CathayB's 3rd Scavenger Hunt..Everyone Welcome To Join In.

[janan]

Christening

Reuben Bird 19 Oct 1834 in Chiddingstone Kent parents Thomas Bird and Mary

Jan

[deb usa]

good going !

I do think this is them in 1861 ...Reuben under his wife's maiden name ...also her father is James which is her dad's name on marriage cert POB fits aswell

cannot find them in 1851 or 1841 yet

Found this in 1861
Ashdown Forest
Maresfield, Sussex
Abigail HORN head mar 80 wife of ag lab b Battersea surrey
James mar 60 ag lab b Sunberry? Middlesex
RHEUBEN HORN son mar 25 b Surrey
ABIGAIL HORN dau mar 21 b Sussex FRAMFIELD, SUSSEX...trenscibed as Abagirl!
HENRY HORN gr son 2 B WORTH SUSSEX

Is this Reuben BIRD and family??

deb

[cathayb]

looking good chaps.sorry i cant do much but my ancestry membership has run out!!!but i couldnt mis the chance of a scavenger hunt.leave some for the folks who will come on tonight.your doing really weel.i am busy trying to form a tree out of what you are all getting.

[cathayb]

athelias (taylor)grandson is a taylor from the bird family!!!!!!stopping with them in one of the cencuses

[deb usa]

1891

East Fields, Mitcham Surrey
2 Concrete cottage
Abigail Bird head wid 51 flower hawker b Framfield
William Halford son in law mar 21 gen lab b Essex
Harriet Bird dau mar 19 flower hawker Mitcham
Frank son 13 scholar Mitcham Surrey
Louis son 10 ditto
  deb

added ..a Mills family close by ...also flower Hawkers
5 Concrete cottage
Eli Mills head mar 37 flower hawker b Surrey Coher/s?
Mary mar 38 Flower Hawker b Gillingham
Aaron son 10 b Mitcham
Elis son 13 b Surrey Croydon
William son 4 b Mitcham
Mary J dau single 17 flower Hawker b Croydon

[janan]

Wonder if this family are linked

1891
Tent on Abinger Common
James Bird Head M 45 Broom Maker Kent parish NK
Elizabeth do Wife M 33 do do
Reuben do Son 10 Sussex Parish NK
Francis do do 7 Hants do
Priscilla do daur 3 Surrey do
William do Nephew 18 Broom Maker Sussex Parish NK
RG12/574/79 Pg6

Jan
 

[deb usa]

Thoiught I would post the 1881 so that we can refer back

1881
Mitcham
Tents
Reuben BIRD 50 pedlar b Kent Chittenstone ..s/o Thomas and Mary chr 19 Oct 1834 died after 1881
Abigail wife 45 b Framfield d/o James , brazier, maiden name =HORN
Henry Son 23 b Worth Sussex = Mary Ann ??
James son 19 b St John Sussex .... need to find him in 1891 onward
Harriet dau 8 Mitcham = William Halford..where are they in 1901?
John son 6 b Mitchum .....also need to find him 1891..1901= With Abigail
Frank son 2 Godstone .. with widowed, mum, Abigail in 1891
Louise dau 2 months b Mitcham ...not on 1891 ...has she died?

by 1891 Abigail has a SON LOUIS 10 b Mitcham ...is he Louise ??

deb

[deb usa]

Okay ...I am going nuts ...can't find anyone in 1901

will keep trying tho

deb 

[deb usa]

 

having just posted that I can't see them in 1901 ...I have now found them


1901
Gillingham
In tent
Back of Balmorral rd
Abigial BIRD head wid 62 hawker/ own account b not known
John son 26 single
francis dau single 21
Joe Fuggles 10
Joseph Russell 20
Mary Eastwood 20
Mary Eastman 17

all born Not known

travelling with them in caravans  are
The LEE Family ...headed by Walter Lee 62 hawker

The JEFFREY Family ..headed by John 35 travelling showman b Wiltshire, Devizes

The BAKER Family ...headed by Thomas 29 travelling showman n NK

SMALL Family ... head Henry 33 hawker b NK

PERFECT family head Henry 33 hawker b NK

2 more LEE Families;
Head Ambrose 21 hawker b Kent Charham
Head Albert 44 hawker b NK