Thomas Henfrey Melton Mowbray c1700

[scruffypup]

I'm looking for Thomas Henfrey or Thomas Henfry who married Catherine and whose daughter Elizabeth married Will Tinson in Melton Mowbray (see post for Will Tinson).  Thomas's children Eliz 14/11/1730, Catharine 19/2/1735 and Sarah 23/3/1731 were all born in Melton Mowbray but I cannot find anything about Thomas or his wife Catherine.

[wozzle]

On the IGI there is a Thomas Henfrey marriage to Catherine Sketh on 11th March 1728 at Great Dalby Leicester

[scruffypup]

HI Wozzle

Many thanks for your reply, I've been looking for ages for any info on this family without any success, Great Dalby seems a hard place to find info on it's the same with the Watchorn  family that the descendents of Henry married into via the Arnsby family, still it could be worse I could be looking for John Smith

Yours Julie

[Mike from Leicester]

Greeting’s Julie.

Sketh sound a like Burials for
Great Dalby 1813. ~ 91.:~

Names / Dates / Ages.
SKERRITT   Elizabeth   18   Dec   1822   54
SKERRITT   Elizabeth   18   Oct   1827   4wks
SKERRITT   Robert   14   Jul   1848   80
SKERRITT   John   12   Sep   1856   77
SKIRRITT?   Thomas   9   Apr   1836   28

No Henfrey  events found ….Sorry.

MIKE.

[scruffypup]

Hi Mike

Thanks for your reply, I know names can change so much from one generation to the next, I seem to have a speciallity in ancestors that are missing from the IGI George Matthews 1809 in Lincs, Olivia Wurswick 1840's from Lancs, William Boddy 1809(1809 is a bad year for me ) from Pickering to name but a few, all down for marriages but no sign of a birth anywhere.  There is a Thomas Henfrey who married around 1690 in Melton Mowbray who would sound like the ideal candidate to be my Thomas Henfrey's father but as we are talking about the days before census returns there is very little to connect the two together apart from the same name, same town and right era if only family history was that simple his father will turn out to have a completely different christian name and come from the other side of the country knowing my luck

Thanks for replying.

Yours Julie

[Mike from Leicester]

Greeting’s again ……..Julie.

The closest to an early Census returns :~

1821. Population Head Cont ( Forerunner to Censuses )

Reading Left to Right

Names./ No of Families / Trade / Over 20 yrs Males / Over 20 yrs Females /
Boys Under 20 yrs / Girls Under 20 yrs./ Date.

Thomas   Henfrey    1   Man'f   2   2   Nil.   2      20 May 1821   Melton Mowbray   
John   Skerritt   1   Man'f   1   2   2   3      20 May 1821   Melton Mowbray   
Abv. = Man’f = would point to wards  Frame work knitter / Stocking Maker ?

Henfrey & Sound alike Burials for Melton Mowbray :~
Names / Dates / Ages / Notes.
 
HEMPREY   Annie   12   Mar   1879   20   Abode Leicester St
HENFREY   Elizabeth   14   Nov   1838   74   
HENFREY   * Thomas *   18   Jan   1849   74   
HENFREY   Henry   9   Mar   1855   2wks   
HENFREY   Charles Henry   5   Mar   1859   6wks   
HENFREY   Elizabeth   20   Feb   1871   76   Abode New St
HENFREY   Emma   26   Jun   1874   20   
HENFREY   Catherine   24   Mar   1877   74   Abode Union Workhouse
HENFREY   William Edward   6   Dec   1884   24   Abode Sysonby
HENFREY   Gertrude   20   May   1889   26 Days   Abode Thorpe Road
HENFREY   Fanny   27   Nov   1889   59   Abode Leicester St
HENFRY   Henry   13   Nov   1853   60   
HENPREY   Ellen   4   Feb   1882   13   Abode Leicester St

Sketh sound a likes ?  :~
SKERRITT   George   14   Dec   1822   1   
SKERRITT   Samuel   25   May   1836   91   
SKERRITT   Elizabeth   22   Dec   1860   61   Union
SKERRITT   Mary Rebecca   26   Nov   1881   1yr 11mths   Abode Pal Mall
SKERRITT   Percival Charles   3   Aug   1889   15mths   Abode Snow Hill
SKILL   Ann   19   Jul   1852   50   
SKINNER   John Wend?   30   Jan   1843   Inf   
SKINNER   Elizabeth   3   Oct   1853   50   
SKINNER   William   11   May   1859   55   
SKINNER   Ann   1   Nov   1861   53   
SKIRRET   John   12   Apr   1817   6mths   
SKIRRET   Mary   4   May   1819   65   
SKIRRETT   George   25   Apr   1817   Inf   
SKIRRETT   Sarah   14   Apr   1820   6mths   

Whatchorn & Sound a likes Melton :~
WATCHORN   MARY   29   DEC   1828   70   
WATCHORN   JARVIS   1   FEB   1846   11   ABODE UNION WORKHOUSE
WATCHORN   ELIZABETH   13   FEB   1871   2   ABODE THORPE END
WATERHORN   GEORGE   23   MAY   1824   66   KILLED BY LIGHTENING
 

Hope this is of some help to you.

MIKE.

[scruffypup]

Hi Mike

Many thanks for all the info on the Henfrey/Skerritt and Watchorn families.  I think there must have been either a shortage of work or for the ag lab workers on the farms perhaps a drought/poor land around that area as by the mid 19th century most of the descendants of the Henfrey and Watchorn  families  (Arnsby/Lyon and Matthews) on my tree had strayed across the border into Skillington in Lincolnshire via Coston in Leicestershire.

Yours Julie