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Is it a Possibility?

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Sheila

Sheila Report 13 Jul 2012 15:01

I know where my family were living in 1820.
In the Rates book for 1798/9 the tenant has the same name.
What do you think the probability is that it was my family?

Jonesey

Jonesey Report 13 Jul 2012 15:05

Reasonable I would have thought.

Would the ages of the family members who lived there in 1820 equate with the same individuals or their parents being a housholder in 1798/9?

Sheila

Sheila Report 13 Jul 2012 15:51

Jonesey,

My Gr.Gr. Grandmother was born there in 1820. Her mother was born about 1781. So perhaps the lady living there in 1798/9 could have been her mother.

I am sure about the cottage because my grandmother lived there with my Gr.Gr.Grandmother and she told me where the cottage was.

If it was a family member in that cottage it was lived in by my family for more than a hundred years. I can remember it being demolished.

Sheila

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 13 Jul 2012 15:55

Sheila,
Entierly possible I should think.

I have a farm workers family who were in a farmhouse in 1861 and descendants lived in the same house until December 2011.

Gwyn