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Have cast me eye but cant see anything! Gone cross eyed now but nothing happened. Shirley

At last beginning to make headway on my Taylor family in Wimbledon. Dad Thomas Stephen was a victualler and had the Rose and Crown Inn in the high street. He died 1853. 1861: I find widow Ann living at 51 High Street Wimbledon with daughter Emma and grandson of her daughter Eliza (who I find running a drapers down the road with another sis). The boy is show as Exles or something, but should be Eales. The question I have - who is this Reverend living with them? What does it say in the relationship - ancestry says 'inmate' and I must say in looks like that. I think it says he is Chuch of England - Incumbant curate of St Barnabas? Do you reckon from the image he has been tagged to the right household please? Edwin J Davis abt 1829 Ull Samte, Worcestershire, England Inmate Wimbledon Surrey Thomas F S Eales abt 1857 Wimbledon, Surrey, England Grandson Wimbledon Surrey Ann Taylor abt 1812 Islington, Middlesex, England Head Wimbledon Surrey Emma Taylor abt 1838 Wandsworth, Surrey, England Daughter Wimbledon Surrey

lol - I should have passed you my fag rolling machine while you waited.

la la tum te tum tum... . . getting bored!!!!! lol

HOORAH! she dun it! lol Im avin a fag now and tinking.....

Blimey, how big is that fag?

Heather It looks as if he is in the same house as Ann Taylor, but can't explain why he's an inmate. Strange! Gem:)))

Sorry Heather lol Im still trying to find them on Ancestry!.... we a bit slow ere in Stevenage lol

I think it says Assistant curate of St. Barnabas, Kensington. It does look like inmate though I don't know why. Perhaps it should have been tennant? Kath. x

I think its says St Barnabas, Kensington? It says he is from All Saints, Worcester, despite the silly place name ancestry gave. Why would he be staying in Wimbledon and an inmate? Ann and the daughter have no occupations so its not like they are nursing him or something, is it. I wonder if he was a courting the daughter Emma? (Like a Dickens novel, aint it). Shake me up Judy.

Def says summut about Kensington! Horrible copy though.

He could be courting either!...the Mums 40, daughters 23 and himselfs 33...lol

Ive been trying to find him earlier but cant see him. Yes I suppose he could be a toy boy. Lucky old mum. Oh well, Im off to bed now, at least Ive found the kids with birth dates after 1837 so I can order the certs. I think mum is Ann Wait, but Id like to be sure. Nite nite kids. Gerri, put the fag out.

what about this idea?... The daughters husband dies. It's census night. The vic is visiting the house?

Hi Heather, For a start, the address isn't 51 High Street. Household Schedule number is 51; the address is just given as High Street. Can't remember what you said about Ann now I can't see the thread! but did you say she ran a pub? Could Edwin Davis have been staying there for the night but the enumerator got muddled up and put inmate instead of visitor or whatever he should have put? Now I've re-read it, I wonder if they are still living at the Rose and Crown but didn't fill in Ann's occupation? Kate.

Is it definitely Inmate and not curate? Perhaps it was a Church property? Grace and favour? Olde Crone

Kate it crossed my mind at first it may still be the Inn but when Thomas had it in the previous census there were several servants working there as apparently it is quite a big place (still there according to the nice people at the records office who sent me a write up on it) It would seem strange not only not to mention it was an Inn, not to mention she was a licensed victualler but also to put the only visitor down as inmate, doesnt it? I suppose it may be when the husband died in 1853 she stopped using it as an Inn and just lived there occasionally taking in guests. Just had another look at the image. Next house has a brewer and family and the house after a beer retailer. I just wonder if she had sort of sublet the Inn/beer selling side to others. Like your theory Gerri, but the daughter wasnt married! I think it says inmate Crone. Sometimes you can get whatever ancestry tell you stuck in your mind and cant see the wood for the trees, can you. Now you mention the church again, in his will old Tom seemed dead keen on the Parish Church Wimbledon, left it some dosh. Maybe the connection is there.