Lost Lancashire Boud (Bowd) family

[Woodie]

I have found my grandmothers family in the 1901 census for Bolton Lancashire but cannot find the family before that year. I do not know whether the records were destroyed but it is very strange not to find any of them.
The name can also be spelled Bowd which is the case in the 1901 census. My grandmother was Mary Elizabeth Boud
Father Thomas Boud
Mother unknown
Older brother William Boud
Younger brother Thomas H Boud
Sister Margaret

They lived at 68 Kay Street
Bolton Lancashire

Can anyone assist in finding the family before 1901 and also my great grandmother.

[Sue Mackay]

In case anyone is trying to search on Ancestry, they are actually indexed as BOUD and the 1901 entry can be found at
RG13; Piece: 3618; Folio: 136; Page: 33

A preliminary search of 1891 hasn't revealed them yet but it may help searchers to know that Thomas senior (widower) was supposedly 44 in 1901 and born in Bradford, Yorkshire.

Of the children William (18) was born in Redditch, Thomas (16) in Denton, Lancs and Mary (9) and Margaret (6) in Bolton

[birdlip]

I think I may have them in 1881 from Family Search, mis transcribed as BOND, note that Thomas is b Bradford LANCS, Manchester area.Ties in with later birth of son Thomas in Denton.

RG11 3907/58 P16
31 Gorton Rd, Openshaw Lancs

Thomas BOND head m 24 Bradford Lancs Iron Plainer
Esther BOND wife m 21 Manchester Lancs Cotton Wever
Fred. Jas BOND son 1 Manchester Lancs
Elizabeth BARRETT mother in law 54 W Manchester Lancs Charwoman
Fred.Willm BARRETT Unmar 18 Manchester Lancs Iron Dresser

regards birdlip

[Jan1954]

... and Birdlip's discovery ties in with this:

Marriages Jun 1877
Barrett Esther Chorlton 8c 767
BOUD Thomas Chorlton 8c 767
Warburton Hannah Chorlton 8c 767
Wood George Chorlton 8c 767


However, if Thomas was a widower in 1901, then this can't be right, although it fits with her age:

Deaths Mar 1908
Boud Esther 48 Bolton 8c 222

[birdlip]

Aha...it WAS them. Checked for the marriage on freebmd;

Jun 1877 Thomas BOUD Chorlton 8c 767, and on the same page...ESTHER BARRETT!

[birdlip]

SNAP!

[Jan1954]

Great minds think alike!

However, I've just copped a varda at the 1901 census again and I'm pretty certain that Thomas is recorded as married - not widowed. But, I have yet to find any trace of Esther in 1901...

[Sue Mackay]

In 1891 there's an Esther BOUD, aged 31 born Manchester, living as a lodger and working as a cotton weaver in Manchester at
RG12; Piece: 3232; Folio 71; Page 4
but she is down as Single

[Jan1954]

Well, I don't know what was going on with this family, but Esther must have popped back from time to time to help produce more children

Have found Thomas & co (again recorded as Bond) in 1891 but without Esther:

RG 12/3121/page 30

47 Milk Street, Great Bolton, Lancashire

Thomas Bond, Head, M *, 34, Iron Plainer, b Bradford, Lancashire
Frederick J Bond, son, 11, Scholar, b Manchester
Wm Bond, son, 8, Scholar, b Manchester
Thos Bond, son, 7, Scholar - no place of birth recorded.

* = now, there's a squiggle over the M for married but I can't work out what it is...

[Geoffers]

1891
RG12/3121 f59 p30 sch.161
47, Milk Street, Gt Bolton
Thomas BOND, hd, mar, 34, iron plainer, bn Bradford
Frederick J Bond, son, 11, scholar, bn Manchester
Wm BOND, son, 8, scholar, bn Manchester
Thomas BOND, son, 7, scholar, bn Manchester

Beaten to it by Jan.

As far as Esther is conerned, there are several E.B females aged 31 +/- 2 years in Prestwich and Whittingham Asylums