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Re: John Hurdle b1804 Wareham
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 17 February 16 15:12 GMT (UK) »
Not on the Dorset opc site    but family search

Dorset, Parish Registers
Elizabeth Laws Christening 25 Jan 1807
St. Martin's, Wareham, Dorset, England
Father's Name   John Laws
Mother's Name   Elizabeth
Just a thought -Have you gone down the route that Witnessess at the marriage ie George Hurdle may have been his brother and wife ? I have found siblings are more common as Witnessess than parents

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Re: John Hurdle b1804 Wareham
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 17 February 16 16:23 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for you reply, I have tried to tie George and John together with no luck.

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Re: John Hurdle b1804 Wareham
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 17 February 16 17:03 GMT (UK) »
Here is the marriage of John Laws and Elizabeth
John Laws Marriage 28 Sep 1788
St. Mary's, Wareham
Spouse Elizabeth Parsons
A George Hurdle married 25th December 1825 in Wareham and a John Hordle was a witness could be the same two guys but blowed if I can find a family link
I will keep looking

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Re: John Hurdle b1804 Wareham
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 17 February 16 17:05 GMT (UK) »
may be a complete red herring but there is a George Hordle s/o John and Sarah bapt at Lady St Mary on 3 April 1794. George marries a Mary (possibly Mary Slade Gritten on 16 Nov 1818 at Lady St Mary) and can be traced through several censuses, living in Wareham and then moving to Morden, just north of Wareham. He is a shoemaker in 1841 as is one of his sons, a cordwainer in in 1851, then a farmer of three acres in 1861. I see your John is also a shoemaker in Canford Magna / Parkstone. Sometimes occupations run in families and your John is George's younger brother.
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott


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Re: John Hurdle b1804 Wareham
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 17 February 16 17:18 GMT (UK) »
In 1830 Pigotts directory there is a Thomas Hordle, boot and Shoemaker in West Street. There are several baptisms of children to Thomas and Elizabeth Hordle at West Street chapel in late 1790s - early 1800s. Some records mention they are of Lady St Marys.

A John Hurdle (Cordwainer) took on an apprentice (Marmaduke Hart) in Wareham in 1803. This could be George's father John.

And two  much earlier apprentice records for Thomas Hurdle (shoemaker) of Wareham taking on apprentices.

So there does seem to be a family of Hordles / Hurdles as shoemakers in Wareham.
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: John Hurdle b1804 Wareham
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 17 February 16 18:23 GMT (UK) »
Burials in Wareham

John Hurdle age 71 buried 25 Oct 1818 and Sarah Hurdle age 76 buried 22 Nov 1823. No indication on transcript that they were a couple. The dobs would both be about 1747, which would make this Sarah too old to be John's (1804) mother, and would be in her late 40's if she was George's mother.

Looking back further John (abt 1747) could be son of Thomas and Mary Hurdle bapt 2 Nov 1746 at Lady St Mary. There are several other children of this couple. This Thomas would be the right age to have taken on two apprentices in shoemaking in 1742 an 1752.
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: John Hurdle b1804 Wareham
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 17 February 16 19:42 GMT (UK) »
thank you.  Where are you finding all of this information?  I have never come close to finding anything.

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Re: John Hurdle b1804 Wareham
« Reply #16 on: Thursday 18 February 16 10:54 GMT (UK) »
Links to Trade directories are on the Wareham page on Dorset OPC.
Apprenticeship record transcripts are on FindMyPast
Census records are on FindMyPast and also on Ancestry
Baptisms / burials from Dorset OPC transcripts.

A few more records from FindMyPast on Hurdle / Hordle in wareham.

Thomas Hurdle m Mary Cribb 29 Dec 1734 Holy Trinity

Children of Thomas and Mary:
Thomas bapt 27 Dec 1735 Lady St Mary
Mary bapt 11 Jun 1738 LSM
William bapt 21 Nov 1739 LSM, buried 17 Jan 1739 LSM s/o Thomas and Mary (before date change so likely to be 1739/40)
Betty bapt 6 Sep 1741 LSM, buried 1 Nov 1741 d/o Thomas LSM
Joseph bapt 29 Dec 1742 Holy Trinity, buried 31 Mar 1748 LSM s/o Thomas and Mary
Elizabeth bapt 27 Nov 1744 HT
John bapt 2 Nov 1746 LSM
William 18 Sep 1748 LSM
Joseph 25 Nov 1750 LSM (Thomas and Mary described as sojourners)
Anne 5 Nov 1752 LSM
Richard 18 May 1755 LSM
Sarah 27 Aug 1758 LSM

Sarah Hurdle married Joseph Curtis 14 Nov 1778 Holy Trinity. Witnesses: Wm. Cutler, John Randel.

Thomas Hurdle buried 1 Aug 1766 LSM

Children of John and Sarah
William Hurdle bapt 27 Feb 1771 LSM
Thomas bapt 4 Mar 1774 LSM
Betty  26 Dec 1776 LSM
Mary  16 Apr 1781 LSM
Richard  16 May 1784 LSM
Sarah  11 May 1788 LSM
Ann Latter  6 Jun 1790 LSM
George  3 Apr 1793 LSM

Mary Hurdle buried 26 Sep 1798 LSM

Children of Thomas and Elizabeth
Mary born 24 Mar 1799 bapt 1 Jul 1799 West Street Independent
William born 25 Apr 1800 bapt 24 Aug 1800 Ind
Mary born 1802 (blank in register for day and month) bapt 12 Jul 1802 Ind (of the parish of Lady St Mary)
Mary Hurdle buried 8 July 1802 LSM d/o Thomas and Mary (Was the mother actually Elizabeth, and this Mary was the one born in 1799, and her new baby sister was named Mary in her memory 4 days later?
Thomas bapt 24 Aug 1808 Ind
Thomas born 30 Apr 1808 bapt 05 Jun 1808 Ind
Moses born 01 Mar 1812 bapt 28 Sep 1812 Ind
Rachel born 27 Jan 1814 bapt 13 May 1814 Ind (parish LSM)
Joseph born 03 Aug 1815 bapt 26 Dec 1815 Ind (parish LSM)
Mary Ann born 06 Jan 1818 bapt 09 Aug 1818 Ind (parish LSM, occ shoemaker)

I'm confused about the two entries for Thomas. There is one record which has an unnamed Hordle bapt on 24 Aug 1808 in rather untidy writing. The other entry for 24 Aug is in a pre-printed book (maybe BT?) The date and surname are in one handwriting and child's name and names of parents are in another handwriting as if added later. I suspect the entry has been copied from the untidy one and it has been confused with the Thomas baptised in June. Could this be the missing John baptised late (4 years old?) and name and parents not recorded at the time. If he was born in 1804, he would fit nicely between Mary (1802) and the genuine Thomas. Thomas and Elizabeth seem to be the only Hurdles baptising children at West Street Independent at this time.


Elizabeth Hurdle married George Hooper on 27 Nov 1800 at LSM (grooms parish Holy Trinity). Witnesses: John Sprackling, Thomas Hurdle. (Is she Betty bapt 1776?, witness could be brother or father)

Ann Hurdle married George Best on 02 Oct 1809 at LSM Groom's status sojourner Witnesses: Henry Best, Sarah Hurdle.
Richard Hurdle married Dorothy Shepard on 02 Oct 1809 at LSM Witnesses: Sarah Frampton, Sarah Hurdle.
Double wedding of siblings with sister Sarah witness to both.

Children of Richard and Dorothy
Mary Shepherd born 17 Jul 1813 bapt 28 Dec 1813 Wareham Ind (of the parish of Corfe Castle)
(Haven't checked Corfe for other children of this couple)

John Hurdle buried 25 Oct 1818 age 71 LSM

George Hurdle married Mary Hebe Gritten on 16 Nov 1818 at LSM Witnesses: A. Prince, Elizabeth Gritten, William Gritten.
More detail on marriege mentioned previously. From census info this must George (1794)

Children of George and Mary
James born 06 Nov 1820 bapt 25 Feb 1821 Ind (parish LSM, occupation shoemaker)
Frederick born 31 Oct 1822 bapt 08 Dec 1822 (parish LSM, occupation shoemaker)
plus Several other

Thomas Hurdle buried 1 Mar 1820 age 11 LSM  (this would be the one born 1808)

William Hordle married Agnes Whiteron Turner on 25 Dec 1820 Groom's parish LSM Bride's parish Holy Trinity Witnesses George & Sarah Hordle, Ann Davy and Moses Standley.

Children of William and Agnes
John bapt 25 Dec 1821 occupation shoemaker


George Hurdle married Eliza Payne on 26 Dec 1825 at LSM Witnesses: William Payne and John Hordle
Where has this George come from? George (1794) is on census with wife Mary, unless that is a different Mary from the one he married in 1818, and he married Eliza Payne in between. But cannot find any burials for first Mary and Eliza, so I think this must be a different George.
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: John Hurdle b1804 Wareham
« Reply #17 on: Thursday 18 February 16 11:06 GMT (UK) »
found something else
Thomas Hurdle married Elizabeth Gover on 12 Mar 1799 at Arne. Groom's parish LSM bride's parish Arne Witnesses William Gover,William Green and Geo.Hooper

If that was the right Thomas and Elizabeth then she gave birth to first child 12 days after marriage
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott