Back to 1680 with this line of Elston/Elstone/Elsom etc Thomas Elsom was the father of Thomas Elston/Elsom who married Ann Osborne and later Catherine Reed. In turn his son Thomas married Prudence (H)Inkley and later Ann Corby. Cutting a long story short, their grandson Thomas married Elizabeth Hewerdine at Bourne in 1822, he was supposedly born in Norwich even though the family are firmly rooted in Bourne. This pair were my 3x great grandparents on my maternal-paternal line. Would like to hear from anyone belonging to this family - bearing in mind there were a lot of other Elston families about who were (apparently) not related.
I am looking for a Sarah Elsom who would have been born 1800-1810. She married John Woodhouse Everitt who was born in Norfolk, had a daughter Mary Ann born 1831 and died soon after.
I am not sure that the Sarah married to John Everitt was an Elsom, but daughter Mary Ann was baptized soon after birth with the name Mary Ann Sarah Everitt and again in 1836 with the name Mary Ann Elsom Everitt at the same church, with the same parents and father's profession the same, but Sarah deceased. I have found no Elsoms on the father's side. I am guessing the reason for the name change was to honor the mother's family. I can think of no other reason for the name change. Elsom has to relate to someone, it is not a common given name. Mary Ann continued to use the name Elsom in official records.
This mother--Sarah--is such a mystery. I can find only one marriage for a John Everitt to a Sarah in the Middlesex area in the time period, about 1825-1830. That was to the widow Sarah James. I think this could be the right marriage but cannot find a marriage for a Sarah to a Mr James to see if this Sarah was an Elsom.
I have been finding information about John Everitt's family but nothing about Sarah's. John was a jeweler/goldsmith in the area around London. He was born in 1804 and died in 1845.
I would like to find some clues to any Sarah Elsom that might fit here. Can anybody help?
Claire
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PENNELL, EVERITT/EVERETT, VOST Shoreditch, Islington, Hackney, Hammersmith, Hayes, Paddington, Bethnal Green, Uxbridge Middlesex and Northfleet and Crayford Kent