News of 1851

I'd like to see the 1851 census record of my great-great-great-great-great-uncle James Toovey's family of Watford, Hertfordshire.

I have seen the 1841 census of his family - James is an Innkeeper(age 31) with his wife(35), & children age 6,5,4,2 &1.

From christening records I have found that they had lots more children so in 1851 there may have been up to 12 children ages 16,15,14,12,11,9,7,6,6,4,2,0

There was also children b 1852 & 1855. So 14 ...

I have an 1851 Irish census and i have been told it is rare to have one surviving so long. I know that we are lucky to have this census surviving but i think it is down to the fact that there was a farm involved and that they asked for it to be sent back so that they would have some account of where, when and who was there when it was taken. That ...

I'd previously mentioned my Kemp relatives but on my mother's side of the family things were just as eventful. In 1851, my great great grandparents, Henry and Elizabeth Wilden, lived at High Street, Needham Market. On Boxing Day 1851, their third child, Anna Maria Wilden, died of Typhus Fever. She was only 16 years old.

Henry and Elizabeth's oldest son, William Wilden, was at the Garrison of the Tower of London, Goodman Fields, London on ...

Hi Folks,

1851 was an eventful year in the lives of two of my 2nd great grand uncles (brothers of my great great grandfather, James Kemp).

One (Joshua Kemp) got transported to Western Australia for larceny. He left England and sailed to Western Australia aboard the 832 ton ship called the Pyrenees. It left Torbay, England on March 30, 1851, (census night) bound for the Swan River Colony. On this voyage the Pyrenees carried the ...