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Not having any luck positively identifying Sidney or Rhoda in earlier censuses. Or finding a marriage. One fact could explain the other -- one or both of them was married to someone else. These things did happen.

My father's father's father's father's ... family is from the same area -- Mere, and possibly earlier Chilmark (Sidney's place of birth per the 1901) -- there were some 17th century colonists in the US by the same surname who apparently came from Chilmark or nearby, so I figure I'm related to the whole clan south of the US-Canada border, with all its revolutionary war and confederate "heroes", ew. No Levers that I know of, though!

Unfortunately, either of these births could be the one!

Name: Alfred Lever
Year of Registration: 1899
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Wilton
County: Wiltshire
Volume: 5a
Page: 177

Name: Alfred Samuel Lever
Year of Registration: 1900
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Wilton
County: Wiltshire
Volume: 5a
Page: 188

-- both Alfreds could have been be "1" at the 1901 census (if the younger one were actually born in March, say).

You gotta trick that search engine. ;)

Searching for Alfred born 1899-1901 with father Sydney (no surname, to circumvent mistranscriptions at Ancestry), in Bapton, Wiltshire, in the 1901 census, we find:


Name: Alfred Lerer
Age: 1
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1900
Relation: Son
Father's Name: Sidney
Mother's Name: Rhoda
Gender: Male
Where born: Bapton, Wiltshire, England

Civil Parish: Fisherton Delamere
Ecclesiastical parish: Fisherton Delamere
Town: Bapton
County/Island: Wiltshire
Country: England

Registration district: Wilton
Sub-registration district: Wilton
ED, institution, or vessel: 9
Household schedule number: 28

Alfred Lerer 1
Jesse Lerer 14
Oliver Lerer 8
Rhoda Lerer 37
Sidney Lerer 40

That looks like your boy -- father Sidney, two older brothers.

hi ,
I have looked up the death of Alfred Lever born 1900 and died 1981. The 1901 cesus that was along side gave the following information.

Alfred Lever age 28 inn keeper born Fovant Wilts
Edith Lever age 28 born Burgate Hants
Alfred Lever age 1 born Fovant Wilts
Lily Waters age 8 step daughter born Burgate Hants

They were living at Pop???? Inn in the district of Wilton
On the death it said he was born Fovant and died in Yeovil in Somerset

I am looking for information on my great-grandfather's siblings / his father's / his mother's family.

He was born in 1900 in Bapton (think this is the correct place name) in Wiltshire and died in 1981 in Yeovil, Somerset.

I know his father was called Sidney. His mother (name unknown) died in 1904. He had 2 older brothers (names unknown).

His wife was Henrietta Beatrice Kate Lever of Hindon, Wiltshire.

Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks


Lynsey