Census Night

[33South (Chris)]

Just though I'd share, you cant believe how excited I am about this.

A while back I started trying build my family tree but gave up as there was conflicting information and missing links (explains a lot).
Anyway a few weeks ago my daughter asked for names of my Grandparents so she could add them to her family tree. So I again started searching through various geneology search engines for names and places I thought were correct with no luck.
Then by mistake I hit search after only entering my grandmothers maiden name which obiously returned thousands of matches...
Browsing the pages at random I saw two unusual names together, that in themselves meant nothing to me other than some similarity to one name I had, these were Sitrenus & Setrenus Huxley. I had always (incorrectly) thought my great-grandfathers name was Sylvenus but on my GrandFathers side. After clicking a few links on these names bang there it was on one page.....

At Great-Grandfathers the whole family together listed on the form for Census night 1901, 25 years before my father was born.

Union Huxley (51) My Great-Grandmother
Setrenus Huxley (50) My Great-Grandfather
William Wakeman (20) My Grandfather
Amy Wakeman (20) My Grandmother ,daughter of Setrenus and Union, wife of William,
John Wakeman (1) Son of William and Amy, my Uncle Jack
Harry Huxley (9) Son of Setrenus and Union
Jane Huxley (19) Daughter of Setrenus and Union
John Huxley (21) Son of Setrenus and Union
Sitrenus Huxley (27) Son of Setrenus and Union
Kate Huxley (27) Wife of Sitrenus
Harry Huxley (2) Son of Kate and Sitrenus
Silvenus Huxley (4) Son of Kate and Sitrenus
Joseph Huxley (44) Brother of Setrenus

Ive also attached a blank copy of a 1891 census form, same as used in 1901. Bit simpler than this years, just have a look at column 16.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

cHRIS,

iDIoT FoR mE ThaNKS,

[Connie M]

I was looking for the meaning of the name Setrenus and your web information came up.
Setrenus is my Great Great Grand Father on my Fathers side, my Fathers Mother is Union (Una) Huxley, she is the daughter of Jane Huxley & James Tuckwell, they lived in East Hillingdon Uxbridge. i belive the huxley side of the family are Gypsy.
Who knows we may be related

My Perants migrated to Australia in 1960 from England.
I have some more info and i belive we may have the same info from the Ancestry.com web site.

[33South (Chris)]

Originally Posted by Connie M

Who knows we may be related

Based on what you say I am sure of that, there's too may similarities not to be. I have pages and pages of documents.

Jane Huxley would almost certainly be the sister of my grandmother.

If you would like to follow up with further discussion via email send me your email address via a PM.


Chris.

[Leigh (Yvonne)]

Hi, i was just searching my family tree and your post came up on this forum. My great Grandmother was Jane Huxley and her Mother was Union North and her father was Setrenus Huxley. My dad always use to say Jane was a Spanish Romany Gypsy. Union and Setrenus lived in Chiswick or Fulham (UK) i believe and Jane moved to Hillingdon when she married James (Bobba) Tuckwell.

Do you think we could be distantly related?

I would love to know more about Janes family but it seems to come to a full stop, probably because they were Gypsy's and they hard to trace.


Yvonne.

[Benno18 (Ben)]

wow!!!!!!
a small world is occuring!!!!!!

and thanks for the idea of searching