Sandy, Bedfordshire

[davendonna2]

Am researching family of Henry Jeeves b . 1821, Sandy, Bedfordshire m. 1839 Caroline Tatmun b. 1823, Morgenhanger, Bedfordshire they had 13 children

[bedfordshire boy]

Welcome to Rootschat

What are you looking for with this family? Do you have them in censuses for example?

There are two Henry Jeeves baptisms in Sandy on the IGI at www.familysearch.org in 1822, parents Henry and Keziah and Henry and Edith. Henry and Keziah with a 28 year old unmarried son Henry appear in Sandy in 1851 so presumably your Henry was the son of Henry and Edith (Cooper).

Henry Jeeves married Caroline Tatman at Blunham on 1 Nov 1840, per IGI

See concurrent thread at http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,468519.new/boardseen.html#new re another Tatman from Moggerhanger, which at that time was a hamlet of Blunham

David

[davendonna2]

I have much information on Henry and Caroline and their descendants.  However information on Henry Jeeves and Edith Cooper is limited to them having 7 children and he may have been a twin to brother Thomas.
If we can confirm this link then we may be able to proceed further back through  James Jeeves b. 1771 m. Ann Housden, William Jeeves b. 1741 m. Elizabeth Lincoln, Henry Jeeves b. 1709 , Mary Redhead, William Jeeves b. 1674 m. Susan Robinson and then Robert Jeeves 1643 m. Elizabeth.

[bedfordshire boy]

You've missed three or four children. The IGI shows them as baptising 10 children between 1812 and 1835 (William 1812; Eliza 1814; Joel 1817; Mary 1820; Henry 1822; Amos 1824; Elizabeth 1827; Ezra 1829; Allen 1832; Ellen 1835). In 1841 living at Girtford, Sandy were Henry Jeeves 49; Edith 50;  Joel 23; Mary 21; Amos 16; John 15; Elizabeth 13; Ezra 11; Allen 9;  Ellen 6. I can't see an obvious baptism of John, but that would make 11 children. A Henry Jeeves age 55 was buried in Sandy on 24 May 1847, and in 1851 Edith was a 61 year old widow b Sandy, living with her children Ezra 20 and Allan 19.

There were two Henrys baptised in Sandy in edit 1891 and 1892 1791 and 1792 on the IGI, but I can't separate them. Neither set of parents was James and Ann though, and as they didn't marry until 1794 I doubt that they were parents of Henry who married Edith Cooper.

[davendonna2]

Thanks,
I assume you meant 1791 and 1792 re: the two Henrys babtised in Sandy (2nd para). 

To bad the link to James and Ann dosn't seem to work.  However I have been in contact with some of James and Ann's living descendants.

Dave

[bedfordshire boy]

I did.

I think with a bit of hard work it might be possible, by reference to the parish register, to split the two Henrys, if you get lucky.

Henry who married Edith Cooper lived at Girtford, a hamlet in the south part of Sandy. Henry and Keziah lived in Sandy itself. I'm sure these were the two Henrys baptised in 1791/2.

You need to go through the baptisms in Sandy PR to see if the abode is given - Girtford or Sandy

It's not that the link to James and Ann doesn't seem to work. It simply doesn't work. There were only two Henry's baptised in Sandy; neither of them was buried as an infant; we know there were two marriages, Edith and Kezia, although the one to Kezia hasn't been found yet. So a third, unbaptised, son of James and Ann who baptised six other children 1795-1806 doesn't seem likely.

Have you found who the witnesses to the 1811 marriage were? They may provide a clue.

David

[davendonna2]

I guess I'll have to wait until someone publishes the parish registers online. 
I am thinking that I have seen a hard copy reference to Henry Jeeves and Kesiah but I will have to dig a bit more.

[bedfordshire boy]

They have. Try http://www.freereg.org.uk/cgi/Search.pl  and search for Jeives as well as Jeeves. All Sandy records up to 1812 are included

[davendonna2]

Wow, a new source for me.   Thanks for the link.
Dave