Benjamin Bridgwater

[Bella]

NAME: Benjamin Bridgwater known as Ben
BORN: WOR Old Swinford 1838
PARENTS: Elijah Bridgwater and Mary Parkes
BAPTISM: WOR Old Swinford 1838
MARRIED: Sarah Boot DBY Chesterfield 15 December 1861
OCCUPATION: Spade and Shovel Maker
LIVED: 1841 WOR Stourbridge
1851 Not found
1861 DBY Staveley
1871 YKS Woodhouse Mill p. Handsworth
1881 DBY Hackenthorpe p. Beighton
1891 YKS Handsworth
1901 YKS Handsworth

[Sue from Southend]

This looks like them in 1851,
Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 2035; Folio: 149; Page: 14; GSU roll: 87442

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[Sue from Southend]

This could be his death reg - Benjamin Bridgwater, Sheffield 1906, Q1, vol 9c, p331

[Bella]

Thank you Sue, that is indeed my man on the census and how I came to miss him I shall never know. Nor shall I ever know what prompted him to move from Worcestershire to Derbyshire - probably for work I know, but why there ?

Love the cat - is he yours ?