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Are you a descendent of a TOVEY MINER from BEDMINSTER? I'd like to hear from you! I am trying to put them all together.

Yes . My Great Grandfather was Phillip Tovey of West Street - married to Elizabeth

Paul This post is 10 years old. You need to click onto Susan's name because she wont see this

Okay I've done that ... It was late and I was flagging about flaggingly . Almost dozing actually ... :))

well while we're here :-)



Philip Tovey

England and Wales Census, 1881

Name: Philip Tovey
Age (Original): 59
Gender: Male
Birth Year: 1822
Birthplace: Bedminster Bristol, Somerset, England
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Coal Miner
Address: 21 West St
Event Place: Bedminster, Somersetshire, England
Record Type: Household
Affiliate Publication Number: RG11
Piece/Folio: 2455 / 88
Page Number: 5

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Philip Tovey Head M 59 Bedminster Bristol, Somerset, England
Elizabeth Tovey Wife F 32 Wells, Somerset, England
Albert Tovey Son M 18 Bedminster Bristol, Somerset, England
Louisa Tovey Daughter F 12 Bedminster Bristol, Somerset, England
Ellen Tovey Daughter F 8 Bedminster Bristol, Somerset, England
Philip Tovey Son M 10 Bedminster Bristol, Somerset, England
Jane Tovey Daughter F 4 Bedminster Bristol, Somerset, England
Emily Tovey Daughter F 1 Bedminster Bristol, Somerset, England

GS Film number: 1341591

Name: Philip Tovey
Spouse's Name: Elizabeth Walker
Event Date: 30 Mar 1845
Event Place: St. Philip And Jacob, Bristol, Gloucester, England
Father's Name: John Tovey
Spouse's Father's Name: Thomas Grimslade
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Marital Status: Widowed

Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M01653-9 , System Origin: England-EASy , GS Film number: 1595985 , Reference ID: p144 cn288

Name: Phillip Tovey
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1841
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Birthplace: Somerset
Schedule Type: Household
Registration District: Bedminster
Sub-District: Bedminster
Parish: Bedminster
County: Gloucestershire

Philip Tovey

England and Wales, Marriage Registration Index

Name: Philip Tovey
Event Type: Marriage
Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar
Registration Year: 1845
Registration District: Bristol
County: Gloucestershire
Event Place: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Volume: 11
Page: 169
Line Number: 68


Philip Tovey probably married one of the following people

Name: Elizabeth Saunders

Name: Elizabeth Walker

Well Ann that's a turn up ...

Mind you if that's an accurate copy of the 1881 information it appears wrong on the ages of Phillip and Elizabeth .

His age at 1911 (census) was 68 and he had been married 38 years to Elizabeth (of Welles Somerset birth) he was then living at 4 Brighton Terrace .

Elizabeth was 64 .

the 1891 Census pitches him though as a "Cola Miner" at 22 West Street with similar kids and his age is 48 and Elizabeth's age is 42 .

From family notes of passed down oral testimony taken in the 1990's :

"Phillip Tovey married (twice) and from his 1st marriage
the children were :
Rose , Albert , Louise.
From his 2nd marriage (wife Elizabeth) his children were :
Phillip , Sydney, Frederick, Emily, Charles, “Ginny”, Helen."

That 1881 Census ref is him okay (apart from the ages) and Emily in the 1881 Census I see is "1" and in the 1911 Census she is 31.. She even signed off the Census form . She was single...

Sorry error on my part I meant to write "Coal Miner" not "Cola Miner"

Jeese I have pop on the mind .. :))

I've screen captured all the above for future reference ... And , must thank you for your kind efforts Ann Of Cardiff ..

Paul