devon census

[brendan]

I am trying to locate samuel bennett born 1847 10 canterbury street Devenport father Joseph mother Caroline please can anybody trace this family in 1851 /1861/1871

[Cazay]

1861
12 Canterbury St Stoke Dameral
Joseph Bennett 39 St Dominick Cornwall Labr
Caroline 40 Devonport
Mary 15            *
Samuel 13          *
Lavina 7              *
Rosina 1               *
RG9/1449 f140 p53

Cazay

[Dave Francis]

Obviously the same family ... strange or what?

1851 Stoke Damerel (Clowance) Devon
HO107/1881 folio 282 page 17

8 Canterbury Street
Joseph Allan, head, 27, labourer, St Dominick Cornwall
Caroline do., wife, 26, Devonport
Mary J. do., daur, 5, scholar, Devonport
Samuel do., son, 3, Devonport

[brendan]

thank u so much to the kind people who have helped ,on the 1851 name and ages different would they be on the 1871 census.

[brendan]

I am trying to locate samuel bennett born 1847 10 canterbury street Devenport father Joseph mother Caroline please can anybody trace this family in 1851 /1861/1871

[Dave Francis]

1871 Stoke Damerel (Clowance) Devon
RG10/2131 folio 36 pp 63-64
11 Canterbury Street
Joseph Bennett, head, 48, labourer H M dock yard, St Dominick Cornwall
Caroline, wife, 49, Devonport Devon
Samuel, son, 23, seaman R N, Devonport Devon
Lavinia, daur, 16, needle woman, Devonport Devon
William, son, 8, scholar, Devonport Devon
Donald Moore, nurse child, 4, scholar, Devonport Devon

[brendan]

Help, the 1871 census shows samuel living 11 canterbury st however,my samuel bennett was in 1871 married with 2 kids living in east london have census copy ,so this bennett family cannot be mine. I do know my samuel was born 13/09/1847
mother caroline bennett formerly stafford, father labourer joseph bennett. full name samuel joseph born 10 canterbury street, devonport district clowance. parents married . e stonehouse sept quarter 1845.
in 1871 my samuel was a plasterer /plumber in 1881 still plumber still living east london.

[Dave Francis]

Hi Brendan

Yes - it does seem you have a problem.  More specifically, you appear to have the wrong birth certificate.  Your Samuel Bennett obviously wasn't the son of Joseph and Caroline (nee Stafford) Bennett.  In fact, I can see their son Samuel in the 1881 Census on board HMS Fenedol (where he has the middle initial 'J').

Assuming that you got the date of birth from the certificate alone, your Samuel wasn't born on 13 Sept 1847.

Indeed, according to the Censuses of 1871 & 1881, your Samuel was born around four or five years earlier!  I can see a possible match for him in the 1851 and 1861 Censuses - this one was living in Bideford with his widowed mother, Mary Ann Bennett.  The question is: was her husband called Joseph?  (I assume that you have Samuel's marriage certificate which names Joseph.)

[krisesjoint]

Hi Brendan,

I agree with Dave. This Samuel is not your man. What about this one. Providing you have the marriage cert as Dave has mentioned and it does say father Joseph perhaps Nathaniel J was Nathaniel Joseph

HO107/1882
84 Fore Street
Stoke Damerel

BENNETT Nathaniel J Head 29 b Devonport Boot Maker
BENNETT Mary Wife 27 b Fakenham Norfolk
BENNETT William H Son 6 b Poplar London
BENNETT Samuel N Son 4 b Devonport
BENNETT Sarah Dau 10 Months b Devonport
WRIGHT John Visitor 18 b Devonport

Cheers Kris