Help Please! Drawing a blank on Banwell Family

[MaureeninNY]

That's a tough one,isn't it.

What about

Sanford    Ellen Elizabeth        Headington    3a   479.

  I think Headington is the correct reg district.

Added. Ellen Sanford dau of Rebecca Sanford, single woman baptised privately 23 Sept 1857.

There's also:
GRO BIRTHS:
BANWELL, ANN      mmn   SANFORD   
 1859  S Quarter in HEADINGTON  Volume 03A  Page 488

They (Rebecca and Ann)seem to appear as LANFORD (Ancestry) 1861:
 878/ 72/23

and as BANWELL (Ancestry) 1871:
  1423/ 36/  12

Just  keep on going through the different census years-Reb: born ~ 1837 Maids Moreton.

Maureen

[mckha489]

This does not help very much 
James Quartermaine
Alice Smith
Marriage    21 Jul 1823
Cuddesdon

It might. Congreve’s mother Mary died in 1841, at her son’s residence (chilton park) mother of Mrs H Smith ‘of this town’ which was Oxford

This was Charlotte Congreve, husband was Harry/Henry Smith.


Also, who was Rebecca Cowley Banwell who died in 1913?   I had thought she was Rebecca née MONGER,  but I don’t think it is.  There was a Rebecca Cowley Sanford but haven’t been able to follow her forward yet.

Could she be the Rebecca who witnessed the marriage?

I’ve got to work today so hope by the time I get home tonight someone has solved that!!

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Also, who was Rebecca Cowley Banwell who died in 1913?   I had thought she was Rebecca née MONGER,  but I don’t think it is.  There was a Rebecca Cowley Sanford but haven’t been able to follow her forward yet.

Could she be the Rebecca who witnessed the marriage?

I’ve got to work today so hope by the time I get home tonight someone has solved that!!

Rebecca Cowley is the daughter of Ann Sanford, and from 1851 granddaughter of Richard Sanford. By 1861 she has her own daughter Ann, and in 1871 they are both Banwells, and Rebecca is a widow, but not found a marriage yet

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Rebecca married to COngreve (both b c1837) is however b Dover. Both Rebeccas appear on many censuses, so clearly different people

[cuffie81]

Also, who was Rebecca Cowley Banwell who died in 1913?   I had thought she was Rebecca née MONGER,  but I don’t think it is.  There was a Rebecca Cowley Sanford but haven’t been able to follow her forward yet.

Could she be the Rebecca who witnessed the marriage?

I’ve got to work today so hope by the time I get home tonight someone has solved that!!

Rebecca Cowley is the daughter of Ann Sanford, and from 1851 granddaughter of Richard Sanford. By 1861 she has her own daughter Ann, and in 1871 they are both Banwells, and Rebecca is a widow, but not found a marriage yet

EDIT: I've just realised MaureeninNY had already posted the birth reg. of Ann Banwell and census records, sorry.


Daughter Ann looks like she has mmn Sanford. Her age does fluctuate a bit on census' though so it's possible that birth reg. isn't the one. I couldn't see a baptism for her.

Possible GRO BMD references:
1859 Q3 Birth: Ann Banwell (mmn: Sanford); Headington; 03a; 488
1904 Q2 Death: Annie Banwell; age 43 (born c1861); Buckingham; 03a; 449

Census:
1871 Buckingham
Ref RG10; Piece 1423; Folio 36; Page 12
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXSY-Z2C

1881 Buckingham
Rebecca and Ann
Ref RG11; Piece 1485; Folio 16; Page 26
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27Z-1J7M

1891 Buckingham
Rebecca and Ann
Ref RG12; Piece 1154; Folio 102; Page 9
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4P3F-J6Z

1901 Buckingham
Rebecca and Ann
Ref RG13; Piece 1366; Folio 17; Page 25
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9YT-KKK

1911 Buckingham
Rebecca
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7VT-G4R


Probate:
Rebecca Cowley Banwell
of Buckingham
widow
died 23 Aug 1913
Probate London 25 Oct
to Thomas Risley Hearn, solicitor
and Boughton Cheshire, baker
Effects £444 7s 2d
No 1517
https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=banwell&yearOfDeath=1913&page=2#calendar


Newspaper references:

Bicester Herald
09 Apr 1875
Buckingham Petty Sessions
Tuesday, April 6
- William Charles Henry Hanslow
- a clerk, formerly of Bicester
- charged with embezzling money of his employer, John Adams Elkington
- Witness: Rebecca Banwell
- widow, of Brackley-road Buckingham
- prisoner lodged with Banwell between Jul 1874 and Feb 1875
- found bag of unpaid bills in Hanslow's room after he left
- handed bag to George Page, employee of Elkington

Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press
30 Aug 1913
Deaths
August 23, at Market Hill, Buckingham, Rebecca Cowley Banwell, aged 76 years

[cuffie81]

There are a couple of newspaper items that appear to refer to Congreve's (born c1810) burial. One of which refers to a Mrs Banwell. Given that wife Camilla died in 1855, it begs the question, who is this Mrs Banwell. I can't see an obvious candidate on the 1871 census, apart from Rebecca.

Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press
11 Mar 1871
Burial Board
A conveyance of a grave space to Mrs Banwell on the consecrated part of the Cemetery was executed.

Oxford Journal
23 Sep 1871
Buckingham
Burial Board
Conveyances of four grave spaces were executed, and the design for grave stones for Mr Banwell was approved.

[BenStevens87]

Thank you all so much! I'm in awe of your detective skills!
I know we're making assumptions, but I'm pretty confident in most of the gaps. I've summarised as much as possible in a new version of my PostIt notes.
Thanks again

[mckha489]

I must say, I do like the  post it note lay outs.

The RAPER name is actually ROPER

I think you should get Ann ROPER’s will (1892)
And also Rebecca Cowley BANWELL’s one (1913)