Theophilus JAMES moves to Bristol ? (General)

by pojames , Thursday, July 25, 2013, 18:12 (4133 days ago) @ slowhands

Wouldn't have thought it possible to find another Theophilus James, but thia is not Theophilus the son of 'my' Thomas, who is down as '10' (i.e somewhere between 5 and 15) in 1841; he's the only one I've come across so far. Might have been an uncle, I suppose; and interesting that he's working as a gardener, which is what Thomas's son Benjamin ended up doing.

Thanks, anyway - shall bear him in mind !

PS 'My' Benjamin leaves FOD at some point after 1851, (by which time his bro Theophilus has already left home) and by 1861 has finished up down in Tidenham - BUT having had two children born in Westbury-on-Trym in the intervening years.
W-on-Trym seems to be very close indeed to Stapleton, and it would make perfect sense for him to have gone there to learn his gardening from an older member of the family (Uncle Theophilus ?? His brother Theophilus was only 5 years older than him in 'census ages'), before coming back to FOD.
Hypothesis upon hypothesis, but there is a need to explain Benjamin's two Westbury-on-Trym children (aged 1 and 5 in 1861, by which time he's in Tidenham.)