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Thanks for this.  I have also located another family: Peter, Ann and son Bernard in Magherafelt.  This parish has records for the marriage and Bernard's baptism, so still trying to work out which line is the correct one.  Since the Scottish census says Tyrone, it would suggest clonfeacle, but still not sure!  Have been contacted by another person researching the same family, so we have been able to swap some info to piece together the jigsaw a bit better.  Bernard is quite an unusual name, from what I can see.

Bernard subsequently moved to Scotland, and appears on the 1851 census living with his older sister, Sarah, under the mistranscribed name of Doel (Coyle), Sarah's married name.  Peter Donnelly also moved there, by which time Ann appears to have died.  Bernard died young in 1869 of "fever" leaving a wife and young daughter.   If I find any more information, I will post it here so that you can access it.

 

Hello Pat
This is really helpful information
Have contacted the volunteer for St Gregory's and have fingers crossed that something for George Farnham will emerge.  Am convinced that a whole family cannot have disappeared for 10 years!
Thanks
Jo

We shall definitely make a trip to the archives in Westminster to see what other information is in the parish entry.  Hopefully we will find details of his parents, as although we have found other Rolfes in the area at the same time, we cannot connect them as yet.

I have also managed to unearth a will for Thomas Rolfe in 1836, which is at the Metropolitan archives.

Thanks for your help!

Thanks for this speedy reply. 

The marriage entry appears on a comprehensive family website dedicated to the Hebborn name (and all derivations of it), so I assume there has been a record traced.  I know that Susanna's parents were Thomas and Rebecca (nee Tripp) from Bledlow in Bucks.  Since Susanna married in Westminster, I am working on the assumption that Thomas Rolfe may be from there, hence my interest in the possible baptismal record at St George's on IGI.  I know that Thomas had died by the 1841 census, as his wife is listed as a widow, so it is proving difficult to find any real links for him.

I will try to find access to Boyd's online.  Meanwhile, if anyone else can help with info, that would be fantastic.  I am helping a friend who has just started researching her tree, picking up on work her late mother began some time ago.  She is unravelling several false leads, and has hit a brick wall on the Rolfe line!

Thanks.