Hi Geoff, have tried the family search site, no luck,an email I had from the Bristol records office said they had found a bapt of Thomas southwood to a Thomas and love southwood 1797 st Mary redcliff, bristol, and suggested to me using a forum like the forest of Dean just may turn up someone who had the Bristol marriages, baptisms, and death records by chance or know something,

Thomas southard moved to whitchurch and with his wife and family, he had 2 children with them when they moved to doward hill and then had 4 more, but his wife Mary Ann died 1843, so he moved away leaving just a son Thomas behind ( my great great grandfather),

Thomas and married in Bristol 1828 to a widow mary Ann altree ( formerly pain ),

1851 thomas is shown as a widower,born in Bristol ?? a shoemaker as he was in 1841,

1861 he is back in Bristol, a widower and a shoemaker,shown as born in Bristol ??

Can't find him after that 1871 census or any death record ???,

Regards anybody that could possibly help