THE LITTLEMORES

notes by P John Partington (grandson of Arhur Eli Pavey, below)

The Littlemore family from which our own family is descended has been traced as far back as the early part of the sixteenth century in Frodsham, Cheshire, where a William Littlemore was born “in 1526”.  This William had five children – Hugh, John, Randall, George and Ellen (further details below).  There were at least two contemporaries of William having children in Cheshire in the mid 1500s – John and Robin.  While they may well have been brothers of William, it is equally possible that they were cousins, or a combination of both.  It looks unlikely from this distance that we shall ever be sure.

THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM LITTLEMORE  (1526 - aft.1563)

William’s first child, Hugh, was born before 1558.  He married Marjorie (surname unknown) with whom he had four children – William in 1583, Thomas in 1585, Marjorie in 1588 and Thomas in 1590 (details below).  Hugh was buried on 17 April 1593 and Marjorie on 14 April 1606, both at Frodsham in Cheshire.

Little is known about William’s second child, John, also born before 1558.  He is believed to have married and had children, and to have been buried in Runcorn on 20 March 1599/1600.

William’s third child, Randall, was born in about 1557 and baptized at Frodsham.  A carrier for the Savage family of Frodsham Castle, he settled in Hampshire, where the family had other lands, and he & his wife (name unknown) were buried there, on 3 January 1628/9 and 29 January 1627/8 respectively.  In his will he left money both to Winchester cathedral and to Frodsham parish church, his place of baptism.

William’s fourth child, George, was baptized at Frodsham on 30 April 1563.  He apparently married, had children, and died in Chester on 22 April 1609.

William’s fifth child, Ellen, was baptized at Frodsham on 3 February 1564/5.  On 18 July 1590 in Chester she married Thomas Tylston “of Chester”.  She died in 1630, having been widowed at some point previously, and was buried at Chester.
 

THE CHILDREN OF HUGH  (c. 1550 - 1593)

Hugh’s first child, William, was baptized at Frodsham on 11 August 1583.  On 19 June 1610, still in Frodsham, he married Ann Higgenson.  The couple had five children, all baptized in the village:  William in 1611, Alice in 1614, John in 1616, Thomas in 1620 and Elizabeth in 1623 (details below).  Ann died in 1633, and William lived on until 1662, being buried, still in Frodsham, on 20 February.

Hugh’s second child, Thomas, was baptized at Frodsham on 17 November 1585.  He died aged just two, and was buried in Frodsham on 27 January 1587.

Hugh’s third child, Marjorie, was baptized at Frodsham on 3 January 1589.  On 13 July 1629 she married Richard Deane;  nothing further is yet known of her.

Hugh’s fourth child, Thomas, was baptized in Frodsham on 19 February 1591 and buried there in 1652.

THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM  (1583 - 1662)

William’s first child, another William, was baptized in Frodsham on 9 May 1611.  On 6 June 1640, still in Frodsham, he married Elizabeth Edge, with whom he had at least five children – the four whose names are known being William born in 1642, John in 1647, Joseph in about 1651, and Samuel in about 1654 (further details below).  Elizabeth died in 1661, and William himself died on 16 June 1663;  at his burial the following day he was recorded as a “yeoman of Kingsley”.

William’s second child, Alice, was baptized in Frodsham on 18 January 1614.  Nothing further is known of her.

William’s third child, John, was baptized in Frodsham on 16 March 1616.  On 17 December 1643, in Aston, he married Margaret Perry.  They had children (details not yet clear).  Margaret was buried at Frodsham on 6 December 1647, and John in March 1661 – recorded as a “yeoman, of Acton”.

William’s fourth child, Thomas, was baptized in Frodsham on 7 December 1620.  He died there the following year, being buried on 22 October, “of Netherton”.

William’s fifth child, Elizabeth, was baptized in Frodsham on 8 June 1623.  Nothing further is known of her.

 

THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM  (1611 - 1663)

William’s first child, another William, was born in 1642.  Succeeding his father as a “yeoman farmer”, on 29 March 1668 he married Margaret Hall “of Norley” at Ince, Cheshire.  They had three daughters – Martha, Elizabeth and Margaret in 1672 (details below) – before Margaret died, being buried in Frodsham on 11 June 1672.  Six years later, on 4 April 1678, and still in Frodsham, William married a widow, Catherine Woodward (née Bailey).  The couple had five children – William in 1679, Mary in 1681, Joseph in 1686, Catherine in 1688 and Mary in 1692 (details below).  William died, still in Frodsham, in 1694; Mary died there in 1700.

William’s second child, John, was born in Frodsham in August 1647.  On 30 March 1673 he married Ann Lievesley in Warrington.  The couple had at least one child, William, born in about 1685 (details below).  Ann died in 1706 and John in February 1729, both still in Frodsham.

William’s third child, Joseph, was born in about 1651.  His father, who died when Joseph was twelve, specified in his will that Joseph was to be brought up by his elder brother William till he was fourteen – the usual age of apprenticeship.   Few apprenticeship records survive from that time and it is not known who his master was, but he seems likely to have served as a whitesmith or gunsmith.  By 1681 he was a committed Quaker and was living at Kingley, a township just to the south of Frodsham itself and still within Frodsham parish.  A‘gun maker’, he was married on 12 April 1687 at the Quaker meeting house at Newton, also in Frodsham parish, to Hannah Williamson.  Joseph and Hannah had at least ten children, the eldest surviving being Jacob, born in 1689, and another being Esther (further details below). A document of 1699 describes Joseph as a smith of Frodsham.  He became overseer of the poor at Kingsley in 1690 and at Frodsham in 1696, implying that the family moved to Frodsham between those dates.  When Joseph’s elder brother, William, died in 1694, he referred to him in his will as ‘Joseph Littlemore of Frodsham, whitesmith’.  By 1712 Joseph and Hannah had moved to Preston on the Hill, about three miles east of Frodsham but within the parish of Runcorn.  Joseph died at Preston on 23 April 1721 aged about seventy and was buried at Newton burial ground three days later.  His widow then moved to live in Frodsham, perhaps with son Jacob, where she died three years later.

William’s fourth child, Samuel, was born in about 1654.  He was buried, still in Frodsham, on 27 June 1693.

Another child of William’s was buried at Frodsham in 1657;  nothing further is known.

THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM  (1642 - 1694)

William had three daughters by his first wife – Martha, Elizabeth and Margaret.  Margaret was baptized in 1672, but otherwise nothing else is yet known of them.

William’s first child by his second marriage, another William, was baptized in 1679.  He married Hannah Cauley in Frodsham in 1703.  Hannah died in 1706 and later that year, still in Frodsham, William married Mary Marsh.

William’s second child by his second marriage, Mary, was born in 1681 and died in 1687;  his third, Joseph, was born in 1686 and died in 1693;  his fourth, Catherine, was born in 1688 and also died in 1693.

William’s fifth child by his second marriage, another Mary, was baptized in 1692.  Nothing further is known of her.

 

THE CHILDREN OF JOHN  (1647 - 1729)

John’s first child, another John, was baptized in Frodsham on 6 November 1679.  Still in Frodsham, he married Catherine Starkey “of Kingsley”.  They had at least one child, Thomas, born in 1707 in Frodsham (details below).  John died, apparently, in about 1752.

John’s second child, Thomas, was baptized in Frodsham on 15 November 1683 and buried there on 1 May 1691, “of Kingsley”.

John’s third child, William, was born in about 1685.  On 28 May 1713, an “agricultural labourer”, he married Sarah Carefoot at Christleton.  The couple had five children – twins William & Joseph baptized in 1714, another William in 1715, Samuel in 1717 and Hannah in 1720 (details below).  Sarah died, in Frodsham, in 1723 – being buried there on 4 November, recorded as “of Kingsley”.  William’s date of death is unknown.

THE CHILDREN OF JOHN  (1679 - c.1752)

John had a son Thomas, born in Frodsham in 1707, who married (wife’s name unknown) there on 14 May 1734 and had a son, also called Thomas, in 1738 (details below).  Thomas senior died in about 1762.

THE CHILDREN OF THOMAS  (1707 - c. 1762)

Thomas’ son Thomas was born in Frodsham in 1738.  He married Mary Ward and had a son, John, born in Spitalfields, London, in 1763 (details below)

THE CHILDREN OF THOMAS  (1738 - aft. 1761)

Thomas’ son John was born in Spitalfields, London, in 1763.  On 10 October 1784 he married Mary Anne Stubbs at St Botolph’s, Bishopsgate.  The couple had four sons – John born in 1785, Thomas & William in 1789 and Matthew in 1791 (see below).  John died in 1817, in Bethnal Green.

THE CHILDREN OF JOHN  (1763 - 1817)

John’s first three children were John born in 1785, Thomas born in 1789 (and dying in 1852) and his twin brother William (who died in 1838).  Nothing else is yet known of them.

John’s fourth child, Matthew, was born in Bethnal Green in about 1791.  On 25 May 1817 he married Charlotte Tolladay at St Botolph’s, Bishopsgate.  They had five children – Mary Ann born in 1818, John in 1819, Lucy in 1821 and James & Catharine in 1826 (details below).  Charlotte died in Bethnal Green in March 1868 and Matthew in Hackney in January 1871.

THE CHILDREN OF MATTHEW  (c.1791 - 1871)

Matthew’s first child, Mary Ann, was born on 20 January 1818.  She was baptized on 30 August that year at St Leonard’s, Shoreditch.  Nothing further is yet known of her.

Matthew’s second child, John, was born in Bethnal Green on 10 March 1819.  He married Emma Lucretia Wright (date unknown) and had a son, also called John, born in March 1844 (details below).  Emma died in Poplar, London, on 6 April 1883;  John died in 1901.

James’ third child, Lucy, was born in 1821.  On 8 October 1837 she married John Coker in Stepney, London.  John died in 1884 and Lucy in 1908.

James’ fourth and fifth children, James and Catharine, were born in 1826.  Nothing further is yet known of them.

THE CHILDREN OF JOHN  (1819 - 1901)

John’s son John was born in March 1844 in Bethnal Green, London.  He emigrated to Australia, where he married Catherine Bishop (herself an emigrée, having been born on the voyage in 1855, “in the Bay of Biscay”).  The couple had three children – Florence E born in 1880, John Alfred in 1881 and William Henry in 1883 (details below).

THE CHILDREN OF JOHN  (1844 - )

John’s first child, Florence E, was born in 1880;  she died that same year.

John’s second child, John Alfred, was born in Orange NSW in 1881.  In 1905 he married Ethel Maud Lahiff.  The couple had seven children – John Alfred born on 9 April 1906 in Cobar NSW (who married Jessie C Wickbold and had a son, John C, in 1927);  Myra Hildred in 1908, William Henry in 1910, Iris Mary in 1911, Reginald Charles Wowan in 1913, Arthur Edward in 1917 and Marcia Esme in 1919.

John’s third child, William Henry, was born in 1883.

THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM  (c. 1685 - aft. 1713)

William’s twin sons William & Joseph were baptized at Christleton on 18 March 1714.  Baby William was buried there on the 29th of that same month.  Joseph married Esther (surname unknown, “of Storton”);  she was buried at Bebington on 20 February 1769; Joseph’s date of death is unknown.

William’s third child, another William, was baptized in Christleton on 25 September 1715.  On 5 May 1737, a “husbandman”, he married Hannah Birtles in Warmingham.  The couple had nine children – Moses baptized in 1738, Catherine in 1742, William in 1745, Hannah in 1747, Mary in 1749, Sarah born in about 1751, John in about 1752, Margaret baptized in 1755 and Anne in 1756 (details( below)).  Nothing further is yet known of William & Hannah.

William’s fourth child, Samuel, was baptized in Christleton on 26 September 1717 and buried there on 17 June 1720.

William’s fifth child, Hannah, was baptized in Christleton on 2 March 1720.  She had a son, Thomas, baptized and buried in Middlewich on the same day, 16 April 1749 (the “supposed son of Humphrey More”);  and a daughter, Hannah, baptized in Middlewich on 25 July1750.  On 3 February 1753 she married Hugh Williams in Middlewich.  Nothing further is known of her.

THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM  (1715 - aft. 1750)

William’s first child, Moses, was baptized in Lower Peover on 26 November 1738.  He was buried in Middlewich on 28 June 1767.

William’s second child, Catherine, was baptized in Lower Peover on 17 May 1742.  On 29 December 1763 she married John Griffiths, a bricklayer, in Middlewich.

William’s third child, William, was baptized in Lower Peover on 23 January 1745.  Still there, on 26 April 1766 he married Sarah Williamson.  The couple had five children – Mary baptized in 1767, Thomas in 1770, William in 1771, Samuel and Peter (details below).  William died in 1784, being buried in Middlewich on 30 July, whereupon on 19 October Sarah married Jonathan Vernon, a widower, in Whitegate.

William’s fourth child, Hannah, was baptized in Little Peover on 5 November 1747.  She married Matthew Brown on 20 January 1769 in Middlewich.

William’s fifth child, Mary, was baptized in Little Peover on 19 March 1749.  On 22 January 1776 she married a bricklayer, Samuel Tottey, in Middlewich.  The couple had seven children – Charles baptized in 1776, Moses in 1780, Hannah in 1782, Robert in 1785, Mary in 1787, Samuel in 1790 and Stephen in 1794.

William’s sixth child, Sarah, was buried in Little Peover on 10 April 1751.  Nothing else is known of her.

William’s seventh child, John, was born in about 1752.  He married Elizabeth Hobson on 10 September 1772 in Middlewich.  The couple had ten children – Elizabeth baptized in 1773, Moses in 1775, William in 1777, another Moses in 1779, John in 1781, Sarah in 1783, Mary in 1785, John P. in 1788, Fanny born in 1791, William in 1793 and James E. in about 1795 (details below).  Elizabeth died in 1818, being buried in Middlewich on 17 February;  John was buried in Middlewich on 3 January 1832.

William’s eighth child, Margaret, was baptized in Lower Peover on 19 January1755.  She apparently had an illegitimate child, Sarah, baptized in Middlewich, before marrying Thomas Siddall, a “serving man, of Cliff” on 1 July 1778 in Davenham.

William’s ninth child, Anne, was baptized in Lower Peover on 14 November 1756.  On 7 October 1778, in Davenham, she married Matthew Millington, “of Leftwich, a servant”.

THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM  (1744 - 1784)

William’s first child, Mary, was baptized in Lower Peover on 20 April 1767.  On 26 January 1791, still in Lower Peover, she married Charles Newall.

William’s second child, Thomas, was baptized in Middlewich on 28 February 1770;  and his third, William, on 8 September 1771, being buried there on 13 January 1773.

William’s fourth child, Samuel, a “boatman”, married Hannah Percival in Middlewich on 12 July 1793.

William’s fifth child, Peter, was buried in Middlewich on 6 June 1778.

THE CHILDREN OF JOHN  (1752 - 1832)

John’s first child, Elizabeth, was baptized in Middlewich on 20 January 1773, and buried there on 19 October 1800.

John’s second child, Moses, was baptized in Middlewich on 29 January 1775 and his third, William, on 16 March 1777.  Both died in infancy, in 1778, being buried in Middlewich on 30 June and 18 June respectively.

John’s fourth child, another Moses, was baptized in Middlewich on 11 April 1779.  A “boatman”, he married Mary Lamb in Davenham, Cheshire in February 1799.  The couple had eight children – Betty baptized in 1799, Mary Ann, Maria, John born in 1808, Moses in 1811, Nancy baptized in 1817, Elizabeth in 1818 and Sarah in 1821 (details below).  Moses died on 29 February 1836 and Mary in 1848, both being buried in Middlewich.

John’s fifth child, John, was baptized in Middlewich on 14 March 1781 and buried a few days later.

John’s sixth child, Sarah, was baptized in Middlewich on 12 January 1783.  On 19 February 1802, still in Middlewich, she married John Spilsbury, a “boatman, of Middlewich”.

John’s seventh child, Mary, was baptized in Middlewich on 26 June 1785.  On 22 April 1804, still there, she married Daniel Taylor “of Middlewich”.

John’s eighth child, John, was baptized in Middlewich on 20 April 1788.  On 21 April 1818 he married Catherine Palling “of Astbury” in Astbury:  the couple had four children – Fanny baptized in 1819, Martha in 1820, Anne in 1822 and John in 1823 (details below).

John’s ninth child, Fanny, was born on 13 June 1791.  Baptized in Northwich on 3 July, she was buried there on 19 November that same year.

John’s tenth child, William, was born at Brokencross on 6 November 1792 and baptized at Northwich on the 25th of that month.  On 17 January 1814, at Davenham, he married Hannah Taylor.  The couple had eight children – John baptized in 1815, James in 1816, William in 1820, Thomas in 1821, George in 1824, Ann in 1829, Isaac in 1831 and Mary Ann in 1839 (details below).  William, a “boatman & labourer of Preston Brook”, was buried at Daresbury on 31 October 1856 and Hannah was buried there on 25 October ten years later.

John’s eleventh child, James Edward, was born on 17 May 1795 and baptized at Northwich on 28 June.  On 4 May 1814, still a minor and therefore needing the consent of his parents, he married Hannah Faulkner at Linslade.  The couple had eleven children – Amelia baptized in 1815, Elizabeth in 1816, Deborah in 1818 (dying in infancy), another Deborah baptized in 1819, John in 1822, Mary Ann in 1824, Anne in 1828, followed by Sarah, James and Jane baptized on Christmas Day 1832 and William in 1834 (further details below).  A boatman, James was sentenced to four months’ hard labour in 1824 for “stealing four sacks of oats and four sacks of beans” from the canal wharf.  Ten years later, Hannah was pregnant with William when James died, “drowned in the Grand Junction Canal Tunnel at Paddington”.  He was buried, back in Linslade, on 12 April 1834.  Nearly thirty years later, in 1861, Hannah was still living in Linslade; she died in 1864, being buried in Linslade on 27 April.

THE CHILDREN OF MOSES  (1779 - 1836)

Moses’ first child, Betty, was born in Davenham on 6 November 1799, being baptized there on 1 December.  She was buried there on 18 February the following year.

Moses’ second & third children were Mary Ann and Maria.  Nothing further is yet known of them.

Moses’ fourth child, John, was born in Middlewich on 27 January 1808.  On 1 January 1835, still in Middlewich, he married Mary Dutton.  The couple had seven children, all born in Middlewich – Ann in 1836, Ellen in 1838, another Ellen in 1839, William in 1842, John in 1844, Moses in 1848 and James in 1850 (details below).  John died, still in Middlewich, in 1853, and on 5 March the following year Mary married twenty-two year old Thomas Hoole in Manchester Cathedral.  In 1861 Mary & Thomas were living with Ann, Ellen and James and three young children of their own at 33 Temperance Street, Manchester; Thomas was working as a railway porter.

Moses’ fifth child, another Moses, was born in Middlewich on 31 October 1811, being baptized there on 10 November.  In 1846 at St Peter’s Wolverhampton he married Isabella Sant, with whom he had three children, all born in Middlewich – Moses in 1845, John in 1847 and Peter in 1849 (details below).  Moses died that year, being buried on 16 December.

Moses’ sixth child,  Nancy, was baptized in Middlewich on 2 February 1817.  Nothing further is yet known of her.

Moses’ seventh child, Elizabeth, was baptized in Middlewich on 5 July 1818.  On 4 September 1837, still in Middlewich, she married William Norton, a hairdresser.

Moses’ eighth child, Sarah, was baptized in Middlewich on 19 August 1821.  Nothing further is yet known of her.

THE CHILDREN OF JOHN  (1808 - 1853)

John’s first child, Ann, was born in Middlewich in 1836.  In 1861 she was living at 33 Temperance Street, Manchester with her mother and stepfather Thomas Hoole, unmarried and working as a servant.

John’s second child, Ellen, was born in Middlewich in 1838.  She died that same year, and so John’s third child, born in 1839, was also named Ellen.  Like her sister Ann, in 1861 she was living with her step-family in Manchester, an unmarried servant.

John’s fourth child, William, was born in Middlewich in 1842.  Nothing further is yet known of him.

John’s fifth child, John, was born in Middlewich in 1844.  On 4 July 1864 he married Elizabeth Taylor in St Michael’s, Middlewich.  The couple had nine sons, all born in Middlewich – Peter in 1865, Thomas in 1868, John in 1871, William in 1873, Stephen in 1875, James in 1877, George in 1879, Frederick Henry in 1887 and Frank Charles in 1889 (details below).

John’s sixth child, Moses, was born in 1848; and his seventh, James, in 1850, both in Middlewich.  In 1861 James was living with his step-family in Manchester, a “scholar”.

THE CHILDREN OF JOHN  (1844 - aft. 1910)

John’s first child, Peter, was born in 1865 and baptized in Middlewich on 21 June.  In 1888 he married Minnie Gill in Nottingham.  The couple had fourteen children – Peter born in Middlewich in 1889, John in Sandiacre in 1891, Harriet in Lichfield in about 1893, Lizzie in Church Lawton in 1896, George in Lichfield in 1897, Arthur in Lichfield in 1900, Annie in Sandiacre in 1901, Stephen in Deanshanger in 1903, Mary Ellen (‘Nell’) in Cosgrove in 1905, Sarah Ann in Deanshanger in 1907, Tom, Dick (whose daughter Jenny's oral memories of canal life have been recorded by the Oxford Canal Heritage Project), Alice in 1910 in Bridgnorth and finally Frank C (‘Charlie’) in 1912.

John’s second child, Thomas, was born in Middlewich in 1868.  On 26 May 1890, a “canal boatman”, he married Eliza Hickson in Middlewich. The couple had seven children, all born (or baptized?) in Middlewich – Elizabeth in 1890, Ethel in 1892 (who married Edgar Starkey in Middlewich on 28 January 1911), John in 1894, Thomas in 1896, William in 1899, Stephen in 1903 and Alice in 1907.

John’s third child, John, was born in Middlewich on 19 February 1871.  On 6 June 1892 he married Rachel Fradley at Old Rode, Cheshire.  The couple had eight children, the older two born (or baptized?) at Rode Heath, the rest at Middlewich – William in 1892, Rachel in 1894, John in 1896, Frederick on 29 August 1898 (who married Ivy Hill in 1920 at Elworth), Elizabeth in 1900, Rebecca in 1902, Evelyn in 1904 and Elsie in 1906.

John’s fourth child, William, was born in Middlewich in 1873.  On 21 September 1896 he married Ann Fradley at Old Rode.  They had three children – Charles born in 1897, William in 1900 (who married Rachel Skerratt) and Frances Rebecca in 1903.  Ann died in 1914.

John’s fifth child, Stephen, was born in Middlewich on 14 October 1874.  A “waterman, bricklayer’s labourer”, on 28 December 1896 he married Sarah Ann Neale in Middlewich.  They had four daughters, all born (baptized?) in Middlewich – Sarah Ann in 1897, Martha Elizabeth in 1900 (who married Richard Jinks), Alice in 1901 and Violet in 1912.

John’s sixth child, James, was born in Middlewich in 1877.  In adult life his occupation, according to the ‘Boat Families’ website, was “chemical labourer”.  Nothing else is yet known.

John’s seventh child, George, was born in Middlewich in 1879.  A “boatman”, on 25 November 1901 he married Sarah Ellen Sheckleston in Middlewich.  They had two children, both born in Middlewich – James in 1903 and Elizabeth in 1905.

John’s eighth child, Frederick Henry, was born in Middlewich in 1887.  In 1920, still in Middlewich, and a “chemical labourer, boilermaker”, he married Frances Alice Hickson.

John’s ninth child, Frank Charles, was born in Middlewich in 1889.  Recorded as ‘Charles’ in the 1911 census, he was working as a chemical labourer.

THE CHILDREN OF MOSES  (1811 - 1849)

Moses’ first child, Moses, was born in Middlewich in 1845.  In 1869 he married Mary Townley in Northwich registry office.  The couple had a daughter, Elizabeth Hannah, born in Runcorn in 1880.

Moses’ second child, John, was born in Middlewich in 1847.  On 30 August 1868, still in Middlewich, he married Sarah Burgess.  The couple had five daughters – Mary born in 1878, Sarah Ann in 1879, Florence in 1881, Rose in 1884 and Bertha in 1888.

Moses’ third child, Peter, was born in Middlewich in 1849.  A “labourer, boatman”, in 1869 he married Ellen Taylor at Northwich registry office.  They had three daughters, all born in Middlewich – Susan in 1873, Isabella in 1875 and Mary Ellen in 1887.

THE CHILDREN OF JOHN  (1788 - aft. 1821)

John’s first child, Fanny, was baptized in 1819.  Nothing further is yet known of her.

John’s second child, Martha, was baptized in 1820.  In 1841 she was living in Astbury, Cheshire with fifteen-year old Anne (presumably her younger sister), three-year old William and one-year old Hugh.  On 10 October the following year she married George Foden in Biddulph, Staffordshire.  The couple had children – Harriet born in 1840/1, Ann in 1842/3, Selma in 1844/5, Mary in 1846/7, Maria in 1850 and Henry in 1855/6.  In 1851 & 1861 she was living with her husband and family in Congleton, Cheshire.  In 1881 she & George were living at 8 Cotterill Street, Monks Coppenhall, Cheshire.

John’s third child, Anne, was baptized in 1822 and his fourth, John, in 1823.  Nothing further is yet known of them.

THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM  (1792 - 1856)

William’s first child, John, was baptized in Middlewich on 21 May 1815.  Nothing else is yet known of him.

William’s second child, James, was baptized in Middlewich on 17 November 1816.  A boatman, he was sentenced for theft on 8 April 1845 at Stafford Assizes, and transported to Australia later that year aboard the “Pestonjee Bomanjee”.

William’s third child, William, was baptized in Middlewich on 13 February 1820.  A “boatman & labourer, of Dutton”, he was buried at Little Leigh on 3 April 1875.

William’s fourth child, Thomas, was baptized in Middlewich on 9 September 1821 and buried there seven days later.

William’s fifth child, George, was baptized in Middlewich on 22 February 1824.  In 1851 he was recorded as a “Prisoner at House of Correction” in Knutsford Gaol.  A “labourer and boatman of Preston Brook”, he was buried at Daresbury on 3 July 1860.

William’s sixth child, Ann, was baptized in Middlewich on 3 June 1829.  Nothing further is yet known of her.

William’s seventh child, Isaac, was baptized in Middlewich on 17 March 1831.  A “general labourer, of Dutton”, he was buried at Little Leigh on 28 March 1874.

William’s eighth child, Mary Ann, was born in Preston Brook and baptized in Daresbury on 20 January 1839.  Nothing further is yet known of her.

THE CHILDREN OF JAMES EDWARD  (1795 - 1834)

THE CHILDREN OF JOHN  (1822/3 - 1891)

John’s first child, Ann, was born in Camden Town, Middlesex on 11 October 1846, being baptized at St Pancras on 15 November.  In 1851 she was living with her parents at 45 Ferdinand Street and in 1861 at 3 Grange Street.  In July 1868 she married her first cousin William James Eames in Pancras, London. The couple had one child, Gaius John, on 3 January 1871;  Ann died shortly afterwards.

John’s second child, Amelia Elizabeth, was born on 1 September 1849 at 69 Grove Street, Camden Town, and baptized on 14 June the following year at St Pancras Old Church.  In 1851 she was living with her parents at 45 Ferdinand Street, St Pancras and ten years later at 3 Grange Street.  Family memory has it that she sang at the Crystal Palace before Queen Victoria.  On 5 October 1870 she married Harry Alfred Pavey at Pancras Registry Office;  she was living at the time at 3 Grange Road.  They had eleven children: Harry Alfred George born in 1871, Mary Elizabeth (‘Maisie’) in 1872, Alfred John William in 1874, George Bernard in 1876, Harry Alfred in 1877, Amelia Annie in 1879, Charles Dew in 1881, Charles Allan Dew in 1883, Arthur Eli in 1885, Harold Gilbert in 1887, and Ralph Edgar in 1891.  The 1871 census records Amelia and Harry, and their young firstborn, living at 65 Prince of Wales Road with Harry’s parents:  Harry was recorded as a ‘blind-maker’.  The 1881 census records the family at 367 Kentish Town Road, sharing the house with Amelia’s father’s family. In 1891 and 1901 the family were living at 318 Kentish Town Road, with Harry working as a picture-frame maker.  In 1911 she and Harry were living at 110 Highgate Hill in Upper Holloway, with unmarried sons Harry Alfred and Ralph Edgar. Amelia was widowed in 1914, and in 1921 was living with her daughter Maisie and family at 99 Leslie Road, Finchley, Middlesex.

John’s third child, John William, was born on 7 February 1852 and baptized at St Pancras Old Church on 15 September.  He died the following year, being buried on 13March at St Martin in the Fields, London.

John’s fourth child, George Thomas, was born in Camden Town on 20 April 1854;  in 1861 and 1871 he was living with his parents at 3 Grange Street, St Pancras.  On 11 November 1876 he married Sarah Catherine Rimell in Burton Latimer, Northants.  The couple had seven children – Annie Rimell born in 1877, Maud Sarah, John William, Harry Dew, George Thomas, Amelia May and James George (details below).  In 1881 the family were living at 40 Princes Street, Swindon; George was working as a ‘piano forte tuner’.  In 1901 George and Sarah were at 36 Nilsom Road, Handsworth, Staffs with Annie, Amelia and James:  George was still working as a piano-tuner and Annie as a “saleswoman, boot trade”.  George died on 3 March 1928 in Birchfields, Staffordshire.

John’s fifth child, John Richard, was born on 26 October 1856 and baptized at St Pancras Old Church on 10 December.  He died in 1858.

John’s sixth child, Mary Dew, was born in St Pancras in 1859.  In 1861 she was living with her parents at 3 Grange Street, St Pancras, and in 1881 she was living with her parents and younger sisters at 367 Kentish Town Road.  The following year she married Eli Collins, in Pancras, London, and the censuses of 1891 & 1901 recorded them in Islington.  She died in 1910, being buried on 21 March in Camden.

John’s seventh child, Jane Ada, was born in St Pancras in 1861/2.  Ten years later she was living with her parents at 3 Grange Street, St Pancras, a ‘scholar’;  and in 1881 she was with them at 367 Kentish Town Road, working as a “Dress Pattern Cutter”.  In April the following year she married Sidney George Chamberlain.  The couple had five children – Robert, Sidney, George, Ada and another Robert.  Between 1891 and 1928 Jane was recorded in St Pancras.

John’s eighth child, Emily Hannah, was born in St Pancras in about 1864.  In 1871 she was living with her parents at 3 Grange Street, St Pancras, a ‘scholar’;  and ten years later she was with them at 367 Kentish Town Road, working as a “Dress Pattern Cutter”.  She married Robert Tom Wall in 1882/3 and had seven children – Robert George born in 1884, Frederick John in 1886, Ernest Eli in 1889, George W in 1892, Gaius Horace in 1896, Emily Winifred in 1898, and Cyril Edward in 1903.  Robert died in Hampstead in 1925.

THE CHILDREN OF JAMES  (1831 - 1914)

James’ first child, Emma, had been born in Weedon Bec, Northants, in 1854 and died the following year; his second, Lucy Jane, was born in Weedon Bec in 1856 and died in Detroit on 4 October 1894;  his third, Helen Ada, was born in Weedon Bec on 30 June 1858 and died in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota on 1 August 1922;  his fourth, Hanna, was born in about 1860.

James’ fourth child, Martha Lindsey, was born in Weedon Bec in 1862.  She moved to the United States with her family and married Adoniram Judson Church, a Canadian.  The couple had six children – Florence born in 1893, George in 1895, Charles in 1897, Archie J in 1898, John in 1904 and Edmund in 1907.

James’ fifth child, James Edward, was born in June 1864.  He moved to the United States with his family, and married Minnie Dunn in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.  The couple had two children, both born in Detroit Lakes – Lucy V in 1897 and Donald E in 1899.

James’ sixth child, George H, was born in Weedon Bec on 22 November 1867.  Aged six, he moved to the United States with his family and settled in Detroit, where the federal and state censuses recorded him in 1880 and 1885.  On 4 September 1903 he married Barbara Helena Hage, with whom he had four children – Mary Hannah born in 1904, Jack R in 1907, Margaret Hope in 1909 and Dorothy Marian in 1911.  A railway engine driver like so many of his family, he lived variously in Spokane, Washington, and Park, Montana.

THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM  (1834 - 1913)

William’s first child (and only child of his first marriage), Sarah, was born in March 1859.  Her mother died soon afterwards, and Sarah appears to have been sent back to William’s family in Linslade – where she died on 16 September that same year.

William’s second child, Emily E, the first of his second marriage, was born on 3 February 1862 at 61 Bessborough Place, Millbank.  In 1881 she was living with her family in the Bear Inn, Main Street, Burwash, Sussex, working as her father’s assistant.  Two years later, in the Pancras area of London, she married Walter Parsons, by whom she had six children – Emily Augusta born in 1883, Florence Beatrice in 1885, Ellen Elizabeth in 1887, Walter William in 1890, Grace Albena in 1893/4 and Eva Madalene in 1899.  In 1911 Emily & Walter were living at Broads Cottages in Burwash.

William’s third child was Avis Maud Mary, born in Pimlico on 5 March 1868.  In 1871 she was with her family in Westminster;  ten years later she was recorded as a boarder at Claremont House School in Cranbrook, Kent.  In 1887 she married John Thomas Pierson, by whom she had eight children – Alice Maud born in 1888, John Thomas in 1890, Alec Newton in 1892, Avice in 1895, Kathleen Ella in 1897, Joseph William in 1899, Samuel James Alfred in 1901 and Constance Ivy in 1903.  In 1911 the census recorded her visiting her son John and nephew Walter (Parsons) in Small Heath, Birmingham – her occupation was recorded as ‘lecturer’ – a descendant recalls that she “gave speeches on behalf of women s rights and the suffrage movement”;  her husband John was at home in 28 Albert Road, Tonbridge, Kent.

William’s fourth child, Albina, was born in Burwash on 28 June 1872.  In 1881 she was living with her family in the Bear Inn, Burwash.  Ten years later she was with them at Little Daws in Burwash.  In 1895 she married John Button, by whom she had two children – John William born in 1896 and Emily Albina in 1897.  In 1901 Albina & John were living in the High Street, Rotherfield, Sussex; John was working as a “butcher’s manager”;  Ten years later the couple were at 24 St George’s Street, Ipswich.

William’s fifth child, William Douglas, was born at the Rose & Crown in Burwash, on 24 January 1874, and seven years later was living with his family at the Bear Inn.  In 1891 he was with them at Little Daws in Burwash, working as a “farmer’s apprentice”.  He married Eliza Adams, and had five children – Gwendoline Mabel born in 1900, William John in 1902, Lilian Edith in 1904, Alec Douglas in 1907 and Joseph Newton in 1909.  In 1911 William and Eliza were at Bank Cottages in Burwash.  William was apparently a plumber by trade and served in the First World War including the Battle of the Somme.

William’s sixth child, Augusta Eugenia, was born in Burwash on 21 May 1880.  The following year she was with her family there at the Bear Inn.  Ten years later she was with them at Little Daws in Burwash.  In 1901 she married Walter Frederick Whiteman, by whom she had a son, Frederick Francis, born in 1905.  In 1911 the family were living in Framfield, Sussex.

THE CHILDREN OF JOSEPH  (c.1651 - 1721)

Joseph’s first child, John, was born in Kingsley on 5 January 1688.  Nothing further is yet known of him.

Joseph’s second child, Jacob, was born at Kingsley on 19 September 1689.  In 1713, and like his father a Quaker, he married Mary James at Newton, in the parish of Frodsham, Cheshire.  Described at the time as a ‘clockmaker’, Jacob seems to have been more of a merchant and entrepreneur than a regular craftsman.  In fact his business dealings seem to have been very shaky at times.  In 1726 Jacob entered into a partnership to lease a quay on the Frodsham side of the river Weaver, clearly for the revenue he might gain from ships unloading there, but the following year there were disputes between Jacob and other Quakers about unpaid debts, and on one occasion he was accosted by an aggrieved Friend, who must have been sorely aggravated to have broken his vows of peaceableness.  More than once the elders tried to give Jacob time to sort out his finances, but in 1728 he was officially declared bankrupt, listed then as a ‘clockmaker and potter’.  The following year he was obliged to draw up accounts of his dealings for consideration by his fellow Quakers:  papers survive from this showing that in 1730 he had raised £1,848 from the sale of various properties, and yet his debts had amounted to £400 above and beyond that!  Amongst those he was in debt to were his father-in-law John James (more than £86), his cousin, clockmaker John Seddon (over £43) and his sister Esther.  He moved to Bersham near Wrexham after 1736, perhaps after his wife inherited property there from her recently-deceased father.  Despite his chequered financial dealings he was described as a ‘gentleman’ when he died at Bersham in 1745.  Mary died at Wrexham in 1752.

Joseph’s third child, Joseph, was born in 1690/1.  On 27 June 1712, in Hardshaw, he married Mary Keaquick “of Liverpool”.  The couple had two daughters, both born in Liverpool – Elizabeth on 9 June 1713 and Mary on 27 April 1717 (dying just two days later).  Joseph, a “mariner”, was dead by 1721 and on 22 December of that year Mary married Thomas Sommerford in Hardshaw.  She died on 4 August 1760, being buried in Warrington two days later.

Joseph’s fourth child, Elizabeth, was born in Frodsham on 10 July 1694.  Nothing else is yet known of her,

Joseph’s fifth child, Thomas, died in infancy on 6 March 1697, being buried in Newton two days later.

Joseph’s sixth child, Samuel, was born in Frodsham in about 1698.  He died on 31 May 1704, being buried in Newton two days later.

Joseph’s seventh child, Hannah, was born in Frodsham on 23 June 1699.  She was still alive in 1725.

Joseph’s eighth child, Esther, was born on 1 April 1701.  In 1718 her brother Jacob took on a fellow-Quaker, William Whittaker, as an apprentice clock-maker, and seven years later, on 16 September 1725, he and Esther married at Newton.  It seems that the couple then moved to Chester, where William “fell into evil ways”.  In 1727 he was found “guilty of making a horserace and some disorderly practices”, and it was later stated by other Friends that “William Whittaker dishonours his profession”.  In 1728 they were informed that he had been imprisoned for debt.  He was last heard of in 1730, believed to have been then at Northwich, and he probably died not long after:  when Esther appeared on the list of Jacob’s creditors that same year she was described as a widow.  She died on 28 March 1743, being buried, as “of Northwich”, at Newton three days later.

Joseph’s ninth child, Thomas, was born in Frodsham on 11 January 1703.  He died on 23 May 1704, being buried at Newton two days later.

Joseph’s tenth child, Catherine, was born in Frodsham on 22 September1704.  She died on 19 January 1706, being buried at Newton two days later.

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