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Using the new GRO index you can find the maiden name of Ann when the birth of Sarah Ann was registered. (Yatton was in the Registration district of Bedminster). Ann's maiden name appears to be CRUSE but they were married before civil registration started.  

FreeREG gives a marriage of a George THOMAS to an Ann CRUSE at St Swithin's Church, Walcot, Bath on the 26th Oct 1834.  You can see the image of this Somerset marriage on Ancestry but no further details are given of this couple.

On the 1841 census George THOMAS says he was born in Somerset but Ann is not born in Somerset.  However, they are living with another Ann Thomas, aged 75, who might be George's mother (or elder sister?) who was also born in Somerset.  This would infer that it was later that the family moved to South Wales.

Hope this helps a little.

Ah, Sprod.  That's a famous name in the old postcard business, W A W Sprod being a stationer in Stokes Croft, Bristol, around 1900 whose used postcards are still circulating today.  I can't help you, alas, but I've often wondered if Mr Sprod's original photos are archived somewhere.  Perhaps you know?

I am new to WSMFHS and until now I have been independently researching the Hicks and Sprod families. 

My mother's maiden name was Hicks (Banwell) and her direct line came from Lympsham. I have also discovered that we are widespread! Lympsham, Berrow, Brean, Banwell, Wick St Lawrence, Congresbury, Kenn, Bristol.

An interesting point, Thomas Sprod (Kenn) and Sarah Hicks (Banwell), both widowed, married. Then Thomas Sprod's daughter, Sarah Jane, and Sarah Hicks' son, John, married!  So these are my great great grandparents and great grandparents.

I am new to WSMFHS and I have been researching the Sprod family for some time. My great grandmother, Sarah Jane, lived at Kenn with her parents, Thomas and Sarah Sprod, and she married my great grandfather, John Hicks, from Banwell.

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