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Title: Waltham Parish Records
Post by: swallowtail on Tuesday 05 July 11 00:06 BST (UK)
:D Hi, can you please help I am looking for a look up for Robert Osfield c1836 which reads on the 1871 census Reading then 1881 and 1901 Waltham.

Thank you
Title: Re: Waltham Parish Records
Post by: CaroleW on Tuesday 05 July 11 00:22 BST (UK)
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Hi, can you please help I am looking for a look up for Robert Osfield c1836


1871 census shows birthyear 1829
1881 shows 1825
Title: Re: Waltham Parish Records
Post by: CaroleW on Tuesday 05 July 11 00:28 BST (UK)
He received a 4mth prison sentence 2.7.1883 for obtaining money by means of false pretences after a previous conviction for an indictable misdemeanour
Title: Re: Waltham Parish Records
Post by: CaroleW on Tuesday 05 July 11 00:41 BST (UK)
Are you sure you have the right 1901 entry?  Birthyear is 1841 and wife is Margaret - not Elizabeth

In 1891 they are indexed as ORFIELD  RG12 Piece 4241 Folio 53 Page 16 and Robert is 50 b Brentford Middlesex

Title: Re: Waltham Parish Records
Post by: swallowtail on Tuesday 05 July 11 14:26 BST (UK)
;)Thank you for the information, I am aware that a Robert Osfield is showing up with a Margaret and an Elizabeth poss 2 marriages?

1881 born in Waltham  he is married to Elizabeth

1901 with Margaret born in Waltham

Waltham villiages are quite small and it seemed strange a man living in Newcastle would know of there existence, ??? so that is the best lead I have.

Please can you tell me where the the sentencing was in 1883.

Thank you so much  8)
Title: Re: Waltham Parish Records
Post by: CaroleW on Tuesday 05 July 11 15:57 BST (UK)
Hi

The sentencing was in Durham

There is a very wide disparity in birthyears between the censuses

1825 b Waltham Berks (1881)
1829 b Reading (1871)
1841 b Brentford Middlesex (1891)

He died in 1910 aged 68 - birthyear 1841/42

Marriages June qtr 1885   
Margaret Carroll    Newcastle on Tyne  10b 110a   
Robert Allen Osfield       
Title: Re: Waltham Parish Records
Post by: CaroleW on Tuesday 05 July 11 16:09 BST (UK)
1871 shows a son Daniel aged 3mths

In 1881 Daniel is in a young offenders institution

6 January1888 Northumberland Daniel John Osfield sentenced to 4mths in prison for housebreaking and larceny

4 July 1888 Northumberland he appeared on the following separate offences

Larceny & receiving - 9mths hard labour

Housebreaking - 3 months to run consecutively

Larceny & Receiving - further 3 mths to run consecutively

So he received a total of 15mths in all

Daniel died in 1945 in Exeter Devon
Title: Re: Waltham Parish Records
Post by: swallowtail on Tuesday 05 July 11 16:15 BST (UK)
 :-X Thank you so much for this information, now trying to piece together, not my family, but quite a shock for my cousin's husband!!!

I'm afraid over the years I take ages and birth places on census records with a pince of salt.

Again many thanks :)
Title: Re: Waltham Parish Records
Post by: CaroleW on Tuesday 05 July 11 16:30 BST (UK)
I know this is a bit off track but it's additional info which may be useful later

From the IGI

Robertus Osfield   Birth:  15 APR 1886   
 
Christening:  25 APR 1886   St Mary'S Clayton Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland 
Father:  Roberti Osfield  Family
Mother:  Margaritae Carroll Osfield

Deaths September qtr 1886   
Robert Osfield aged   0  Newcastle T.  10b 11


Solomon Osfield   Birth:  06 JUL 1887   Christening:  05 OCT 1887   St Mary'S Clayton Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne   
Father:  Roberti Osfield    Mother:  Margarita Carroll Osfield
Title: Re: Waltham Parish Records
Post by: swallowtail on Tuesday 05 July 11 16:40 BST (UK)
Thank you, This is were I started with Solomon my cousin's husband grandfather, Roman Catholic baptism's in Latin.

So you are on track as well.

Thank you  :)
Title: Re: Waltham Parish Records
Post by: trish1120 on Tuesday 05 July 11 16:47 BST (UK)
Maybe a Red Herring;
1851 there is a Robert OSFIELD age 15, born c 1836, Norton, Yorkshire.
With Parents WILLIAM/ANN
HO107/2348/138/5
Robert OSFIELD sentenced 1878 to 6mths for Larceny in Yorks also. Trial date 15 Oct 1878.

Looking at the 1871 Census I think Catherine is Elizabeths Daughter as there is a gap in Childrens ages.
Tried to find them in 1861 with no luck.
Title: Re: Waltham Parish Records
Post by: CaroleW on Tuesday 05 July 11 17:14 BST (UK)
The only suggestion I can make at the moment is to buy a copy of that 1885 marriage cert.

It should have his fathers name on it and should show if Robert was a widower as I can't find another earlier marriage for him to Elizabeth.  There is no Elizabeth Osfield death between 1881-1891 either so perhaps they never married

Elizabeth was b Scotland but there is no Robert Osfield marriage on Scotlands People

freebmd has 2 marriage in Hartlepool Durham - Kate Allen Osfield in 1880 and Mary Allen Osfield in 1887

1871 has a daughter Catherine b Liverpool 1858 and a daughter Mary b Hartlepool 1865