GENERATION 1:
Surname: BODENHAM
For Antecedent(s) For Descendant(s)
see Page Ref. No(s) listed below:-
Parent(s):- Children:-
Daniel BODENHAM (P. R. No. BOD 2/1)
b. 22 Nov. 1831 at Littledean, Glos.
d. 18 Jun. 1909 at Cinderford, Glos. (b. Baptist Chapel)
Caroline BODENHAM (P. R. No. JON 2/1)
b. 20 Apr. 1834 at Margam, Aberavon, South Wales.
d. ?
Husband’s Name: William BODENHAM William BODENHAM (P. R. No. BOD 2/2)
(His P. R. No: BOD -1/1) b. c. 1836
b. Dec. 1807 d. 1902(4) at Pontypool, aged 66
at ‘Gloucester’ (Ch. 20 Dec. 1807 at Cardiff, St. John).
d. 1891(4) (Baby Girl) BODENHAM
at Parkend, Lydney b. 10 Aug. 1838
married 3 Jan. 1831. d. 1838 (prior to being named)
at Abenhall, Gloucestershire
Wife 1 Harriett CULL
(Her P. R. No: CUL -1/1)
b. c 1813
at ?
d. ?
at ?
and married 1851
at Lydney, Glos.
Wife 2 Elizabeth DAVIS Ann BODENHAM
(Her P. R. No: ?) b. 1855
b. ? d.
at ?
d. ?
at ?
NOTES:-
William Bodenham senior married Harriett Cull at Abenhall, and they were a family unit in 1841. By 1851, Daniel Bodenham is living with his mother and new stepfather (but calling him ‘Uncle’) George MORSE in Cinderford. Subsequently William also remarried, as shown above. Divorce was impossible for the ordinary man, so I believe both William and Harriett committed bigamy. William BODENHAM junior, the only brother of Daniel, must be the one implicated in the letter of Edith HAAS to me, behind his Page Ref. No. BOD 2/ 2. (c.f.) He supposedly got a girl pregnant.
At the same time that Daniel was living with his mother (1851), both his father William and his brother William were living in/near Lydney, but not at the same address. Both were associated with the iron working there, and, by 1881, William junior is still in the iron industry but living in South Wales. William senior subsequently becomes an ‘engine driver’, and is shown living with his second (bigamous?) wife Elizabeth near Parkend, Lydney, Glos.
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