William Smith Champion - Dursley connections (Parish Records)

by m p griffiths , Wednesday, August 29, 2012, 19:40 (4257 days ago) @ unknown

FOD do have 'some' DURSLEY's records - but it's the other side of the River Severn - not Forest of Dean

Looking at the London baptism....

William SMITH CHAMPION and wife Marion's son William Henry - was christened 25 May 1859 at Paddington, - they were living at Park Place, and William was a Commission Agent.

William Smith CHAMPION is on the 1851 census, in London with parents Henry and Elizabeth CHAMPION - + other family members.

Looking at the 1861 Census - Henry CHAMPION is from Dursley, Gloucestershire

CHAMPION

Henry - 49 - Sadler and Harness maker (master employing 17 men) born Glos. Dursley
Elizabeth - 50 - born Glos. Marshfield
Elizabeth - 24 - born Middlsex Marlebone
Mary - 22 - ditto
Fanny - 10 - born Paddington
+ lots of visitors and servants