We have Phelps, Herbert, Brain and other immigrants from the Forest of Dean in my husbands tree. The mainly arrived in Castelford area to work in the mines.
If you contact me off line we could swap notes to see if we are actually connected.
Regards Jean Herbert

this may take you back 1 generation

Year: 1800
Month: Sep
Day: 14
Parents_Surname: KEAR
Child_Forenames: Enoch
Fathers_Forenames: Enoch
Mothers_Forenames: Hanah[sic]
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Forest
Occupation:
Officiating_Minister:
Event: Baptism
Memoranda: son of
Notes: Taken in to Newland
Register_Reference: P57 IN 1/1
Page_Number: 156
Parish_Chapel: Bream

Year: 1796
Month: Nov
Day: 29
Grooms_Surname: KEAR
Grooms_Forenames: Enoch
Grooms_Age:
Groom_Condition:
Grooms_Occupation:
Grooms_Residence: Newland
Grooms_Fathers_Surname:
Grooms_Fathers_Forenames:
Grooms_Fathers_Occupation:
Brides_Surname: HAWKINS
Brides_Forenames: Hannah
Brides_Age:
Brides_Condition:
Brides_Occupation:
Brides_Residence: Newland
Brides_Fathers_Surname:
Brides_Fathers_Forenames:
Brides_Fathers_Occupation:
Licence_or_Banns: Banns
Date_of_Banns:
Signature_or_Mark: Both sign
Witness_1: Isaac Kear
Witness_2: Thos Bond
Other_Witnesses:
Officiating_Minister: Thos Thomas curate
Event: Marriage
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P227 IN 1/9
Page_Number: 873
Parish_Chapel: Newland

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

Elijah Kear was the brother of my great-great-great grandmother Edith, so you have distant Kear relatives here in Canada :)

Cheers,

Bill Smith

email: billcs777@hotmail.com

Hi

My daughters are descended directley from Elijah kear and their greatgrandmothers' family is from Castleford.
Their Great Greatgrandmother was fanny Kear who married Albert Jenkins,she was the youngest child of Elijah Kear.

Pete

My GGGrandmother was Charlotte Kear b.1825 who was sister to Elijah b. 1837. I have a tree on Genes Reunited if you're registered there.
Regards
Anne