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Nottinghamshire Lookup Requests / Re: Another Nottingham Marriage
« on: Thursday 29 August 24 11:12 BST (UK)  »
Hello again Mark.

If you respond to this message you will have posted 3 messages and I will then be able to privately message you - so that my long rambling messages don't have to be on general view!

I don't know where my John Barret was born. I know he was at Cambridge, then in the East Midlands. He was ordained at Wymeswold, was then at St. Mary's, Nottingham before being ejected and moving out to Sandiacre. I haven't yet read his will but in Calamy Revisited by Matthews (an account of ejected ministers) the only family mentioned are his wife and his descendants whom I already knew about. Apparently John wrote a memoir of his son, Joseph, which I one day hope to locate and read as it may have a clue about where the family came from.

I agree there is a possibility that my John Barret is related to the Barret family at Thoroton but I don't have any evidence to back this. He could of course come from a different part of the country entirely and have moved to the East Midlands for his work.

Do you know anything about the religious beliefs of your Barrets? Or anything about the people they mixed with?

Brie


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Nottinghamshire Lookup Requests / Re: Another Nottingham Marriage
« on: Tuesday 27 August 24 09:14 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

I haven't looked at this side of the family for some time. I'm descended from John Barret, 1671-1713. He was the Minister of St. Peter's, Nottingham before he was ejected. You can find his biography in The Dictionary of National Biography which you can find on line. He's in the out of print editions so you  can read his entry for free.

His son, Joseph, is my direct ancestor. Elizabeth, who married Mr Coates, was John's daughter, Joseph's brother.

I will dig out my stuff and PM you.

Hope this helps
Brie

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Gloucestershire / Re: What happened here?
« on: Thursday 08 February 24 13:26 GMT (UK)  »
They certainly look like quads as the mother's mmn is King for all four

Brie

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The Lighter Side / Re: RootsChat 20th Anniversary - 31 st December 2023
« on: Monday 15 January 24 10:03 GMT (UK)  »
 ;D

Brie

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The Lighter Side / Re: RootsChat 20th Anniversary - 31 st December 2023
« on: Monday 01 January 24 11:24 GMT (UK)  »
Congratulations from me too, a relative newbie in my 17th year. Special thanks to Trystan, Sarah and the Mods. And to all those who have helped me and my friends over the years.

And special thoughts for those who have helped me and gone before such as Mike from Leicester & Guy

Brie

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Australia / Re: What happened to Edwin's wife?
« on: Sunday 31 December 23 07:12 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you very much. It does look as if Edwin did go to Australia. I wonder if Sarah was expecting him to return. As you say it is interesting that the ship's name was Augustus. Coincidence or something more?

Brie

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Australia / Re: What happened to Edwin's wife?
« on: Saturday 30 December 23 18:47 GMT (UK)  »
Oooh thank you. I'll look at these later - have to get supper out now  :)

He did invent things and your findings look as if he was in Australia for a time. So he could have had a son out there - but what happened to his wife............

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Australia / Re: What happened to Edwin's wife?
« on: Saturday 30 December 23 18:44 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for your replies. Edwin certainly had a colourful life. He had a family with Lucy and with Anne. One of his children with Lucy went on to be a successful dramatist and another married a well-known actor. He was also an author himself.

It is interesting that there is a real possibility of a child in Australia. He apparently went abroad following some business failure but that was supposedly later. However, that was also the story given out by his playwright son and it may have helped cover up the fact that Edwin wasn't married to Lucy and that he left her for another woman. Some aspects of his life appear to be glossed over, particularly in his son's obituaries and biographies.

Brie

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Australia / What happened to Edwin's wife?
« on: Saturday 30 December 23 17:08 GMT (UK)  »
Hello. I'm looking at the Pettitt family for a friend and it has raised several questions. The first one is about Edwin William Wynne Pettitt and his wife, Sarah Aston.

Edwin William Wynne Pettitt was born on 16th Feb 1818 and baptised at St. Martin's, Birmingham, UK on 5th October 1820.

He married as Edwin William Wynne Pettitt (full age) Glazier & Plumber at St. Philip's Church, Birmingham on October 1st 1839 to Sarah Aston, a minor. His father was Charles Pettitt, a Glover.

The next sighting of EWWP is in the 1851 census. He is living with Lucy, his "wife" and two children. I haven't found the children's births yet but I suspect that the eldest at least would be Lucy's by a former relationship as he was born about 1840 only a year after EWWP married Sarah.

I cannot find any marriage for EWWP and Lucy, which begs the question - was Sarah still alive?

EWWP subsequently leaves Lucy and marries Ann Hawker in 1856. So has Sarah now died?

There are claims on family trees (none of which have evidence on the tree - at least on the ones I've seen) that Sarah and EWWP had a son, Edwin Augustus Pettitt born 1845 in Australia.

So and I've finally come to the point  :) is this true and if so did EWWP leave Sarah in Australia or did she die? If Edwin Augustus did exist, what happened to him?

Brie

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