Here is James with his parents in 1861

1861 Census, Lydney
Albert Street

EDWARDS

William - 36 Ag Lab. born Lydney
Susan - 36 - born Lydney
James - 11 - born West Dean
Eliza - 9 - born Bream
William - 7 - born Bream
Julia - 4 - born Lydney
Richard J - 2 born Lydney

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'Now there is a statement of William and Suzanna (nee DOWNS). However, tracing the baptisms in the parish records, I believe this is a different EDWARDS family'

Gloucestershirebdm

http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/bmd/

baptism of EDWARDS - mother's maiden name DOWNS

include

Charlotte - 1846 - FOD, Chepstow, Lydney **
Eliza - 1852 - FOD, Westbury on Severn, Newnham
Ellen Jane - 1861 - FOD, Chepstow, Lydney
Fanny - 1864 - ditto
Juliana - 1856 - ditto
Mary Ann - 1844 - ditto
Richard John - 1859 - ditto
William - 1854 - FOD, Monmouth, Coleford

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1851 Census, Glos. North Hamlet
District County Jail

William EDWARDS - 26, Carter, born Lydney, Glos.

1851 Census, Glos Lydney

address:

'Dark Hole" (next house Bream Woodside)

EDWARDS

Susan - 26 - born Lydney
Mary A - 7 (Glos BDM, mother's maiden name DOWNS, 1844, Chepstow, Lydney - see above)
Charlotte - 4 (Glos BDM, mother's maiden name DOWNS - 1846, Chepstow, Lydney - see above)
James - 2 - born West Dean - no trace of baptism on records, was William in Jail then? or working outside the Forest)

but William could have been in Jail - there is a James EDWARDS, imprisoned for Larceny 10 April 1849, Gloucestershire - but given 4 months! - there are a number of James EDWARDS, Gloucestershire, on Ancestry, Criminal records around that time.

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