1841 / 1851 / 1861 ~ GLOUCESTER ~ look up please

[osprey]

He's with Granny in 1871   

Bradley Street, Wotton-under-Edge RG10/2591 folio 11 pg 14
Ann Fowler head widow 65 beer seller
Frederick son 22 carpenter
William Richings grandson 6 scholar
all born Wotton-under-Edge

[osprey]

And in 1881

Bradley St, Wotton-under-Edge RG11/2518 folio 8 pg 7
Ann Fowler head widower 75 beer retailer
William Richings grandson 16 draper's assistant
both born Wotton-under-Edge

1891 10 Norfolk St, Bournemouth, Hampshire RG12/904 folio 97 pg 21
David C Edwards head 27 grocer's assistant b. Luxchurch, S Wales
William Richings lodger 26 draper's assistant b. Wotton-under-Edge, Glos

[Lucy2]

Wonderful Osprey !       Thanks    

Have just checked 1881 ... still with Gran (same address)
- aged 16 - Draper's apprentice.

Will went back to England for a brief period in 1897 - and upon returning to NZ he set up his own drapery business.   Seems he was rather talented musically - he founded the Hokitika Opera and Drama Society, and served on several sports committees.   He married late in life (without issue).

Ah ... have found a "respectable" RICHINGS .... at last !    

Thanks for your help.
Lu

[Lucy2]

..... Whoops   .....

our "posts" crossed ...  thanks for the additional (1891) 

Lu

[cello]

Good evening

I have been reseaching the Richings family for several years but have only just started using Rootschat last week.

Did you get any further with the elusive John Richings bp 02-01-1839 at Wotton-Under-Edge.

My research on him ended when I couldn't find him on the 1871C and I thought he may have died.

I am descended from William and Marianne.

Regards
CW

[Lucy2]

Did you get any further with the elusive John Richings bp 02-01-1839 at Wotton-Under-Edge.

My research on him ended when I couldn't find him on the 1871C and I thought he may have died.

Yes, the "life and times" of John RICHINGS,  have pretty much been sorted out  ... there is info both in this thread and on the one which appears on the Australian board.

Lu
  

[ishtat]

John Richings 1839-1898 was my great great grandfather. He deserted his wife Sarah Ann nee Blizard later Armitage two or three weeks after his son John Blizard Richings was born in December 1863. Sarah divorced him in the early 1870s. I have the full transcript of the divorce proceedings somewhere(from Kew) but have been moving stuff and can't lay my hands on it at the moment. Grounds for divorce were adultery ("with an Amelia Underhill at a coffee shop in Stroud and later at the Strand London") and desertion.

He then of course got the worst of the argument with the Rangiora train in February 1898

I have photographs of most of the WUE Richings family taken at the wedding of Mabel, JBR's daughter in I guess about 1910. My main source of information is my mother who was born 1920 and is still alive but I have obtained most of the necessary documentation on this family back to John senior 1817 to 1895 and his wife Mary Cook

Hope I am not making a mess of this as it is my first post.

[Arranroots]

Hi ishtat

Welcome to Rootschat! 

What a nice way to start - very exciting to have so much information.  I had no idea that Stroud coffee shops were such dens on iniquity, lol!

I hope you enjoy Rootschat.

Kind regards, Arranroots 

[osprey]

I'm sure Lucy will be glad to hear from you. Have you seen another one of her Richings' posts on the Australian board - quite a saga!
    

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,259529.0.html