I'm researching my husband's Preest family tree and having difficulty tracing some records.
I'm trying to find a baptism for Alice Ann Reekes born approx 1852. She married John Preest 19.09.1870 at Tidenham.
I've found census entries for 1881 and 1891 when John and Alice Preest and their family were living in Bream but can't find anything for 1901.
I would be grateful for any information.
Heather Preest

MIGHT THIS BE THE ALICE ANN PREEST NEE REEKS YOUR LOOKING FOR

1901 Wales Census
about Annie Prust
Name: Annie Prust
Age in 1901: 42
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1859
Relation: Head
Gender: Female
Where born: Tidenham, Gloucestershire, England

Civil Parish: West Dean
Ecclesiastical parish: Parkend St Paul
County/Island: Monmouthshire
Country: Wales

HI I THINK I HAVE FOUND YOUR BAPTISM

Entry Number: 518
Year: 1853
Month: Feb
Day: 20
Parents Surname: REEKS
Child Forenames: Alice Anne
Father's Forenames: Edwin
Mother's Forenames: Margaret
Mother's Surname:
Place of Residence: The Chase Tidenham
Occupation: Labourer
Officiating Minister: A Brook Asst Curate
Event type: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register Reference: P33/1 IN 1/4
Page No: 65
Parish_Chapel: Tidenham
Soundex: R200

Darn it! I looked two years either side of 1852, but didn't think about using Soundex! That's probably why I couldn't find it on FreeBMD either.

1901 Wales Census RG13/4921; Folio: 55; Page: 5
Civil Parish of West Dean Ellwood

Annie Preest - Head - Wid - 42 - Glos; Tidenham
Earnest Preest - Son - 16 - Coal Miner - Glos; Tidenham
Florrie Preest - Daur - 8 - Glos; Tidenham

FreeBMD

Name: John Preest
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1847
Year of Registration: 1899
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
Age at Death: 52
District: Monmouth (1837-1939)
County: Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire
Volume: 11a
Page: 13

Soundex didn't work!

http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=7559#p7608

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Thank you very much for the information. I hadn't realised that John Preest had died relatively young. I was a bit confused by the fact that it was the 1901 "Wales" census, I'd been looking on the England one.
Heather

Thank you for the baptism and census information. I'd tried using soundex but it hadn't brought the entry up. I hadn't thought that the Forest of Dean would come under the "Wales" census.
Heather

Many thanks for the link, that takes me back another two generations.
Heather

I think Slowhands might bear me out that the 1901 census for West Dean is on the census for Wales and East Dean is on the census for England

yes the enumeration districts 8 - 21 of West Dean , have been "bound" to "monmouthshire" by the Census administration and Ancestry - note they are still part of Gloucestershire county.

Newland, districts 4 - 7 are in the Gloucestershire bundle :-)

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