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Hi Tracey,

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 I will contact you personally.  Send me what you have so far and I will check it out for you ... and add some. 

Jan.

1861 Census details RG 9/1687/28

The following information is an exact transcription of the information.  The 'word' Do actually means the same as the symbol for ditto ".

William Stone, Head, Mar, 57, Dyer, Shepton Mallet, Somerset.
Elizabeth Stone, Wife, Do, 65, -, Bath, Walcot.
William Stone, Son, Do, 24, French Polisher, Bath, Widcombe.
William Stone, G Do, Unm, 5, Scholar, Do Do.

Hope this helps.

Have you found any factual evidence yet that your George was actually called William Stone before he changed his surname to Eyles?

Jan.

Hi all,

In 1861 William (5 yrs) is recorded as William STONE.

Yes, Florence married Jim Nairn and Alice married Percy Connor and I have a sneaking suspicion that somewhere in my notes it mentions that they or a daughter came to Australia and lived in Sydney.    I seem to recall an uncle saying he had visited one of his Dad's relatives in Sydney who was called Alice.

Thanks 'tawyn' for finding the death of a Lydia Stone.  I hadn't checked FREEBMD for a while so might consider buying the cert. to see if it is her.

Jan.

Hello Muffin,

(In the meantime I have found out that her surname was CHAPMAN) I hope that I am correct there.

I think you'll find that her surname was BROWN but I hope you have better luck than me in finding a marriage for her and William.  I've been looking for ten years and I actually think William and Lydia EYLES  must have never divorced - unless she died before William met Martha, but I have not found a death for Lydia either prior to William and Martha's first child being born, and the 1861 Census records William as 'M' (married) not 'W' (widower).  That could have either been a mistake, or Lydia was still alive somewhere.

I have only entered Alice STONE in my family tree because she married Charles Edwin POW 1902 in Melksham. He was related to my family, also very confusing...........

So I take it you are not a descendant of the STONE family?

My mother (now deceased) remembered "Charlie" and Alice Pow when she visited Trowbridge as a child. 

Jan.