Mary Pilgrim (1811-1867). My 3rd great-grandmother. My Pilgrim ancestors came from Norfolk in East Anglia and joined my family tree when Mary Pilgrim married James Goulty in 1842 – they would be my 3rd great-grandparents. See where they fit in my family tree. Mary was born illegitimately to Elizabeth Pilgrim on 7 January 1811 at […]
18th century
Jane Bashford and my other Bashford ancestors
Jane Bashford (1806-1885).My 3rd great-grandmother. The first Bashford to marry into my Finch family was Jane Bashford, who was born on 13 May 1806 in the village of Chipstead, Surrey. She was baptised at St Margaret’s Church on 15 June that year. Her parents were James Bashford and Jane Harman (see below). She married Henry […]
Mary Bilcliffe and my other Bilcliffe ancestors
Mary Bilcliffe (1735-1783). My 5th great-grandmother. The Bilcliffe surname is a rare one in the UK and appears in several forms in the records (like many other surnames of the time), for example as Billcliff, Billcliffe, Bentley and even Bentlet. The first to marry into my Surrey-based Finch family was Mary Bilcliffe. The name is […]
William Butchin’s newsworthy descendants
William Butchin was born in 1603 and baptised on 20 November that year at St Peter & St Paul’s Church in Nutfield, Surrey. I know little about by first cousin 11 times removed – the oldest son of another William Butching – but his wife and descendants were an interesting bunch… William’s father inherited the […]
William Budgen (1707-1782), successful yeoman
William Budgen (1707-1782). My 6th great-grand uncle. William Budgen was baptised in St Margaret’s Church in West Hoathly on 25 September 1707, the son of Thomas Budgen and Sarah Comber. He married Elizabeth Farmer in the village on 1 June 1736 and raised a family with her. Elizabeth is most likely the girl baptised at […]
Susan Budgen (1795-1870), a Sussex publican
Susan Budgen (1795-1870) and George Tulley (1787-1837). My 4th great-grand aunt and uncle. Susan Budgen was baptised on 19 April 1795 in St Nicholas’s Church in Worth to parents William Budgen and Betty Streeter and grew up in the village. She married George Tulley on 16 October 1820 at St Andrew’s, Nuthurst, Sussex, about 11 miles from her […]
Thomas Finch (1795–1852) and the Reigate workhouse
Thomas Finch (1795-1852) and Sarah Chisley (1803-1848). My 3rd great grand-uncle and aunt. Baptised at St Mary’s Church in Reigate, Surrey, on 4 April 1795, Thomas was the oldest son of Thomas Finch and his wife Ann Burley. Young Thomas married Sarah Chisley by license in Reigate on 27 July 1820. She was from the […]
Gertrude Emma Stolliday (1881-1964) – widowed by war
Gertrude Emma Stolliday (1881-1964) and Jonathan George Skipper (1879-1916). My great-grand aunt and uncle. Gertrude was born in Great Yarmouth on 2 January 1881 to parents Edward Stoliday and Harriet Goulty and baptised on 26 June of that year at St Nicholas’s Church. The census for 1881 showed the family living in the town’s row […]
Sarah Finch (1714-1766) and a clandestine marriage
Sarah Finch (1714-1766) and John Moore (????-1788). My 6th great-grand aunt and uncle. Sarah Finch was baptised on 20 August 1714 at St Peter’s Church, Slinfold, Sussex, the daughter of carpenter William Finch and Elizabeth Puttock. It’s likely – by process of elimination – that it was our Sarah who married John Moore on 21 […]