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This could well be Thomas (William's son) on 1841 and look who he is with !!!


1841 England, Wales & Scotland Census
Newton, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England

First name(s) Last name Sex Age Birth year Birth place
John Pepper Male 40 1801 Lincolnshire, England
Millicent Pepper Female 40 1801 Lincolnshire, England
Thomas Watson Male 10 1831 Lincolnshire, England
Ann Rook Female 15 1826 Lincolnshire, England
Thomas Baker Male 20 1821 Lincolnshire, England *******
John Jenkins Male 18 1823 Lincolnshire, England ******* ?? 'Jeakins' ??

They are both Ag. Labourers on a farm.

Dea x

It is indeed, I can't find any trace of Thomas on the 1851 census, he should be somewhere. As Newton is a small parish I literally went through the pages for 1851, manually so to speak, to see if he was there, given that if the marriage to Sarah Jenkins is to Sarah Jeakins he might not have moved. There are a load of trees on ancestry that have Thomas becoming William Thomas in the US, but none of them have any real substance in making that leap and the wife or William Thomas is someone else.

I believe I have found an 1860 US census entry for Thomas & Sarah in Marion County Ohio, which is next to Hardin, where John Jeakins settled. Their ages are about right, birthplace shown as Lincolnshire. They have 1 yr old son Thomas. This also fits with the naturalization record found, also Ohio.

Now this does look promising Julie. Just pasting that 1860 census.

Us Census 1860

Last name Gender Age First name(s) Birth year Birth place
Baker Male 37 Thos 1823 Lincolnshire
Baker Female 28 Sarah 1832 Lincolnshire
Baker Male 1 Thomas 1859 Ohio
Carnon Male 27 John 1833 Lincolnshire
Miller Male 11 Francis 1849 Ohio

At the risk of looking stupid, I don't know how to paste census and other record detail onto post, can anyone please enlighten me? I can then save others the trouble of doing it.

Are you on a desk top or something else as the methods differ?

Are you on windows 10 or an older version as again, the methods can differ?

Basic copying can be done by holding down the left button on your mouse and scrolling over the text you want in order to hightlight it.

Once you have your highlighted section, right click on it and a drop down box will give you the option to copy - click on 'copy' and then move to where you want to paste it.

Once there, right click the mouse again and it should give you the option to paste - click it and the text should appear.

Try it and see if it works for you - if not there are lots of other ways............

Dea x

Can someone take a look at the image on this page please?


https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:27R4-BB9

It relates to this Thomas going across to America - he seems to be travelling with a 'Mrs' Baker aged 25 so it could well be Sarah.

Interestingly there are sons people just below them who appear to be called 'Jenkins' ??? - Looks like a George Jenkins, a Mrs Jenkins and a Charles Jenkins aged 8. - They could 'possibly' be Jeakins ????


Name: Thomas Baker
Event Type: Immigration
Event Date: 1855
Event Place: New York City, New York, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 30
Birth Year (Estimated): 1825
Birthplace: United States ************* ????????
Ship Name: Rappahannock

Affiliate Publication Number: M237
Affiliate Publication Title: Passenger Lists of vessels arriving at New York, 1820-1897
Affiliate Film Number: 152
GS Film Number: 000175508
Digital Folder Number: 004678807
Image Number: 00492


Dea x

EDIT ********* - OOOps - just noticed it says he was born in USA ??

Dea x :-(

Thanks Dea, I'm using both Windows 10 on a laptop & tend to use the mouse pad rather than a plugged in mouse. I hadn't thought you could just copy and paste from the transcription screen, but thinking about it now I don't know why - I suppose I was looking for it to be more complicated.

I do use an android tablet as well, but tend to go to my laptop if I'm wanting to do copying, pasting or that sort of thing.

Will give it a go when the opportunity arises.

Dea, I've looked at the image on familysearch. The ages for Thomas and Sarah are a little out, there was a 9 or 10 year age gap between them, but I've seen other examples of ages being out on passenger lists. The travel in May 1855 is just after the possible marriage for Thomas & Sarah in April.

The Jenkins names don't immediately tie in, Mrs born 1799 does would fit with Elizabeth Jeakins the mother, but George doesn't fit and Charles isn't the Charles I've referred to, he's too young. The inference is that George and Mrs Jenkins are a couple, I wonder if her age is wrong on the list and should perhaps be 36 -it would make more sense. I don't have John Jeakins snrs parentage yet, so can't judge whether George might be a brother. The John Jeakins , wife & his older children came to Lincolnshire from Bedfordshire