Doe/Jeff/Cooper Families click to enlarge Image

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John Francis Doe Bill Scott & Louie Doe on left & right Joby & Biddy Doe & Family Alton Hop time

Please bear with me as I have only just started my web site and am still in the process of adding new material every day I have a large amount of data on the Doe/Jeff/Cooper/Barnes/Barney and Keets family as they are local Romany families and form part of my line of reseach and so it will take a while to get it all up on the site please keep looking as I do add info daily.

The above pictures kindly given me by Steve doe and Eileen Smith and Annie Cooper( used with their permission)

It would seem the first time the Doe family were recorded in the Census for Dorset was 1881, where they were camped in tents with Walter Jeff and family (who were in Dorset earlier as shown below) however, the Doe family were in Dorset long before 1881 and interestingly using the same alias as used by the Jeff family as " Ananias Doe was born 26 May 1850 at Gipsy Camp, Gallows Hill Bere Regis, Dorset" the same place as the Jeff family were camped in the 1871 Census,of course they could have been here before, but annoyingly in earlier Census when the enumerator wasen't obliged to put the details of Gypsies or Travellers there is at the bottom of the page a tantalizing entry like "30 Gypsies camped along the roadside"or "6 men 6 women 23 children" in open air "Gypsies" so maybe they were among them?. Remember transcribed as THEY spelt it.

1861 Census., RG9-1339-24-11 Canford, Dorset.(This was a good find by John Russell)

Ananias Burden 43 Downton, Wiltshire, head Umbrella Maker (strange as Mathew was a Bland and Naomi a Jeff?)

Naomi Burden 40 Ashelton, Wiltshire Wife (why were they using the Burden name ?could it be mistaken for Burton?)

Phebe Burden 16 Chosley, Berkshire Daughter

Walter Burden 14 Pelley, HampshireSon Umbrella Maker

Ruth Burden 12 Morton, BerkshireDaughter

Silas Burden 9 Woolsbridge, DorsetSon

Ancelina Burden 7 St Giles, Dorset Daughter

Ananias Burden 2 Redlynch, Wiltshire Son

Creekmoore."

1871 Census, RG10-1997-62-26 Bere Regis, Dorset.

Walter Juif 26 Not StatedHead Bee Pot Maker

Eliza Juif 22 Not StatedWife Bee Pot Maker

Oliver Juif 9 months Son

At Gallows Hill under Tents, an encampment, Camped with George & Eliza Green."

1881 CENSUS.Tents Redhill Common Place Kinson, Dorset Public Records Office Reference RG11 Piece / Folio 2094 / 48 Job DOE Head M 27 Wiltshire Cane & Chair Mender

Dorcas DOE Wife 26 Woods, Hampshire

Walter JEF Head M 34 Lymington Basket Maker (Walter was in Canford Dorset in 1861 under the name of Burden or?Burton)

Eliza JEF Wife M 32 South Upton

Louisa JEF Daur 11 Cowes, Isle of Wight

Walter JEF Son 9 Southampton

Jane JEF Daur 6 Alton, Hampshire

Job JEF Son 4 Netley, Hampshire

John JEF Son 1 Netley, Hampshire

1901 Census, RG13-1038-89-14 Holdenhurst, Hampshire.(Then in Hants but now in Dorset)

Henry Doe 36 Beech Hill, Berkshire Head Licensed Hawker

Patience Doe 23 Ringstead, Berkshire Wife

Alice Doe 4 Turgest Daughter

Patience Doe 3 Bramley, Surrey Daughter

Henry Doe 11Mths Sunningdale Surrey Son

In a Tent on Holdenhurst Common, Camped with John & Louisa Sherwood, Henry Barney, George & Rose Cooper, Job & Jane Doe, William & Edith Doe."

1901 Census, RG13-1038-89-14 Holdenhurst, Hampshire.

John Sherwood40 Wooton, HampshireHead Licensed Hawker(This was actually John Barnes who wed Louisa Willett)

Louisa Sherwood41 Portsmouth Wife

Horace Sherwood23 Petersfield, HampshireSon Licensed Hawker

Annie Sherwood 19 Wimborne Pitts, DorsetDaughter Licensed Hawker

Mary Sherwood14 Holdenhurst, HampshireDaughter Licensed Hawker

John Sherwood11 Pokesdown, HampshireSon

Walter Sherwood 10 Longham, DorsetSon

Daisy Sherwood 9 Wallisdown, Dorset Daughter

Paul Sherwood8 Park Gate, SurreySon

Rose Sherwood 4 Midhurst, SussexDaughter

Amy Sherwood1 Holdenhurst HampshireDaughter

Milly Sherwood2 Mths Holdenhurst, HampshireDaughter

1901 Census, RG13-1038-89-14 Holdenhurst, Hampshire.

Job Doe 25 Hampton Court, Middlesex Head Licensed Hawker (son of John Doe and Mercy Lee)

Jane Doe 24 Copythorne Hampshire Wife Flower Seller (nee Jeff)

Mercy Doe 6 Bransgore, Hampshire daughter

John H Doe 3 Longham, Dorset Son

Amelia Doe 2 Kingsley, Hampshire Daughter

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Settlement examination of Henry Doe 27/2/1843,resident of the New Forest Union workhouse Eling and chargable to the parish of Lyndhurst in that union.

Age 23 in 1841 he married Elizabeth Gritt by whom he has 2 children james age 2 and henry age 2 months.(Lyndhurst Overseers accounts)*

Lyndhurst 1843 :Francis Doe of Hordle Labourer ,touching the settlement of Henry Doe,father of the said Henry Doe who is legitimate and was born at Farnham, a settled inhabitant of Hordle 4 years ago he brought 4 acres of land at Hordle from Mr Prowder,solicitor of Cranborne for £163. And occupied it for 3 years and paid poor rate for 3 years, and built a house and lived there for three years,and that Henry Doe was living with him and was single under 21. Last Michaemas he sold the land and bought a house and land at Hordle and has lived there the last 8 years.

1843 :-Henry Doe ,Elizabeth his wife and children james 2,henry 8 months removed from Lyndhurst to Hordle

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