Born this month
Richard Chandler Tonks, 01 May 1791Mary Hannah Williams, 02 May 1817
Walter James Wickham, 02 May 1908
Thomas Bushby Olliver, 05 May 1894
William Ludgater, 06 May 1662
Thomas Wyatt, 09 May 1670
Second Levitt Ludgater, 09 May 1718
John Murray, 09 May 1801
Mary Clibbens, 09 May 1810
Susannah Harriett Williams, 10 May 1839
Blanche Vinten, 10 May 1866
Ruth Camp, 11 May 1833
William Henry Tonks, 12 May 1793
Julia Asher, 12 May 1839
John Richard Phillips, 12 May 1842
Alfred Williams, 12 May 1847
Joseph Buck Williams, 14 May 1814
William John Vousden, 14 May 1846
Jesse Bones, 16 May 1824
Elizabeth Conyers, 18 May 1728
Sarah Dawes, 18 May 1797
James Perrow, 18 May 1808
Louisa Sarah Ann Dawes, 18 May 1841
Harold Fitzgerald, 18 May 1845
Elizabeth Sarah Bowhill, 19 May 1842
Thomas Grisson, 21 May 1773
Henry Fiveash, 21 May 1841
David Bates, 22 May 1829
Benjamin Williams, 22 May 1852
Patricia Olive Farley, 22 May 1939
Mary Exton, 23 May 1656
Ellen Murray, 23 May 1803
Caroline Williams, 24 May 1823
William Moon, 25 May 1810
Samuell Wyatt, 26 May 1716
Henry Thomas Newland, 26 May 1871
Ross Daer, 27 May 1817
John Murray, 27 May 1828
Mary Ann Vinten, 27 May 1832
Sophia Vie, 28 May 1809
Joseph Brett, 29 May 1699
Wm. Hooper, 29 May 1795
John Ludgater, 30 May 1685
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Edmond Philips and Lidia Philips were baptised on the same day in 1810 but at the time of a settlement examination in 1813 Lydia was stated to be about seven years old while Edmond was about three.
John Smith Bowhill's age is given as 84 in the 1841 census, 99 in the burial register in December 1847, and 102 on his death certificate.
Although it seems strange that there was such a long gap between the marriage of Samuel Burchett and Mary Mepham in Warbleton in 1810 and the baptism of their first child Samuel Burchet in Bexhill in 1814, I think the evidence from the 1841 and 1851 Warbleton censuses strongly suggests that they are the same couple. In 1841, when the younger children were still living with their parents, the next family includes a John Mepham. And the 1851 census, when Kezia Burchett was still living with her mother, says that Mary was born in about 1791 in Heathfield.
Isabel Wickham's name is given as Isabel in the baptism entry but as the eldest daughter of Humphry Wickham and Elizabeth Allbony I think it much more likely she is the Elizabeth referred to in Humphrey's will.
In the 1790 baptism entry for Ciceley Bowhill her father John Smith Bowhill is described as a Founder and their abode is Whithill Bridge. The Six Inch OS map of the area on the NLS maps website shows there was a furnace a couple of hundred metres away from Whitehill Bridge.
William Sales and his sister Charlotte Sales both had daughters, Sarah Sales and Jane Wicken, baptised at Westerham on 11th August 1822.
When John Hann Vie married Ann Hopper in 1805 his parish of residence was stated to be St George Hanover Square. Years later four of John's brother Charles Vie's children were baptised there. When Charles's youngest child was baptised the family's abode was stated to be Cumberland Market; when Ann made her will in 1842 she was living at 15 Edward Street, Cumberland Market.
Although they were both born in Foots Cray, Kent, Thomas Shorter and his sister Emma Shorter both married their spouses at St Giles, Camberwell.
Thomas Shorter's 1885 death certificate states that he was 56 years old, but this was the same age he had given in the census four years earlier so I am confident it is a mistake on the certificate.
I believe the two youngest children of George Vinton listed in the 1871 census, Minnie Vinten and Charlotte Vinten, are actually his grandchildren - the only babies with those names registered in those years had mother's maiden name Fauchon/Fanckon, the maiden name of George's daughter-in-law Louisa Jane Fauchon.
I strongly suspect Robert Fiveash, born in Hackney in about 1804, was the son of John Fiveash and Susanna Jenkins, who were married at St Mary Lambeth in 1799 and had a son James Isaac Fivash baptised in Hackney in 1808 who was living in St Mary Newington in 1841.
The 1861 and 1871 censuses say that Alfred Ross Dear was born in Kent (although they disagree on whether it was in Ashford or Greenwich). According to his birth certificate he was born in St Saviour Surrey.
Joseph Dallett Tonks son of Joseph Tonks and Ann Chandler was baptised at St James Garlickhithe on 20th December 1786; a Richard Tonks who could be his brother Richard Tonks was buried there eight days later.
In 1861 Margaret Bowhill and her son Thomas Bates were living in Neptune Street in Rotherhithe. Neptune Street was about half a mile from Osprey Street, where George James Bowhill (who I suspect was Margaret's nephew) was living in 1881. All three of them had also lived in Monkwearmouth in Durham.
In C 2/ChasI/E9/62 Edward Howsden described Christopher Emerson and Anne Howsden as 'first Cozens'. I have not yet been able to establish if the term meant the same in the 1640s as it does nowadays, but if it did mean that their parents were siblings then Christopher's mother Etheldred Howsdon and Anne's father Jhon Howsden seem to be the most likely candidates.
The top half of the page for 1650 in the Ewhurst parish registers is blank, and the bottom half has been cut out. The next page has been cut out entirely, and the register entries do not start again until November 1653. (This may be something to do with the civil war.)
I think Etheldred Emberson was an older sister of Etheldred Emmerson, not the same person - the former was baptised in 1603, whereas in the marriage licence allegation relating to the latter in 1633, her age is given as '24 . yeeres or thereabout'. (Their niece Etheldred Emerson had three daughters all named Etheldred.)
To my eye the signatures of George Bowhill on his marriage entry and the George Bowhill who witnessed the marriage of George Bowhill's daughter Jane Bowhill in 1843 are very, very similar.
According to the Bishopwearmouth Bishop's Transcripts Nicholas Carr and Henry Carr, sons of Ann Bowhill and Francis Carr, were born six months apart. This seems very unlikely to me biologically speaking!
In 1871 David Bates son of Margaret Bowhill was living in Greenwich about three quarters of a mile from where George Bowhill had been living at his death in 1851.
In the 1940s Thomas Bushby Olliver was living with Pretoria Gertrude Ann Farley in Upper Halliford. In 1939 Pretoria had given birth to a daughter Patricia Olive Farley. That daughter's grandson is a DNA match to Thomas's granddaughter, and two of their shared DNA matches are related to Thomas's mother and father respectively.
Susanna Jenkins was buried on the same day her son James Isaac Fivash was baptised.
Although the Stockbury parish registers record the burial of a Mary Mills daughter of Richard and Mary in November 1714, I have a suspicion that she is more likely to have been the daughter of William and Elizabeth Mills baptised there in March 1712/13.
Catherine Abra Peters is listed as Frederick James Newland's wife in the 1911 census. They did not marry until 1914.
I was puzzled that Thomas Newland and Jane Vie married in Greenwich, when they had no apparent association with the parish, but apparently marrying outside one's own parish could be a way of evading parental disapproval. Their daughter Martha Emily Newland was baptised 7 months later, which may explain it!
In February 1861 Hannah Newland died at St George's Hospital. When the census was taken a few weeks later her uncle Joseph Glassbrook was living less than half a mile away in Lowndes Square.
Elizabeth Relf would have been barely 16 when she married George Parsons and died aged just 17 just over a year later.
I would be very surprised if Lucy Price were not the sister of Richard Price and Jane Price, children of Richard Price; the witness at Lucy's wedding was a Richard Price, Lucy had children called Richard and Jane, and Jane had a daughter called Lucy. But the only Lucy Price baptised in Heathfield was the daughter not of Richard but of John Macklin Price and his wife Mary Knight. I do wonder if John and Richard were the same person, as I have not found any other records relating to a John Macklin Price, and no record of a marriage of a Richard Price to a Mary.
Both Avice Chapman and her niece Avis Rosetta Newland died of tubercular conditions.
James Bowhill died on 7 November 1907. His niece Mary Margaret Fitzgerald died on 7 November 1987.
The FamilySearch index has an entry for the baptism of a Robert Jenkins Philips son of Robert and Jane in Bury in 1815, but I haven't seen an original entry for it (there aren't any images of the Bury registers available online and the entry isn't recorded in the Bishop's Transcripts for that year) so I haven't added it to my site.
Jn.o Fuller and his son/step-son William Humphrey Wickham had children, Robert Fuller and Jane Harriett Wickham, baptised at Brightling on the same day. In 1881 John and William were living in adjacent households.
When sisters Charlotte Jane Fiveash, Alice Maud Fiveash and Florence Fiveash married they gave their father's occupation as 'Plumber'. In fact, their father Robert Fiveash had been a line worker; it was their first step-father Isaac Edward Behenna who worked as a plumber.
The burials of William Drage and his widow Mary Waring are consecutive entries in the burial ground register.
William G. Vinten married in St James the Great, Bethnal Green in 1867 and his sister Emily Vinten married there the next year. Both marriages were witnessed by an Annie Vinten.
William Catt had emigrated to New Zealand by mid 1857. When the 1861 census was taken his children from his first marriage were in the workhouse and a possible son from his second marriage was living with an aunt and uncle.
In 1871 Emily Vinten and her family were living in the same building as her father George Vinton.
According to the Kent Archaeological Society's monumental inscriptions page for Wouldham Joseph Costen and his wife Lydia Mills are commemorated on a double headstone and their daughter Elizabeth Costen is commemorated on the same stone as a Thomas Mills.
In the 20 years before Sarah Collings widow married James Nowling in Benington there were 6 marriages in Hertfordshire of a Mr Collins to a Sarah. Two of them were of men from Walkern named Richard, and there are two deaths of men named Richard Collins in Walkern between the marriage dates and 1784. Sarah Pond signed her name when she married her Richard in Broxbourne in 1769 whereas Sarah Odell in 1772 made her mark, like Sarah Collings. More tenuously both Sarah Odell and Sarah Collings had a man with the surname Smith as a witness. But although between 1745 and 1748 there were baptisms of Sarahs matching both names, both Sarah Odells were older than Sarah Collings, and were baptised in fairly distant parishes. So my feeling is that Sarah Collings is more likely to be Sarah Pond than Sarah Odell.
According to his death certificate, David Daer was born in Montrose and buried in Kincardine.
I initially ignored the 1832 Dorset burial as a record for Charles Vie as I had no evidence for him living outside London. When I actually looked at the record I discovered that it gave the deceased's abode as London. I then found that although Charles's son Thomas Henry Vie was baptised in London, according to census entries he was born in Crewkerne, Somerset, where Charles was living when he joined the Freemasons in 1818.
I had thought that Jessie Madeline Vinten might have been a witness at Charles Upton's wedding because she was a relative on his mother's (Mary Ann Vinten) side. It would appear, though, that her father Charles Wm Vinten was from a different branch of the Vintens, from Sittingbourne in Kent. It seems more likely that she was a friend of Charles's wife Emily Maria Brittain, as they both lived on Summerfield Street in Lee.
The ROLLCO index for the Drapers has two entries, dated 1645/6 and 1653, for a bond and freedom for a John Exton son of Francis Exton of 'Walcon' Hertfordshire.
Fanny Ann Miller and her first husband, Robert Fiveash, were living at the same house as her next husband, Isaac Edward Behenna, when the 1891 census was taken.
Jane Bowhill and her sister Margaret Bowhill married Iron Founders and their nephew Thomas Ellis Bowhill, who was living with Jane and her husband Thomas Sturgess in 1861, was an Iron Founder too.
In 1841 the Dawes family was living in Tatum's Place, which is a few streets away from Dawes Street.
At the time of the 1841 census Sussanna Bourne was living in the household of William Russell; a few weeks later her son William Henry Russell Bourne was baptised.
I think it likely that the Howsdens of Great Chesterford derived their name from Ousden in Suffolk. One document at the ERO refers to 'John Denham alias Howseden of Great Chesterford' (Q/SR 51/59), while another refers to 'John Owsden' (D/P 10/25/8). A document at TNA relates to 'messuage and land in Dalham, Owsden and Denham, Suffolk' (C 2/JasI/B7/66), and according to Google Maps Ousden and Denham in Suffolk are about 2 miles apart.
Robert Fiveash spelled his surname with an 'h' in the middle
The next entry in the parish register after the baptism of Jhon Howsden is the burial of his mother Esbell Howsden.
Lydia Jeakins signed the marriage register in a good hand in 1794 and was bequeathed £50 in her uncle Burford Jeakins's will proved in 1806, yet in 1789 and 1813 she was removed to her parish of legal settlement having become chargeable to the parish.
The person who filled in the register for the marriage of Wm Drage and Ann Wattson in Barkway in 1795 spelled the bride's surname with two 't's, but she signed her name with one.
I haven't found any kind of birth record for Martha Luck, but her 4xgreat-grandaughter has DNA matches to descendants of three children of Thomas Luck and Martha Dann (Henry Luck, Mary Luck and Elizabeth Luck).
The births of the children of William Dawes and Sarah Dawes are recorded in the Quaker records, but each entry has a comment saying they (either child or parents) were not in membership.
Caroline Reed : Vinton and her brother Edward Vinten were both baptised in Bromley, but according to an 1826 settlement examination of their mother Elizabeth Reed both were born in Keston, which is where their grandparents William Vintin and Racheal Vintin were living in 1841.
There are two burials at All Saints, Hastings that could be James Phillips son of John Phillips and Ann Wenham, one on 24 January 1822 and one on 10 February 1823.
The National Archives catalogue entry for document ACC/1386/847 from the LMA says that it is dated 7 January 1897 and is titled "License to assign Leith House to Thomas William Newland for purpose of trade of fruiterer and greengrocer".
Shortly before the birth of her bastard son Richard Vidler Relf in 1799 an order was issued to remove Susannah Relfe from Heathfield to Mayfield, even though she was baptised in Heathfield. However, right of settlement could also result from employment in a parish.
I haven't been able to find a burial for William Ilkince, who was stated to be deceased in a bond of October 1736, nor for Richard Mattox (which would make me more confident that the Mary Mattock who married John Newman in 1738 was Mary Barker). In fact, there don't seem to be any burials recorded in the Westbury parish register between the wife of Joseph Banks on 24th March 1734/5 and John Matravers on 10th May 1737.
Although I have only found a record for one marriage I believe that Thomas Wyatt had two wives, both named Mary: Mary Ludgater and Mary Wyatt. There is a record of the burial of Mary wife of Thomas Wyatt in 1703, and there was a gap of several years before Thomas's next child was born. When Mary Ludgater's father Robt Ludgater made his will in 1722 he only made bequests to Thomas's two eldest children Mary Wyatt and Etheldreda Wyatt, and when Mary Wyatt widow of Thomas Wyatt made her will in 1743 she refers to her son Stephen Jay and did not make bequests to Mary or Etheldreda, even though Etheldreda was still alive.
There are gaps in the Hose registers I have seen 1639/40 to 1660 and 1662/3 to 1670.
In Kate Germain's baptism entry in the parish registers Henry Jarmin's name appears to have been crossed out and replaced with 'Rich', but the Bishop's Transcript says Henry.
Maryann Upton had 17 children, according to her entry in the 1911 census.
The burials of Robert Fuller and his mother Priscilla Blackman are adjacent entries in the parish register.
Most women in my family tree seem to have had a baby every couple of years, but Catherine Rixfoot, her granddaughter Louisa Waters and her great-great-granddaughter Maryann Upton had babies nearly every year!
Bushby Olliver was noted as 'Deceased' on his son James Henry Olliver's marriage certificate in 1908. In fact, he didn't die until 1923.
In 1871 Elizabeth Smith was living at 87 Myrtle St East in Croydon and her son Wm Childs and his family were living at number 88.
I think it likely that Mary Anne Vinten was the daughter of William Vintin and Racheal Vintin but I haven't been able to find a baptism for her.
There are entries in the GRO birth index for John Carr and Richard Carr but no corresponding baptisms, and baptisms for Nicholas Carr and Henry Carr sons of Francis Carr and Ann Bowhill in the Bishop's Transcripts but no entries in the index, so I wonder if it's possible if they were the same people but were given different names. Nicholas's day of birth (4th June) was the same as John's, and the pairs never appear in the same census together - the 1841 census has John, 1851 has Nicholas and Richard, and 1861 has Nicholas and Henry.
The informant on Thomas Shorter's death certificate is 'A. Shorter Daughter'. He had two daughters with the initial A, Ann Shorter and Amelia Shorter.
Hannah Cruttenden signed the marriage register in her married name not her maiden name.
In 1841 Hannah Jerman was living with James Relf and his family in Street End in Heathfield. I haven't been able to find any record of James's birth (which according to later censuses was around 1788 in Heathfield), but I suspect he may have been her son. This would explain why she was living with him, a birth year of 1788 is not impossible given the baptism and burial dates of Hannah's other children, and the names of James's children and grandchildren overlap with the names of Hannah's children (including the highly unusual name shared by Zebulon Relf and Zebulun Relfe). But if he is Hannah's son, it's puzzling that there is no record of his baptism and he didn't name one of his daughters Hannah.
Fanny Ann Miller was married three times. According to her granddaughter, Freda Sibyl Williams, during what turned out to be her final illness she was planning to dye her hair blonde and go looking for husband number four!
I have seen the Perrow surname transcribed as Parow, Perron and Person.
Although she was baptised in 1756, well after the calendar change, in the parish register Ann Ashdown's January baptism is still included with the baptisms for 1755 not with those for 1756.
Henry Joseph Tonks was a Painter and three of his sisters, Louisa Elizabeth Tonks, Caroline Tonks and Ellen Tonks, married painters.
Edwin William Bartle married Ellen Tonks in 1862. His half-brother James Joseph Bartle married her sister Caroline Tonks in 1869.
In the 1851 census George Chapman was listed as a farmer with 60 acres. By 1861 he was a cottager with 5 acres.
In 1901 Florence Fiveash's fellow Refuge Society Home inmates included women from Wales and Nova Scotia.
Kathleen Mabel Alice Olliver died on 21 November 1918; her sister Gwendoline Margaret Olliver was born on 21 November 1923.
William Colchin's name is given as Richard in the Bishop's Transcript of the parish register. His mother Anne Colchin alleged his father was William Wachers but later married Richard Wickham.
The informant on Margaret Dunstan's death certificate was likely Philippa Tremayne, wife of John Dunstan, who had been living on the same street in 1841.
When Richard Chandler Tonks died of 'Hooping Cough' in 1794, only two entries on that parish register page recorded 'Age' as cause of death. Alongside seven cases of 'Consumption', five of 'Fever' and two of 'Dropsy' were one case of 'Inflamation', four of 'Teeth' and one 'Lunatick'.
I have found the surname Vie indexed as Vic and Nie.
The 4xgreat-grandson of Mary Parker and John Moon has a DNA match to a 3xgreat-granddaughter of John Parker and Hannah Dadswell.
The marriage of William Sales and Jane Bignold in 1756 was witnessed by a John Jewell; the marriage of their son James Sales and Hannah French in 1795 was witnessed by a George Jewell. George Jewell was a witness to all but one of the marriages on two of the pages of the register in the 1820s, so I suspect he was some kind of church official.
Elizabeth Moley was baptised in Gedling, but when she was eight years old her mother Eleanor Vardin remarried to John Hopwell of Tithby, where Elizabeth was living when she married Thos Milner in 1816.
Henry Upton worked as a lathrender. A lathrender was someone who split wood to make laths.
I haven't found any baptisms for children of Barham Hope and Sara Cooper, but the will of Sarah's brother James Cooper mentions his nephew Barham Hope and niece Elizabeth Hope.
It looks like Edmond Philips's name was initially spelled with a 'u' in the burial register which was then corrected to an 'o' by adding a bar across the top.
The witnesses to the baptisms of George Bowhill and James Bowhill have the same names as the babies' grandfathers, George Bowhill and James Wallace.
Catharine Fuller, daughter of Jn.o Fuller by his first wife Catharine Fuller, was baptised on 20th October 1844. William Humphrey Wickham, son of John's second wife Jane Wickham (and, going by one of my DNA matches, John's biological son) was born a week later.
When Charles Miller married Jane Camp in Marylebone in February 1851 he gave his address as 10 Occus Street, and one of the witnesses was a William Blackaby. When the 1851 census was taken one of the residents of 10 Occus Street was William Blackaby, who may have been Jane's cousin through Maria Drage and Jane's mother Ruth Drage.
Although Thomas Shorter was baptised as Samuel Thomas, he seems to have gone by his middle name for most of his life.
John Brotchie worked as a Waterworks Turncock.
Although there are burials in the Herstmonceux burial register for individuals with the same names as Samuel Burchet's children Jane Burchet, Thomas Burchet and Henry Burchet a few months after their respective births and there are no other baptisms of children by those names around that time, Jane is specified to be the daughter of William, and the entries for the males don't specify that they were infants.
In the 1841 Jane Camp was stated to have been born outside the county even though she was living in the town where she was baptised, Royston. This is probably because at the time the town was split between Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire. In 1841 Jane was living in the Hertfordshire part; in subsequent censuses she gave her place of birth as Royston, Cambridgeshire.
According to a list of marriages in Waldron made by the Genealogical Society a Nicholas Swane & Constance Lucke married there on 22 November 1638. According to the baptismal index of the Sussex Family History Group Elizabeth Swane daughter of Nicholas Swane was baptised there on 12th January 1639/1640.
Arthur William Phillips and Harriett Bonds married on 26 April 1873 and had their daughter Ellen Louisa Phillips baptised on 26 April 1874
One of the witnesses at Margaret Bowhill's wedding in 1860 was a Charles Gibson. Gibson was the maiden name of Margaret's mother, Mary Gibson.
Elizabeth Elkins was baptised in 1749 (by the new calendar), but she says in her will that she was 'married at the age of seventeen', so would have been born in about 1747.
Thomas Vie outlived at least six of his children.
The ages on the 1841 census entry and 1844 death certificate I have associated with Anne Wakeling are inconsistent, but given the close proximity of the two addresses I think they relate to the same person.
John Phillips and Thomas Copper died together when the mackerel boat the Three Brothers was lost at sea in February 1841. John and Thomas may have been related by marriage: Thomas's wife was Ann Phillips.
William Chapman and Eliza Chapman seem to have spent most of their adult lives living with their uncle William Chapman rather than with their parents. By 1861 they were joined by their niece Mary Jane Chapman. By 1871 William the elder had died, but the three had been joined by Mary's brother George Edgar Chapman.
In 1871 Margaret Bowhill was working as a box maker and her sister Sarah Bowhill was a match box maker; in 1881 their mother Sarah Ellis and sisters-in-law Charlotte Bland and Sarah Wain were working as match box makers
In 1861 David Bates son of Margaret Bowhill was living in Poplar about a mile and a half from Jane Bowhill and Margaret Bowhill, who I suspect were his cousins.
In the 1881 census Sarah Ellis is listed as a visitor in the household of Charles James Green, her future husband.
Various newspaper articles from the 1820s refer to a legal dispute between James Inglis and Henry Smith and seek the heirs of Elianor Elkins and Elizabeth Elkins. I suspect the dispute related to Eleanor's 1818 will (in which she made Henry her executor), but a page-check from the The National Archives revealed that the case runs to several hundred large pages and I'm not interested enough to pay such a large sum to obtain copies!
At the time of the 1871 census James Fuller, his brother James Fuller and his former brother-in-law Stephen Russell were living in parts of the same farm cottage.
In the 1911 census Henry Charles Turner and Emily Bertha Turner are described as Francis William Olliver's son and daughter, although in the previous census they were listed as the children of Henry Charles Turner; Samuel George Wilson and John Wilson are described as visitors but I think they were probably Francis's sons.
The marriages of sisters Etheldred Howsdon and Christian Howsden are consecutive entries in the parish register, and so are the baptisms of their daughters Marye Emersonn and Etheldred Benefelde.
James Henry Olliver's marriage certificate gives the year as 1909 but the date as 1908.
William Vintin and his brother James Vintin were born almost exactly nine months apart. They were both baptised at All Saints, Orpington on October 14th 1804
Given that the only other contemporaneous individual I've found with the same unusual name was five years old at the time, I think it likely that the Iden Bonds named as the informant on Mary Pavey's death certificate was her son Iden Bones.
When John Cowper made his will in 1691 he had three children. In 1699 it was amended to add a fourth child, Hanna Cooper.
Kezia Relf would have just turned 15 when her son Zebulun Relfe was born.
The same registrar registered the deaths of Annie Elizabeth Phillips in 1946 and her husband William Wickham in 1955
Anne Grace Phillips and William Copper, children of fishermen John Phillips and Thomas Copper, were baptised on the same day at All Saints Hastings in March 1824. John, Thomas and William all died when the mackerel boat the Three Brothers was lost at sea in February 1841.
The burial of Louisa Elizabeth Tonks on 2nd February 1858 is recorded in two different registers, City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery and St Leonard's Shoreditch.
If my calculations based on age in days given in the parish register of baptisms are correct, Ann Vie was born on 19th July (1809) and her sister Mary Vie was born on 20th July (1811).
I originally thought that the death certificate for Margaret Dunstone Perrow was for a different person, as the husband name and age at death are not consistent with other evidence. However, I think it may be that the informant provided inaccurate information, as Margaret's son Alfred Ross Dear was admitted to the Greenwich Union's school at Sutton as an orphan two months later.
The banns for Anthony Perrow and Honor Pearce's marriage in St Hilary describe them as 'both of the Town of Marazion'; marriages were not performed at the church in Marazion until the mid-nineteenth century.
Reuben Walter Newland died on 2nd January 1878; his brother Henry Horace Newland died on 2nd January 1882.
Although I haven't found a baptism for Margaret Miller, evidence from certificates and the census says that she was the daughter of a John and Mary Miller and was born in Plungar in about 1782.
Joseph Cruttenden lost three children in 1744. His eldest daughter Mary Cruttenden was buried on 25 March, his eldest son Joseph Cruttenden on 10 June, and another of his daughters,Esther Cruttenden, on 17 June.
Sarah Sales died in Lewisham but was buried in Bromley, where she had lived during her marriage.
The dates and age are inconsistent in Mary Hand's death certificate and burial entry.
In 1871 Jane Camp and Emma Evans, who I believe were cousins, were living less than a mile apart in Camberwell. Their mothers, Ruth Drage and Jemima Drage, were born in Hertfordshire.
A photo on Ancestry has written on the back 'Jack Bowhill half Brother to Helen Snowdon who married Thomas Gettins 1880'. I have no idea if this was written by someone contemporary or later, but one of the witnesses at the wedding was a Gibson, the maiden name of Mary Gibson mother of John Bowhill and Eleanor Bowhill.
The informant on Ann Ashdown's death certificate was a Mary Cruttenden, the married name of Ann's husband's daughter Mary Cruttenden.
It doesn't look like Mary Pavey had any children with her first husband James Martin, but her children with her second husband James Bonds included two sets of twins: Iden Bones and James Bones in 1811 and Henry Bond and Mary Bones in 1816.
Avice Chapman was commemorated on the same memorial in Irchester as her father John Chapman.
Alice Chapman and her children Avis Rosetta Newland and Frederick John Newland were all buried in the burial ground at Kingston-upon-Thames; Alice and Avis share a grave.
A Robert son of John and Mary Hand was baptised in Long Clawson on 6th October 1723, and was presumably the infant Robert Hand buried on the 12th of that month; Robert Hand son of Robert Hand and Mary Dunsmore was baptised on the 19th.
Thomas William Newland and his brother Frederick James Newland (married to sisters Rosetta Frances Chapman and Alice Chapman respectively) both had children named Avis, Elsie and Francis/Frank.
In his marriage entry John Milner's surname is given as both 'Milner' and 'Miller'.
Martha Emily Newland was the grand-daughter of Martha Newell; the minister at her baptism was called R Newell.
By 1841 Susannah Wells Hooper was living with William Church and Jane Church. When she reported the birth of her daughter Eliza Elizabeth Chapman in 1853, Susannah gave her maiden name as Church.
The Vies seem to have had a liking for marrying by licence. This doesn't seem to have been related to non-conformity, though, as they had their children baptised in Anglican churches.
Grace Roling was living in Mabe when she died but was buried in Stithians, where her younger children had been baptised.
According to their daughter, Denis Raymond Olliver and Mary Margaret Fitzgerald were not actually living at the address they gave on their marriage certificate. It was the address of a friend who lived in the parish.
In 1841 George Asher was living with his sister Sarah Asher and her husband Mark Benjamin Benham. At Mark's trial for conspiracy at the Old Bailey in 1843 George was described by the victim, Mark's step-father Abraham Myers, as 'a man of a very weak understanding, as weak as could possibly be, and hardly capable of earning his own bread'.
One of the witnesses to Hannah Cruttenden's marriage was an Edward Foster. Her brother-in-law was Thomas Foster.
The informant on George Catt's death certificate was a Charlotte Ransom, the married name of his daughter Charlotte Catt.
In 1628 Richard Foxe took on the son of Hugh Emerson as an apprentice. In the record Richard's occupation is given as 'mcatori traducent per mare levaticum' (which is rendered in English in another record as 'Merchant tradinge by the Levant Sea'). A Hugh Emerson appears in a list of 'names of the Levant Company' in June 1600 in the Cecil Papers.
James Vie was baptised in Rotherhithe, London on 3rd April 1814. His father John Hann Vie was buried in Cerne Abbas, Dorset on 7th June the same year.
Anna Newman was born on 15 March 1795. Her sister Debrah Newman was born on 15 March 1803.
When Thomas Collins died the informant was his great-granddaughter, Alice Fellows
On 19 Nov 1799 Richard Vidler appeared before two Justices of the Peace and acknowledged himself to be the reputed father of Susannah Relfe's male bastard child, presumably Richard Vidler Relf. He was ordered to pay two shillings weekly to the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the parish of Mayfield for the child's maintenance. (ESRO PAR. 422/34/2/23)
Two of Jn.o Fuller's children, Catharine Fuller and John Fuller, were buried on the same day in 1854.
Samuel Burchett and Mary Mepham had their daughter Jane Burchett baptised on 4th January 1824 and their son Job Burchett baptised on 4th January 1829.
In 1851 Anne Winten's father James Vintin had moved to Maidstone, but she had stayed in the area she was born and was living with her uncle George Vinton in Keston.
In 1846 Alexander Murray and John Murray were imprisoned for stealing watches from William Fillmore, Alexander's master. In the 1851 census there was a William Fillmore living in Camberwell whose occupation was 'Retired Pawnbroker'.
Ann Ashdown's death certificate gives 'Visitation of God' as the cause of death. In the other instance I've seen this term used - the verdict of a Coroner's Inquest on the death of Saml Burchet about a year before Ann - the victim had apparently 'compla\[i]ned of a pain at his heart'.
The marriage of Nicholas Swaine and Elizabeth Bungar is listed in a section of the parish register headed 'matrimonia 67' and is reported in the Bishop's Transcript for 1667. I suspect the heading is wrong, though, and the marriage actually occurred in 1666. There is no section for marriages in 1666 and there is a second section for marriages in 1667 on the next page of the register.
Robert Bushby Olliver and Mary Pennett were married in the church at Climping on the same day as William Morley and Charlotte Viney and were the witnesses at their wedding.
Freda Sibyl Williams and her great-grandmother Jane Camp both died on 21 December
Although Bushby Olliver described himself as a Bachelor when he married Sophia Collins in 1893, in the 1871 and 1881 censuses Harriet A Hacker is described as his wife.
In 1911 Mabel Alice Newland was living on Newland Street in Witham, Essex
When the 1851 census was taken John Camp was visiting Thomas Harris and his nephew William Harris. William's sister Hannah Harris had recently married John's brother William Camp and William would subsequently marry John's sister Ruth Camp.
I think it more likely that the vicar made a mistake when filling in the baptism register than Arthur William Phillips had two wives.
I had expected that the John Heathfield who married Elizabeth Bungar in 1679 was the son of John Heathfield and Elizabeth Mone who was baptised in March 1655/6. But his will of 1707 refers to his daughter Elizabeth Heathfield as 'Elizabeth Clifton'; it seems likely that she had married in 1685, so the son of John and Elizabeth was too young to be her father.
The respective marriages of Barbara Dengate and John Dengate are consecutive entries in the parish register, and both had daughters named Dinah. John may have been Barbara's half-brother.
In January 1633 (by modern reckoning) Anne Howsden was left £10 in the will of Anne Howsden to be paid to her at the age of 24 years. Is it coincidence, I wonder, that her marriage licence is dated a few months after the twenty-fourth anniversary of her baptism...
When Mary Margaret Fitzgerald met Denis Raymond Olliver she had dyed her hair blonde
In 1887 Margaret Bowhill was living at 18 Neath Place, Bethnal Green. In 1895 her brother James Bowhill was living at number 12.
An Ann Spithray was the informant on the death certificates of both Mary Bowhill in 1844 and John Smith Bowhill in 1848. I suspect this was Ann Bowhills, who had married John Spitrey in 1838, and that she was the illegitimate daughter of Mary and the granddaughter of John.
When he remarried in 1914 Frederick James Newland was resident at the Royal Mineral Water Hospital in Bath
The person filling in the marriage register spelled Ann Ashdown's surname 'Asdown' but she spelled it as 'Ashdown' in her signature.
In 1852 Samuel Burchett was a Higler (a sort of small-time dealer)
The marriages of Thomas Drage and Gillet Drage are consecutive entries in the Great Hormead parish register, as are the baptisms of their sons William Drage and Gillet Drage.
Albert Thomas Upton's name is given as Albert Thomas on his birth certificate, Thomas on his marriage certificate, and Thomas William on his death certificate.
David Daer and Ann Mitchell appear to have deviated from the usual Scottish naming pattern. Their only daughter, Susan Daer, was named after her paternal grandmother, and their eldest son, David Dear, after (I believe) his maternal grandfather (normally it would be the maternal grandmother and paternal grandfather respectively).
The same registrar registered the births of Annie Elizabeth Phillips and her son Ernest Phillips.
When James Fitzgerald married in 1867 he gave his address as 3 Balls Buildings, White Horse Street. Although the place is listed as unoccupied in the 1871 census, when his widow Honora Coughlin remarried in 1875 she gave the same address.
I suspect the William Garat and John Garat buried on the same day at Hose in October 1729 were grandfather and grandson. William's will was proved the following January.
John Hann Vie and his brother Charles Vie were both Tinmen. (Apparently a Tinman could be a dealer in or worker of tin; John's will clarifies that he was a 'Tin Plate worker'.)
George Vinton's children Esther Vinten and Edward Vinten were buried a week apart, in adjacent graves.
Kezia Burchett made a mark for her signature when reporting the birth of her daughter Mary Burchett, but I don't have a column for this information in my database.
The parish register entry before the burial of Anne Howsden is the burial of a still-born child of her husband Christopher Emerson.
Jochebed Newman and one of her 5 x great-nieces were both born on 24 February.
According to the index James Jekins and Sarah Burford also had daughters Sarah and Elizabeth, baptised in 1718 and 1724, but it looks like there are images missing in the resource I consulted.
Charlotte Rothery Tonks and her cousins Emma Tonks, Frederick Tonks, Eliza Tonks, and Charles Thomas Tonks were all baptised at St Leonard Shoreditch on 27 July 1831
In the 1861 census Sarah Ellis is listed as a Widow, but her husband Joseph Bowhill didn't actually die until 1872.
I think it likely that Martha Luck was the daughter of Thomas Luck and Martha Dann. The year of birth suggested by her death certificate would fit her neatly in the gap between their children baptised in the parish church and those baptised at the Heathfield chapel, and the signature of the Thomas Luck who witnessed her marriage looks very much like the signature of Thomas when he married Martha.
Bartholomew Collins's death certificate is dated April 1846, but his burial is dated March 1845.
In 1841 Rose Fuller, Priscilla Blackman and some of their children were living in Wadhurst. Their sons Jn.o Fuller and James Fuller married women from Wadhurst.
In the 1881 census Sylvia Collins's relationship is given as 'Son' and her age is in the Males column.
Bushby Olliver has been found indexed as Rushby, Bushley, and Buesley.
The 1851 census gives Margaret Bowhill's birthplace as 'England Mary-le-Bon Parish', but her entry in the 1841 census has 'N' in the column 'If Born in Scotland, state whether in County or elsewhere' rather than an entry in the 'Whether Foreigner, or whether Born in England or Ireland' column
Margaret Bowhill's address on her marriage entry in 1853 is the address where two of the witnesses, her sister Jane Bowhill and brother-in-law Thomas Sturgess, were living in 1851,1861 and 1871.
One of the causes of death on George Catt's death certificate is 'Climacteric Disease'. A "communication" in the London Journal of Medicine in 1849 describes this as "a sudden decline of the vital or biotic powers in advanced life, and is chiefly met with, in the male sex, from the age of sixty-five and upwards" (bmj.com/content/s2-1/7/601)
In 1851 widower John Sell was living with his mother-in-law Hester Parish, sister-in-law Elizabeth Drage and nephew John Drage; his daughter Hester Sell was living with her maternal uncle William Drage.
According to the Haberdashers' Hall family tree Ann Yaxley was daughter of Mary Benrose and a Mr Yaxley, sister of Mary Yaxley who married Matthew Brannan, and niece to Eliz Bemrose who married Edward Hymas. I haven't been able to find baptisms for Ann or either of the Marys, although a Mary Yaxley was one of the witnesses at the weddings of Ann, Mary and Elizabeth.
I've found the name Bethia in records as Bethia, Betheia and Bathia, and indexed as Bethica, Bethyn and Batadia.
Joseph Harmer was baptised two days after the burial of his mother Hannah Mepham.
It would appear that Louisa Elizabeth Tonks and John Charles Parkes made marks when they signed the register after their own marriage, but signed their names when they witnessed the wedding of Louisa's sister Mary Ann Tonks.
John Phillips and Frances Vidler married in Guestling despite having no apparent connection with the parish. Their son John Richard Phillips was born five months later.
Unusually for an Anglican register, it is the births and not the baptisms of John Caesar Esq's children Margaret Caesar, Ann Caesar, John Caesar and Julius Caesar which were recorded.
In 1851 William Burchett was living in the next household but one from Mary Mepham widow of Samuel Burchett; Samuel was possibly William's brother.
Thomas Collins married Jane Burchett in 1845. His brother Caleb Collins married her sister Hannah Burchett in 1852.
Many online family trees I have seen have James Bonds as the son of John Bones and Sarah Tasker. I'm sceptical, though, as I have three documents which place James's birth in 1785, and John and Sarah's son James was baptised in 1789. I wonder if he could instead be the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Bone baptised in 1784 in Southwark, where two of his sons were living in 1851.
Although the Old-Testament names Samuel Burchett and Mary Mepham gave to two of their children are associated with non-conformists, all but one of the children were baptised in the parish church. (Sarah Ann Burchett's baptism is recorded in the records of the Wesleyan circuit.)
Susannah Wells Hooper registered the birth of her daughter Mary Jane Chapman in February 1851 under the name Chapman. Susannah and John Chapman were actually married three months later.
When Sarah Bowhill married in 1875 her address was 20 Trafalgar Place; in 1881 her brother Joseph Bowhill and his family were living there.
The 1891 marriage certificate for Francis William Olliver and May Howard has corrections to the bride's forename, age, father name and father occupation, but the same bride forename, father name and father occupation were given when May remarried in 1912. Actually wrong but not corrected were the groom's name and age.
William Alfred Tonks, buried on the same day as Caroline Harriet Tonks at S John the Baptist in Hoxton, was probably the child of Caroline's parents Henry Tonks and Charlotte Rothery Newman. (I have not found him in the baptism records and he was born some time around March 1837 before civil registration began, so I don't have sufficient evidence to link him to them formally.)
Elizabeth Card of Burwash married William Carly in Etchingham in September 1718; Mary Card of Burwash married Henry Jarmin there in December of the same year.
In 1881 Margaret Bowhill was living at number 17 Trafalgar Place and her brother Joseph Bowhill was living at number 20.
John Dengate and Mary Dengate had their son Thomas Dengate baptised on 3rd October 1736 and their daughter Barbara Dengate baptised on 3rd October 1742.
Florence Fiveash was baptised twice, once in 1885 and once in 1893, with different birth dates each time.
The entry relating to the marriage of John Weyat and Johane Rankin in Saffron Walden in 1634 has been squeezed into the register in a different ink.
In 1871 Bushby Olliver had a job transporting ladies' underwear!
Although the relationship is not specified, the informant on Wm Drage's death certificate may have been Mary Drage.
John Charles Parkes's name is given as John James Parks on the GRO copy of his marriage certificate, as John Parks in the LMA copy, as Charles Parks on his daughter Emily Louisa Parks's birth certificate, and as John Charles Parkes on his wife Louisa Elizabeth Tonks's death certificate.
The witnesses to the marriage of James Smart and Jane Vie in 1814 included three women named Louisa.
The informant on Mary Hall's death certificate was named Fanny Chapman. The relationship is not specified but I believe she is likely to be Fanny Chapman, the wife of Mary's son Edgar Chapman
Richard Maycock and Martha Turner had a nephew and 'neice' living with them in 1861. I think David Catt was probably the son of Martha's sister Harriet Turner and her husband William Catt; I suspect Anne Catt could be Ann Ransom, the daughter of William's sister Charlotte Catt (who was listed as a servant in a nearby household).
In the 1939 census Pretoria Gertrude Ann Farley was living with her twin sister Jeannette Alphonsine Ernestine Farley.
J Mansergh's signature in the Climping marriage register is shaky, and the entries themselves seem to have been filled in in different hands (with different spellings)
According to George Bowhill's death certificate he was born in Kelso, and his parents were 'Thomas Bowhill Gardener Margaret Bowhill maiden name Wallace (both dead)'. There was a Thos Bowhill Gardener buried in Kelso in 1798, but given the apparent mistake in George's mother's name I think it's more likely that his parents were the individuals buried in 1808 and 1819 in Bishopwearmouth as the ages at burial are consistent with their baptisms.
John Bonham's February baptism is listed under the 1739 baptisms in the register; in today's calendar the baptism would be considered to have taken place in 1740.
In his will John Catt describes John Cleve as his Brother. I can find no evidence in the indexes I have consulted of a marriage between a Catt and a Cleve, but I think John Cleve may have been married to John Catt's sister Sarah Catt. A Sarah Catt was witness to the will of a John Cleve in 1715 and three children of John and Sarah Cleve were baptised in Ewhurst between 1721 and 1731.
Henry Baker married Margaret Bowhill in 1871; in 1875 his brother William Baker married her sister Sarah Bowhill
I've found the name Perrow given as Perroe, Perrowe, Perrah, Perra, Parrow and Arrow in records, and indexed as Perrows, Perros and Person.
Annie Elizabeth Phillips's sons Frederick James Phillips and William Wickham were both born on 24 July
Frances Burchet's age at burial suggests she was born in about 1774. I have not been able to find a baptism for a Frances Burton in Sussex around that time, but there is one for a Frances Button in Burwash (where Frances married) in 1775.
There is a gap in the marriages recorded in the Walkern parish register between November 1658 and November 1662, which may explain why I haven't been able to find the marriage of Thomas Ecton to Martha Exton. I can't find a marriage for John Exton and Mary Exton, either, but I suspect they may have married at a Quaker meeting.
The register entry for Sarah Selling's marriage gives her surname as 'Selling' but she signed it as 'Sellens'
PROB 18/13/72 relates to some kind of dispute over the will of Francis Exton, and the will itself is in Supplementary Wills Series I (PROB 20). Francis's son George Exton, left only five shillings in the disputed will, stipulated in his own will that if a dispute arose it should be put to men of 'good honest report and not concerned in the Law'.
Louisa Elizabeth Tonks and her daughter Jacintha Augusta Parks both worked as dress makers
The Plungar parish register records the marriage of John Milner and Mary Hand on 24th November 1774, but the Bishop's Transcript reports 'Weddings none' for 1774 and has the marriage on 17th November 1775. Both records were signed by R Stoop the vicar.
Ann Mitchell's name is given as Agnes in her burial entry and memorial inscription - I'm told that the names Ann and Agnes were interchangeable in Scotland. She was also referred to in many records by her maiden surname, another Scottish practice.
There is a type-written note tucked into the front cover of the Hinxton parish register explaining that the pages from 1540 to 1560 are missing. I suspect the baptisms of Frauncis Twyne and Alise Gardner may have been somewhere in those pages.
In 1891 Alice Chapman was a servant in the household of Alban H G Doran, who was associated with the Samaritan Free Hospital where her sister Charlotte Chapman was working as a nurse.
The informant on Richard Dunstan's death certificate was likely Grace Ellery, who was a neighbour of Richard's children in 1851.
Mary Benrose surname is spelled 'Benrose' in the marriage register entry but she spelled it 'Bemrose' in her signature.
According to the records Isabela Bates was baptized on 17th October 1822 in Monkwearmouth; her parents John Bates and Margaret Bowhill were married on 27 November 1822 in Stepney.
Although the surname is given as Arrow not Parrow, I think the 1814 burial of 'Honour wife of Anthony Arrow' is the burial of Honor Pearce wife of Anthony Perrow as they were the only couple with those forenames who had had children baptised in the parish.
Mary Gibson was listed as a widow in the 1861 and 1871 censuses; her husband George James Bowhill was described as a widower when he married Elizabeth Bernardes in 1868. I presume their relationship had broken down sometime in the mid-1850s, which was when Mary's son Richard Bowhill was born.
Barker Newman and Charlotte Rothery's daughters Anna Newman and Eleanor Newman were born on 14 and 15 July respectively, and their children Henry Barker Newman and Charlotte Rothery Newman on the 21 and 22 July. Their daughters Anna Newman and Debrah Newman were both born on 15 March.
Joseph Tonks and Ann Chandler gave their son Joseph Dallett Tonks the middle name Dallett. William Dallet had married Elizabeth Tonks at St Mary le Bow in 1780. William and Elizabeth subsequently moved to Walthamstow, where Joseph and Ann's son Thomas Tonks and grandson Henry Joseph Tonks were born. According to a gravestone transcript in Fragmenta Genealogica (published in 1909) one of William and Elizabeth's children, Willm Dallet, is buried in Chingford; nearby are the graves of Martha Tonks, described as his grandmother, and her husband Joseph Tonks, as well as two other Dallett children.
Although no father's name is given on John Phillips's marriage certificate to definitely establish his parentage, his 3xgreat-grandson has a DNA match to a 4xgreat-granddaughter of his mother Ann Wenham's brother John Wenham.
On census night in 1851 Thomas Govett was a visitor in the household of Edward Window and Elizabeth Dawes. Two weeks later he married Elizabeth's sister Mary Ann Dawes.
The informant on Martha Luck's death certificate in 1849 was a Sophia Miles; Sophia Collins had married Thomas Miles in 1836.
Lydia Jeakins was removed from Winchelsea in November 1789 to her birth parish of Wouldham, where her son Robert Peters Jenkins was baptised in January 1790. Lydia was back in Winchelsea in 1794, when she married James Phillips of Fairlight. Robert used the surname Phillips when he married Jane Pullen in Bury in 1811, but in later records used the surname Jenkins.
Both the informant and the registrar on Grace Roling's death certificate were called Thomas Dunstan.
In C 2/ChasI/E9/62 Edward Howsden said that he had objected to the marriage of Christopher Emerson and Anne Howsden because they were 'first Cozens & this defend't for ye Consanguinity betweene them did not hold it fitt they should marry together' and there was 'a Clause in the said [marriage] license that there should be noe affinity or consanguinity betweene the said p[ar]ties'. Apparently, though, legally speaking - that is, under the Marriage Act of 1540 (32 Hen VIII, c.38, 'An Act concerning Pre-contracts of Marriages, and touching Degrees of Consanguinity') - the relationship was not actually an impediment to the marriage, as cousins were not included in the prohibited degrees. (I say 'apparently' as I have not been able to locate a copy of the text of the act to check myself.)
I think it's possible that the Richard Reynolds mentioned in the will of his grandmother Hester Henley was the son of Richard and Elizabeth Reynalds baptised in Hawkhurst in March 1698/9 . I haven't been able to find any record of a marriage for the couple but Elizabeth's sister Easter Cruttenden was stated to be of Hawkhurst when she married John Thomas in Benenden in 1708. It's peculiar that Elizabeth isn't mentioned in the 1707/8 will of her father Josephus Cruttenden, but I have a suspicion that a line was skipped when the will was copied as one part reads 'I give & bequeath vnto Benjamin Cruttenden my Sone the su[m]me of Twenty pounds of Lawfull mony w[i]thin six months after my decease', without the usual 'to be paid to him'.
The marriage register entry gives Anthony Perrow's marital status as 'Mariner'.
There were a Thomas and Ann Wakelin/Wakeling who had children baptised in Farnborough, Kent in the 1780s, but I haven't found in the indexes a record that suggests that Anne Wakeling was one of them.
Thomas Fitzgerald and Catherine Burke married in July 1837 'according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England', yet had two of their children baptised at a Roman Catholic church. This will probably have been because marriages in Roman Catholic churches were not recognised until the Marriage Act of 1836 came into force in September 1837.
The informant on Isaac Asher's death certificate in 1837 was an Asher Benjamin. Isaac's sister Elizabeth Asher had married Asher Benjamin in 1823.
Easter Cruttenden and her niece Hannah Cruttenden both seem to have married for the first time in their 30s, which is unusually late for the period.
Grace Wenham was living with John Phillips and Frances Vidler in 1861 and Frances was the informant on her death certificate. Although the relationship is given as 'Lodger' in the census entry she was probably John's maternal aunt.
When Thomas Newland and Jane Vie married in 1841 they both stated that they were of full age; in fact, Thomas was only about 18.
The bondsman on the marriage licence bond for John Mancell and Mary Ilkins was called James Ilkins, which was the name of Mary's uncle James Ilkins.
From her signature in the parish register at her wedding, Elizabeth Joynson Okell appears to have spelled her forename with an 's'
Joseph Bowhill and Sarah Ellis had their sons James Bowhill and Joseph Bowhill baptised on the same day as the children of their next door neighbours James Gibbs and Sarah Gibbs
In the 1851 census Elena Jane Newland's name is given as 'Clara'. I suspect this may be a misreading on the part of the enumerator of 'Elena', which was the spelling of her name used in the baptism register two years before.
The Rev. Bargus's 1799 census of parishioners lists Rapier Guiver's occupation as 'The Clerk', which would explain why he was a witness at so many marriages in Barkway.
John Alfred Williams's birth certificate gives his father as Richard Williams. Subsequent documents give his father as John Alfred Marcham
Mary Exton and her husband John Exton were buried a week apart.
I wonder if Charity Collins was a half-sister of Bartholomew Collins, whose marriage she witnessed in 1798. I can't find a burial for Bartholomew's mother Elizabeth Mitchell, but I can't find a likely-looking marriage for Charity's parents Thomas and Ann either, so there may be parish records missing.
In Sarah Dunsmore's baptism entry her mother's name is given as 'El' followed by a gap. I think that it's more likely that it was a mistake and she was the daughter of Jane Bramly than that Jane had died, Francis Dunmore had remarried, that wife then died, and Francis married another Jane by the time his next child Martha Dunsmore was baptised. (But given the long gap between the baptisms of Sarah and Martha it's not impossible!)
In 1841 James Bonds and Mary Pavey were living at Catts Cottage in Rotherfield with their youngest son Jesse Bones. Also living at Catts Cottage were a John Pavey and his family, including his young son Iden Pavey who shared his unusual forename with James and Mary's eldest son Iden Bones.
A number of User Submitted Genealogies on the FamilySearch site state that Frauncis Twyne died in Hinxton in 1586, but there is no record of his burial in that year in the parish register.
In 1911 William Mansworth completed the forms for both households at 70 Whitehorse St.
Susannah Wells Hooper was baptised as the illegitimate daughter of Sarah Hooper in Tilbrook (then in Bedfordshire) in 1831, but records suggest she was born in around 1829-30 and the 1851 census gives Hargrave in Northamptonshire as her place of birth (the 1841 census, when she was living in Tilbrook, notes her as not born in the county). Her marriage certificate gives 'John Hooper' as her father's name, but it seems something of a coincidence that in 1829 a David Wells was imprisoned 'refusing to give Security to indemnify the Parish of Hargrave in a Matter of Bastardy'.
I've found the surname Okell in records as Okell, O'Kell, Okill, Oakill and Oakel, and indexed as Chell, Ckill and Greb!
Joseph Finch son of William Finch and John Ellis son of Mary Finch were baptised on the same day; I would guess that William and Mary were related in some way (I have several examples in my family tree of cousins being baptised together).
In 1881 Jemima Drage and John Drage, who I believe were first cousins once removed, were living about half a mile apart in Camberwell (they were both born in Barkway in Hertfordshire).
Iden Bones seems to appear twice in the 1851 census: once listed with his wife in Poplar, and once as a patient in St Thomas Hospital.
William Catt's second wife Harriet Turner died the day after their third wedding anniversary.
In 1861 Ruth Drage was living with her daughter Ruth Camp and son William Camp; all three were widowed.
Charles Vie was buried in Minterne Magna, Dorset, on 11 February 1832. Exactly a month later his young daughter Emma Elizabeth Vie was buried in Chelsea.
Catharine Fuller was buried on the same day her daughter Catharine Fuller was baptised.
Thomas William Newland married Rosetta Frances Chapman in 1884. His brother Frederick James Newland married her sister Alice Chapman in 1894.
Francis William Olliver and May Howard married in 1891 and both were still alive in 1939, but when May remarried in 1912 her condition was stated to be widow and when Francis remarried in 1917 his condition was given as bachelor...
I suspect there is a mistake in the 1841 census enumeration for the Murray family, with Alexander Murray being included in the list of ages but not the list of names. His name is missing, and the ages of his younger siblings Eliza Murray, Susan Murray and Margaret Murray are out by a couple of years.
In November 1918 Mabel Alice Newland lost both her daughter Kathleen Mabel Alice Olliver and her sister Avis Rosetta Newland. Exhaustion was given as one of the causes of death for both.
On Emma Camp's death certificate the sub-district is spelled 'Melbourne' but the place of death is spelled 'Melbourn'.
The informant on Mary Upton's death certificate in 1847 was a Louisa Podger; I think it likely that she was Mary's daughter Louisa Waters, who had married Edward George Podger in 1822.
I can't find a marriage corresponding to the marriage licence of Richard Mattox to Mary Barker dated 12th June 1735, but I can't find any marriages recorded in the Westbury parish register between John Sarlam and Deborah Harman on 1st May 1735 (tucked at the bottom of the births page) and Rob:t Clasey and Mary Long on 10th May 1737.
The Vies of Dorset seem to have been associated with the hospitality industry. Thomas Vie was the keeper of the White Hart in Beaminster, John Philips Vie of the Quiet Woman in Halstock, Henry Vie of the Antelope in Poole and Charles Vye of the Bell. Thomas's daughter Mary Phillips Vye married an innkeeper, John Hearne.
The marriages of William Wareing and Thomas Waring are consecutive entries in the Reed parish register.
In the record of his marriage Hugh Emerson's surname was first written as 'Emerson' then a 'b' was inserted above the line.
The Durham Chronicle of 16 February 1844 reported the death on '7th, Mrs Mary Bowhill, of Millfield, aged 44', but the death certificate describes her as a 'Singlewoman'.
Alice Chapman and her father-in-law Frederick Thomas Newland were both born on 7 November
Richard Groom and Sarah Susanna Blake were married on 24 February 1805. Their son John Henry Groom was born on 24 February 1823.
Joseph Bowhill died in Maidstone Gaol in Kent but was buried in the Tower Hamlets cemetery.
The National Archives catalogue entry for document ACC/1386/845 from the LMA gives the information that it is dated 28 June 1882 and concerns the "Lease for 21 years from 24 June 1882" of the "dwellinghouse and shop known as Leith House, Quex Road" for a rent of "£75 yearly rising to £100 yearly". It says that it is endorsed with an "Assignment of lease, dated 13 January 1897", of the premises "now known as 1 Quex Road" to "Thomas William Newland of 44 Priory Park Road, Kilburn, fruiterer", for the consideration of £150.
On her marriage certificate Elena Jane Newland's marital status was originally 'Spinster' but has been crossed in and replaced with 'Widow'; her father's surname is given as Pearson, but the father's occupation is consistent with Thomas Newland's known occupation. The next certificate in the register also has a number of alterations.
Frederick Thomas Newland's death date is given as 21 April on his death certificate but 19 April in the Letters of Administration of his Estate.
In 1841 Bartholomew Collins and Martha Luck were living at High Holm in Warbleton. Also resident there was the Dann family. Dann was the maiden name of Martha's likely mother Martha Dann.
Caleb Collins and Hannah Burchett were married by a registrar called Harry Potter
According to her granddaughter, Honora Coughlin was known as Norrie
The burial registers of Beaminster in Dorset containe information on relationships not usually seen in registers at the time.
According to an affidavit signed by one of the witnesses to his will, George Bowhill died 'on a visit to Bremsmill near Dunbar'. His death certificate states he 'has resided many years at Sunderland & came here a few days ago'.
Elizabeth Dawes and her sister Mary Ann Dawes both married codwainers.
Although James Nowling's baptism place, Baldock, is unusually far (about 8.5 miles on foot) from the village, Benington, where he spent his adult life, a few years before his birth his parents John Newling and Mary Newling were on at least one occasion removed to Baldock from Aston, which is about 2.5 miles from Benington.
Margaret Dunstone Perrow died on 25 Feb 1870. Her daughter Jeanette Elizabeth Dear gave birth to William Thomas Deer the next day.
Charlotte Rothery Newman and her daughter Louisa Elizabeth Tonks both died of paralysis in Shoreditch Workhouse in the 1850s.
Although the relationship is given as 'Serv.', it is likely that the Ann Phillips living with John Hutchings and Lucy Wenham in 1851 was Lucy's niece Anne Grace Phillips.
John Phillips is actually listed in the 1841 census twice. He was a TurnKey [sic]/assistant (the two entries differ) at the Common Gaol, which was included as both a building off the High Street and as an institution.
Sarah Sales died in Southend in Lewisham in 1856. The informant was a Mary Divall; I think this was most likely to be Sarah's sister Mary Sales, whose marriage to James Divehall Sarah and her husband Thomas Upton had witnessed in 1827 and who had been living in Southend since at least 1829. (Mary did have a daughter Mary Divall but she would have been only 10 at the time.) Thomas's sister Louisa Waters had been living at White Foot Lane in South End in 1851.
William Camp son of William Camp and Ruth Drage was baptised at the New Meeting House in Royston on the same day as William Drage son of Samuel Drage and Martha Taylor.
The 1841 census for Crockham Hill has two Ann Wickens, one aged 5 living with John Wicken and Charlotte Sales and one aged 8 living with Charlotte's parents James Sales and Sarah Wicken. I suspect both entries refer to John and Charlotte's daughter Anne Wicken, baptised in 1833; the ages of all the young people living with John and Charlotte are a couple of years out to be their children of the same names, so I think Ann has been counted twice.
Sarah Jane Tonks, her sister Ellen Tonks and their cousin Thomas Henry Tonks were all baptised at St Leonard Shoreditch on 15 September 1839.
I think it much more likely that Elizabeth Smith was the granddaughter of Frederick Smith (as per the 1891 census) than his daughter (as stated in the 1871 and 1881 censuses).
The informant on James Sales's death certificate was a Charlotte Wicken; I expect this was his daughter Charlotte Sales who had married John Wicken in 1821.
The burials of Elizabeth Jane Spittery and Hannah Maria Spithray daughters of John Spitrey and Ann Bowhills are consecutive entries in the Bishop's Transcript.
According to her 1911 census entry, Maryann Upton had children named Hamas, Jhon and Roberts.
In the 1841 census ages of people over the age of 15 were supposed to be rounded down to the nearest 5 years, so although at the time Thomas Collins was just weeks away from his 20th birthday his age is given as 15.
The 1871 census entry for James Fitzgerald, whose marriage certificate says his father was Thomas Fitzgerald, says that he was born in St Pancras in about 1848. Although I have a birth certificate for a James Fitzgerald son of Thomas born in Kentish Town, St Pancras in December 1847, I don't think it likely that they are the same person because the Kentish Town Thomas was a Grocer, while James's father was a labourer.
There is no reference to the marriage of Christopher Emerson and Anne Howsden in the index to the Hormead parish registers, so the marriage presumably took place in Strethall, but according to their catalogue the earliest parish registers of Strethall deposited at the Essex Record Office date from the eighteenth century.
In January 1675/6 Nicholas Swaine appointed 'Henry Cruttenden of Heathfeild in the said County of Sussex Mercer' one of the executors of his will. His widow Elizabeth Bungar's daughter from her subsequent remarriage, Mary Heathfild, married Joseph Crottenden in 1701.
George Bowhill's death certificate gives his age as 77, but his burial entry gives his age as 71.
Eleanor J Newland married her cousin Frederick J Childs.
Henry Tonks and Charlotte Rothery Newman had most of their children baptised in Shoreditch, but their son Henry Joseph Tonks was baptised in Walthamstow.
William Camp Miller's father Charles Miller and father-in-law Wm T. (?) Stagg were both boot-makers.
The way John Heathfield initially refers to Mary Heathfild in his will is puzzling - he refers to her as 'my daughter in Law Mary Cruttenden'. Mary's mother Elizabeth Bungar had been married previously, but it seems very unlikely that Mary was a product of that marriage - she was baptised as 'the daught' of John Heathfield by Eliz his wife' well over a year after the burial of Elizabeth's previous husband (and ten months after John and Elizabeth's marriage) and when she married Joseph Crottenden in 1701 it was as 'Mary Heathfild'.
There were two officials with the surname Kelly performing baptisms at St Leonard Shoreditch in the 1820s - AP Kelly and W Kelly.
Thomas Bowhill's 1819 burial entry gives his address as Cumberland Street; in 1821 his granddaughter Ann Bowhill was baptised at the Corn Market Chapel about a quarter of a mile away.
I don't think the John Thomas Murray, Commercial Traveller aged 57 years, who died in St George Camberwell in June 1853 is the same person as John Murray. The John T Murray living at the stated address, 215 Albany Road, in 1851 had children with names, ages and and/or places of birth inconsistent with those of John's known children.
I have also checked the death certificates of John Murrays who died in St Peter Walworth in March 1857 (Malt Roaster aged 57 years); St George the Martyr Southwark in December 1852 (Umbrella Maker aged 48 years); and St George Camberwell in June 1848 (son of James Murray aged 1 month)
Thomas H Newland married Jane Louisa Hook in 1870 and they had at least four children. The BMD indexes suggest that by the end of 1890 all six of the family members had died.
The edge of page 145 of RG6/1382 is damaged, so I have taken the year for Zedekiah Wyatt's birth from the corresponding entry in RG6/1262.
According to her nephew, Maude Emma Shorter had one leg shorter than the other and wore a big boot.
The licence which John Sturt obtained to marry Catherine Lawrence specified that they were to be married in Petworth, but they were married the next day in Amberley.
The baptism entry for Mary Bowhill is unusually detailed, recording that she was her parents' '7.th D.r' and her father John Smith Bowhill was 'Native of Roxburghshire, Scotland' while her mother Ann Mitchall was 'Native of Houghton le Spring'. The baptisms of her siblings John Bowhill and Ann Bowhill specify that John was 'Native of Kelso Scotland'; they are described as the '1.st Son' and '7.th D.r', which suggest the numbers refer to living children.
With grateful thanks to David Gobbitt for correcting my original mis-identification of the marriage of Elizabeth Dawes.
Robt Ludgater's bequests to his son Thomas Ludgater included ' Item I give and bequeath unto the said Mary my loving Wife to her own proper use all my pewter and brass and I desire her to give out thereof to my said son Thomas Ludgater one porridge pott and three pewter dishes of the Middle Sort and fower pewter plates'.
Thomas Ellis Bowhill married Emily Dear at St Paul Deptford in 1867; George James Bowhill, who I strongly suspect was Thomas's uncle, married Elizabeth Bernardes there in 1868.
One of the witnesses to Benjamin Asher's will in 1821 was a Charles Fricker. In 1857, going by the GRO indexes and subsequent census entries, Benjamin's grandson Moses Asher (who was one of the beneficiaries of the will) married an Emma Mary Fricker
Many online family trees have the March 1782 burial in Surrey of Martha Dann wife of Thomas linked to Martha Dann. This is obviously incorrect, as Martha's married name was Luck, not Dann, and she had a child baptised in November 1783! The deceased in that record is actually a Quaker lady born Martha Tully.
In 1857 Ruth Camp married in an independent chapel. In 1861 her occupation was given as 'Beer Seller'.
I would be surprised if Elizabeth Mack??? was actually Andrew Asher's daughter as indicated in the 1851 census. I think it likely the 'Do' in the Relation column was a mistake.
Pretoria Gertrude Ann Farley's 1939 census entry has been annotated with the surnames OLLIVER (dated 2.12 48) and MILLINGTON (14.6.60). When Pretoria married Eustace Charles Cy? Millington in 1958 as Pretoria Gertrude Olliver 'name changed by Deed Poll' was written under her name on the certificate.
In 1861 George Catt and Ann Kennard were living next door to the Kenward family.
The baptism and burial of Solomon Catt are recorded in the same register entry.
The baptism and burial of Thomas Catt are consecutive entries in the parish register.
In the mid-nineteenth century Emy Olliver and her sister Jane Olliver were living in Millers Tomb Cottage. The builder of the Miller's Tomb, John Olliver, may have been their great-uncle
Harry Jarman and Sarah Knight's marriage was the first in the new-format parish register of marriages in Ewhurst in 1754.
According to her marriage certificate Jane Wickham was the daughter of Edward Wickham. I think it likely that she was the daughter of Edward Wickham and Anne Underhill. They were non-conformists, which would explain why I haven't been able to find a baptism for Jane, and Anne's mother's name was Jane. I also think Jane's father Edward was Edward Wickham, as Jane's probable 3xgreat-grandson has a DNA match to a descendant of his sister Lucy Wickham.
There are three different documents giving three different birth dates for Thomas Joseph Bowhill - his birth certificate and two baptisms all show different dates
George Chapman died on 14 February 1872. His great-great-grandsons Bernard Olliver and Peter Olliver were born on 14 February 1929.
Although the IGI has a record of a baptism of an Anne Marner in Walberton in 1742, it also has a record of a burial of an Ann Marner in the same parish, with parents with the same name as the baptised Ann, in 1762, so I don't think she was the same person as Anne Marner.
Freda Sibyl Williams told me that when her grandmother Fanny Ann Miller was between marriages she used to put her children in the workhouse. Freda may have been right on this one: one of the children, Lilian Georgina Daisy Fiveash, was living at the St Catherine's Home and Refuge for Friendless and Fallen Girls in 1900, and in 1901 another, Florence Fiveash, was an inmate of the Refuge Society Home in West Ham.
Ellen Augusta Harmer started to sign her own name in the marriage register but it was crossed through and replaced with her mark.
Thomas Ellis Bowhill and Emily Dear appear to have had two of their children, Emily Bowhill and Thomas Joseph Bowhill, baptised twice.
Thomas Relf and Hannah Jerman were both able to sign their names in the parish register when they married in 1777.
The banns for Ambrose Bond and Emily Vinten's marriage had been read in Bromley, Kent, but the certificate states that they were both residing in Bethnal Green.
The 'Supposed Cause of Insanity' in Mary Glassbrook's asylum admission record of 1862 is 'Death of her daughter'. The BMD indexes indicate that a Hannah Newland, possibly Mary's daughter Hannah Newland, died in 1861; Hannah's sisters Elizabeth Newland, Sarah Newland and Emily Newland also died young.
A John Newland of Little Munden married a Mary Starr by licence in Walkern in 1744, but since John Newling and Mary Newling's first recorded child wasn't baptised until 1751 I don't think there are sufficient grounds to say that the two couples were the same people.
Charlotte Rothery Newman signed her own name in the marriage register, but her elder daughters Louisa Elizabeth Tonks, Mary Ann Tonks and Ellen Tonks made marks instead.
The 'Information of Ruth Whisken' in Thurloe's State Papers does not specify a location, but the only two early- to mid-17th-century Ruth Whiskins indexed in the IGI were baptised in Ashdon, Essex, which is about 4 miles from Saffron Walden where Christopher Emerson and Mary Emerson had children baptised in the early 1650s.
Alexander Ion and Margaret Dear were married 'by Superintend Registrar's Certificate'
Although they married before 1837, when the father's name began to be given in marriage register entries, census evidence suggests that Mary Drage and Lucy Drage were daughters of Wm Drage. Maria Drage is another possible child, as is Samuel Drage.
Her 1871 census entry says that Sarah Ann Mepham was the 'neice' of John Pavey, which suggests her mother Mary Ann Mepham was the sister of John's wife Harriet Mepham.
Although his mother's name was given as Mary Catt in the baptism register, I would be surprised if George Catt was not the son of Ann Ashdown. There is no evidence in the indexes that Ann died between the baptism of her son John in 1791 and George's baptism in 1793, the age at death of James Catt's widow Anne in 1839 is not inconsistent with her being the same person, and George is certainly the son of the same James as James included him along with his children by Ann in his will in 1819. None of George's five daughters were given the name Mary (his eldest was given the name Ann but that was probably after her mother). George's wife Ann Kennard became Mary Ann on her death certificate, so maybe something similar happened on George's baptism entry.
There is a gap in the baptisms of the children of Benjamin Mepham and Elizabeth Corke in Heathfield between 1791 and 1797. According to PAR372/35/2, as at 10 January 1792 Benjamin had run away, leaving his wife and family chargeable to the parish. Benjamin was presumably also absent in 1795, when it was ordered that Elizabeth's 8-year-old son Benjamin Mepham Cork be sent back to Mayfield, his parish of birth, having become chargeable to the parish of Heathfield.
In 1841 Jane Vie was living in the next house on the census from her future in-laws, John Newland and Mary Glassbrook
Although there is a Charles Vinton listed as the son of Elizabeth Reed in the 1851 census, it looks likely (from the lack of any other evidence for the existence of such an individual) that he was actually the son of George and Caroline Wooler.
One of the witnesses to John Phillips's marriage to Frances Vidler in Guestling in 1841 was a William Phillips. When the 1841 census taken there was a William Phillips living in Guestling who was a Police Officer. (He was the son of James Phillips and Mary Ann Carpenter, and was baptised at All Saints in Hastings in 1815.) John subsequently became a Police Constable, and William a Superintendant of Police.
Although the parents' names are blank in her baptism entry, I think it likely Sarah Hooper was the daughter of John Hooper and Mary Bridgeman. There wasn't another couple named Hooper having children baptised in Hargrave at that time as far as I can see from the index, and I have DNA matches to descendants of one of their sons.
Three of the Vies that I know of married at St Pancras church in London: Frances Knatchbull Vie in March 1831, her sister Emma Norman Vie in May 1831, and their cousin Thomas Henry Vie in 1842.
Lydia Wise gave her age as 41 in two successive censuses
Alice Maud Fiveash and one of her granddaughters were both born on 14 June.
One of the crew lost in the sinking of the Three Brothers in 1841 alongside John Phillips and William Copper the son of Ann Phillips was reported in one newspaper as Ed. Bumsted (the others give his surname as Breandens). A Thomas Phillips married an Ann Bumstead at All Saints, Hastings in 1817.
Louisa Elizabeth Tonks and her sister Mary Ann Tonks were both resident in Church Street at the times of their respective marriages in St Philip's Church, Bethnal Green in 1845 and 1854.
William Drage and his wife Mary Waring had at least 35 grandchildren!
One of the causes of death on Anne Wakeling's death certificate was 'A Generally diseased Constitution'!
There are a couple of baptisms in mid-eighteenth-century Sussex that could be Benjamin Mepham's, but since both the record of his marriage and the bastardy bond he signed a few days before state that he was 'of Folkestone' in Kent I don't think there are sufficient grounds to make the link.
According to the Kent Archaeological Society's monumental inscriptions page for Wouldham Lydia Mills died on 31st October aged 32 years leaving one daughter, but her burial is not recorded in the Wouldham Register. Lydia was baptised in January 1733 and one of her two surviving daughters (who had been baptised in January 1766) was buried on 3rd October 1766.
Although the 1871 and 1881 censuses describe Ann Kennard as Edmund Brown's mother I think it more likely she was his mother-in-law.
On the basis of dates it's possible that Drage the five year-old 'Daughter of William Drage' buried in the independent burial ground in February 1806 was the daughter of William Drage not his son Wm Drage as I have assigned her, as William senior had had a child baptised in 1797. However, the fact that that I've not found a baptism for a child of William senior around 1801 makes me think that she is more likely to be the daughter of William junior, who was a dissenter and didn't have any of his children baptised.
Barker Newman and Charlotte Rothery had two daughters named Anna, two named Charlotte Rothery, two named Deborah, and two named Eleanor.
I have found the surname Shorter indexed as Sherton and Thorton.
The London Apprenticeship Abstracts, 1442-1850 record the binding of William Okell son of William Okell, carpenter of St Sepulchre, London, to George Maynard of the Vintners' company in 1757.
The National Archives catalogue entry for document ACC/1386/848 from the LMA is a "Surrender" dated 13 June 1902. It involves "Thomas William Newland of 1 Quex Road, Kilburn, greengrocer", the premises "1 Quex Road", and the consideration "new lease at increased rent".
John Alfred Marcham's son/stepson John Alfred Williams was born on 3 April 1891. His first wife Lydia Wise died on 3 April 1894.
When William Chapman married Elizabeth Croson in 1778 his marital status was given as 'Gardener'.
In 1851 Jesse Bones and his brother Iden Bones were living in the same house in Poplar.
There are three spelling mistakes in Sarah Ann Mepham's 1871 census entry.
The register entry for the marriage of James Burton and Frances Burchet has Frances's maiden name as both Burton and Burchett. The banns have Burchet.
Over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries (often at the same time) there have been Uptons living at numbers 19, 21, 23, 26, 27, 40, 41, 42, 58, 74, 80 and 87 of Brightfield Road in Lee.
According to the 1871 census Jn.o Fuller's third wife Ellen Augusta Harmer was only three years older than his eldest daughter from his first marriage, Phoebe Ann Fuller.
Charles Miller died on 8 January 1887; his daughter Elizabeth Miller married 22 days later.
A Henry Webb was one of the witnesses to Susanna Jenkins's marriages to John Buglehole in 1794 and John Fiveash in 1799. The other witness to her remarriage was an Ann Jenkins.
Susannah Harriet Groom died six weeks after giving birth to her daughter Susannah Harriet Williams.
Welcome to Jenny's Genealogy
Welcome to my family tree site.With very grateful thanks to the family members who have got in touch to supply me with stories, photographs and certificates.
Site last updated: 28th October 2023
What's New
28/10/2023: Family of Charlotte Rothery Newman.30/07/2023: Family of Frederick Smith.
25/06/2023: More Sunderland Bowhills.
30/04/2023: The Kelso-Sunderland Bowhills.
05/03/2023: The Westminster Bowhills.
31/07/2022: Bits and pieces - a handful of extra records, displaying abode from burial entries, and some corrections.
29/05/2022: Relatives of Mary Heathfild (father's side).
24/04/2022: Relatives of Mary Heathfild (mother's side).
13/03/2022: Improvement to display of marriage entries from old-style parish registers.
30/01/2022: Relatives of Elizabeth Cruttenden.
29/08/2021: Occupations and locations from less structured documents.
27/06/2021: Partners and children of Francis William Olliver and Thomas Bushby Olliver.
31/05/2021: Relatives of Henry Asher.
24/04/2021: Allowing DNA matches as evidence (see my blog post for an explanation).
07/02/2021: Relatives of Mary Hand.
10/01/2021: Relatives of Charles Miller.
06/12/2020: Bits and pieces.
08/11/2020: Some records relating to the Catt family.
11/10/2020: Family of old David Dear.
09/08/2020: The Extons.
14/06/2020: Family of William Catt.
10/05/2020: More family of William Humphrey Wickham.
05/04/2020: Family of Harriet Golden Phillips.
01/03/2020: Family of William Humphrey Wickham.
02/02/2020: Family of Lydia Jeakens.
05/01/2020: Some family links suggested by DNA matches.
29/12/2019: Family of Martha Dann.
17/11/2019: More Drages of Barkway.
27/10/2019: Family of William Okell.
29/09/2019: Family of Margaret Perrow.
26/08/2019: Family of Arthur William Phillips.
07/07/2019: Bits and pieces.
04/05/2019: 1939 census.
14/04/2019: Some family of Thomas Newland.
26/01/2019: Vinten records.
04/11/2018: Some Burchetts.
02/09/2018: Apprenticeships.
19/08/2018: A new perspective - looking at places.
08/07/2018: Some documents relating to the Howsdens.
10/06/2018: Some records relating to the Tonks family.
05/05/2018: Family of Thomas Upton.
07/04/2018: Family of Frances Vidler.
03/03/2018: Family of Mary Pavey.
28/01/2018: 'Bits and pieces' - mostly burials, a couple of documents, and miscellaneous other records, relating to individuals in various branches of my tree.
31/12/2017: Records relating to Arthur Phillips.
26/11/2017: Family of Thomas Collins.
29/10/2017: Family of Susannah Moon.
30/09/2017: Family of Thomas Fitzgerald.
27/08/2017: Family of Etheldred Howsdon.
06/08/2017: Places: addition of map coordinates for some baptisms and burials, corrections to coordinates for some churches.
23/07/2017: Family of Mary Mepham.
25/06/2017: Family of Anne Howsden.
27/05/2017: Family of Mary Pennett.
30/04/2017: Records relating to Christopher Emerson.
25/03/2017: A few records relating to the Murrays.
02/01/2017: The Caesars.
18/12/2016: The Shorters.
25/09/2016: The Vies of Beaminster and London.
09/07/2016: The Perrows of Falmouth.
25/06/2016: Records relating to David Dear and family.
01/05/2016: Dears in Scotland and Northumberland.
05/03/2016: The Daweses of Bermondsey.
14/02/2016: Corrections to map coordinates for some locations in the Southwark area.
13/02/2016: Updated Useful Links page.
03/01/2016: Wills and associated records relating to family of Ruth Brett.
25/12/2015: Family of Ruth Brett (back to the sixteenth century!).
27/09/2015: Family of John Camp.
06/09/2015: The Bonhams.
30/08/2015: The Camps and Drages of Barkway, Newsells and Reed, 1799.
26/07/2015: Improvements to selection of names to be displayed in pages and used in links.
05/07/2015: Improvements to way locations are displayed in person details pages.
28/06/2015: Family of Jane Camp.
24/05/2015: Family of Charles Miller.
29/03/2015: The Newlands.
28/03/2015: Estimate birth year from infant death records.
22/03/2015: Display of non-standard ages in burial entries.
31/01/2015: Family of Sarah Harriet Asher.
27/12/2014: Family of Alice Chapman.
30/11/2014: Family of Thomas Fitzgerald.
26/10/2014: Catholic baptisms: children of Honorah Coughlin.
12/10/2014: Entries from Admission and Discharge Registers of Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum.
25/08/2014: Display of non-standard ages in marriage and death certificates
24/08/2014: Children of Emily Dear and Thomas Ellis Bowhill
17/08/2014: Tentative person identifications (see my blog post for an explanation).
29/06/2014: Workhouse admissions and discharges
27/04/2014: Children of David Dear and Margaret Perrow
20/04/2014: Inclusion of extra information on relatives in person details pages
29/03/2014: Family of Sarah Ellis
23/02/2014: Re-organisation of person details pages
25/01/2014: Children of Joseph Bowhill and Sarah Ellis
29/12/2013: More on the Williams family
27/10/2013: Wills: John Marcham, Alfred Marcham, Thomas Williams, Thomas Grisson, Joseph Grisson Buck
10/08/2013: Family of Richard Williams
25/05/2013: The Dawes family
31/03/2013: Family of Elizabeth Joynson Okell
26/01/2013: Electoral registers 2: the Phillipses and Uptons
29/12/2012: The Uptons of Lee
28/10/2012: Residence information from electoral registers: the Ollivers and Fitzgeralds
26/08/2012: The Tonks family
21/07/2012: The Newmans of Westbury
27/05/2012: Marriages from parish records (i.e. pre-1837)
31/03/2012: The Uptons
20/01/2012: The Chapmans of Glaston: baptisms, census entries and death certificates.
20/11/2011: Susannah Wells Hooper and her children
23/10/2011: New searchable layout on Site Map
17/09/2011: More on the Bowhills
21/08/2011: Documents. Report on Coroner's inquest into death of Joseph Bowhill, grant of Letters of Administration of the estate of Frederick Thomas Newland, and letter from Robert Fiveash.
22/05/2011: Even more on the Ollivers...
22/04/2011: More on the Ollivers
26/03/2011: Family of Margaret Dear junior (Philipson and Ion families)
05/03/2011: Burials: Mary Moon, Emma and Martha Vie, Susan and Richard Vidler, Elizabeth Fiveash
30/12/2010: Children and deaths of Richard Vidler and Susanna Relf.
24/10/2010: Relatives of Annie Elizabeth Phillips: some births, deaths and baptisms of Annie, her children, her parents and her grandparents.
12/09/2010: Descendants of Jacintha Augusta Parkes's daughters: the Tovey, Hinkins and Vallerius families.
15/08/2010: Baptisms, marriages, deaths and census entries relating to family of Jacintha Augusta Parkes: Newman, Parkes and Marcham.
12/06/2010: The Newlands. Baptisms: Jane (Vie) Newland and siblings. Births: Children of Mabel Alice Newland. Marriages: Frederick James Newland and Catherine Abra Peters. Deaths: Mabel Alice, Frederick James, Jane (Vie) and Thomas Newland. Photos: Catherine Abra (Peters) Newland and the Olliver family.
09/05/2010: Baptisms
10/04/2010: The Fiveashes. Marriages: Chapman-Cottle, Giles-Gallini, Hanson-Giles, Brown-Hanson, Maluish-Gallini. Deaths: Charlotte Fiveash, Elizabeth Fiveash
21/02/2010: Birth certificates: Thomas James Bowhill, John Alfred Williams, Thomas Bushby Olliver, Hephzibah Elizabeth Fellows Collins, Henry Asher Smith. Death Certificates: Kathleen Mabel Alice Olliver, Richard Williams
09/01/2010: The Fitzgerald/Coughlin/Bowhill/Dear family
20/12/2009: The Olliver/Collins family
13/12/2009: Annie Elizabeth Phillips's marriage certificate has finally been tracked down!
29/11/2009: The Newland/Chapman/Hooper/Vie family
15/11/2009: Death certificates and more photographs
25/10/2009: The Asher/Smith/Childs family
11/10/2009: Birth certificate transcriptions
03/10/2009: Marriage certificate transcriptions
13/09/2009: Photographs
Can You Help?
This picture was found behind a photo of Alice Chapman which belonged to her daughter Mabel Alice Newland. There is a resemblance to Mabel's son Denis Raymond Olliver, who is presumably a descendant, but which family does this man belong to?