SIMMONDS/HOOK/BROWN Census, Ruardean Hill (General)

by m p griffiths , Tuesday, August 16, 2011, 09:43 (4850 days ago) @ Worsley

for starters (sometimes the surname has a D - other times not)

FOD records

Marriage at Cinderford St John - 11 February 1885

Emmanuel SIMMONS, age 30 Bachelor, Collier, Cinderford
father: Isaiah SIMMONS - Collier

married

Susan BROWN age 24, Spinster

father: William BROWN, Collier

by banns

mark of William SIMMONS and Emily ENNIS

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1911 Census on Ancestry - East Dean, District 4 (Page 316 of 481) - No. on Schedule - 158

SIMMONDS

Ruardean Hill, Near Drybrook, Glos

No. of rooms 4

Susan, Head, 48, Widow, married 26 years, total of children born alive : 11, Children still living : 6. Children who have died 5

Wiliam, Son, age 24, Single, Coal Miner Hewer, born Glos. East Dean Parish
Sydney, Son, age 14, Fire boy - born ditto
Alfred - Son, age 10 - School - born ditto

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FreeBDM: Death O/N/D Qtr 1906 Westbury S - Emmanual SIMMONDS age 52

FOD records, burial at Drybrook - 11 December 1906, address: Ruardean Hill

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1901 Census, Ruardean Hill

SIMMONDS

Emanual - 46 - Coal Miner Hewer, born - all born Ruardean Hill
Susan - 40 - House duties
William - 15 - Coal Carter below ground
Bessie - 10 - Scholar
Rhoda - 8 - ditto
Sydney - 4
Alfred - 6 months
Elizabeth HOOK - Grand mother - Widow - 93

X Baptist Church and S room (not sure why this is written down on the census)

a few doors away next door but one

RH or Baptist Chapel with William MATTHEWS? Coal Hewer and his family

1891 Census, Ruardean Hill, Glos East Dean

SYMMONDS

Pluckfreen? Cottage

Emmanuel - 37 Coal Miner - all born Ruardean Hill
Susan - 29
William - 5
Emily - 2
Elizabeth - 8 months
Elizabeth HOOK - Grand mother - Widow - 76

1881 Census, Ruardean Hill

Elizabeth HOOK - Widow - 74, No profession - born East Dean
Manuel SIMMONS - Grandson - 26 Collier
Eliza SIMMONS - Granddaughter - 20
Simeon SIMMONS, - Grandson - 11 -Scholar * FreeBDM Simeon SIMMONDS birth O/N/D Qtr 1870 Westbury S

FOD records

Baptism at Drybrook - 16 October 1870

Simeon SIMMONDS, parents Isaiah (Miner) and Eliza, Ruardean Hill

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1871 Census, Ruardean Hill

SIMMONS

Isaiah - 44
Eliza - 42
John - 14
Eliza - 9
Ada - 5
Lincoln (transcribed as, but Simeon) - 6 months

1861 Census, Ruardean Hill

SIMMONDS

Isaiah - 30 - Coal Miner, all born Forest of Dean
Eliza - 29
Emmanuel - 6
William - 4
Elizabeth - 2

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If you use the Advance Search for baptisms of Isaiah & Eliza (the surname has various spellings, the first children Charles SIMMONS is christened 8 October 1852 at Drybrook)

Marriage FreeBDM - Westbury S - O/N/D Qtr 1851 & Gloucestershire BDM - at Cinderford St John

Isaiah SIMMONDS + Eliza HOOK

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FOD records (just to confuse two different surnames - i.e. SIMMONDS/SIMMS

Marriage at Cinderford St John - 31 December 1851

Isaiah SIMMS - age 22 - Bachelor, East Dean
father: Thomas SIMMS - Collier

married

Eliza HOOK - age 21, Spinster - residence East Dean

father: William HOOK, Quarryman

by banns

witness: Philip & Ann PALMER

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1841 Census Dean Forest, Ruardean Hill

SYMONDS

Thos. 59 - Coal Miner, all born in County
Ann - 48
Isaiah - 13
Martha - 13
Ester - 2

needs more work, but FOD records have a baptism at Mitcheldean

Isaiah SYMONS - 26 August 1827, parents Thomas & Ann - Martha SYMONS christened the same day.