Isaac Webley Burchill (Week 1 - FFFFF)

[Merry]

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

Isaac Webley Burchill

Date and place of birth

About 1804 at Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire

Names of parents

George Burchill and Elizabeth nee Webbelee

Date and place of baptism - if applicable

27th Jan 1805 at Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any

29th Dec 1825 at St James, Bristol to Elizabeth Jefferies

Occupation(s) - if any

Butcher

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!).

I have all censuses 1841-1881. Isaac lived in Downend, Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire in all records I have.

Date, place and cause of death

23rd Oct 1881 at Downend, Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire of senile decay

Date and place of burial.

30th Oct 1881 at Downend Churchyard, Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire (Area 16 Grave No 8)

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable

None

Memorial inscription - if any

ISAAC WEBLEY BURCHLL
DIED 23RD OCTOBER 1881
BURIED 30TH OCTOBER 1881
AGED 77
WIFE ELIZABETH BURCHILL
DIED 15TH FEBRUARY 1883
BURIED 18TH FEBRUARY 1883
AGED 80

The above is from MIs drawn up several decades ago. The gravestone has now fallen face down and we could not read what was written on it. I think it likely the wording would now be illegible anyway.

[anne fraser]

This is very much my patch. I am a member of Downend local history society who are very active and have a large collection of local photos.

[Merry]

Oooh, that interesting Anne! I have only been there the once and that was years ago, before I really knew what I was doing research-wise.

Should you come across Curtis Lane Butchers Shop in your travels I would be very interested - that's where Isaac was living in 1881 - I guess it was probably where he lived for decades, but it didn't get a name before then!

Isaac's mother was b in Mangotsfield, but George Burchill (Isaac's father) was from Bristol itself. Most of the family stayed in Mangotsfield and/or Horfield until the 20thC.

[anne fraser]

I will look out to see what I can find. If you write to Downend Local history society, the folk house Overndale Road Downend I am sure they will look through their library as well.

[Merry]

Thanks for that, Anne.

[anne fraser]

I notice if you google his name he is part of a large on-line tree. I found this as well: http://www.frenchaymuseumarchives.co.uk/Archives/PagesBiogy/Webley-Coombs.htm

[Merry]

I have been in touch with several people who have contributed to the Coombs tree - not for years now though......Maybe I will make contact again. Thanks for that.

[anne fraser]

I have just been reading the links to the Winterbourne parish magazine - really interesting stuff about St. Michael's children home and their day trips to Bristol Zoo and Weston: nothing to do with your family ofcourse but then family history is like that. Did you see the photo of Mr. Day the headmaster.

[Merry]

Did you see the photo of Mr. Day the headmaster.

No, where? :o

[anne fraser]

If you go through the link I gave you and then click on Mr. Day's name in the family tree there is a picture of him and his school. The Frenchay museum is in the grounds of Frenchay hospital and I have spent time browsing there while waiting for patients. It is small but very interesting.

[Merry]

Some of mine originated in Winterbourne, but that was in the late 1700s and I don't know much about them.