Can you narrow the search a little with some information about the family? Approximate dates and first names might attract someone who is researching this family to reply.
Taking a stab in the dark I see that on the 1881 census there is a widow, Maria BOARD and her 3 children living at Berrow. Looking at our Berrow Baptisms online I can see that the BOARD family are mentioned as early as 1705 - and they are in Brean from 1735.
There are deeds mentioning a Ferdinando BOARD of Berrow included in the online catalogue of the Somerset Heritage Centre
There appears to be an extensive family tree of the BOARD family on this site which starts in the early 1700s in Burnham but as with any piece of research you would be wise to check its contents against original records before accepting the information.
Thank you Pat,
I am Researching the family of Joseph Board 1790-1866. He Married Ann Board? 1791-1860 at Lympsham Somerset in 1813. I have checked the family tree link and I not found a connection to my Family.
Thank you Grant, that makes it a little easier. Looking through the marriages in Lympsham on our site I can see that this was not the first time that a BOARD from Berrow had married a BOARD from Lympsham. There was a marriage in 1789 of a Robert BOARD from Berrow to a Jemima BOARD from Lynpsham.
Going back to Joseph & Ann - the only christening I can see for an Ann BOARD of about the right age is in Lympsham on the 13th Dec 1789 and she is charmingly entered as the bastard daughter of "Shardy" BOARD. That's a name I haven't come across before!
However there is a burial of a Shardy BOARD in Mark on the 24th May 1817, aged 50 which would suggest that she was born in about 1767. On the 15th May 1764 a daughter was christened to Ferdinando & Betty BOARD in Burnham on Sea - all the transcriptions I can see have her name as unreadable but ending with a "y". [request to Graham - when you have a moment could you look at the fiche for Burnham to see if that entry might be "Shardy"? - Thanks]
A Joseph BOARD appears in the Berrow transcription on this site christened on the 16th Mary 1790 as the son of Robert & ------? BOARD. Could this be the couple I mentioned at the beginning who were married in Lympsham in 1789 - Robert BOARD and Jemima BOARD?
Many Thanks Pat, You have been most helpful. I have Shardy Board in the family tree,Your information about her has explained the birth of Ann Board nicely.Thankyou also for confirming the details of Joseph and Ann.
Grant.
The Maria Board listed in the 1881 census in Berrow is the widow of Henry Board. I do not have his parents names but estimate that he was born around 1830. He died 27 February 1870. In his Will he names a brother John Board of Kenn as an executor.
Maria is the daughter of Richard Hodges of Berrow and then Burnham. Maria and Henry were married in Berrow on 25 March 1851. They had 9 children in total.
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