All comment/feedback/help requests within the Gravestone Photographic Resource for the name HOULDEN
ThanksMany Thanks for your prompt response to my request
the info was invaluable
Ken
Unexpected delight.Thankyou very much for such a quick response to my request for the headstone photo of Martin Houlden. It caused a great deal of excitement and emotion as 'Martha', the other person on the headstone, is in fact, Maria, my grgrgrandmother. She is wife to James Houlden - also named on the headstone, and niece by marriage to Martin Houlden. Perhaps this could be updated and corrected sometime. Again, many grateful thanks.
Houlden family of Bristol relationship to Holden family in Suffolk.My g g g grandfather James Houlden(1784-1854) was baptised as James Holden in Stowlangtoft on 17 Oct 1784, son of John Holden and Eales Mager.
He married in Bristol in 1809 and for reasons unknown changed the spelling of his name to Houlden.
James had a brother baptised as 'Mikle' Holden in Stowlangtoft on 13 Oct 1782. I believe this as the same Michael Holden who married Elizabeth Esling in nearby Tostock in 1805 and they became the parents of Michael Holden(1808-1884).
ThanksThanks for the image - good quality.