RootsChat.Com

I'm transcribing some pre-1841 Essex censuses. I've started with the 1831 Brightlingsea census. There's over 200 heads of household mentioned. Also, lots of fishermen, which shouldn't come as a surprise!

Should any of you find it useful:
http://essexandsuffolksurnames.co.uk/essex/brightlingsea.htm

I'm researching my Littlewood ancestors in Essex. I've got back to them being in Tendring (Nathaniel Littlewood apprenticed there as a cordwainer, 1752, and Nathaniel Littlewood marrying Mary Newcomb, 20 Aug 1759), but I don't know who Nathaniel's parents are.

A clue seems to be the Nathaniel and Mary Littlewood living in St Osyth about the same time, who frequently appear as witnesses for marriages, then there's a buriel for Nathaniel Littlewood in St Osyth on 09 Mar 1770, and on 05 Nov 1773, burial of Mary Littlewood, St Osyth (these are not the same ones as in Tendring). There is an examination in St Osyth for Mary Littlewood on 02 Jan 1773, which states that about October 1742 she removed from St Martin's in Colchester to St Osyth. St Martin's Colchester was her last legal place of settlement.

I looked up "Nathaniel Littlewood" on Findmypast and found a reference in Boyd's Marriage index: Nathaniel Littlewood marrying Mary Townsend on 10 Sep 1736 at St Mary-at-the-Walls. Now that added grist to the mill, and I thought, yes, all I need now is their children's baptism. Hurrah! But no...! Because I checked the register scan on SEAX and there is no entry in that church on that date for them. The only thing I did find was a burial for a John Littlewood on 05 May 1735.

So what I want to know is - just how accurate is Boyd's? Could they mean St Mary Magdalene instead, perhaps? I did a check with names from the St Mary-at-the-Walls register and they did show up on Findmypast from Boyd's, but I do want to find evidence in the actual register (always check the primary source!).

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Helen.

I'm researching the family of William Innell Clement, who was somewhat of a media magnate in the Regency period.

He had a son called Charles Robert Clement, who in 26th May 1873 married Mary Davies on the Isle of Wight. The details are as follows:

Registry Office, by licence.
Charles Clement, full age, widower, printer. Son of Wm Innel Clement, printer (dec).
Mary Davies, 24, spinster, d of Edwin Davies (dec), Sergeant Major Royal Artillery.
Both residing in Dover St, Ryde. W: J Clark, Edward Hawker.

I think they were only in Ryde temporarily - in 1871 Charles was in Brightin, in 1872 he's in London when his second wife died (Mary is wife #3), and then by December 1873 he and Mary are in Brighton where their first child was born.

On the 1881 census, the family is Lambeth, and this is where Mary's place of birth is first mentioned (I can't seem to find her on earlier censuses in the UK):

34 Clapham Road.
Charles Clement, 70, newsagent.
Alice M 7, daughter, b Brighton.
Charley 6, son, & Eleanor M 5, b Brixton.
Mary, wife, 31, b Montreal Canada.
Eleanor Herron, mother in law, widow, b. Ireland.
1 servant.

Mary's mother's name is quite hard to read (so Herron is a best guess), but it certainly doesn't look like Davies. So I suppose Eleanor remarried after Edwin died and then her second husband died (if Davies was Mary's real surname!).

On the 1891, 1901 and 1911 censuses, Mary gives her place of birth as Montreal, Canada. Her age is a bit slippery but I assume she was born in 1849 or 1850.

(I haven't found a death for her yet - after Charles died, she married an Edwards, and there are rather a lot of Mary Edwardses about!).

So - does anyone recognise the Davies family of Montreal, and is the fact that her father was in the Royal Artillery significant? Would it help? (I do wonder though if she made that up!). I understand the RA is rather enormous, but were they in Canada at some point, or had a Canadian wing?

I've tried looking on Canadian genealogy resources but I can't come up with anything (I haven't used them before so I'm a bit lost really).

Thanks!

Further to my thread over here about the missing will:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,485577.15.html

I think I've now found that the National Archives have copies of the Chancery documents relating to this:

C 15/610/C112 1859 Clement v Clement. Bill & Interrogations
C 15/610/C125 1859 Clements v Clements. Bill & Interrogations
C 15/610/C128 1859 In the Matter of William Clement's estate: Clement v Clement, Administrative summons.

(I did a search clement 1859 and these are the only things that came up).

Now - I'm not entirely which documents to order. Is an administrative summons just the same as thing I found in the London Gazette:

"PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of Chancery,
made in the matter of the estate of William
Clement, late of Rosherville, in the parish of Northfleet,
in the county of Kent, Esquire, deceased, and in a cause
between William Charles Clement and Thomas Samuel
Clement, plaintiffs, against Charlotte Augusta Clement
defendant, the creditors of William Clement, formerly of
Eastland House, Dulwich, in the county of Surrey, then of
Cavendish-villa, Ramsgate, in the county of Kent, and late
of Rosherville, aforesaid, who died on or about the 6th day
of February, 1859, are, by their Solicitors, on or before
the 26th day of July, 1859, to come in and prove their
debts at the chambers of the Vice-Chancellor Sir John
Stuart, No. 12, Old-square, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex, or in
default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the
benefit of the said Order. Tuesday, the 2nd day of
August, 1859, at twelve o'clock at noon, at the said chambers,
is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the
claims.—Dated this 21st day of June, 1859."

Or would it include the facts of the case as well?

Do I take a gamble and hope that the other Clement v Clement for 1859 is the same case? I've included Clements v Clements there just in case - some people automatically stick an S on the end even if someone's just said "Clement" without one!

Would the bill and interrogation detail the outcome or is that kept elsewhere?

If I contacted the National Archives, would they be able to tell me? I wouldn't want to order something and have it come back as the wrong thing! Clearly the administrative summons is close to what I want, as it's William Clement's will that was being contested. If anyone could advise I'd be really grateful!

Thanks,
Helen.

My g-g-g-grandfather died of "inflammation of the intestines" in 1841, and at the weekend I visited Worcester Cathedral and saw the Solly monument:





Richard Solly died of the same thing in 1803 - and it was rather odd I thought to see the word "intestines" bellowing from a memorial in a cathedral (but then the whole thing is fairly OTT, isn't it? If you notice, the children in the sculpture match the ones given in the inscription).

So what I was wondering was, what exactly is "inflammation of the intestines"? I've tried googling and get websites for Crohn's Disease but I'm not sure if it'd be that seeing as that's not, as far as I'm aware, a fatal illness. It sounds like something that comes on very suddenly. Or is it just one of those very loose definitions you find sometimes? It's not cholera or something (given the diarrhoea that goes with it), is it?

(I hope no one's eating their tea while reading this!).