Giles Family at Chedzoy

[Maria O'Beirne]

Hello, I'm new to this site. I would like to know if anyone has any connections to the Giles Family at Chedzoy. In particular I would like to clear up a mystery regarding my great grandfather Shadrach Giles. He married his first wife Sarah Warne or Warner in 1865 in Chedzoy. But he bigamously married someone else in Wales in 1872. I have been trying to find out what became of Sarah Giles. They had one child who died at a few months old.

[KGarrad]

Welcome to RootsChat!

FreeBMD is showing 3 marriages for a Shadrach Giles?! 

September qtr 1858
Wolverhampton district    vol 6b, page 508

Giles, Shadrach
+ and on the same page +
Walters, Sarah
Jacks, Sarah Hannah


June qtr 1870
Dudley district    vol 6c, page 120

Giles, Shadrach
+ and on the same page +
Harpin, Eliza
Roper, Eliza


December qtr 1872
Monmouth district    vol 11a, page 47

Giles, Shadrach
+ and on the same page +
Dangerfield, Elizabeth
Tillings, Eliza

[CaroleW]

Hi and welcome from me too

Marriage to Sarah Walters

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NXXK-GZF

and Eliza Harpin

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NXX9-RV3

[CaroleW]

1861 entry for Wednesfield Staffs


Shadrach Giles   35 b Pontesbury Shropshire - ironstone miner
Sarah  32                      ditto
Joshua  2 Months b Wednesfield Heath Staffordshire
RG9 Piece 2003 Folio 102 Page 7

Possible death for Sarah

Deaths June qtr 1869   
Sarah Giles    aged   40    Wolverhampton    6b   318

[CaroleW]

1871 for Staffs - all Harpin children were b Wednesfield

Shadrach Giles   45 b Pontesbury Shropshire - miner
Eliza  38 b Bilston
John Harpin 16
Ann Maria Harpin   13
William Harpin   7
Thomas Harpin   3
RG10 Piece 2949 Folio 67 Page 7

In 1871 - son Joshua is living with his aunt & uncle Joshua & Sarah Giles in  Pontesbury

[KGarrad]

The Shadrach Giles of Chedzoy (b 1841) is the son of Frederick?!

1851 census: Class: HO107; Piece: 1925; Folio: 377; Page: 23
81 Chedzoy, Chedzoy, Somerset

Giles, Frederick  Head  M  30  Ag Lab  b Chedzoy
Giles, Eliza  Wife  F  28  Char Woman  b Enmore
Giles, Eliza  Daughter  F  12  At Home  b Chedzoy
Giles, Shadrick  Son  M  9  At Home  b Chedzoy
Giles, Martha  Daughter  F  7  At Home  b Chedzoy
Giles, John  Son  M  3  At Home  b Chedzoy
Giles, Mesheck  Son  M  7 months  b Chedzoy

[CaroleW]

I don't think the 1872 marriage is the same Shadrach as in 1881 Shadrach and Eliza are in Bilston Staffs

The Shadrach in Wales was b 1841 Somerset and is married to Elizabeth in 1881

[suzard]

So -Shadrach Giles b Ponterbury Shropshire married Sarah Walters and then Eliza Harpin

Shadrach Giles b Chedzoy Somerset married Elizabeth Dangerfield

?

Suz

[CaroleW]

Hi Suz

We appear to have 2 x Shadrach Giles.  The one b Pontesbury Shropshire who married Sarah Walters in 1858 and then Eliza Harpin in 1870. 

Then there is the one in 1881 b Somerset 1841 married to (probably) Elizabeth Dangerfield in 1872

Although there are 3 marriages - there is no proof of any bigamy as only one of those marriages is for the Shadrach b Somerset