| DESCENT FROM HENRY WESTON |
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James Weston and Emma Wells
of Yardley Gobion their ancestors & descendants MY MOTHER'S FATHER'S FAMILY THE WESTONS |
On 27 July 1835, my great great grandfather on my mother‘s father‘s side, James Weston married Emma Wells at Ashton, Northamptonshire. ***
The 1841 Census for the hamlet of Yardley Gobion , Northamptonshire gives James Weston, 30, Publican , born in Northamptonshire.; Emma, 28, not born in Northamptonshire; John, 5, Frederic[k],3, born inYardley Gobion on December 25th, 1837, according to his Birth Certificate Robert, 2, born inYardley Gobion on September 1st, 1837, according to his Birth Certificate Alfred, 6 months, born inYardley Gobion on December 31st, 1840, according to his Birth Certificate *
The 1851 Census for Yardley Gobion shows the family as consisting of:- James Weston, victualler, aged 42, born [about 1809] in Brackley, Northamptonshire. Emma Weston aged 38, born [about 1813] in Yardley Gobion. This is probably a mistaken transcription as the 1861 Census gives Emma as born in Ullesthorpe and John in Yardley Gobion. John Weston aged 14, born [about 1837] in Ullesthorpe, Leicestershire. Frederic Weston aged 13, Robert Weston aged 11, Alfred Weston aged 10, James Weston, my great grandfather, aged 8, born in Yardley Gobion, on August 3rd, 1843, according to his Birth Certificate. Joseph Weston aged 6, born in Yardley Gobion, on November 25th, 1844, according to his Birth Certifiicate. Septimus T. Weston aged 4. Septimus Thomas was born in Yardley Gobion on November 26th, 1846, according to his Birth Certificate. Octavius C. Weston aged 1, born in Yardley Gobion. William Charles was born on June 7th, 1849, according to his Birth Certificate. He is subsequently called Charles, but the certificate of his second marriage calls him Octavius Charles. The Birth Certificates of Frederic, Robert and Alfred give “Publican” as the occupation of their father. Those of James, Joseph, Septimus Thomas and William Charles give “Victualler”.
In 1861 James Weston (51 and now said to be born in Yardley Gobion) and his wife Emma (47) lived with their son Charles (12) in the hamlet of Yardley Gobion in the Parish of Potterspury. James is described as a farmer of 142 acres employing 6 men and 3 boys. John (25, unmarried), described as a farmer’s and victualler’s son, now lived at the Grand Junction Inn, Yardley Gobion with a housekeeper, Sarah Kingston (35) and a servant Thomas Moreton (19) described as a carter. Frederick (24, unmarried), a victualler and his brother James (18, unmarried), a butcher, lived at the Pack Horse , Yardley Gobion, with their housekeeper Elizabeth Stears (60). * In 1871 James Weston, the father, now a widower, was living with his son John at Rectory Farm, Hannington , Northamptonshire (North of Northampton on the way to Kettering). He was then 63. John Weston, aged 33, was described as a “Farmer 222 acres Empl. 6 men & 3 boys”. He was married to Fanny (maiden name probably Savage), aged 39, and so born about 1831 at Passenham, Northamptonshire. They had two children. Robert or John Robert was aged 6, born at Passenham and christened about 7 August 1864 at Deanshanger (Northants.). Alfred was aged 6, also born at Passenham about 1866.
In 1881 John Weston lived at Gordon’s Lodge , Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, described as a “Farmer 153 acres employing 5 men”. His wife (now 48) and sons (aged 16 and 14) were still with him, but not his father. A “Farm servant (indoor)”, Fredric Gardner (age 19) lived with them. * In 1891 John (54) was living at Salcey Lawn , Hartwell (Northants.) still a farmer. Acreage of farms is not given after the 1881 Census. Fanny was 59, John Robert was 26 and Alfred was 25. Also living or staying with him were his nieces Flora (aged 19) and Effie (aged 14 and described as “scholar”, i.e. still at school), daughters of his brother, James (my mother’s aunts). * In 1901 John (65) was at Park Farm , Hartwell (Northants.), still described as Farmer and employer. Fanny (70) was still with him, as was Alfred (34) still single. Also living with them was Darris [Dorris?] F. Weston, a granddaughter, aged 5, so born about 1896 at Lillington Lock (Bucks). Doris Frances, daughter of John Robert Weston (Farmer) and Amy Alice (formerly Brafield) was born on September 6th, 1895, at The Hall, Lillingstone Lovell, Buckinghamshire, according to her Birth Certificate. I can find no other mention of her, In 1901 John Robert was living at Ashton Lodge Cottage, Ashton. With him were his aunt Sarah Savage, widow, 68, born at Elmley Lovett, Worcs., “housekeeper“, and his cousin Hannah Savage, single, 34 born in Llandegai, N. Wales “assistant maid“. Sarah’s late husband Stephen born in Passenham, Northants. about 1827 had a sister, Fanny, born in Passenham about 1832, who in 1861 was still unmarried and living with her parents at Hanger Lodge, Passenham. She was probably John Robert’s mother. John Robert was a farmer, a worker (i.e. not an employer) working at home. Meanwhile his wife Amy Alice, 42, was with her family at Grafton Fields, Grafton Regis (Northants.):- her father, John Cook Brafield, a widower, 71, farmer, born at Great Doddington, Northants., her brother Charles Brafield, single, 36, born at Grafton Regis, and her sister, Elizabeth Brafield, single, 35, born at Grafton Regis. *** The second son, Frederick Weston (32, a labourer) was living in Wolverton (Well known now for its Railway Works) in 1871, on King Street, with his wife Mary Louisa (26, born in Potterspury, maiden name unknown) and their son Robert (3, born in Liverpool). * In 1881 They were still in Wolverton but had moved to 538 Glyn Square . Frederick was now a clerk and their family had increased. Robert was 13; Ernest, born in Stony Stratford, was 7; Alick, born in Stony Stratford, was 3, and Grace F., born in Wolverton, was 1. They also had a boarder, Frederick Burrows (26, a “Finisher Artezan”). * They were still at the same address in 1891, and Frederick was still a clerk. Ernest (17, a Trimmer), Alick (13, Scholar), and Grace (11, scholar) still lived with them, as did their fifth child, Willie W. (7). Earlier in that year, recorded in the March Quarter 1891, at Potterspury, Robert had married Minnie Bishop. Ernest and Minnie (22, born in Potterspury) lived at 77 Aylesbury Street , Wolverton. Robert was a Railway Coach Builder. * In 1901 Frederick (63, a Railway Clerk) and Mary Louisa (56) lived at 64 Aylesbury Street with Grace F. (21) and Willie W. (17, a Railway Coach Finisher). Robert (33, a “Railway Break Finisher”) and Minnie lived at 62 Aylesbury Street with their son Fred (8). * Ernest’s wedding to Annie Simkins was recorded in the September Quarter of 1900 at Potterspury, and in 1901 they lived at the Navigation Inn , 2 Castlethorpe Road, Cosgrove. The inn is at Thrupp Wharf . Annie (26) was born at Cosgrove. Ernest was an “Innkeeper Coal dealer-farmer” and an employer. Alick had also left home and was a Cabinet maker, a visitor with James and Jessie Barris in Harlestone, (Northants.). Frederick died on August 15th, 1906, aged 68, a”clerk in Railway Works”, at 64 Aylesbury Street, Wolverton Station. *** By 1861 three of the sons of James and Emma Weston had left Yardley Gobion.
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In 1861 the fourth son. Alfred Weston (21, now said to have been born at Welford, Northants.) was married to Harriett (maiden name unknown, 22, born at Brentford Middlesex). They lived at Crop Street, Rotherhithe. Alfred was described a “Shipwright St????? DockYd”. He was still a shipwright in 1871, now living at 3 St. Helena Pl., Rotherhithe, with Harriett and their 5 children:- Charlotte W., 11, was born at Deptford; Harriett, 9, was born at Rotherhithe; William E., 5, was born at Deptford; Caroline, 3, was born at Deptford; Elizabeth Ann, 1, was born at Sheppey, Sheerness, and her birth is recorded for the March Quarter of 1870 at Sheppey. Alfred’s death at 37 is recorded for the September Quarter, 1878 at Hackney. None of the family can be found in the 1881 Census. Harriett Weston, 48, a widow living on her own means at 55 Strathmore Road, Croyden, born in Bradford (which could be a mistake for Brentford) is in the 1891 Census. Caroline Weston (22, single) also appears in the 1891 Census. She was a General Servant Domestic with the Cook family at at 65 Woodside Green, Croydon. None of the family are to be found in the 1901 Census. The death of Harriett Weston, aged 67 was recorded in the December Quarter, 1903, at Brentford.
*** I shall leave the fifth brother, James , my great grandfather, to deal with last. *** The sixth brother, Joseph Weston (16) was a “Chemist’s Apprentice” in 1861, living with the family of Francis Dillon, “Chemist and Druggist”, at 9 Eign Street, Leominster, Hereford. In 1871 Joseph (28 [sic], Chemist) was a visitor at 30 Tarleton Street, Lime Street, Liverpool, with Charles Walker, Hotel Keeper. In 1881, at 35, a chemist, his place in the household was described as that of a servant. He was living at 4 Shepperton Road, St. Mary, Islington, at the home of two sisters, Elizabeth Eastwood (33, unmarried) a housekeeper, and Henrietta Eastwood (26, unmarried), a Post Office Assistant. I have found no reference to him after 1881. *** Septimus Thomas left home at an early age. In 1861 he was a boarder with the Hayward family in the High Street, Eden bridge, Kent. The head of the household, William Hayward (aged 28) was a watchmaker, and so was 14-year-old Robert. In 1871 he had returned to Northamptonshire and, described as a “Clock and watchmaker”, was a “lodger in search of work” with the Lovell [Lavell?] family in the village of Roade. The head of the Lovell family, Thomas, was a “Civil Engineer and Innkeeper”. Septimus Thomas Weston “Clock and Watch maker”,died on December 30th 1877 at the Union Workhouse, Saint Michael, Lichfield, aged 30 [“Fever 1 month. Pneumonia 10 days”]. *** Octavius Charles Weston was still living at home in 1861. In 1871 he was a Draper in Liverpool, like his late brother Robert. Unmarried, aged 23, he lived at 52 Bold Street, St. Peter’s with 4 other drapers, 1 clerk, 2 dressmakers, 1 cook, 1 waitress and 1 housemaid. In 1881 he lived with his wife Sara (31, born at Fowey, Cornwall) and daughter May (10 months old) at 7 Hanover Street, St. George, Westminster. His occupation was recorded as “Costumier” and his wife’s as “Millinary”. They had two domestic servants, Isabella Bennet (35, unmarried) and Elizabeth Bartholemew (16, unmarried). The also had two boarders, Herman Srmon [?] a Stockbroker, and Demetrius Pappen a Mine Proprietor. In 1891 (41) Charles was a widower, described now as a Draper’s assistant. He lived at 2 Kestrel Avenue, Lambeth, with his children, May (11), Stanley Charles (8), Whifforn (sic) Wills (5) and Douglas Colin (3). He had two servants, Minnie Carnaber (35) and Annie Appleby (15). In the December quarter of 1893 the marriage was recorded in Potterspury of Octavius Charles Weston and Sarah Jane Weston. The marriage certificate dates the marriage on 11 November 1893 at the Chapel of St Leonard, Yardley Gobion. Octavius Charles is described as a widower and a Business Man resident at St Andrew, Willesden; his father is James Weston, Farmer. Sarah Jane, spinster of Yardley Gobion, is the daughter of Henry Weston, Farmer. The witnesses were Frederick John Searle (who may have been related to Octavius’s first wife, born Sarah Whitford Searle) and Sarah Jane’s sister Elizabeth Emma Weston. Sarah Jane was the daughter of Henry and Anna Maria Weston; her birth was recorded in the March Quarter of 1849 at Potterspury. [She was a cousin] She lived with her widowed mother in 1861, 1871 and 1881 at Prospect House , Yardley Gobion. In 1891 a Sarah J. Weston, aged 41, born at Yardley, Northamptonshire, and stated to be married, was a boarder at 40 Larches Lane, Wolverhampton, “living on her own means”. Also a boarder in the same household was Charles Weston aged 2 days. His birth is dated 4 April 1891 on the Birth Certificate; his mother is Jane Weston formerly Weston and his father is given as Henry Charles Weston, Commercial Traveller. I can find no further record of young Charles. In 1901 Charles and Sarah lived at 45 Blenheim Gardens, Willesden. Charles (52, a draper) and Sarah (52) were both stated to have been born at Stony Stratford, Bucks. They have with them Blanche (20 [formerly May ?], single, a dressmaker), Whitford (15), Douglas (12), and a domestic servant, Rose Richardson (23, single).
Stanley Charles Weston married Mildred Emily Smyth in the March Quarter 1906 at Wandsworth. Whitford Wells Weston emigrated in 1913 on the S.S. Arabic from Liverpool. He gave as his final destination Toronto, aiming for a job in farming or mining. He arrived in Portland, Maine on March 29th 1913. He gave as his next-of-kin his father, who was still living at 45 Blenheim Gardens, Willesden. *** Finally, in 1871, James Weston the younger, fifth son of James and Emma (my great grandfather), aged 27, was a Licensed Victualler at the Old Swan, 3 The Cross [?], Sharnbrook , Bedfordshire. His wife was Elizabeth Sarah (née Gates) aged 26 (therefore born about 1845 at Nash, Buckinghamshire). Their children at this time were:- Amy aged 4 (born on August 10th, 1866 at Cosgrove, Northants.) Charles Joseph aged 3 (born on March 14th, 1868 at Cosgrove) Minnie aged under a year (born on March 16th, 1870 at Sharnbrook). The family had therefore moved to Sharnbrook between 1868 and 1870. Flora was born in the March quarter 1872 and christened 7 April 1872 at Sharnbrook. Albert - my grandfather - born on August 26th 1873, was christened 30 November 1873 at Sharnbrook. Leonard was born on November 23rd, 1875 at Sharnbrook.
In 1881 they were still at the Old Swan (now described as being in Up Street). James was now 36 and Elizabeth 37. Amy was 14, Charles 13, Minnie 11, Flora 9, Albert 8 and Leonard 6. There were also Effie aged 4, born on December 10th 1876 at Sharnbrook, and Kate aged 1, born on November 16th 1879, at Sharnbrook. Also living with them was Sarah Gates, James’s sister-in-law (unmarried, Elizabeth’s sister), aged 35, born about 1853 at Nash (Bucks.). In 1871 Sarah Gates had been living at Hisworth Farm, Cosgrove, Northants. (It is in fact Isworth Farm) with her father Edward, aged 60 (born about 1811 at Nash), her mother Ann, aged 54 (born about 1817 at Passenham, Northants.) , and her brother John Edward, aged 18, born in about 1853 at Simpson, Bucks.). James Harvey Weston, was born on December 17th 1883. In 1891 James was Hotel Keeper and Farmer at the Dun Cow Hotel, Dunchurch Warwickshire, having moved there in 1887. James was now 47 and his wife 48. Amy was 24 and a Manageress; Minnie was 21, Leonard 16, Kate 11 and a scholar. Harvey is said to be 7, so born in 1884, which is a puzzle. There was a new addition, Walter, aged 4, born in the December Quarter 1886 at Sharnbrook. Flora and Effie were staying with their uncle at Hartwell. Sarah Gates, now 41, was manageress of Bar No. 2. The eldest son, Charles, now aged 23 and still single, was a boarder with the Dyson family in Shaftesbury Street, Whitchurch, Derby. He was a coach maker, as was the other boarder William Ball (25). Albert was also not living at the Dun Cow and appears not to have been in Dunchurch or Bilton. Perhaps he is the Albert Weston, aged 16, said to have been born at Ravenstone. Bucks. a coach finisher, who was a boarder at 495 Ledsam Street, Wolverton, with the Herbert family, whose 16-year-old son was born at Cosgrove. In the June quarter of 1894, Flora married Joseph Wickens, and in 1901 they were living at The Elms , Hartwell, with their servant Sarah Whatton. Flora was 29 and Joseph 28, a farmer and employer (born at Hartwell). Her uncle John was at nearby Park Farm, and her cousin John Robert at Ashton Lodge Cottage. At Chapel Farm lived Mary Weston, widow of Henry Weston (born about 1829 at Yardley Gobion, son of John, 1801-1866, brother of James senior) with five of her grown-up children, while one of her sons, William Weston, unmarried, lived with his widowed sister-in-law and two of her daughters at Bozenham Mill, and another son, Harry Weston, lived with his wife and two children with his in-laws, the Gee family, at Stone Pit Farm. * In the March quarter of 1895, Minnie married Joseph Alexander Alcock, and in 1901 they were living at 19 Sheaf Street Daventry, with their three children, Dora (5, born in Dunchurch), Joseph W.W. (4, born in Dunchurch), and Marjorie Kate (2, born in Braunston). Minnie was then 31 and Joseph 28 (born in Dunchurch), a “Tailor-breeches maker” and an employer, working at home.
In 1901 James (58) was still at the Dun Cow - “Hotel Proprietor and Farmer”. Elizabeth was also 58. Amy was 32. Katie (not Kate here) was 21. James S. was 17 (so born about 1884); he had not appeared before. Harvey did not appear. Sarah Gates was now 53. Charles did not appear. James Weston died on May 13th 1904 aged 60. His widow Elizabeth Sarah died on April 12th 1938 at the Dun Cow Hotel, aged 95. In 1901 Leonard, now 26, was a boarder with Louisa Potter at 1 New York Street, Brighton. He was single and a butcher’s salesman. Effie married Tom Haselwood in the March quarter and was now living at 21 High Street, Rugby, where he was a “Grocer shopkeeper”.
Also in 1901 Albert, now 27, was married to Maud Sophia Treen and they lived at The Heath, Dunchurch, with their daughter, Flora Lilian (my mother) aged 1 year. Albert is described as a “Farmer’s son” and his status is “worker” rather than “employer”. Albert and Maud had been married on 5 May 1899 in the Registry Office at Basford, Nottinghamshire. Their witnesses were Joseph and Flo Wickens. My mother was born at The Cedars, Wolverton St. Mary’s. Buckinghamshire on 21 November 1899 (six and a half months after her parents’ marriage). Her birth was registered on 5 February 1900 at Potterspury, Northamptonshire. Her father’s occupation was then “Engine fitter in Railway Factory”. Albert and Maud had four further children: Sydney [Sid] , (1902-1960), who married Doris E. Woodward in 1929 and had two daughters, Wenda (born 1931) and Anne (born 1934) [He was later divorced and remarried]; Maud Elizabeth [known as Betty] , (1906-1982), who married Wilfred [Bill] Duncan in 1937; Stanley [Stan] , (1908-1929); and Reginald [known as Rex] , 1911-1986, who married Hilda E. Brasse in 1936 and had one daughter, Jacqueline (born 1941) [he was later divorced and twice remarried].
Flora Lilian (1899-1968) married Daniel Gerard O’Regan (1906-1999) in 1930. They were married in Dunchurch Parish Church on 9 June 1930 My father gave his age as 26, though he was actually five months short of 24. My mother gave her age as 27, though she as in fact five months short of 31. The aim was presumably to minimize the age difference. The witnesses were Flora Wickens and Maud and Albert Weston (whose occupation was now given as “Agent”, while my father‘s father was a “Pitman”). I was born on 15 June 1931 at 5 Warham Road, Wealdstone (where my father’s elder sister, my Auntie Nell and Uncle Phil later lived until they retired to Aberfan).
ADDENDUM The Rugby Advertiser, Saturday January 8th 1887.
To let and entered upon at Lady day next “DUN COW HOTEL”, Dunchurch with 120 to 150 ACRES of LAND, more or less, as may be required. The House contains Large Club Room, Four Parlours, Bar, Tap Room with separate entrance, Sixteen Bedrooms, Six Attic Bedrooms, and all other conveniences. Stabling for 30 Horses, Grooms’ Rooms, and Large Coach-House. This Old-established and First-class Hotel is situated in the Village of Dunchurch, 3 miles from Rugby and two from Dunchurch Station, and in the centre of good hunting country. There is a good trade attached to the house and a good Posting Business is done. For Rent and further particulars, apply to C.G. Bolam, Estate Office, Boughton House, Kettering . ***** The Rugby Advertiser, Saturday March 26 1887. DUNCHURCH A large and important sale of livestock and contents of the Dun Cow Hotel has been progressing during the past week, the landlord, Mr. John Hicken, having given up the busines. Full particulars will be given in our next issue . PRESENTATION TO MISS HICKEN. Among the many changes that are taking place in Dunchurch, few will be more felt than the departure of Mr. J. Hicken and his family from the parish, after a residences at the Dun Cow Hotel of about 21 years. With the view of showing their respect, the parishioners started a subscription, which was very handsomely responded to, and several hunting gentlemen and others in the neighbourhood contributed, the sum ot £24 10s. altogether being collected. A portion was spent on the purchase of a very handsome Russian leather travelling case with silver mounted and ivory fittings, upon which Miss Hicken’s initials were engraved, and the remainder was enclosed in a purse to accompany it. The gift was forwarded to Miss Hicken on Tuesday last, with a list of the subscribers and the following letter written by Mrs. Wheler:- “My dear Miss Hicken, - Your good friends at Dunchurch wish to express their regret at your leaving our village in something more than words, and have deputed me to act as their mouthpiece on this occasion. I have accordingly to ask you to accept the accompanying dressing case and purse of money which it contains, as a small memento of their regard and their sorrow that you and your family are leaving Dunchurch, and breaking your connection with us.” - The Sunday School teachers and children have also sent Miss Hicken “a small token of their love and regard” in the shape of a very nice despatch case, with monogram impressed thereon; and she has also received from the Rev. F. Wheler, the vicar, a volume, “The Life of Bishop Hunnington”, in grateful remembrance of her help in Dunchurch Sunday School. - On Monday night the Cricket Club presented Mr. Richard Hicken with a pair of pipes enclosed in a handsome case as a souvenir and in recognition of his services as secretary of the club for many years; and in addition to all this, the family have received many verbal expressions of the good will of the residents towards them. *****
JAMES WESTON (Late of the Swan Hotel, Sharnbrook, Beds.) PROPRIETOR FAMILIES & COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS LUNCHEONS Provided on most Reasonable TermS And and the LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICE. COACHHOUSES. LET ON HIRE.
Mike O' Regan 2007 |
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