Need Advice on connecting HEDGES brothers #1

[deb usa]

girls ...

have to go out for a bit ...will return later and by then I'm sure you will have it all sorted and all the connections made and brick walls stomped down 

deb

[jamajo]

   We will try Deb

[Nennefer]

 We should be able to find the mother Sarah in 1841 but i cant find her

 Just thought it might help.


              Sue

Bye Deb catch you later

Sue there is a Sarah JENNINGS on Ancestry on the 1841 Census in Herts born 1771 but I can't view it have you looked at it.
Jenny

[jamajo]

  1841   HO107 / 437 / 2/7/ 9

Sarah Jennings age 70 b Herts
Mary Phillips age 70 b Herts

  Address Levels Green, Munden

  Both done as Paupers

                Sue

[Nennefer]

Well thats me all out of ideas on what to do next. 
On a positive, we have done fantastically well today. I have ordered the birth cert. of Olive HEDGES which should arrive in a week or so. That should finally tell me if Eliza her mother was a JENNINGS as I suspect.
Sometimes I wish my family could have been more obliging like my husbands. They all lived in one area. Generation after generation way back to the 1700's. They never went anywhere or had any adventures.
No that would be boring wouldn't it.
How about your family Sue, Were they so difficult.

[deb usa]

hi ..back for 10 mins then have to go again ...

I wonder if we can systematically work through the children of the Hedges/Jennings and Eastwoods and see who they married ...you never know what we will find ....

or maybe we can find them lodging/living together somewhere ....


Can't find the Jennings or eastwoods in 1861 ...I see Mark Eastwood stayed a hawker/horse dealer and married Flora ... saw the marriage now can't remember.

deb

[jamajo]

  My fathers side was quite easy and i got back to early 1700s so far

  My mothers is harder. They started off in Somerset and ended up in Oxford but in between

  travelled round working on farms. Never stayed in one place very long and are hard to track down

  Had no luck at all with Sarah

  Oh Debs thought of someone to look up

  Was just going to ask what we still need

                    Sue

  

[jamajo]

 Can we have update on children please, names, dob and pob

[Nennefer]

Sounds good to me Deb.
I think part of the secret lies in the 1851 Census and the lack of some of the Hedges being found.
Not sure I can explain this, I touched on it earlier.
In East Malling in 1854 we have 3 deaths.
Deaths Sep 1854  
Hedges  Susan     Malling  2a 269    
Hedges  Thomas     Malling  2a 269    
Hedges  William     Malling  2a 270

I think 2 of these deaths  Susan and William could be the parents of the 4 brothers.
Why?
Well I am hoping the death certs will arrive tomorrow, but Susan was 80 years old and Eliza HEDGES was presant at death.
William was 73 years old James HEDGES was presant at death Chatham.
Thomas was aged 1 and the son of James HEDGES.
They are all listed as sojourning at East malling this is according to the Burial records. Where William has been buried under the name of James HEDGES in error, possibly due to his son being James.
Death for them is listed as Cholera, Typhus Fever and Inflammation of lungs. I think there must have been an epidemic of something nasty either in East malling or within the family during this time that took the youngest and the eldest. Just wondering how I can discover more. I'm not far from East Malling perhaps maidstone archives would hold the key. Any Ideas