Jane & Fanny Woodward, baptisms at Bloxham

[johnP-bedford]

Hello, I am looking for baptisms (& therefore parents) of Jane Woodward born c1797 and potential sister Fanny Woodward born c1798 in Bloxham, Oxfordshire. On Jane's marriage cert in 1847 to Samuel Partridge, she was a spinster & her father is Thomas Woodward, shoemaker. Fanny Woodward first married Thomas Charles in 1820 at Bloxham & as a widow, Fanny Charles married George Plummer in 1833 again at Bloxham.

I have tracked Fanny Plummer with husband George & children on 1841 census, & their children as either Charles or Plummer on 1851 census. Separately on 1851 census, Fanny Plummer is married age 52, a visitor to Samuel Partridge in Pavenham Beds who his with his new wife Jane age 53, also born in Bloxham in 1799, who he married 1847.

Thanks in anticipation  John

[ciderdrinker]

Hi John
I've not found a lot I'm afraid
Thomas Woodward was apprenticed as a cordwainer to Richard Merrivale of Bloxham 1770 for £6
But Bloxham is proving difficult

There is a Jane an infant buried 2.7.1795
James aged 82 years buried 19.1.1794 perhaps Thomas 's father .He has children at the C of E 1738-1773 but no Thomas.
John Woodward buried 3.3.1803 suddenly coroner's inquest.

Thomas and the Woodward family seem to be Presbyterian.
at the P Chapel.
Elizabeth bapt 3.8.1809 d of Thomas and Elizabeth of Bloxham
Hannah d of Adam and Ann Woodward 16.6.1804  also at the chapel and son  Charles 12.11.1806
They married 23.11.1802 at Bloxham and she was an Ann Randell bach and spins .Wit Charles and Martha Randle. He is a Master weaver.

other Woodward info in parish
James widower married Elizabeth Ryman 15.5.1761 wit Eph and John Randle
Children Elizabeth 11.12.1763, Ann 7.4.1765 ,Daniel 4.4.1773 .
From his first marriage- William 31.12.1738 , Gregory  6.1.1739,James 3.1.1741 and George 23.10.1748.

Gregory weaver married Mary Austin 7.8.1762 wit John  Randle and George Cook
Gregory was apprenticed as a wool weaver 1754 to Thomas Ceakbread

Burials after 1812
Thomas Woodward 13.9.1831 age 74 so born 1757
Thomas Woodward 22.5.1847 age 71 born  1776.(plush weaver according to Obit)
Elizabeth Woodward 1780- 21.1.1863

So it seems to be all one family descended from James Woodward born c 1720.


Ciderdrinker

[johnP-bedford]

Thanks Ciderdrinker for all that info...

I think I will rule out the Thomas Woodward the plush weaver who died age 71 in 1847. I've read the newspaper report & it states he was a pensioner at Royal Hospital Chelsea. He was there age 65 on 1841 census in the Patients Infirmary. I've found 2 marriages in Bloxham where Thomas Woodward, weaver was the father; first of Thomas Woodward in 1837 & second of Ann Woodwards in 1841. I can't see how a plush weaver at that age in 1841 would be a shoemaker in 1847.

Charles Woodward born 1806 was also a plush weaver on 1841 census where is living with first wife Mary with his parents Adam & Ann Woodward, and again in 1851 where he is widowed, & then he marries again in 1852 in Foleshill, Warwicks & his father Adam Woodward is down as plushweaver.   

There is a Thomas Woodward age 70 shoemaker living in St.Ebbe, Oxford on 1841 census, living with him is Hannah Woodward age 35 & 2 young children.

There is also a Thomas Woodward born 1802 Bloxham who is a shoemaker living there on 1851 census with wife Sarah (ne Slatyer) who he marries in Middleton Cheyney in 1825.  Could he be brother to Jane & Fanny?

I'm still trying to find Jane Woodward on the 1841 census; at her marriage in Sept 1847 she was age 49 & her abode was Sharnbrook, Beds. 1851 census has her age 53, 1861 she is 63, 1871 she is 73, 1881 she is 83 & she died in 1887 age 90. So consistently she was born 1798. I have found a Jane Woodard age 45 living in St.Marys Bedford, think she is a F S (female servant) & perhaps not born in Beds (but that is not at all clear)

Cheers John