Samuel Feeney and William Feeney. Dates of Birth ?

[pirhana]

Samuel Feeney married Mary Griffiths in 1859 in Shrewsbury. His father is shown on the marriage certificate as a William Feeney ( labourer ).As was the pattern Samuel's age is given as " full age". I believe that he may have been born in about 1832/33 which would have made him 26/27, but am not sure. William may have been born in about 1791 and married ( possibly to an Ann Evans ) in about 1824 , but am not sure of that either. Does anybody have any more concrete information?

Pirhana

[groom]

How certain are you that his mother was Ann? Could this be the family in 1851, perhaps a second marriage? That is the only Samuel Feeney I can see born Shrewsbury about that time.

HO107; Piece: 1992; Folio: 107; Page: 16
Shrewbury

William Feeney   62     pensioner     Leeds, Yorkshire
Julia Feeney   51                        ??ethouse, Montgomeryshire
Samuel Feeney   18    labourer        Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Mary Ann Feeney 14                       Shrewsbury, Shropshire

[heywood]

1841 926/38/13
William Feeney   50 yrs
Hanah Feeney   40 yrs
Samuel Feeney   8 yrs
Mary Feeney   5 yrs
Fanny Feeney   4 yrs
William Feeney 2 yrs

Heywood

[heywood]

There is this marriage:

William Feeney and Ann Lloyd 21 January 1824 St Chad's Shrewsbury

Then Free BMD

1843 William Feeney and Julia Price on the same page

[groom]

I can't see a death for Hannah/Ann in Shropshire though between 1841 and 1851.

[groom]

Probably this one transcribed as Fenney

 Ann Fenney
 1842   Jul-Aug-Sep
 Shrewsbury
 Volume:   18  Page:   10

[heywood]

Yes groom, I wondered if that was her.
There is a Patrick Fenney death in 1843 though - maybe a child?

Ignore re Patrick - there is a Fenney family around so probably no connection.

[pirhana]

To groom and heywood, many thanks for your information and apologies for the delay in replying. I think heywood may have found the family in the 1841 census as the ages tally with what I suspect i.e William was 50 and therefore born in 1791 and Samuel is shown as 8 and was therefore born in 1833.As Samuel married Mary Griffiths at St. Chads, Shrewsbury in 1859 I thought that the William shown as marrying Ann Lloyd ( not Evans as I mistakenly stated ) at St. Chads in 1824 might have been his father. Samuel worked as a bricklayer/bricksetter and spent all of his married life in Shrewsbury and his children appear to have been baptised at St. Chads.Also as one of Samuel's children was called Ann/Annie he may have named her after his mother if indeed she was the former Ann Lloyd.

Pirhana.