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Wiltshire / WEEKS family in Crudwell, Wiltshire, 1800 - 1871
« on: Thursday 16 September 10 01:40 BST (UK) »
I'm looking for information on Thomas and Hester Weeks, who lived in Crudwell from the early 1800s until their deaths... 25 July 1871 in the case of Hester. FindMyPast has transcriptions of the grave stone which has the date for Hester but not for Thomas. I have the census record for 1861 which gives them both living and lists Thomas as the parish clerk and owning a grocery shop.
I have traced Matthew as my great-great-grandfather. He seems to have had rather a chequered youth - in 1841 he's living at home, in 1851 living as a footman in Bath, and in 1858 he marries a Scots lady named Grace Kircaldy in St. Pancras, London where he is a beer retailer.
The pair settle down and proceed to have 5 children in England, until they suddenly decide move up to Old Kilpatrick in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, in about 1875 or so. They are in Scotland for the 1881 census and their last child, born in 1876, is born there.
The former footman then become a highly respectable piermaster and the family settles for three generations in Old Kilpatrick.
It is interesting that Thomas and Hester have a child in the house on the 1861 census listed as granddaughter who has a different surname - Mary Ann Williams - born in Westminster. I don't know, but I guess, that it was an illegitimate child of one of the sons (the daughter, Mary is still living at home and her surname is still weeks.)... my guess is the child of Matthew since he had more opportunity.
It is rather interesting that in the 1841 and 1851 census, Thomas is listed as an agricultural labourer... then suddenly he winds up with the 100 or so pounds necessary to set up as a grocer... there is an illegitimate child in the house... and the wealthy family with which the Weeks' eldest son is a footman in 1851 has an unmarried sister-in-law living with them. Coincidence? I'd like to know the truth in this one.
Stephen.
I have traced Matthew as my great-great-grandfather. He seems to have had rather a chequered youth - in 1841 he's living at home, in 1851 living as a footman in Bath, and in 1858 he marries a Scots lady named Grace Kircaldy in St. Pancras, London where he is a beer retailer.
The pair settle down and proceed to have 5 children in England, until they suddenly decide move up to Old Kilpatrick in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, in about 1875 or so. They are in Scotland for the 1881 census and their last child, born in 1876, is born there.
The former footman then become a highly respectable piermaster and the family settles for three generations in Old Kilpatrick.
It is interesting that Thomas and Hester have a child in the house on the 1861 census listed as granddaughter who has a different surname - Mary Ann Williams - born in Westminster. I don't know, but I guess, that it was an illegitimate child of one of the sons (the daughter, Mary is still living at home and her surname is still weeks.)... my guess is the child of Matthew since he had more opportunity.
It is rather interesting that in the 1841 and 1851 census, Thomas is listed as an agricultural labourer... then suddenly he winds up with the 100 or so pounds necessary to set up as a grocer... there is an illegitimate child in the house... and the wealthy family with which the Weeks' eldest son is a footman in 1851 has an unmarried sister-in-law living with them. Coincidence? I'd like to know the truth in this one.
Stephen.