Anstey Nomad
02-03-13, 18:32
Well, I’m still in as big a mess as ever with the Bodycotes, but now the Bradburys are giving me trouble as well.
My great great grandfather was Samuel Bradbury, born Bedworth Warwickshire c1849 ( no registration found), died Leicester 16 March 1922 (MQ1922 7a 287) aged 73.
His parents were William and Emma Bradbury and it has always been the received wisdom that Emma’s maiden name was Beasley and that this was their marriage, in Bedworth in 1836:
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=2445&iid=4290980_00662&fn=William&ln=Bradbury&st=r&ssrc=&pid=4250780
It looks as though William was born in Bedworth in 1814, the son of William and Hannah and died in Leicester in 1890 (MQ 1890 7a 149) at the age of 76.
William and Emma had the customary rake of children:
Elizabeth 1837
Mary 1842
Hannah (Sarah H) 1844
William 1847
Samuel 1849
Eliza 1854
Edward 1857
Emma 1859
There are some gaps there which I haven’t investigated as yet.
All goes swimmingly on the censuses in 1851 and 1861, which is where the details of those children came from. The family is in Leicester Street and then the Grove, Bedworth.
By 1871, they have moved to Leicester:
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=view&r=5538&dbid=7619&iid=LEIRG10_3281_3283-0090&fn=William&ln=Bradbury&st=r&ssrc=&pid=24484197
The writing is appalling, and I suspect the whole page has been poorly transcribed, but the remaining children look right, although Edward is now Edwin. It’s everything else that is wrong.
William is now a shoe maker, whereas he was previously a collier, he was apparently born in Rugby, not Bedworth/Foleshill and Emma was again born in Nuneaton, not Bedworth. What concerns me most though is the presence in the household of her father Samuel Smith, aged 69 (so born c1802), place of birth Leicester.
I think I may have found Samuel in 1851, lodging in West Orchard in Coventry with his wife Emma and a one year old daughter Louisa, but otherwise I can’t find him or his wife and daughter with any degree of certainty either before or after 1851.
I also can’t find a Bradbury/Smith marriage that fits the bill.
The television’s awful tonight again – does anyone fancy having a look at this with me?
AN
My great great grandfather was Samuel Bradbury, born Bedworth Warwickshire c1849 ( no registration found), died Leicester 16 March 1922 (MQ1922 7a 287) aged 73.
His parents were William and Emma Bradbury and it has always been the received wisdom that Emma’s maiden name was Beasley and that this was their marriage, in Bedworth in 1836:
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=2445&iid=4290980_00662&fn=William&ln=Bradbury&st=r&ssrc=&pid=4250780
It looks as though William was born in Bedworth in 1814, the son of William and Hannah and died in Leicester in 1890 (MQ 1890 7a 149) at the age of 76.
William and Emma had the customary rake of children:
Elizabeth 1837
Mary 1842
Hannah (Sarah H) 1844
William 1847
Samuel 1849
Eliza 1854
Edward 1857
Emma 1859
There are some gaps there which I haven’t investigated as yet.
All goes swimmingly on the censuses in 1851 and 1861, which is where the details of those children came from. The family is in Leicester Street and then the Grove, Bedworth.
By 1871, they have moved to Leicester:
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=view&r=5538&dbid=7619&iid=LEIRG10_3281_3283-0090&fn=William&ln=Bradbury&st=r&ssrc=&pid=24484197
The writing is appalling, and I suspect the whole page has been poorly transcribed, but the remaining children look right, although Edward is now Edwin. It’s everything else that is wrong.
William is now a shoe maker, whereas he was previously a collier, he was apparently born in Rugby, not Bedworth/Foleshill and Emma was again born in Nuneaton, not Bedworth. What concerns me most though is the presence in the household of her father Samuel Smith, aged 69 (so born c1802), place of birth Leicester.
I think I may have found Samuel in 1851, lodging in West Orchard in Coventry with his wife Emma and a one year old daughter Louisa, but otherwise I can’t find him or his wife and daughter with any degree of certainty either before or after 1851.
I also can’t find a Bradbury/Smith marriage that fits the bill.
The television’s awful tonight again – does anyone fancy having a look at this with me?
AN