John Woodley was born Stansted, Herts ~1792/3/4. Are there any other Woodley relations from Bentfield/Bensfield, Stansted or Bishop's Stortford out there?
John's father was
Matthew Woodley, died 1832, and grandfather also Matthew Woodley, died 1782, both being buried at St Mary the Virgin, Stansted Mountfitchet.
John's wife's name was
Sarah Fuller born~1793/4/5 Beechamwell/Beachamwell, Norfolk and at the time of their marriage (Dec 1816) he is noted as from Aldgate. I think he may have lived at 7 Crutched Friars, St Olave Hart Street, London.
His brother was Matthew Woodley, a maltster (brewer) and farmer of Bentfield Brewery, Stansted Mountfitchet. Other siblings were William Matthew Woodley who died in 1828 in Aldgate, Thomas Stamford Woodley who lived in Cambridgeshire, Mary Woodley (m. Bangham), Catherine Woodley (m. Gilbey) and Letitia who died in Dec 1808.
John's sons John Bankam Woodley b5 Mar 1829 and Matthew Fuller Woodley b13 Jan 1833 were brewers /cornfactors and later worked at the Corn Exchange, London. There was also a definite sister Eliza Woodley b1826 Bow, Middlesex. There may be several other siblings (John Matthew b~1818, Letitia b1822 and Sarah b1824.....), but these may be William Matthew's children? By 1851 census the family is in Orford Lodge, Walthamstow and in 1861 Matthew F is back in Bentfield Bower, Stansted Mountfitchet.
Geoff.
