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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Somerset => Topic started by: cnwcywig on Tuesday 30 November 21 14:41 GMT (UK)
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Believed son of Thomas and Emma Durbin. Would like to confirm this, and would be glad of any further information regarding ancestry.
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birth reg
Thomas William Durbin dec qtr 1894 Bedminster vol 5c pg 634 mmn James
1901 census in Bedminster with parents Tom & Emma
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSDN-CZB
Marriage 15 Nov 1892 at St Philip & Jacob of Thomas Durbin & Emma Matilda James, their fathers both called John.
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1881 census for Tom in Bishopsworth
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q276-VYNV
Baptism 10 Oct 1869 Bishopsworth
Tom son of John, labourer, and Mary Ann Durbin
birth reg Tom Durbin dec qtr 1869 Bedminster vol 5c pg 716 mmn Young
Burial in 1914
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XT3T-2H9
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Image of the 1892 parish marriage shows Thomas as a nail caster, his father John a labourer. Emma's father noted as John James (deceased) collier. Both were living in Tower Hill. Witnesses were William Webb & Susan Talbot.
birth reg
Emma Matilda James june qtr 1870 Bedminster vol 5c pg 753 mmn - (so illegitimate)
1871 census Bedminster
Ann James boarder widow 22 laundress
Emma dau 1
both born Bedminster
parish marriage St Luke's Bedminster 25 Dec 1874
David Whitlock 23 bach collier Bedminster father Samuel Whitlock collier
Annie James 24 spinster Bedminster father Thomas James labourer
witnesses Henry James Bull & Emma Bull - Henry James Bull married Emma James (her father Thomas James labourer) 20 Oct 1872 and one of the witnesses was David Whitlock
1881 census for Whitlock family including Emma aged 11
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q276-V8ZP
birth reg for Mary Ann has mmn as James
burial 31 May 1884 Bedminster St John Annie Whitlock 35
David remarried sept qtr 1887 Bristol vol 6a pg 73 to Julia Plaster