Jane MERRETT born c1825 Gloucestershire

[mjkisxo]

I did have the wrong info on Jane's parentys it was not William there is anotherpost with correct father Thomas Merrett started 9/9/20 thanks all and I apologise for incorrect names
karen

[Lesley Robertson]

Have you tried the 1841 census? I know it’s not as useful as the 1851 (which would give you her birth parish if you can find her under her married name), but if you’re lucky she might have lived with her parents before the marriage.

BTW I have merged the MERRET thread with this one as we do not allow more than one thread about the same search - it prevents people from having spent time posting help on one thread and then finding someone else has done the same thing on another thread.

[Lesley Robertson]

Pam, I think we're victims of cross-modding....

[Pam Downes]

Pam, I think we're victims of cross-modding....

Yes, but fortunately it seems to have worked out ok. Unlike my efforts the other week, of which the least said the better.

Pam

[Pam Downes]

Jane married Charles William Challen, and in thread about the Challen family is this post, re the 1851 census.

This is the 1851 census, family residing in Church Street, Fulham:

Charles W Challen / Head / abt 1817 / Omnibus Labourer / West Ham, Essex, England
Jane Challen / Wife / abt 1826 / Dress maker / Dursley, Gloucestershire, England
Peter R Challen / Son / abt 1848 / St Marylebone, Middlesex, England
Harriet E Challen / Daughter / abt 1850 / Fulham

I'll see what else I can find.

https://www.british-genealogy.com/fo...hlight=challen

Pam

[helachau]

Baptism (Ancestry - image)
28 Aug 1824, Jane, dau of Thomas and Elizabeth Merrett, abode Dursley, father's occpn. Stonemason

Cheltenham Chronicle, 4 Aug 1836
Gloucester City Sessions - Ann Wheeler, age 26, was found stealing from the person of T Merrett, stonemason ...
Gloucester Chronicle, 30 July, 1836
Ann Wheeler, 26, charged with stealing from the person of Thomas Merrett ...

[helachau]

Baptisms (Ancestry - image)
Parents Thomas and Elizabeth Merrett, abode Dursley, father's occpn. Mason

James, bap 9 Dec 1815; Emma, bap 27 Jul 1820; Eliza, bap 14 Apr 1822

[mjkisxo]

thank you for merging, I did look for a way to delete the first post with wrong father but couldn't, once again I apologise.

the above information looks very promising and I will look into this today thank you helachau

Karen

[mjkisxo]

thanks Pam for some reason I had not read that Census properly to see that she was born in Dursley! They came to Australia not long after which I have all the information on the Challen family, it is just Jane Merrett's family in Gloucestershire I am wanting to find info on . Is there anyway in which to remove the MANING name from the original thread so it just reads MERRET? tia.

[Pam Downes]

thanks Pam for some reason I had not read that Census properly to see that she was born in Dursley!

Rule number 101 - always read the small print! Unless you carefully absorb every single word in a document it is very easy to overlook a vital fact. (Says one who has been there and done it several times, but who still gets caught out.)

They came to Australia not long after which I have all the information on the Challen family, it is just Jane Merrett's family in Gloucestershire I am wanting to find info on . Is there anyway in which to remove the MANING name from the original thread so it just reads MERRET? tia.

Title amended. I can amend it more precisely to 1824 and Dursley if you wish, but sometimes it's better to keep things fairly general.

Pam