Thomas SYMONDS born Eastnor abt 1807-1811 ?? (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Saturday, August 10, 2013, 22:03 (4117 days ago) @ birks

This is probably an impossible question to answer from just viewing the records, rather need to have a proven line from someone else's research eg tree in family Bible. I say this as we're unsure as to his birthyear, plus it's such a common name.

Re the birthyear, adult ages for the 1841 Census were supposedly rounded down to the nearest 5, ie someone claiming to be aged 39 might be quoted as 35 on the Census. In other words altho the Census quotes Thomas as aged 30, in theory he might have been 32 or even 34, so born as early as 1807 !
And of course this is only what he believed, or he wanted the census official to believe, so ???.

The 1851 Census supposedly recorded exact ages, in this case thanks to MPG,
"Tomas Simmons 43 -born Eastoner ? Hereford" (as transcribed) Eastnor?
His 1841 Dymock Census return states born "out of county", Dymock's always been in Glos, so assume Herefordshire is correct

So maybe his birthyear was 1807... ??.

Either way, searching this site for all Baptisms of Thomas Symonds(Soundex ticked) for year 1809 +/- 2 gives FOUR possibles, and unfortunately all are within the "correct" area !

1807 SYMMONDS Thomas Baptism Redmarley
1810 SIMMONDS Thomas Baptism Ross on Wye
1808 SYMONDS Thomas Baptism Ledbury
1811 SYMONDS Thomas Baptism Ledbury

One guide is to lookup the parents on some of the above, and trace their later whereabouts thro' the Censuses after the above Baptisms. This should help narrow things down, their Thomas' may have died young or moved away etc ?. Hopefully the parents of your Thomas will stay nearby to him (although of course in general people, particularly the elderly, didnt move far then, so ??).

If you don't know an area, the Genuki site is great for more local info,
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HEF/Eastnor/index.html

So sadly for us Eastnor is only a couple of miles from Ledbury and Redmarley !!, so no help wrt the selection on those grounds...

Another excellent free website is the LDS aka FamilySearch site, here's its findings for Baptisms in Herefordshire 1800-1810, so a few more on top of the above.
https://familysearch.org/search/record/results#count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3Athomas...

Sorry without more information thats as near as I can guess

???