Alfred Gitsham (b 1883)

[Gail2005]

Thank you, much appreciated.  It is my Dad's 70th birthday in July and I was hoping to have a poster made up with his famiy tree on it, so all information and any information is wonderful.  I'm not very good at researching yet, I only started last weekend when my 12 year old had an assignment to find out about his great, great, great grandfather and it inspired me to continue looking into our family.

[Mort29]

Florence Eliza Collins was in the Stoke District of Devonport in 1901: her Father, Thomas William Collins born c1861, Hitchin, Hertfordshire was a Royal Navy Boatswain (Bosun)

RG13/Piece 2110 Folio 182 Page 31 - Devonport

[heywood]

Providing we are on the right track- and it certainly looks like it, here is John, aged 10 yrs, Alfred's father.

1861  RG9; Piece: 1475; Folio: 60; Page: 5
Reeds, Newton St Cyres Devon

John Gitsham 47 ys Thatcher b Devon Pinhoe
Elizabeth Gitsham 46 ys b Newton St Cyres
John Gitsham 10 ys  b -do-
George Gitsham 6 ys  -do-
William Gitsham 3 ys -do-
Sarah Gitsham 10 months  -do-
James Lang Uncle widower 71 ys Agricultural labourer

[heywood]

Free BMD marriages: Possible spouses:

Jun 1873   Exeter  5b 167   
Mary Ann Berry 
John Gitsham     
Grace Mortimore   
Joseph Shipley 

Dec 1839 Exeter 10 150

a list of spouses but:
John Methrell Gitsham
Elizabeth Stickey Gosling
are possibles

not sure about this 1839- can't see them in 1841

marriage could also be 1838- spouse Elizabeth Vesey 

[Mort29]

Good find - cant see them either in 1841 

altho' there is a GEO Gitsham a Thatcher, wife Elizabeth - of the right ages in Newton Cyres:-

HO107/Piece 216/Book 6 Civil Parish St Cyres Newton Folio 4 Page 2 @ 'Live Elm'

[Gail2005]

All these replies are great, thank you very much.  It's getting late over here so I'm off to bed, I'll keep researching and keep checking back.

Thanks everyone.

[Gail2005]

Just wondering whether these are the grandparents, they seem quite old to have such young children.

I think I may be missing a generation, but don't know where to look.

Providing we are on the right track- and it certainly looks like it, here is John, aged 10 yrs, Alfred's father.

1861  RG9; Piece: 1475; Folio: 60; Page: 5
Reeds, Newton St Cyres Devon

John Gitsham 47 ys Thatcher b Devon Pinhoe
Elizabeth Gitsham 46 ys b Newton St Cyres
John Gitsham 10 ys  b -do-
George Gitsham 6 ys  -do-
William Gitsham 3 ys -do-
Sarah Gitsham 10 months  -do-
James Lang Uncle widower 71 ys Agricultural labourer

[heywood]

Here they are in 1851 Class: HO107; Piece: 1887; Folio: 246; Page: 5
Reeds, Newton St Cyres

John Gitsham head 36 ys Thatcher b Pinhoe
Elizabeth Gitsham wife 36 ys Thatcher's wife b Newton St Cyres
Emily Gitsham daur 7 ys  -do-
John Tonkins servant 20 ys Thatcher's labourer
James Lang lodger 61 ys Farmer's labourer
Mary Lang lodger 10 ys

As Mort29 says there is a couple - Geo and Elizabeth in 1841 with no children.
There are published trees for this family which give mother as Elizabeth Vesey and several children born who also died between 1841 and 1851. You could check Free BMD for any names which may be the children but only certificates would prove this.

[Gail2005]

Thanks