GENERATION 2:
Surname: BODENHAM
For Antecedent(s) For Descendant(s)
see Page Ref. No(s) listed below:-
Parent(s):- Children:-
Elizabeth Jane BODENHAM (P.R.No. BRO 3/01)
b. 1854 at Flaxley, Glos.
d. c.1943, Braceville, Illinois, U.S.A.
Oliver Henry BODENHAM (P.R.No. BOD 3/01)
b. 1855 at Flaxley (=Cinderford)
d. 10 July 1938 (Bur at Cinderford Baptist Ch.)
Husband’s Name: Daniel BODENHAM William Alfred BODENHAM
(His P. R. No: BOD 1/1) b. 1857 at Flaxley
b. 22 Nov. 1831 d. c.1888 in a mine disaster.
at Littledean or Cinderford, Glos
d. 18 June 1909 Martin Tom BODENHAM (P. R. No. BOD 3/02)
at Dowdeswell, Glos. (bur. Cinderford Baptist Chapel) b. 1859 at Flaxley
married 31 July 1853 d. 21 Oct.1943
at Woodside Chapel, Littledean
Enoch BODENHAM (P. R. No. BOD 3/03)
b. 1862 at Woodside, East Dean, Glos (=Cinderford)
d. 1949 at Fareham, Dorset
Wife 1 Hannah HARRIS
(Her P. R. No: HAR 1/1) Adeline BODENHAM (P. R. No. COO 3/01)
b.1831 b. 1864 at Flaxley
at East Dean d. 4 Mar. 1909 (mental hospital), bur. Dowdeswell. Glos.
d. 31 Dec. 1898
at Cinderford (bur. Baptist Ch) Frederick James BODENHAM (P.R.No. BOD 3/04)
b. 1867 at Flaxley
d. 16 Oct. 1953 at Slough
Samuel BODENHAM (P.R.No. BOD 3/06)
b.1869 at Flaxley
d. 1954(1) at Newport
Sydney BODENHAM (P.R.No. BOD 3/05)
b.1872 at Flaxley
d. 1952 at Merthyr Tydfil
Edith BODENHAM (P.R.No. COO 3/01)
b.1875 at Flaxley
d. Oct. 1964 at Cheltenham, aged 89.
NOTES
Daniel BODENHAM, a coal miner in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, married Hannah HARRIS, a devout Baptist. They are buried at Cinderford Baptist Chapel, which at one time recently was destined to become a car park, but that is unknown. Photographs of the graves are available.
Flaxley is the name of a nearby old Parish, and the actual name ‘Cinderford’ is a more recent phenomenon due to its rise in industrial importance. In fact, the Forest of Dean is an extra-parochial area which had a reputation for rather lawless behaviour, well described in the biography written by Winifred Foley in her book called ‘A Child in the Forest’, and is well worth reading.
After Daniel’s parents split up, both remarried as ‘bachelor’ and ‘spinster’, i.e. almost certainly bigamously. In the 1851 census, Daniel is living with his mother Harriett and stepfather George MORSE, but calling him ‘uncle’. His father William is a lodger in Lydney, and the other son ‘William’ is also a lodger living near him. The 1901 census shows Daniel then living with his daughter Adeline near Cheltenham after his own wife Hannah had died. Mostly his sons were impecunious miners, so Adeline, wife of a police officer, and not too far distant, was best placed to look after him. (Although Adeline herself was of questionable mental health herself, and died almost simultaneously with her father.
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