Many thanks
Rebel
Title: Re: 1861 Census HELP ! Findmypast has my man but not Ancestry
Post by: JenB on Friday 05 February 10 18:08 GMT (UK)
He is wrongly transcribed on findmypast.

The actual name on the image is Robert Baskerville. RG 9 / 2588 / 171 / 25

Jennifer
Title: Re: 1861 Census HELP ! Findmypast has my man but not Ancestry
Post by: cockney rebel on Friday 05 February 10 18:28 GMT (UK)
Oh no! Not the right man after all,but thanks for your help.

Unusual for ancestry to have been more correct than findmypast though..

Rebel
Title: Re: 1861 Census HELP ! Findmypast has my man but not Ancestry
Post by: Sandgrounder1 on Friday 05 February 10 18:43 GMT (UK)
Hello,

Do you know his parents' names or where he was born? 

There is a FreeBMD entry for Robert Bartholomew Beckwith born East London in June quarter 1851.  Reference 2/262.

If this could be him it would be worth sending for the certificate to confirm parent names.

Sandgrounder
Title: Re: COMPLETED 1861 Census HELP ! Findmypast has my man but not Ancestry
Post by: luxmalc on Thursday 19 August 10 12:39 BST (UK)
Greetings from mizzly Cornwall !

If you do ever find 10yr old Robert Bartholomew Beckwith in the 1861 census, please do let me know ! Ditto his mother Ann nee Bartholomew. Some of Robert's siblings have been recorded with surname Bartholomew but I have tried that too as well as all mis-spellings I can think of.

Robert's father Joseph Beckwith b1776 died in Dec 1860 at the family's "Clarendon" coffee house at 77 Shoe Lane, London EC (not listed in 1861 census as mentioned in other posts).

I too was fooled by the "East London" bit in the FreeBMD register entry until I found that it was the name applied to the eastern part of central London, in Robert's case the parish of St Brides. Mind you, he did later venture into 'real' East London - Poplar no less.

There's a bit more on Robert in para 8.54 of http://www.luxsoft.demon.co.uk/beckwith/tree-1%20notes.html

What's also curious is that although Joseph & Ann ran the coffee house in Shoe Lane in 1851, they had moved to the Walworth / Camberwell area by 1854 and, according to an 1860 trade directory, ran a Coffee House in what is now John Ruskin St.

Ann is still in the coffee house business south of the river in 1871 (166 Bermondsey St) ...so why is Joseph's death recorded in Shoe Lane ?

Happy hunting !