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Hi, I'm hoping someone can help.

I've been researching someone distant on my family tree (cousin of a many times great grandparent) and stumbled across something odd.

George Money, born 1839 marries Susan Stapleton, born 1841 both of Ampthill Bedfordshire marry in the town in 1860.

I think George has a bit of trouble with the law in 1857, however there are two George Money's with fathers named Thomas born in the town at similar times (April 1838 and 'mine' in April 1839 thankfully distginahable by fathers profressions) so it's hard to ascertain which one got himself into a spot of bother: http://apps.bedford.gov.uk/grd/detail.aspx?id=37995

George and Susan Money appear living in Ampthill in 1861 and 1871, and by 1881 they move with their children to Hasland, Derbyshire near Chesterfield and have three children there in addition to their children born in Ampthill. (census record: Piece 3434 Folio 96 Page number 14)

In 1891 George and Susan have moved again and are living with their three youngest children in Glamorgan, Wales (parish = Ystradyfodwg, census reference Piece 4429 Folio 79 Page number 46) as George and Susannah STAPLETON. George passes away, and Susan stays in Wales living as Susan Stapleton in 1901 (census reference = Household schedule number 115 Piece 5001 Folio 70 Page number 22) and then returns to Ampthill by 1911 to live as Susan Money though her children seem to have settled in Wales. Their children seem to adopt and keep the Stapleton name by 1881. The eldest child, Harry was born in 1860 and the youngest Thomas was born in Derbyshire in 1882 before the big move and name change meaning Harry was likely older than 22 when he changed his name.

I've looked on the British newspaper archives to see if i can find why the family appear to have just upped and moved to a different country and change their name to the wife's maiden name but i'm struggling to find any indicators. I know work drove people to re-locate but the name change makes me wonder if there is more to it, if it was a language-thing or if theres a skeleton somewhere! Is anyone else able to spot something i've missed or point me in the direction of any other useful sources? I'm very intrigued!

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Ancestry has a marriage between an 'An Basterfield' and 'Jas Boswoth' in Campton, Bedford (George's baptism place) in the database 'England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973' dated 10 Jan 1810, which would be your Ann Basterfield/Baskerfield's Aunt.


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Sarah Oxley has a life sentence , meaning she can never leave Australia, she can only at best receive a conditional pardon (which she does in 1847) granting her freedom but not the freedom to return to England. She seems like a lively woman, and is rearrested serval times for abscondment (New South Wales Government Gazette Indexes 1835/1837/1841/1842), and I can see her appearing in Sydney goal registers in 1835/1838 (found on ancestry – I don’t think are typical prisoner holdings, George never appears in an Australian gaol record). She continues to be referred to as Sarah Oxley, never Sarah Bast(k)erfield. Maybe that’s due to how those in charge kept convict records by name at the time of arrest, or maybe that indicates the marriage did not work out. There are no baptism records for any potential children that I can see.

I was really cautious about linking the George who marries Sarah Steven’s and this potential other George, as i know how rare it is for people to return from Australia but the Bedfordshire records office settlement examination of Ann confirms;
1. The George who marries Martha Cooper is transported. There is no other likely wedding for George who is a widow in 1838. It also confirms the death of his first wife before his marriage to Sarah.
2. George and Martha lived in the St. Paul’s area of Bedford. George who marry’s Sarah lives in this area in 1841. His son James (born in 1840) is baptised in St Paul’s church.
3. I was already aware that the ages and dates of the George’s matched.
4. This thread has allowed me to understand that the witness, Thomas Warren, is the husband of George’s daughter Ann making him George’s son in law.

I thought this information might help people researching George Basterfield, father of Elizabeth and Ann by Martha, and father of James by Sarah Steven's. So apologies that this information is less about Ann and more about George, but the link provided will hopefully help someone understand a little about what Ann's life must have been like also, and that she did reconcile with her father.

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Thank you for this thread.

Knowing that Ann Basterfield married Thomas Warren has been really valuable to me matching up some information on George Basterfield.

While attempting to research George I found this in the Bedfordshire: http://bedsarchivescat.bedford.gov.uk/Details/archive/110352991
This thread is about Ann Basterfield, and this document is for ‘Ann Bastfield’,  who seem to be one and the same person. She states she is the daughter of George and Martha Cooper and currently (1833) lives with her grandmother Sarah Cooper in Bedford. Her father was a convict who was transported for 14 years for ‘felony’ at Bedford Assizes March 1819, and she cannot remember, him but about three years before  (aprox 1830) George’s sister Ann Bosworth told her she had a letter from George stating he was planning to return but Ann Basterfield has heard no more since. He mother remarried (Joseph Chettles in about 1826/7 and moved to London, Ann went with her and returned after her mothers death.

I have the marriage certificate of George Basterfield, labourer, & Sarah Stevens – both widows. They married on the 11th of May 1838. George's father is named as Thomas Basterfield, Labourer. George is residing in Bedford, Sarah is residing in Shefford. The witnesses are Charlotte Bland and THOMAS WARREN.

George is listed as a widower on his marriage certificate, and I thought the marriage between Martha Cooper and George Basterfield in 1812 was the only likely match for his first marriage, but I couldn’t be sure. I also was not sure if he was the George Baskerfield who was transported in 1819.

In the 1841 Bedford census George and Sarah live in Bedford, with James Basterfield, their infant son, with Sarahs three seemingly base-born children (Sarah claims to be a widow, and her son George Stevens later marries and states his father is Thomas Stevens, but there is no evidence of a marriage between Sarah Stevens and Thomas Stevens). The census ages on the Bedford/St Paul's 1841 census are rounded down giving George's a birth year between 1791-1796.

Going back to George's parentage; There is a baptismal record for a George Basterfield to a Thomas Basterfield and Sarah in Campton on the 8 Apr 1792 (findmypast baptism transcripts). Thomas and Sarah also baptise two other children at the church, Ann(e, 27/5/1789) and Judith (18/4/1796). Ann is probably the sister who becomes Ann Bosworth through a marriage which links back to Ann Basterfields comments in 1833.

I can’t see any other George Bas(t/k)erfield’s baptised 20 years either side of that date in Bedfordshire (or at all)

This matches the age of George Baskerfield (age 25 in 1818) in the Bedfordshire goal records as being deported to Australia for Accessory to felony: https://apps.bedford.gov.uk/grd/detail.aspx?id=2158
Other records put the charge as handing stolen goods, and all Australian records put the boat of travel as the Atlas, not the HMS Justitia.

George is still in touch with his sister in Engliand while he is in Australia and at some point in the very late 1820’s/early 1830’s writes to her of his intent to return to England.
I can see that George Bas(t/k)erfield receives his ‘Ticket of Leave’ on the 31st of August 1830 granting him permission to start to work for himself in Australia, but as he has not yet finished his sentence he cannot yet leave Australia but this means he can earn a wage to fund his return crossing, which prisoners had to pay themselves. I know from research it was the equivalent of about a years wage and the government tried to incentivise people to stay, so it’s really rare for people to return.

George Baskerfield marries 20 year old Sarah Oxley in Newcastle, NSW on the 14 December 1832, which maybe delayed his return, though he can’t return without his freedom which he does not yet have.

George Bas(t/k)erfield receives his Certificate of Freedom in May 1833. I can’t see any record of him in Australia after this; there is no death/burial record but also no index of him returning to England.

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