cheeseman of berkshire

[KGarrad]

1881 census - Reference RG11, 1289, 150, 12
The Village, Peasemore, Wantage, Berkshire

Carter, Charles  Head  M  30  Gardener  b Beenham
+ wife, 2 daughters & 2 sons
Cheeseman, Tom King  Boarder  M  13  Gardener  b Beenham


And Laura:
Reference RG11, 1267, 22, 5
Station Road, Woolhampton, Newbury, Berkshire
Brown, John  Head  M  39  Blacksmith Master  b Midgham, Berkshire
+ wife, 2 daughters & 2 sons
Lewington, Laura L  Servant  F  14  General Servant  b Donnington, Berkshire


10 years later, after the marriage:
Reference RG12, 995, 4, 2
15 Alpine Street, Reading, Berkshire

Cheesman, Thos  Head  M  24  Brewers Cellarman  b Beenham
Cheesman, Lauro  Wife  F  24  b Donnington
Cheesman, Harry  Son  M  7months  b Reading
Brown, John  Lodger  M  20  Brewers Drayman  b Besselsleigh, Berkshire

[Dazey999]

Norrington George Cheeseman died Aug 1999 - late of Yamba, formerly of Marrickville

[Dazey999]

Corporal Harry Reginal Cheeseman (South African Infantry) son of Thomas King Cheeseman and LL Cheeseman, also served in German East Africa and Egypt, killed in action 14 July 1916 (Montauban-en-Picardie) age 26

[Sloe Gin]

Lewington, Ellen  Wife  F  22  b Berkshire (can't read town?)

It's Enborne, which is just to the west of Newbury.  And the youngest child was born at Speenhamland, which has now been absorbed into Newbury.

Cheeseman, Henry  Son  M  12  Bird Shaver(?!)  b Beenham

It looks like Bird Starver to me!  But I think what might be meant is Bird Scarer.

[Dazey999]

More Children of Thomas & Laura:
Lilian Dorothy May b. 8 March 1903 Acton
married 1924 Lewis G Wills
died Feb 1986 Poole, Dorset

Margaret Louise b. 8 July 1900 Camberwell
married 1920 Newbury to Henry G Stokes
died March 1994 Reading & Wokingham, Berkshire

[KGarrad]

Sloe,

Thanks for that!
It was still early; had the sun on the screen; and the original was very faint!

Well anyway, that's my excuse!!

[Dizzy Escape]

Sorry to join this discussion late. I've been working for some time on the Cheesemans of Beenham. I'm descended from Thomas King Cheeseman's grandfather, Charles Cheeseman (1798-1881), so can give you further background if you like. One interesting fact I can add respecting the family you're immediately concerned with is that Thomas King Cheeseman's elder brother Edward Enoch Cheeseman died at the Siege of Mafeking in January 1901. There is a brass plate commemorating him in Beenham Parish Church:

ERECTED BY THE COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE IN MEMORY OF
SERGT EDWARD ENOCH CHEESEMAN.
39TH COMPANY IMPERIAL YEOMANRY
AGED 39 YEARS.
WHO DIED OF ENTERIC FEVER AT
MAFEKING, SOUTH AFRICA
ON 8TH JAN. 1901

[richards09]

  great information on my grandmother side of my family, have sincere spoken to my mother Maureen Tancy Clarke now Baldwin and she can kind of remember Jesse and his wife coming over to see Ada and no that ada ash where put in the same grave as laura louise, but she lost contact with cheeseman side of the family when her mother passed away.

[newburychap]

... Edward Enoch Cheeseman died at the Siege of Mafeking in January 1901. ...

Not exactly - the Siege of Mafeking was over in May 1900 and the defending forces were largely colonials (a regiment raised by Baden-Powell in Bechuanaland) and residents.

Edward Cheeseman almost certainly did not arrive in Mafeking until after the siege was over:

CHEESEMAN, Edward Enoch, Sergeant 6023, 39th Company, 10th Imperial Yeomanry

The Imperial Yeomanry was a volunteer cavalry force raised for the Boer War including many men who had some experience in local yeomanry units (part time territorials). He was a sergeant in a unit that was only months old, and hence could well have had some previous experience - so the Berks Yeomanry museum in Windsor might have something on him (the 39th Company was a Berkshire company). The 10th Battalion were sent to Mafeking

A decent account of the IY can be found at http://www.britishmedals.us/kevin/iyhistory.html