Edwin/Edward :
My x Grandfather christened Edwin 1832 in Gloucestershire - also went by the name Edward. We have family members who were also in Cirencester at this time and in the 18th century.
Assume you have the Will of Thomas HAINES 21 February 1827, Cirencester, Labourer who mentions his late daughter Jane BROWN and his other daughters Hannah IVIN and Ann ATKINS - Grand-daughter Maria MORGAN (living with him) and son James HAINES.
Thomas seems comfortably off, but as regards Ann ATKINS, ..... 'and I further direct that the share of my said Daughter Ann ATKINS may be paid into her own hands by my Executors Indpendent of her husband for the time being, who shall not intermeddle, therewith, neither shall the same be subject to his Debts Control Interference or Engagement etc. etc.'
(Possibly Joseph & Ann ATKINS disappeared for a while up to Birmingham because of his debts etc)
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Thomas HAINES (Under Sexton) buried at Cirencester 16 April 1827 aged 83
Jane HAINES - buried at Cirencester 29 March 1820 aged 77
Thomas HAINES married Jane HARBET - 2 November 1767, Cirencester
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By Googling: Thomas Haines, Labourer, Cirencester
under the heading:
Cirencester 1540-1945 July 2017 Draft Victoria County History
On page numbered 29
Under Vestry Clerk & Sexton
' STEVENS kept detailed from 1775 of money taken for burials and more intermittently for ringing of the church bells. He paid a deputy THOMAS HAINES for jobs including dressing the church and cleaning the Chancel'
1841 Census, Cirencester, Cricklade Street
James HAINES - 70 Cordwainer
Mary HAINES - 66
Thomas BROWN - 82, Tailor
On the 1830 Pigots Directory for Gloucestershire (Cirencester)
James HAYNES, Boot & Shoe Maker : Dyer Street
Our family are on this directory in Dyer Street
? Joseph ATKINS may have worked for James
(and 11 Blacksmiths listed)
Still a shopping street today.