Samuel Statham Bagshaw Ames (FMMFMFF)

[Merry]

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

Samuel Statham Bagshaw Ames but regularly known as Samuel Ames!

Date and place of birth

About 1727

Names of parents

Thomas Ames and Sarah nee Hill

Date and place of baptism - if applicable

13 Aug 1727 at St Mary's, Lichfield, Staffordshire

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any

1) 7 May 1755 at St Helen's, Clifford Chambers, Gloucestershire to Ann Taplin (my 5xg-grandmother)
2) 8 Oct 1760 at St Chad's, Lichfield, Staffordshire to Jane Long
3) 4 Nov 1781 at St Mary's, Sandbach, Cheshire to Mary Baddeley


Occupation(s) - if any

1785-1793: Watchman at the saltmines

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!).

Childhood: Lichfield, Staffordshire
1755-1757: Clifford Chambers, Gloucestershire
1758-1765: Sheep Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
1781: Church Lawton, Cheshire
1785-1793: Odd Rode, Cheshire

Date, place and cause of death

Unknown except before 1809, according to his daughter, Rebecca Ames, will

Date and place of burial.

Unknown

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable

Unknown

Memorial inscription - if any

Unknown

link to 4xg:

http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/Forum/showthread.php?t=21347&highlight=samuel+ames

[Merry]

Samuel S B Ames was quite tricky to research and I had a lot of problems working out who he married and who his son, also Samuel, married. Samuel senr often didn't use his middle names.

Eventually I came across the will of Rebecca Ames, this Samuel's only child from his second marriage. She was good enough to tell me that her father had been married three times and gave the name of her surviving half brother, Samuel, from his first marriage. However, she had this to say about the only child born after her father married his third wife:

".....first I give and bequeath to Mary Ames daughter of my late father Samuel Statham Bagshaw Ames's third wife (now widow) one shilling having my private reasons for so doing......."

Is she saying she suspects or knows Mary Ames is not her father's biological child? Her other half sibling is described as "son of my father by his first wife".

It seems likely Rebecca didn't have much contact with Mary, as Mary had been married for six years when Rebecca wrote her will, but there's no mention of Mary's married name.

Up to now I have no idea where the names Statham or Bagshaw come from.