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Greetings from California

One of you kind souls shared (through this chain, I believe) scanned copies of nine different census records that my cousin Julie Edwards shared with me. Such a treasure! We are grateful.

However, I find one bit confusing & I'm hoping that someone, at some point, will have the answer.
Census records for 1841, 1861 & 1871 all show William and Susannah Edwards as being the Innkeepr (& spouse) while there is a record from 1851 showing Susannah as a widow.  However, in the 1861 & 1871 census records, William continues to age & does not appear to be deceased (i.e. age 66 in 1871).

Also, in this chain there has been discussion of William being married to an Ann Harmston.  The names William and Henry seem to have been extremely popular at that time, so I wonder if there were more than one William Edwards, of the same generation.  (I have seen in records that William married to Susannah had a son named William - and he's the one who married Catherine in 1844, no?

Thanks!

Sally, you asked me about the link between what I have and William Edwards. I'm working on that, investigating with other family members. What I do know is that my grandfather, Enrique Edwards was born in 1907 in Chile.
His father Henry was married in 1892 (to Dessy Davies). He was one of 5 sons & 8 daughters. I know a few names of the offspring of those other 13 children.
Those 14 children were the children of Henry Edwards, who married frances hall in Lincoln England.
At this point I don't have a date.

PS My grandparents moved to California in the mid 1950s. I was born in 1973.
Karin