Sarah (Mrs Wells)

[Margaret in Burton]

I am very unsure of a lot of the information I have on Sarah and her husband Evan.

Name - "official" name and what they were known as

Sarah - (Unknown)

Date and place of birth

c 1781 in Oxfordshire

Names of parents

Unknown

Date and place of baptism - if applicable

Unknown

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any

c 1800 (in Oxfordshire probably) to Evan Wells (http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=14289)

Her husband was from Hook Norton

Occupation(s) - if any

None

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!).

Possibly her living with her son Thomas in 1841 in Bull Hill, Chadlington, Oxfordshire

Date, place and cause of death

Unknown - can't find her husbands death either

Date and place of burial.

Unknown

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable

Unknown

Memorial inscription - if any

Unknown


Link to son: William Wells (http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=10020)

[Merry]

Would it be worth trying the local reg office to see if you can buy/eliminate this cert?

Deaths Mar 1847
Wells Sarah Chipping N 16 43

[Margaret in Burton]

Chipping Norton is the right area BUT that death is on the NBI. It's a woman of 72 years old which would be a year of birth of 1775.

[Merry]

Was she a minor when she married then?

[Margaret in Burton]

Was she a minor when she married then?

Well if she married around 1800 and I haven't found the marriage, she would have been 19. I've only found what I believe to be her in 1841, not certain, so her year of birth isn't certain.

I can't find anything on her husband. You'd think Evan Wells would be a bit more distinctive in Oxfordshire given that it's usually a welsh name. He was born c 1783 in Hook Norton. I have his baptism in June 1783.

[Merry]

In that case I think you should ask the registrar to examine the cert to see if that death belongs to the widow of Evan. I hope Evan's name hasn't be changed to John by some English vicar :( (or the registrar)

[Merry]

I've just realised from your last reply that I had mis-read your orignial post so when I said "was she a minor at marriage?" I wasn't meaning to sound sarcastic lol I thought she WAS married in 1800 and was hoping her being a minor was how you had plumped for a birth of about 1780!!

[Margaret in Burton]

The family weren't welsh but the name Evan crops up a few times in the generations.

I don't know that Evan was dead as I'm not that certain that that was her in 1841.

They just seems to fall off the planet.

[Margaret in Burton]

I've just realised from your last reply that I had mis-read your orignial post so when I said "was she a minor at marriage?" I wasn't meaning to sound sarcastic lol I thought she WAS married in 1800 and was hoping her being a minor was how you had plumped for a birth of about 1780!!

No, my only link to her age is that 1841 census that I can't find the ref to at the moment.

The first child I have for them is William born in 1800

[Merry]

I found this transcription

Hook Norton 23 Dec 1803 William Wells s/o Evan & Sarah


here:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wellsfam/country/oxford/oxparish.html

[Margaret in Burton]

I found this transcription

Hook Norton 23 Dec 1803 William Wells s/o Evan & Sarah


here:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wellsfam/country/oxford/oxparish.html

Yes that's them. William baptised in 1803 but seems to think he was born in 1800 on later census.

Can you see a name on that website to see who added the info. I'm wondering if I passed all of the Hook Norton info years ago.

[Merry]

It has this name at the bottom:

Arthur F. Coles: Pembroke, Ontario

(I can't find Sarah and Thomas in 1841 :o)

[Merry]

Yes that's them. William baptised in 1803 but seems to think he was born in 1800 on later census.



Ah, OK. You had Dec 1800 for the bap on your ToG3 thread! Perhaps he was born before the marriage and baptised after it?

[Merry]

Chipping Norton is the right area BUT that death is on the NBI.

In which parish was the burial?

[Margaret in Burton]

It has this name at the bottom:

Arthur F. Coles: Pembroke, Ontario

(I can't find Sarah and Thomas in 1841 :o)

Yes that's the name I was expecting to see. We communicated a lot many years ago.

Found the ref for 1841

878/3/18/8

Can't view it myself at the moment.

[Margaret in Burton]

Ah, OK. You had Dec 1800 for the bap on your ToG3 thread! Perhaps he was born before the marriage and baptised after it?

Have I? Better go and alter it

[Margaret in Burton]

In which parish was the burial?

St Peter's Hook Norton.

[Margaret in Burton]

As I said, I'm not really certain that is her in 1841. I haven't looked at the Wells family in years.

[Merry]

Would you liike the 1841 image? (I can't send it right now, but I can later on!)

[Margaret in Burton]

Would you liike the 1841 image? (I can't send it right now, but I can later on!)

Yes please. I'm really missing my Ancestry sub at the moment.

I'm certain that Evan was William's father (as in I have the right William) as William had a son Joseph Evan.

[Merry]

I'll send the page later on.

The 'son' Thomas the butcher was born in Milton (could be Milton or Great Milton, I suppose) about 1810. I guess that doesn't make any difference either way? Looks like he married before 1837 to so very unhelpful! lol

[Margaret in Burton]

I'll send the page later on.

The 'son' Thomas the butcher was born in Milton (could be Milton or Great Milton, I suppose) about 1810. I guess that doesn't make any difference either way? Looks like he married before 1837 to so very unhelpful! lol

I think it's Milton under Wychwood. I have a baptism from Family Search at Ascot under Wychwood which is about 3 miles away for Thomas Wells son of Evan and Sarah 5 Feb 1809.