Genealogy Chat

im hoping someone can help me. my 84yr old neighbour is so amazed about the info ive got on my tree that he would like to find some about his family. i found his mum,EDITH MAY SWADLING on LDS,born sept 1894,but i cant find anything else.she had 2 sisters,daisy and violet and a brother george,all born in high wycombe,bucks also a percy ,martha and sidney haydon,who i cant find at all!!!ron haydon(my neighbour)seems to think that his dad,percy ,was born in london,although his brother sidney was listed as living in marlow bucks on CWGC site,when he lost his life during the 1st ww any help would make an old man very happy susie

Susan, I looked up Edith's name on the 1901 and there is only one aged 6 who is living in Wooburn Bucks. Looking up all the Swadling's in Wooburn brings up the following: Charles Swadling 58 Bucks St Marlow Buckinghamshire Wooburn Paper Mill Engine Daisy Swadling 2 Bucks Wooburn Bucks Wooburn   Edith Swadling 6 Bucks Wooburn Bucks Wooburn   George Swadling 44 Bucks Gt Marlow Bucks Wooburn Labourer In Mill Jane Swadling 57 Wilts Rickmanworth Buckinghamshire Wooburn   Margaret Swadling 31 Bucks Gt Marlow Bucks Wooburn   Violet Swadling 2 Bucks Wooburn Bucks Wooburn I would guestimate that alll the ones that are listed as Bucks and not Buckinghamshire have been trancsribed together and are therfore in the same house (perhaps someone with census decoder could check this for you). The other two may be close relatives. Zoe

me again: freebmd - marriages between George Swadlings and females called margaret (whole country not just Bucks) Marriages Mar 1890 Bird  William    Wycombe  3a 642   BROADWAY  Margaret    Wycombe  3a 642   SWADLING  George William    Wycombe  3a 642 and therefore 1881 census:  James BROADWAY   Head   M   6  Ag Lab      Margaret BROADWAY   Wife   M   38          George BROADWAY   Son  12   Scholar      Margaret BROADWAY   Dau   10   Scholar      Jane BROADWAY   Dau   8   Scholar      Charles BROADWAY   Son 5  Scholar      Emily BROADWAY   Dau   4   Scholar     (birthplace for all listed as Hambleden) Dwelling   Pheasants, Hambleden, Buckingham, England

I found a Daisy Emily Swadling Mar 1899 3a/805 and Violet Jane Swadling Mar 1899 3a/805 both registered in Wycombe could Dailsy and Violet have been twins. This was on FreeBMD by the way. Gen

This is the best I can come up with for the Haydon's. Searching for a Sidney/Sydney born 1893 (according to the age on cwgc) on the 1901 I get the following:   Sydney Haydon 9 Bucks Chesham Bucks High Wycombe the other Haydons living in High Wycombe are Annie Haydon 32 Bucks Seergreen Bucks High Wycombe Housekeeper Dom Mather Haydon 4 Bucks Amersham Bucks High Wycombe   Philly Haydon 11 Bucks Chesham Bucks High Wycombe   I know this looks way off - but on my previous experience with the transcriptions I'd be willing to go with it being a really poor trascriber or a census enumerator with terrible writing and that Mather is Martha.

Using the decoder on 1901 Census, this is the family living in Wooburn George Swadling 44 born Grt Marlow, paper mill engine? Margaret 31 Grt Marlow Edith 6 Wooburn Daisy 2 Wooburn Violet 2 Wooburn P.S. All the Swadling 'head of households' in Bucks came from Marlow/Grt Marlow so are probably related somehow!!!

hello everyone thankyou so much for taking the time to do look ups for me on behalf of my neighbour ron. he will be so pleased with the info. hugggs susie

Sorry Susie, meant to get these on earlier but I had trouble getting back into GC, it's too busy. From 1881, this was the only young George in Bucks so I guess it must be him with his family George 48 Bricklayer Eliza 46 George H 20 bricklayer Linda 13 Clara 13 Arthur 11 Angelina 9 Agnes K 7 James C 4 All born Marlow, living at Colonels Meadow, Great Marlow

Also on 1901 are the rest of the family all in one house Marlow Urban district James 23 Labourer General Emily 22 James 2 Charles 4mths George 72 bricklayer Eliza 71 Arthur 33 Labourer bricklayer Annie 33 Albert 11 Daisy 9 George 1