The extensive BARFOOT family

[maddys52]

The marriage certificate of Sansam BEND (33, widower) and Ann JOHNSON (26, widow, nee DENT) is on Ancestry. 31 May 1855 in Bottesford, Leicestershire. His father - William BEND, labourer. Her father - Thomas DENT, labourer.

[maddys52]

Sansam BEND married Mary SMITH Dec qtr 1847 Grantham (14/697).

Isaac BEND birth registration Mar qtr 1848 Grantham (14/412).
Ann BEND birth registration Mar qtr 1850 Grantham (14/419).
Jane BEND birth registration Sep qtr 1852  GRantham (7a/398)

In 1851 at Bottesford:
Sansam BEND  28  Bottesford  (ag lab)
Mary                  26  Granby Nottinghamshire
Isaac                   3   Bottesford
Ann                     1   Bottesford
Ann HARDY        32  Bottesford  (lodger)
Mary  HARDY      3
HO107/2102/379 pg 32

Mary BEND death registration June qtr 1853 Grantham (7a/273) aged 29.

[maddys52]

Children born to Sansam BEND and Ann JOHNSON, nee DENT all registered at Grantham (as Ladyhawk has given baptisms):

Dec qtr 1855  Mary (7a/389)
Mar qtr 1858  Sarah  (7a/405)
Mar qtr 1860  Fanny  (7a/424)
Jun qtr 1862  George   (7a/422)
Mar qtr 1864  Emma (7a/447)
Dec qtr 1865  Betsy  (7a/389)
Dec qtr 1867  Thomas (7a/407)
Mar qtr 1870  John (7a/447)
Mar qtr 1873  Sansom  (7a/450)
Dec qtr 1874  Hannah (7a/451)

[maddys52]

I know these were posted earlier, but just to refresh my memory and put the children in context:

In 1861 Ann BEND (nee JOHNSON/DENT) is with her children (all born Bottesford except Bethia) at Bottesford, but Sansam is not there, will have a look for him.

Ann BEND       31   Bottesford (ag lab, seeking work)
Isaac BEND    13
William JOHNSON  11  (stepson)
Ann BEND       11
BETHIA JOHNSON  9  Barrowby  (stepdau)
Jane BEND       8
Mary                 5
Sarah                3
Fanny               1
RG9/2349/pg23&24

Ann DENT and Henry JOHNSON on the same page for marriages Jun qtr 1849 Grantham (14/695)

William Johnson DENT birth registration Jun qtr 1849 Grantham (14/427) no mmn
Berthia JOHNSON birth registration Dec qtr 1851 Grantham (14/405) mmn DENT

[maddys52]

I know you already have this, but just to be clear - In 1871 at Bottesford:

Sansom BEND  49  Bottesford  (ag lab)
Ann                     42
Fanny                 11
George                9
Emma                 7
Betsy                   5
Thomas               3
John                      1
Mary BEND          1  (grandchild)
Mary Ann JOHNSON   8m  (grandchild)

RG10/3356/64 pg27

[maddys52]

For interest - this could be Sansom BEND in 1861 - at Alfreton, Derbyshire. Lodging in the house of Thomas PARNHAM and family, also from Bottesford.

Sansom BEN   39   Bottesford, Leic   (lodger, ag lab) - though it says unmarried

RG9/2514/83 pg 8 &10

[maddys52]

Anyway, I think it's pretty clear that Emma BEND (born 1864), daughter of Sansom BEND married John ROBINSON. (see previous posts from bbart and ladyhawk among others.)

It appears that Fanny BEND (born 1860), daughter of Sansom BEND married (or just lived with) Frederick BARFOOT.

However, it's still unclear who the Emma BARFOOT (father - Samuel BEND according to her marriage cert) who marries George LOMAS is, and why she is with Frederick and Fanny's children. As for her age - it does vary quite a bit through the censuses and her marriage cert. As she appears to be older than George LOMAS, it's not unusual to take a few years off here and there.

[KEVKEV]

Hi Maddy. You did a lot of research and compiled so much. Thank you very much.

  It's good to have details lined up as we move on and so we have Fanny and Emma being different daughters of Sansum Bend now, so Emma possibly being Fanny should be out of the question.

I would think that the Sansum Bend living with the Parnham family in 1861 would be our man since Sansum rather than SaMsun is a bit unusual, and the family was also from Bottesford..friends or family -  but unmarried?? Maybe Sansum and Ann were on a separation for a time and whoever gave info to the enumerator wasn't sure. We've all seen people listed as children when they were step-children, or such so I wonder.

At least Fanny's birth year of 1860 seems consistent from her birth and throughout the censuses, unlike Emma whom I bet altered her age on the marriage certificate to appear younger against her husbands age.
 
 Maybe Fanny and Frederick George didn't marry but if so, after he died we should be able to find her on a later census as Fanny Bend or a marriage or a death but nothing especially since she was only 35 years old when Frederick died.
I can find no link or suggestion she left the country.

     It could possibly be that Fanny after Frederick died, lived with someone under his name but you'd think she would either have stayed in the Worsbrough / Stairfoot area or at least have lived with son Frederick George after he married Lizzy Langley in 1898 and moved to Hunslet where another of Fanny's sons lived and died.
Fanny isn't even a witness at that marriage...of Fred and Lizzy.

Thank you again.
Will check out more of your information later.   
 
   

[KEVKEV]

Could it suggested that Emma on her marriage certificate (as widow) gave 'Samuel' as her fathers name as maybe that's what his children called him rather than the unusual Sansum, or the registrar misheard and wrote Samuel.
Not that Emma might have noticed since it looks like she didn't sign the certificate as her signature is the same writing as the registrars.

I can't find a birth of an Emma Bend with father being a Samuel.

We have Emma's birth being registered first quarter of 1864 in Grantham, just about a 10 minute drive from Bottesford.