COMPLETED - Sarah Axam

[Mundell]

I am trying to find out Sarah Axam's maiden name.  I don't know to whom she was married.

She was mother to Mary Axim married to William Lambert in Kempston in 1829.

She lived with this couple from at least 1941 (when she was aged 61) until 1861.

I believe she died during the 1860's as there are a couple of index entries that could be her. 

1841, 1851 and 1861 census are consistent about her age.  She is described as a lacemaker and latterly as a pauper lacemaker. The 1861 census gives her birthplace as Maulden

1841 Ampthill Union Workhouse has a Sarah Axam aged 60

Any help would be much appreciated.   Mundell

[lizdb]

If you follow daughter, hopefully you can get a year and place of birth for her.
 A christening for her will be vital to find fathers name, then see if there are any siblings - hopefully thus establisihng the eldest and giving a clue as to when marriage might be.
Then to look for a marriage for her Dad to a Sarah - starting in the parish where the children were christened

[groom]

Family Search has the following extracted record

Mary Axam
birth:      7th May 1809
baptism: 4th June 1809
Kempston Bedfordshire
Father: Francis Axam
Mother: Sarah

In the 1861 census Mary Lambert gives her DOB as 1809 and POB as Kempston, so this could be her.

Jan

[groom]

Oh dear - Francis was a naughty boy. 

He was tried in the Lent session 1829 for offence against the Game Law and was transported to Australia for 14 years.

You can find him here   http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/info/fh/convicts

It might also be worth posting on the Australian board.

According to a public tree on Ancestry his parents were Francis Axam and Sarah Cook.

Jan

[bedfordshire boy]

IGI, extracted, marriage at Goldington on 1 Nov 1802, Francis Axim and Sar Cook

You can find Francis junior on the Bedford Gaol website at http://apps.bedfordshire.gov.uk/grd/detail.aspx?id=4150 . In 1828 ag labs and their families were starving, culminating in the Swing riots of 1830. Little wonder they turned their hand to poaching.

Francis Axim aged 50 was buried at Kempston on 7 Jul 1830

[groom]

That's a brilliant site as it even describes him.