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Hi Jane,

I do thank you very much.

I have been helping a 73 year old lady who lives in Canada to find her
Ancestors William & Caroline White nee Cobden. They were living in Snags
Lane and I wondered where it was, so I can let her now.
Sad to notice a Leprosy House nearby. It must have been awful to have
lived in those times.

Thank You so much

Regards
Alun Urch

Hi,

I am helping a friend in Canada whose Ancestors resided at Snags Lane in Chichester, Sussex.

This Lane does  not exist now and we would like to know what name the Lane is known by now.

Many Thanks

Alun Urch

Hi Florence,

My E-Mail address is also published on Bristol & Avon Family History Society Members under Interests ( URCH).
Regards
Alun Urch

Hi Florence,

I have recorded all Urch Baptisms / Births starting from 1540 up to 2004. Although my listings are far from completion ( I am adding to it all the time) I have about 2300 Baptisms, and as you can imagine if you know Excel, each row represents a Birth and I have incorporated their deaths or Burials; their Marriage partners; their deaths and lastly both the parents. I am in the middle of raising separate family record sheets using the worksheet programme based upon my info, so that I can verify I have the correct info. I love using Excel and have devised a Family Record Sheet myself incorporating the Census records. The Census sheets help me later on, especially those for people born after 1780 to 1800. or to be precise those still living after 1841 and after. Prior to 1780 / 1800 it becomes more difficult in recording the correct wives / husbands. I have a wealth of information to help me  FreeReg / Lots of other Websites / FamilyHistoryonline / FamilySearch / Microfiche Parish records for Wells; Westbury; Kewstoke; Axbridge and Chelvey. I am awaiting the Fiche for Ashwick; Banwell and Chilton Polden to arrive from Somerset Records Office, which should arrive any day now.
Am I correct in thinking you are the Florence whose birth was registered in the 4th Qtr of 1945 in Bath. I was born in 1947 in Romford Essex. My father was born in Risca Monmouthshire in 1913 and my Ancestors came to South Wales during 1845 to 1850 from the Bedminster area. I started this Excel Spreadsheet in the hope it would help me identifying all my Ancestors which it has and I just went on from there.
It is now like a One Name Study.
The Bigamy Court Proceedings report makes wonderful reading and yes I agree with you, it has to be the Thomas of Richard & Ann Coombes. I have two other Thomas's not including the one who married the bigamist; one who married in Newington in London in 1838 and one who was married in Bridgewater in 1840. The Thomas who married Mary Ann Mapstone was in 1840 in Bridgewater as you say and the other married a Mary Ann Smith in Newington, London although this needs to be verified.
I know the Thomas who married Mary Ann Mapstone was the one in 1840 but I am having difficulty in identifying the Baptism of the Thomas who married in London.

I will do a separate note for the Ancestors / Descendants as this is getting too long. 
Best Regards
Alun Urch

For Florence Urch,
Hi,
I refer to your message of 8 July and have found that Thomas, the son of Richard & Ann Coombes was still residing with his parents in the 1841 Census. He could have married Eleanor Harris and decided to return home after finding out about his bigamist wife. Do you know for sure it was this Thomas?
I have raised a spreadsheet on Excel and have listed all possible Urch Baptisms and have been trying to integrate their marriages. It is extremely difficult to identify the right person as there are so many John's, Samuels, Thomas's, William's and Richard's. Some of them were baptised around the same time. For example, I have discovered that there was a Thomas baptised in Bristol  on 10 March 1799 of parents William & Susanna Sweetman  or Swetnam. This Thomas married an Emma Cundy of Philiok, Cornwall and they had a daughter named Susanna Sweetman. This was easy to figure out as her name was her Grandmother's maiden name. But they not all so easy to figure out.
If Richard & Ann Coombes son, Thomas, married this Eleanor Harris, do you know if he obtained a divorce or was the marriage annulled.
Regards
Alun Urch