Looking for Thomas Bodsworth & family

[tazzie]

  Hi David ....

  Yep Benjamin son of Thomas & Maryb 1799...I cannot yet pinpoint parents marriage unless the Sundon one is them. A Thomas is baptised in Tilsworth 1779 son of John & Mary at same time as a sister Elizabeth who we also have in the tree through another marriage, they double baptise another 2 children in 1782 Jacob & Isaac... so it is possible that they are John & Mary nee Isaac who marry in Toddington 1789. Forward obviously no prob. I am interested if they all link to Chalgrave Botsfords.

                   Tazzie

[Karatemarty]

Hi all,

 Is there any concrete proof that John Botsworth and Ann are Richards parents?

Marty

[seahall]

Hi Marty

I noted on Reply 85 James and Ann on the 4th block down are
a Richard's parents.

Don't know if it is concrete although what I typed is.

Maybe looking at the link here it might help also.

Reply 12.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,320241.0.html

Sandy

[bedfordshire boy]

I think that the combination of censuses where Richard's birthplace is given as
Woburn - reply # 63 - and the birth/baptism recorded in Woburn parish
register - reply # 85 - are as
concrete as you're likely to find.

Of course it would reinforce the concrete
if the marriage to Ann Brice in Horton, Northants said Richard of Woburn,
but I don't have that information (in fact I now see an earlier post of Sandy's gives
his parish of residence as Horton - reply # 102). I don't think this detracts
from the census evidence though, which looks pretty conclusive.

I hasten to add though that I've been looking at the Beds
angle, rather than Northants, which I leave to the experts.

David

[Karatemarty]

Hi All,

 Thought this might be of interest. I do not know when it was written, must have been in the last 4-5 years as water restrictions only came in around that time.

Marty

[Karatemarty]

Hi all,

 Ok, I just had dinner with dad, he told me his mother mentioned (when he was a child) that Thomas had first come to Australia via Tasmania in the Army? WITH a Major Black.
Now I don't know in what capacity although I have looked through a lot of convict lists and he is not listed so maybe he was in the military??
Any ideas?

Marty

[Penholder]

Hi Marty

Wonder if Sarah Barnes is still following this?   She may know more.   Through GenesReunited she told me there were grounds for believing Thomas Bodsworth may have been a soldier.

Diana

[Penholder]

I can't find Thomas Bodsworth in the National Archives under any category but I did find this:

ADM 157/440/119     More information Folios 119-123. William Bodsworth, born Bedfordshire. Attestation papers to serve in the Royal Marines at Portsmouth 1861 (when aged 20). Discharged 1863 as an Invalid.     1861-1863

There are an awful lot of men called BLACK under WO (War Office) category.   I wonder if anyone knows which regiment he might have joined in Northants?

Diana

[Barnes75]

Hi All

Yes i'm still following this with interest.

One of my contacts from Genes Reunited who is also researching the Bodsworth family tree believed Thomas was a solider.  Please see reply i received.

My descent is from Thomas, your George's brother and his wife Sarah (Hakes), who was apparently abandoned when he went off to Australia (circumstances unknown, but some grounds for suspecting he was a solider) and remarried, bigamous but apparently not illegally.

Hope this is of some help.

Sarah