Wear Gifford

[deb usa]

1871

Bideford
50 Ole ? Town
William Prust , 24, lab at water work, b Bideford
Ann wife 26, b Monkleigh
THOMAS son 1 b Bideford


OH MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

William PRUST = ANN ARNOLD
June q 1870
Bideford


So she is Betsey Snr's dau from John Arnold!!! see 1861 census on Summary

birth;
Ann Hookaway Arnold
Dec q 1844 Bideford

So Mary Jane B Arnold b 1867 Bideford is d/o Ann Hookway Arnold
and gr dau of Betsey ARNOLD formerly BLIGHT nee HOOKWAY

could this get any more confusing ...I NEED coffee

deb

[deb usa]

 

Mary Jane Arnold = Alfred James Dark
Dec q 1891
Bideford

1901 They are living in Torrington Street with Children :
Alfred James Dark 36 tailor
Mary jane wife 34
Florence Lilian 7
Mabel 2
all born Bideford

This Alfred James Dark is s/o  John and Catherine (inn keeper/pub) who ran the Swan Inn, in 1881
In 1891 they are living 'next door' to The Heard Family who run the Royal Hotel in Bideford

 


added ... Alfred James Dark of the Swan Inn, East the water, Bideford died in 1923. There is a Probate fo him.

[deb usa]

Well Trees

here's a nice one ...a new name at last ....

Betsey Blight  jnr

Betsey Blight = William Leonard
June q 1864
Bideford

1871
Lock Cottage
Landcross
William LEONARD 40, merchant's clerk b Monkleigh
BETSEY wife 32 b WG
George H 7 b Monkleigh
Alfred W 7 b Landcross
Arthur J 3  ditto
Sidney 1 b ditto

deb

[Trees]

I'm back on board Deb I have now had e mails from two other researchers on the same family one being the owner of the BLIGHT tree on Rootsweb so I have been trying to direct them here to see how we have got on. The other one has a lot on the Arnold line so together I think we will get a very full picture I'll have a good read and send the saliant points over asp
Now to read your last posts
H

[Trees]

Oh no not another pub involvment 
Oh how I love pubs they usually have interesting traceable histories
So you have sorted little Mary Jane B Arnold out that's really good i think it very possible that 'ol Betsy juft forgot to add the ARNOLD
I'm also glad to get young Betsy wed
Now what d I need to do next I think make up a sub tree for the family for my original enquirer
I really am very grateful for your help its hard to remember what a great distance lies between us
Many many thanks

[deb usa]

I thought you would like the pub connection 

errrrrrrrr and we have gone off on a tangent from your oiginal request 


Will take a look back and try to sort the Hookways out!

deb

[Trees]

its all the same family boy what a developement
and you have uncovered yet another name change with young Thomas Prust why was he BLIGHT if his mum was a liggit Arnold that's weird gosh my head is spinning with this ;ot I think the only way to explain it to G is to send hom a tree chart with a narative account though he'll have to wait in the queue I need to get over to fil as soon as K gets home poor chap will feel moft deserted thanks again for todays wonderful research I really am very grateful
 '' H

[deb usa]

Hi Trees

I have no idea why Thomas is Blight in 1881 ... all the other kids are children to the head of house and yet Thomas' column is blank 

Thomas is the son in 1871 and 1891 ...so why the mystery in 1881??
errrrr where is he in 1891?

birth reg;
Thomas PRUST
Mar q 1871
Bideford

[Trees]

maybe his second name was Blight? need to see his baptism
One of the contacts today says Betsy Hookway's mother had a cousin who was manager of a canal on which the barges were sailed for the lime trade
there is a series on her at the moment where a group are spending a year living as Edwardian farmers on the banks of the Tamar they did a program about the need to make lime for the fields and had the coal and so on selivered to the kilns by a wonderful old sailing barge
 http://greenwood-carving.blogspot.com/2010/11/traditional-crafts-on-bbc-edwardian.html
This means he knows who married Samuel HOOKWAY  I'll ask who she was
H