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Jayne -

Rootgatherer (as you know) started a thread specifically about Thomas Samuel Hodges for you, and there's a lot of information on it, including some that Rootgatherer has repeated here.

This is the link to it:
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1353801

It will save people researching more than once, needlessly, if you (and anyone else thinking of helping) reply only on that thread, and keep all the info together there.

(I realise you were only replying to Charles in the hope that he might be related.
I also realise that you first posted to Charles's thread before Rootgatherer started the other thread for you!)

Thank you Charles
I have only just started to search so no tree started yet I'm afraid. I'm finding it all quite confusing so taking it slowly & trying to digest any relevant information as it arrives. Hopefully I'll get quicker as time goes on :-D

Jayne

Hi Jayne,
I started this thread sometime ago and the Thomas Samuel Hodges you are looking for is not in my family tree, do you know details of his grand-parents and great grand-parents. I haven't explored all the branches of the Hodge(s) lines in my family tree, but William had 3 children; Edgar b.1869, Mary Ann b.1871 and Ellen b.1874. As far as I am aware Edgar didn't have a son called Thomas, Mary married a George Silver and Ellen I don't know if she married. So Thomas Samuel wouldn't be a direct descendent. As William himself was from Wales, I doubt that there is a connection.
Charlie Ross

Maybe?

George Edward Hodges
Registration Year: 1900
Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration district: Malling
Inferred County: Kent
Volume: 2a
Page: 1346

Records on Page:
Name
Charlotte Buss
Susan Ann Baldwin
George Edward Hodges
William Longhurst

1901

George Hodges
[Goerge Hodges]
Age: 25
Estimated birth year: abt 1876
Relation to Head: Head
Gender: Male
Spouse: Susan Hodges
Birth Place: Rochester, Kent, England
Civil Parish: Wouldham
Ecclesiastical parish: Woodham All Saints
Town: Wouldham
County/Island: Kent
Country: England
Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status:

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Registration district: Malling
Sub-registration district: Aylesford
ED, institution, or vessel: 14
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 743
Folio: 16
Page Number: 23
Household schedule number: 134
Household Members:
Name Age
George Hodges 25
Susan Hodges 22

1911

Thomas Hodges
Age in 1911: 7
Estimated birth year: abt 1904
Relation to Head: Son (Child)
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Wouldham, Kent
Civil Parish: Wouldham
County/Island: Kent
Country: England
Street address: 5 Castle Street, Wouldham, Rochester
Occupation: school
Registration district: Malling
Registration District Number: 48
Sub-registration district: Aylesford
ED, institution, or vessel: 14
Household schedule number: 136
Piece: 3976
Household Members:
Name Age
G Hodges 38, Cement Labourer
Susan Hodges 31
George Hodges 9
Edward Hodges 8
Thomas Hodges 7

Married 10 years, 3 children born and 3 living.

What information are you looking for please? Can you tell us what you already know?

Thomas Samuel Hodges
Birth Date: 12 Mar 1904
Date of Registration: Mar 1978
Age at Death: 74
Registration district: Maidstone
Inferred County: Kent
Volume: 16
Page: 1436


You may be best to start your own thread rather than adding to this old one, unless of course you know that your Thomas is a descendant of the William in the original post.

Hello
I'm searching for family trees for Thomas Samuel Hodges born 1904 in Wouldham (near Chatham though it comes under Malling in census)
Any information out there would very much appreciated
Thank you

Jayne

Hi Jan
The marriage to Elizabeth shows that he was a joiner in 1860, on the 1861 census he is recorded as a joiner. On Alice's birth certificate he was a Wheelwright, after that he is always a Shipwright or Ship's Carpenter. Around this time the dockyard in Pembroke was developing quite rapidly so maybe he started off making wheels but got more productive work in the shipyard and then moved to Chatham shipyard.
Regards
Charlie

Elizabeth was 19 on the 1861 census, William according to FindMyPast was 29 but the record isn't clear, I think it may be 24. His second child's mother was Mary Hodges (nee Boise) according to the birth certificate. I believe this is Mary Rebecca Boys from other records. No I haven't been able to find a record of this marriage.
Many thanks
Charlie

I see William was a ship's carpenter 1871. Does this distinctive occupation tie up with the William married to Elizabeth?
Jan

How old was Elizabeth in the 1861 census?

Have you found the marriage of William to his wife of the 1871 census,and what is his status if you have the marriage certificate?

Thanks

I am researching my GG Grandfather William Hodge b. 05/12/1838 in Angle, Pembroke. On the 1871 census he was living in Chatham Kent with his wife and 3 children. His wife and 2 younger children were born in Chatham but the elder girl Alice was born in Pembroke in 1861. I suspect as there were 8 years between Alice and the next child that his daughter was probably from a previous marriage in Pembroke. I have found that a William and Elizabeth Hodge (nee Price) had a daughter Alice Lavinia born in 1861 in Pembroke (the only Alice Hodge(s) born in this area around this time). What is strange is that I can't find any record of them on subsequent censuses nor can I find any record of the deaths of Elizabeth or Alice. I am wondering if this may be the same Alice that appears in Chatham with her father, but without finding out what happened to Elizabeth I can't be sure. (There was an Elizabeth Hodge who died in Pembroke in 1861 aged 93 and an Elizabeth Ann Hodges in 1865 aged 6 weeks).
Does anyone have any thoughts that may help to solve the puzzle?
Many thanks Charlie.