Henry Kingston

[anne fraser]

I have been trying to sort out my Kingston family for this week's challenge. They were coalminers and seem to have moved back and forth to Wales to find work.

I have Henry born 1823 in Midsummernorton Somerset. In 1843 he marries Mary Ann Otridge in Midsummer Norton. I have the family in 1851 in Midsummer Norton

The 1851 Census - Paulton Parish - 1 - Res: Pithay - Piece 1939 - Fol 110 - Pg 2 - Sch 9

HenryKingstonHeadM27Coal MinerMSN
Mary AnnKingstonWifeM25Coalford
WilliamKingstonSon 7ScholarMSN
JamesKingstonSon 5ScholarAbasucken, Wales
Alexander KingstonSon 2Stoke
RhodaKingstonDaur 3mPaulton

The 1861 Census - Paulton Parish - 1 - Res: Winterfield - Piece 1679 - Folio 153 - Page 33 - Sch 181

HenryKingstonHeadM38Coal MinerMSN
Mary AKingstonWifeM37Colford
WilliamKingstonSonU16Coal MinerMSN
JamesKingstonSonU15Coal MinerMSN
Alexander KingstonSon12Coal MinerPaulton
ElizabethKingstonDaur 9Paulton
AnnKingstonDaur 5mosPaulton

and 1861




I can't find any trace of the family after that.

[Merry]

Alexander Kingston b Paulton is in Risca Monmouthshire in 1901 and this looks like his death:

Name: Alexander Kingston
Death Registration Month/Year: 1921
Age at death (estimated): 73
Registration district: Newport (Mon.)
Inferred County: Monmouthshire
Volume: 11a
Page: 262

[anne fraser]

Thanks for that. I thinkk Rhoda died as a baby but I notice on the 1901 census he has a daughter Rhoda which looks promising.