Sherriff family 1841 or 1851

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Good afternoon,

i was hoping someone would be able to help me on finding the SHERRIFF family in either 1841 / 1851.

James Sherriff - 1819 West Allington, Devon
Sarah Sherriff - 1821 East Allington Devon,
Sarah Jane 1842 - Jersey
James 1844 - Jersey
John - 1846 - Jersey
Thomas - 1849 - Jersey

I have found the family from 1861 onwards, 1861census - East Stonehouse RG 9/1447

Any help very much appreciated

[DORAN54]

hi, 1841 west allington devon
james sherriff age 20 ag lab
mary ann sherriff age 15
william sherriff  1
                        3months       

as its transcibed but on actual census to me it looks like 5 months
piece 246 book 4

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Hi DORAN54,

thank you for the 1841, will have to see if i can link a Mary Ann and a William in to my Sherriff family tree, Hopefully i am assuming correctly and Mary Ann and William are his sister/brother?

Regards

[DORAN54]

that's the trouble with the 1841 it doesn't give relationships  mary ann seems a bit young to be his wife but then who knows

[Jools33]

Hi,
James was baptised on 31st Jan 1819 in West Alvington, he married Mary Ann Murch (born 1821 in West Alvington) on 4th November 1839 also in West Alvington.
Mary died in July 1841 & James remarried in 1848 to Sarah - whose surname I haven't worked out yet, it was either Eveleigh or Longmead (I favour Longmead as that Sarah was Sarah Emma & James & Sarah'a first daughter was called Emma, but I will have to get the certificate to prove it), this marriage took place in Plymouth, Devon. On the 1841 census Mary is listed as 15 years old, she was in fact 18 but on that particular census the age should have been rounded down to the nearest five years for those aged 15 or over but in some cases the actual age was recorded. That explains why she was listed as being only 15..... not a scandal after all !!!! James died in 1892 in Plymouth, Devon.

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Hi Jools33,

Thank you for that info.........................so...who is the mother of Sarah 1842, James 1844, John 1846?.....if Mary had died 1841 and James married Sarah 1848?

Thank you

[Jools33]

Hi, At the moment without any certificates to prove who the mother was I am assuming it was Sarah, even though they didn't marry till later.