Thanks for your reply mp. All very helpful.

Have had contact with a lady from genesreunited............I contacted her as she has a Giles Robins in her husbands family tree.

Her earliest entry is.

1, GILES ROBINS married a LOUISA. nothing more known.

GILES ROBINS and LOUISA had a son THOMAS - baptism 6th October 1833 at St. James Bristol.

THOMAS ROBINS married ELIZA SMITH (no date).

THOMAS ROBINS and ELIZA had a son HENRY THOMAS ROBINS baptised 14th December 1854

(no need to go further) I am interested in details up to 1833.

In the Newent records there is a Giles Robins parents Giles and Susanna......and there is also a Charles and a William with same parents.

I was wondering if the Giles above is the same as the one in Newent.....or is this a common name in these parts. I should think that the one above would be the Giles born in 1807 ....grandson of Giles and Susanna.
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