William John BLUNT 1858 Clearwell (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Sunday, July 17, 2011, 06:35 (4882 days ago) @ jhopkins

Hi John, great research there wrt your "possibility" (methinks you sell yerself short) of the Blunt's ship, interesting stuff indeed. The way they nonchalantly mention "four deaths" suggest that to be the norm !

The GB surname website doesn't recognise Ronde but does Rondel and it originates from Newport SW area. The surname Roud is an Asian "import" centred on Southampton so perhaps less likely.
http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/Map.aspx?name=RONDEL&year=1881&altyear=1998&a...

HOWEVER, that said searching FreeBMD does show numerous Rouds including likely hits for George Sr and the children. It also shows the following marriage:

Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Marriages Mar 1865 (>99%)
Rance Elizabeth Hartley W. 2c 239
Roud Geord Hartley W. 2c 239
Roud George Hartley W. 2c 239
(Hartley Wintney is on A30, Hampshire, midway between London and Southampton, and on the main railway line from London to Salisbury & Southampton)

Births Mar 1845
Roud George Romsey VII 173 mims
ROUD George Romsey VII 173 GrayCee
ROUD George Romsey VII 173 golfnut
(Romsey is just north of Southampton)

Births Dec 1844
RANCE Elizabeth Alverstoke VII 31 hoary
(Alverstoke is in southernmost Hampshire nr Gosport/Portsmouth)

Births Sep 1864
Roud George Alderbury 5a 165
(Alderbury is on Wilts/Hants border nr Salisbury, on the A30)

Births Dec 1866 (>99%)
Roud Mary A S. Stoneham 2c 61
(Stoneham is in southernmost Hampshire near Southampton)

Births Dec 1867 (>99%)
Roud Edwin Staines 3a 10
(There are NO Edmund Roud/Rond/Ronde on FreeBMD.
Staines is on the Thames and A30 midway twixt London & north Hants)

Births Dec 1869
ROUD Elizabeth. Cookham 2c 397 PhilStanger
(Cookham is also on the Thames a few miles upstream/West from Staines)

The family is clearly moving around a lot. I wonder if this is due to George Senior's ag-labourer work being hard-to-find despite Hampshire being an agricultural county, perhaps instigating their move to NZ in 1870 ?.