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St Patrick's Street, Cork. Detroit Photographic Company, 1905 (Via) |
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The door from Kitty's solid fuel stove. Photo: Jerome Mc Cormick |
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St Patrick's Street, Cork. Detroit Photographic Company, 1905 (Via) |
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The door from Kitty's solid fuel stove. Photo: Jerome Mc Cormick |
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© Peter Trimming (cc-by-sa/2.0 geograph.org.uk/p/6195470 Southwark Cathedral |
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All Saints Church, Stisted, Essex cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Peter Stack - geograph.org.uk/p/2051427 |
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St Mary, High Road, South Woodford cc-by-sa/2.0 - © John Salmon - geograph.org.uk/p/2975293 |
Robert Fuller (b. ~1785), reportedly son of Thomas Fuller and Mary Farrant, married Elizabeth Bass on 28 Nov 1807 at St Mary's Church, Woodford. It should be noted however that, as the current church wasn't built until 1816, their marriage will have taken place in the previous medieval church that had stood in this location. They may well have seen this building going up.
Seven children of this couple were baptised in Woodford, Essex:
Robert Fuller died, aged 60, in 1846 M Quarter in WEST HAM UNION Volume 12 Page 194, and was buried in Woodford on 22 Feb 1846.
Elizabeth Fuller died, aged 65, in 1851 M Quarter in WEST HAM UNION Volume 12 Page 219, and was buried on 12 Jan 1851, also in Woodford.
(These are my earliest ancestors [so far] in this branch. Both Robert and Elizabeth were born around 1785, but I've not been able to identify baptisms for either of them. There are also potentially two further children, but I'm not convinced enough that they belong to this family to include them. Being younger (only 10 and 12), they should have been on the 1841 census - unless they had died as infants and I've not found deaths or burials to confirm that. In any case, the naming pattern does not seem right for the family.)
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Marathon (cc-by-sa/2.0) geograph.org.uk/p/7925691 River Thames at Ratcliff (The Lost Hamlet Of Ratcliff) |
James Bendbow (sic) (b. about 1699) of Ratcliff, Bricklayer, son of Richard Bendbow of the same place and trade, deceased (then eldest surviving son of Richard Benbow and Grace Beer), married Frances Stalker, daughter of Thomas Stalker of Sotheringby, Cumberland, Carpenter, deceased, at the Monthly Meeting of Peel's Court, John Street, Westminster on 27 Nov 1740. Relatives present were: Samuel and Mary Bendbow, Sarah and James Terney and Hannah Preston [1]. (Many people in this era considered Quaker couples to be living in sin because they didn't have clergy to officiate.)
As they had married late, both aged around 40, they did not have children.
James Benbow of Brook Street in the Parish of Stepney, aged about 62 years, died on 23 Apr 1761, of convulsions. He was buried on 26 Apr 1761 at the Friends Burying Ground at Ratcliff (Ratcliffe Quaker Burial Ground). The will of James Bendbow (sic) of St Dunstan's Stepney, Bricklayer, left everything (including 11 freehold houses) to his wife Frances to dispose of, as mentioned above, with bequeaths to his sister Sarah Terney, and nieces (he'd said cousins) Elizabeth Travally, Ann Benbow and Mary Haselden [2].
Frances Bendbow (sic) of Brook Street, Ratcliff in the Parish of Stepney, aged about 66 years, died on 17 May 1766, of a Dropsy (Edema, also spelled oedema, also known as fluid retention), and was buried on 23 May 1766 at the Friends Burying Ground, near School House Lane, Ratcliff.
[1] Found no other records of Hannah Preston to know how she was related.
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Victorian graves in Cathays Cemetery cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Gareth James - geograph.org.uk/p/1405099 |
Samuel Sparrow Morcombe (b. 9 May 1851 in Briton Ferry, Glamorgan, Wales), son of William Morcombe and Mary Howe, married Hephzibah Sarah Eastabrook (b. 18 Sep 1852 in Stoke Damerel, Devon), daughter of Richard Eastabrook and Susana Derry, on 27 Nov 1881, in Cardiff.
Samuel and Hephzibah had five children, of whom three died as infants:
In 1901, Samuel Morcambe (sic) (49) Gardener was living in Manor Street, Central Cardiff with Hepzibah (47), William Samuel (14) Margaret Mabel (9), with Cyril Morgan (12) and John Morgan (8), from Bristol, Visitors.
In 1911, Samuel Morcombe (53 ish) from Neath, Glamorganshire, was once more a Labourer in Cemetery for the Corporation and still living in Central Cardiff with Hephzibah Sarah Morcombe (58), Margaret Mabel Morcombe (19) and a Robert Joseph Jones (38) Boarder.
In 1921, Samuel Morcombe (69) Labourer at Cardiff Cemetery and Hephzibah S Morcombe (68) were living at 27, Newfoundland Road, Llandaff, Wales.
Samuel Morcombe died, at 73, in 1926 D Qtr in CARDIFF Vol 11A Page 298.
In 1939, Hephzibah S Morcombe, Old Age Pensioner, was living with her daughter Margaret M Whitaker and her husband at 20 Kyle Avenue, Cardiff.
Hephzibah S Morcombe died, at 89, in 1942 in CARDIFF Vol 11A Page 338.
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St John the Baptist, Hoxton cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Basher Eyre - geograph.org.uk/p/4892565 |
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Mid Devon : Holcombe Rogus Scenery cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Lewis Clarke - geograph.org.uk/p/2812924 |
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Tiverton, St. Peter's Church cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Michael Garlick - geograph.org.uk/p/5372818 |
Edward Burt (b. 1816), according to the marriage record son of Richard Burt, married Mary Ann Prescott (b. 21 Jan 1821 in Tiverton), daughter of John Prescott and Ann Warren, at St Peter's Church, Tiverton on 26 Nov 1837.
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All Saints, Little Canfield - Chancel cc-by-sa/2.0 - © John Salmon - geograph.org.uk/p/3988791 |