Please can anyone help in trying to locate Thomas Luce Thomas (b abt 1806 Thornbury Glos)and family? I have them on the 1851, 1861 and 1871 censuses living in Lydney but then they seem to disappear apart from daughter Mary Ann (b 1845 Whitfield, Thornbury)who marries Thomas Bowen in Lydney 1874) I have Mary Ann and the Bowen family well documented.

The only possible clue is that Mary Ann gives her place of residence at time of marriage as Bury St Edmunds. If the rest of the family either went into the Workhouse or emigrated how can I start looking?

1871 Alastone
Thomas Thomas abt 1807 Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England Head Lydney, Gloucestershire
Harriett Thomas abt 1818 Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England Wife Lydney, Gloucestershire
Frank Thomas abt 1853 Lydney, Gloucestershire, England Son Lydney, Gloucestershire
Sopha Thomas abt 1860 Lydney, Gloucestershire, England Daughter Lydney, Gloucestershire
William Thomas abt 1856 Lydney, Gloucestershire, England Son Lydney, Gloucestershire

strong contender Primrose Hill / Alastone very similar areas ..

Name: Harriet Thomas
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1815
Year of Registration: 1876
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Age at Death: 61
District: Chepstow
County: Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire
Volume: 11a
Page: 7

Year: 1876
Month: Nov
Day: 6
Surname: THOMAS
Forenames: Harriet
Residence: Primrose Hill Lydney
Age_at_death: 61
Officiating_Minister: W[illia]m C.Wallace
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P209 IN 1/12
Page_No: 160
Parish_Chapel: Lydney

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Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster & Hereford Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>

Its possible that no one knew his accurate age ( at the Union) and this might be your Thomas Luce....

Year: 1880
Month: Mar
Day: 25
Surname: THOMAS
Forenames: Thomas
Residence: The Union Chepstow
Age_at_death: 70 y[ea]rs
Officiating_Minister: S.G.Edwards
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P209 IN 1/12
Page_No: 192
Parish_Chapel: Lydney

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Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster & Hereford Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>

Thank you so much slowhands. Don't like to think of my g grandfather ending his days in the Workhouse but at last I have completed that part of the family tree.