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Hi there!

So sorry to add on to this thread so long after it was posted, but I only just joined RootsChat, so I just came across it today while reading through the forums.

The Hodder family you're referring to here is my husband's family!  The Mary Ann Hodder you see in the 1861 census (age 19) was my husband's 2nd great-grandmother.

She actually had a baby boy out of wedlock in 1872, and she gave the baby HER last name (Fred Hodder) and would never tell anyone who the father was.
Fred Hodder was an only child, but he went on to marry a woman named Bertha Dawe in 1894, and they had TEN children together. (Elfie, Ivy, George, Beatrice, Olive, Maud, Phyllis, Harold, Kenneth, and John.)  His son Kenneth is my husband's grandfather.  Kenneth immigrated to the United States in 1938, and settled in New York.

Anyway, it's been an interesting read!  If you're still looking for information about that branch of the family, I might be able to fill in some of the blanks. 

-- Jessica H

Patience Johanna White also had another sibling, Mary Gattey White (my maternal 3 X Great Grandmother), who was born at Falmouth/Truro, Cornwall c. 1817 (as opposed to St. Sidwell, Exeter for all the other children). Mary G White married John Bale Keen (a ropemaker) in Exeter in 1940 (Patience Johanna White was a witness on the marriage cert.). The couple are recorded living together in St. Sidwell, Exeter with Mary's siblings, Patience J White, Elizabeth G White & Harriett G White in the 1841 census. The girls parents, Frederick White & Patience White (nee Gattey) had both died by the time of the census, Patience in 1839 from tuberculosis, and Frederick in 1840 (cause of death "found drowned"). Frederick' occupation variously recorded as a Beadle, a Waiter and a Messenger to the Committee for the Improvement of the City of Exeter.