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The Desendants of Compiled and researched by Dale Mark Lewis
Last updated 31st August 2007 |
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Francis was born in Bitton, Gloucestershire in 1732, and he married a local girl by the name of Mary Harris who was born in bitton in 1733. They married on 10th February 1754. They had nine children, thefirst was a daughter named Sarah who was born on 20th May 1760. Next was another daughter named Mary who was born in 1764, unfortunately she died in infancy. In 1765 they had a son named James, but James died in infancy. On 30th October 1768 Mary may have had twin sons, the first being James, and the Isaac. Another daughter was born on 26th May 1771 she was called Mary, like her dead sister. Next came another son named William born on 30th June 1773, and on 15th October 1775 John was born. Francis and Mary had their last child on 31st January 1776, and it was a son they called Thomas. Isaac moved to the colliery Parish of Westerleigh, which also included the townships of Coalpit Heath and Nibley. Isaac married a local girl named Mary like his mother. Mary gave birth to a daughter name Joana on 29th February 1791. On 4th April 1793 she gave birth to a son named James, then on 25th March 1796 gave birth to Ann. The next son took Isaac's name and he was born on 4th December 1798. Another sister was born in the next century on 2nd April 1802 and she took her mother Mary's name. John was born on 20th July 1803, and Jonathan was born 19th August 1808. John became a coal miner and married a girl named Sarah and they had at least two children, although there were probably many more, as was normal for the time. The eldest of these children was a daughter named Sarah, born on 11th August 1833. The other child was a son named James who was born on 9th August 1835. James became a collier like his family, and married Frances Walker, the daughter of a farm labourer Charles Walker, at St Saviours Parish church on 23rd August 1858. Frances's father Charles was born nearby in about 1810. He married Hannah in around 1830. They moved to a place near the Rookery, Shellard Lane, Itchington and in around 1837 Frances was born. In 1840 Hannah had a son named Charles like his father. Frances stayed with her Grand mother, Mary Walker who was still farming at 70 near Horton. They moved back to Mays Hill where Hannah had another daughter named Ann. Charles Walker was born in the Nibley area and christened on 11th September 1812, the son of Samuel Walker from Tytherington and Mary. Mary was still farming in Horton when she was 70 years old and a widow. Samuel was born in Tytherington and christened on 16th January 1763, the son of Samuel and Joyce. When Joseph Gibb's the local farmer took over Langton Farm in Siston, he gave his son Alfred, and his wife Jane Wickham Gibbs the adjoining North Mead. Both families needed servents so Fanny became the house servent for Alfred, until she return to Mays Hill and Married James williams. They settled at Mays Hill. In 1863 they had a son named Thomas, then another son named Albert in 1865. In 1867 they had a daughter named Mary Ann, and another daughter in 1868 named Emily Frances. Then another daughter was born in 1871 named Alice I. Then came two more sons. First Henry born on 24th January 1873, then Isaac who was born in 1875. In 1878 Ellen S. was born and in May 1880 Allen born. Allen was the last to leave who and was still single and at home in 1901. Hannah married Charles Walker at the Holy Trinity Church, in Bristol on 29th October 1837. She was the daughter of Isaac Highnam christened in Westerleigh Parish on 8th August 1784. Her mother was Frances Witchell also christened in Westerleigh on 22nd February 1796. Frances Witchell's parents were Hannah Webb born around 1770 and Daniel Witchell born in 1768, who married on 27 June 1791 at St James Church, Westerleigh. Isaac Highnam was the son of Abraham born in Pucklechurch on 30th September 1756. His parents were John Highnam and Mary Rogers who married on 24th December 1755 in Westerleigh. His parents were Isaac Highnam and Ann Jeffery who married in Wapley on 19th April 1736. Isaac was the son of Abraham and Edith Highnam both born in 1679. Abraham died on 9th October 1756. Ann Jeffery was the daughter of John Jeffery and Sarah Pinnel. Sarah was born 1689 in Wapley. John was the son of John and Grace Jeffery. 
Henry married a Yate girl named Lilly Reed. They settled in Sunnyside Lane in Yate. Lilly was the daughter of a rail worker from Goose Green named William Reed, born in 1850. His wife was Sarah Ann, born the same year. Lilly had a younger sister named Kate born in 1880. Lilly was born in 1873. Henry and her married at Emannuels, Bristol on 16th May 1891. They had two children. They first was Frances Beatrice who was born on 13th November 1894. Then they had a son in about 1907 named Silvester Royal Albert. Henry died in about 1910 so Lilly remarried. She married a man named William G. Whitton, born in Horfield to an Irishman from WestMead, Ireland named Thomas. He was born there at the end of the Potato famine in 1848, and came Bristol married a local girl named Sarah born in 1854. The first information we have on the Reed family lies with Giles Reed who was born in Yate around 1790, he maried a woman who arrived in Yate from Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire named Ann. In about 1820 Ann gave birth to a daughter named Jane. Jane became a on site worker on the local farms around Yate. In the early 1840s she worked between Wickwar, and Rangeworthy at Hall End farm. At a messy period in the Reed family history Jane was working as a dairy maid at Raysfield Farm, next to where Raysfield school now stands. The mess in the Reed family was caused by Jane's love for the Ballif living on the farm, named Thomas Pendock, who had family in Badmington. Infact the owner Raysfield Farm was his uncle. Jane's love manifested itself in the conception a son William Penduck. Unfortunately for Jane and the infant William, Thomas wasn't interested in marrying her. He moved on and was in Henbury ten years on. Williams sufferred the indignity on being born in the Union work House on the Ridge, Yate in 1851. William was taken in by her mother. Jane continued to work as a Dairy maid, and in 1861 was working on Thomas Amos's Crowthers dairy farm, on Goose Green. In her forties Jane married the widower contract haulier John Slade, from Little Sodbury. Jane became nurse maid to John's young children. Jane died in 1906. William became a Railworker, and married Sarah Ann Dixon. They lived at Goose Green in the 1880s and moved towards Stover Road later. Lilly Married Henry Williams, and Collier from Mays Hill. They settled in Sunnyside Lane in Yate. Frances remained in Yate and worked as a domestic servent. She met Stephen Charles Williamson a man from Little Walsingham in Norfolk with a young son named Charles. His wife had left him for a new life with an American serviceman. After this Stephen left Little Walsingham, and possible the only hope of getting a divorce. Neither any longer knew the where abouts of the other, so divorce may have been impossible, so now neither could remarry. Frances became pregnat with her first child, but unfortunately she had misunderstood the nature of her position. She was shocked and dismayed to find out that Stephen would not marry her, because her was already in an inescapable marriage. So Frances had her first child at home, but what would neighbours say if they ever new. She was living with a married man technically. Frances became very resentful about this. Although it seemed that she didn't much care for him, she did and had three children together, but her anger often overshadowed their love. Frances' first child was Mabel Frances born at her parent's home in Sunnyside Lane on 29th September 1918, and Lilly was present at the birth. Next Frances gave birth to Phyllis Grace. Then she had a son, she named after her father, Henry. Henry died in his youth. Frances treated Stephen badly, but the girls loved the man they knew as father. |
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