Sophia Goulty (1811-1895) and Emerson Manbey / Tidy (1809-1873). My 3rd great-grand aunt and uncle. Sophia Goulty was born in Woodbastwick, Norfolk, on 3 January 1811 and named at at the Particular Baptist Church in Salhouse, Norfolk. Her parents were Charles Goulty and Rebecca Lock. Sophia grew up in Norfolk but she was living in Queen Charlotte […]
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William Weston (1794-1862), a stabbing and a curious court case
William Weston (1794-1862) and Sarah Bailey (1802-1884). My 4th great-grand uncle and aunt. William Weston was born on 22 March 1794 and baptised on 29 March at St Mary’s in Banham, Norfolk. His parents were John Weston and Esther Bailey. He married Sarah Bailey in Banham on 27 May 1828. She too came from the […]
Esther Bailey and my other Bailey ancestors
Esther Bailey (1757-1826). My 5th great-grandmother. Esther Bailey was the first of the Baileys to join my family tree, when she married John Weston of Banham in Norfolk on 29 September 1781. She had been born to James Bailey and Sarah Cob and baptised on 11 April 1757 and was sometimes known as Hester. John […]
Rebecca Brooks and my other Brooks ancestors
Rebecca Brooks (1784-1825). My 5th great-grandmother. Rebecca Brooks was the first of the Brooks family to join my family tree, when she married into the Wetherall family. The surname may derive from the town of Broc in France, brought over around the time of the Norman conquest, or also to the old English words for […]
Willoughby Staff and my other Staff ancestors
Willoughby Staff (?1803-1886). My 4th great-grandmother. Willoughby Staff was from a Norfolk family that married into the Greens. Their descendants were part of my paternal family tree, ultimately coming down to the Finches. The surname may have derived from the Anglo-Saxon stæf, which means stick or pole, and could’ve referred to people who worked with or […]
Susannah Symonds (1832-1906) and her family of mariners
Susannah Symonds (1832-1906), Henry George Martins (1828-1857) and Charles Downing (1824-1883). My 3rd great-grand aunt and uncles. Susannah was baptised on 8 October 1832 at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, to parents Charles Robinson Witchingham Symonds and Susanna Waters. She was still living at home at the time of the 1851 census and […]
Mary Ann Symonds (1791-1867), died after being scalded
Mary Ann (or Marian) Symonds (1791-1867) and Ralph Newby (????-1881). My 4th great-grand aunt and uncle. Mary Ann – or sometimes Marian – was born just a few months after the marriage of her parents – James Symonds and Frances Ann Witchingham – in 1791. She was baptised at Holy Trinity & All Saints Church […]
Frances Ann Witchingham and my other Witchingham ancestors
Frances Ann Witchingham (1773-1847). My 5th great-grandmother. Witchingham is a reasonably common surname in Norfolk and may well derive from the village of Witchingham, north-west of Norwich. Over time the name has been spelled in a variety of ways including Wychingham, Wichinham, Withingham and even Wichengim. See the Witchingham family tree and where they fit […]
Hannah Holsworth and my other Holsworth ancestors
Hannah Holsworth (1791-1879). My 4th great-grandmother. Holsworth is a fairly common surname in Norfolk and is a variation of Holdsworth. ‘Worth’ is an old English word for enclosure, suggesting the surname was a habitional name deriving from a particular place. Hannah, my 4th great-grandmother, came from the village of Salhouse and was the first by […]
Godfrey Weston and my other Weston ancestors
Godfrey Weston (1785-1862). My 4th great-grandfather. Godfrey Weston was the first of the Westons to join my direct family tree but he didn’t marry into it. Instead he fathered a child out of wedlock and then married someone else. The Westons came from north-west Suffolk and south Norfolk over the centuries. The surname was given […]
Elizabeth Wetherill (1713-1799?) – businesswoman of Norwich
Elizabeth Wetherill (1713-1799?) and Edward Peterson (1714?-1783). My 7th great-grand aunt and uncle. Elizabeth was baptised on 1 February 1713 at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth, her parents being schoolteacher Thomas Wetherill and Mary Corpe. Her brother William Wetherill’s will referred to her as Elizabeth Peterson and mentioned her children but I’ve not found […]
Rebecca Lock and my other Lock ancestors
Rebecca Lock (1778-1861). My 4th great-grandmother. Rebecca was the first of the Locks to marry into my family, when she wed Charles Goulty in Woodbastwick, Norfolk, on 17 May 1796. She’d been born in the village on 25 April 1778 and baptised at St Fabian and St Sebastian’s Church on 15 April 1779 – her […]
Lawrence Witchingham Symonds (1804-1847)
Lawrence Witchingham Symonds (1804-1847). My 4th great-grand uncle. Lawrence Witchingham Symonds was born on 16 August 1804 and baptised on the 19th at Holy Trinity & All Saints Church in Winterton, Norfolk, but drowned while a relatively young man. His parents were James Symonds and Frances Witchingham. Lawrence married Mary Green at St Andrew’s Church […]
Harriet Symonds (1841-1899) and her struggles with alcohol
Harriet Symonds (1841-1899) and Henry Swan Chapman (1838-1904). My 3rd great grand-aunt and uncle. Harriet was born on 29 August 1841 to parents Charles Robinson Witchingham Symonds and Susannah Waters. She was baptised on 8 September at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. She married young in 1858, her husband being Henry Swan Chapman […]
Samuel Symonds (1836-1909) – saving lives at sea
Samuel Symonds (1836-1909) and Ann Maria Masterson (1836-1912). My 3rd great-grand uncle and aunt. Samuel was born to Charles Robinson Witchingham Symonds and Susannah Waters baptised on 20 July 1836 at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. He married Ann Maria Masterson there on 28 December 1856. She was also a Yarmouth native, born […]
Thomas Goulty (1778-1857), Norfolk husbandman
Thomas Goulty / Goughty (1778-1857) and Sarah Russell (1779-1865). My 4th great-grand uncle and aunt. Thomas was born in 1778 and baptised at St Swithin’s Church in Frettenham, Norfolk, on 11 October that year. His parents were Charles Goulty and Elizabeth Quantrel. His surname was spelled in various ways in the parish records, from Goulty […]
Frederick Green (1840-1892), pharmacist and publican
Frederick Green (1840-1892). My 3rd great-grand uncle. Frederick was born to parents William Green and Willoughby Staff and baptised on 28 September 1840 at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth. He was recorded living in the town with his parents in the 1841 and 1851 censuses. However, he cannot be found in the 1861 census. […]
Edward Green (1824-1876)
Edward Green (1824-1876) and Mary Ann Gedge (1817-1858). My 3rd great-grand uncle. Edward was born in 1824 to parents William Green and Willoughby Staff and baptised at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 29 October that year. He grew up with his parents and siblings in the town and then married on 25 October […]
William Robert Green (1847-1882)
William Robert Green (1847-1882) and Ellen Lodge (1848-????).My 2nd great-grand uncle and aunt. William was baptised on 18 July 1847 at St Nicholas’s Church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. His parents were William Mark Green and Elizabeth Maria Symonds. He lived as a child in Birmingham and Camberwell in Surrey with his parents and siblings before returning […]
William Wetherill (1711-1789) – eminent teacher of maths
William Wetherill (1711-1789), Elizabeth Clarke (????-1767) and Elizabeth Shorten (????-1794). My 7th great-grand uncle and aunts. William was baptised on 14 October 1711 at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, to parents Thomas Witherill and Mary Corpe. He followed his father into teaching and left significant property on his death. William married Elizabeth Clarke […]