To all the researchers helping me find the maiden name of the elusive Elizabeth Read I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. Please make sure that you are safe on New Years Eve too.
Now Cuffie I have gone through all your information of births and marriages with most being after the date of my Charles Read in 1829 with christening in 1830. This then has led me back to the Thomas and Elizabeth who had 4 children in the Wilks(es) street area.
Then: another 5 children in Wilmot Street Bethnal Green.
We know for sure and certain that Thomas READ (father of the children in Bethnal Green was a weaver. I cannot remember for sure but I think in some of the Census' Elizabeth the wife and Jane the daughter said their occupation was that of weaver!
Putting aside the 4 children from Wilks Street, the first of the Bethnal Green children would be James William READ in 1825. BUT there is no marriage in that time frame. Were they married?? Would they have had 5 children without being married? The other 4 children from Wilks Street seem to fit into a possible marriage. BUT then how many Thomas READ's would be weavers??
One of you told me that Death records do not show the names of the parents. How about Birth records? I have Charles' baptism record and all it says is son of Thomas and Elizabeth. I guess because it all happened prior to 1837 we will never know.
Getting back to the Legassick family.....I am waiting on a lady from Somerset who has researched the Legassick family, she comes from the Simpson family and when time permits she will send me her research on the Thomas Read who married Elizabeth Wilks Legassick. I found that a Henry Legassick married an Elizabeth Wilks. I have copied a couple of sentences from the Legassick story for you all to look at and consider.
"A certain Elizabeth Wilks Legassick is shown as a possible daughter of the William who married in 1801. She appears to have witnessed (using her married name) the marriage of William Legassick (Jnr.) at St. Martin in the Fields in 1822, the year following her own marriage to Thomas Read at the same church. Interestingly at St. Giles Church, Oxford, in 1800 a Henry Legassicke of unknown origins had married a lady named Elizabeth Wilkes. Surely there is a connection here. If this Henry was the man born in Sherford in 1767 as mentioned above, then was William of Soho (m.1801) his younger brother, born in Dodbrooke in 1772? Or, was the lady who married Thomas Read in 1821 the widow of Henry? These hypotheses are essentially no more than wild guesses."
As soon as I have the lady from Somerset's research I will post here for consideration.
Thanks again for your help
Lesley