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Well, well thank you all very much, you've all been busy while I was snuggled up in bed with a headache and a couple of pain killers. By the way I beat you 36C!

Lallie

Overzealous (lazy) enumerator, or parent -- ages were supposed to be rounded down in 1841 only for adults / over 15s.

I've long had a feeling that some people rounded their ages down in 1841 and then just stuck with the number they'd picked. I have a 2xgr grfather who is just too consistently 20, 30, 40 etc. yrs old, and I don't trust his math. Not that I can find him being born or his parents marrying anywhere, anyhow.

32JJ ??? Good grief Ann! I just about make a 32C - but not all makes - I'm between a B and a C. My OH reckons they're like two pickled onions on an ironing board!

That's them Evie - I think the enumerator has rounded down the ages of some of the children as they are not two sets of twins!

Jill

That's the one I found but I found a reference to a Mary Beddow marrying William Ellis and having 9 children. Not sure if there are two of them or if I'm wrong with my info. This will spur me on to send off for Joseph's birth cert (which I should have done but am currently working on my elusive grandfather so this file has been moving down the heap of things to do for a couple of months now!).

Jill

Quinnell, you say. So here he is in 1841:

Name: Thomas Quinnell
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1831
Where born: Sussex, England
Civil Parish: Midhurst

Thomas Quinnell 45
Sarah Quinnell 45
Richard Quinnell 15
Thomas Quinnell 10
Joseph Quinnell 10
Sarah Quinnell 5
William Quinnell 5

I'd change places with you - I would qualify for a circus act - 32JJ

Is it likely they married in Kensington??

Marriages Mar 1856
Beddow Mary Ann Kensington 1a 104
Quennell Thomas Kensington 1a 104

And yes - that's me - flatpack - LOL

This is connected to my OH's side.

I did his tree - more for his mum who is 87 than for him as he's not that interested.

I gave a copy of the tree to mum's brother who is 88.

Brother's wife said "Bet you can't find my family" And that was it - I was off down the Quinnell/Queenall route. Still have to send off for a few more certs here and there. But have a few of Aunty's photos - I need to go and check which ones are which.

Jill

Haha. I saw your username at Ancestry. Flat as a pancake - ha!

How are you related, Jill?

No - flat as a pancake Ann!!!

I know - but I'm all excited. I was only browsing and happened to clock that heading and oh where is Lallie?

I've sent her a PM. I've found the file. I'm just waiting now!!

Jill

calm down Jill - deep breaths now!!!! I was going to say big breaths but thought you may think I had a lisp!!!!

I think Mary Ann might be Mary Ann Beddow but not sure yet as have not ordered that cert.

The pub shows as The Bridge Inn, Oakengates, Wombridge. Or The Bridge Inn, Teague's Lane, Wombridge. Thomas spent most of his life as a cordwainer or bootmaker though. He only seemed to run the pub for a few years I think. Apparently he worked for Jimpsons the shoemakers. They became the British United Shoe Co.

Jill

That was me that made the Ancestry correction after spending ages trying to find them. I thought they'd be really easy to track down with a name like that! Huh!

Jill

Pout. I keep hoping for cousins when I see a familiar and somewhat unusual surname here, but they always turn out to be the *other* ones.

The mistranscriptions are a nightmare - promise!!

Back in a minute - I'm all of a flutter!!!

Wooohooo - never happened like this before!!!!

I have researched the Queenalls/Quennells/Quinnells - back and have info on this family. Thought I recognised the Teague Bridge Inn !!!! Whoopy doo!!!

Back in a minute - going for a calm me down smoke and to find file!!!!

Jill

Lallie - I put the name of the pub in google and came up with some interesting stuff about the area - tells you how many pubs were in that small area - sadly could not find the name of your pub but I'm sure if you spent a bit of time on google you would find it

In 1871, they are in Wombridge, transcribed imaginatively again.

(I just searched for Thomas Que* born c1827 Sussex.)

Aaron Queenall 7
Adline Queenall 4
Frederic Queenall 14
Henry Queenall 11
Mary A Queenall 44
Thomas Queenall 44


The same trick did not find a marriage at

http://www.freebmd.org.uk

If you do not know Mary Ann's surname, you might want to find one of the children's birth registrations there and obtain the certificate.

This looks like it could be him in 1861. An Ancestry user has corrected the name. That person can be contacted through the Ancestry system. She did not say how/whether she is related.


Name: Thomas Luennell
[Thomas Quennell]
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1827
Where born: Sussex, England
Civil Parish: Wombridge

Ann Cox 65 - head
Frederick Luennell 4
Henry Luennell 1
Mary Ann Luennell 34 - born Shropshire, so fits
Thomas Luennell 34