Josiah [Joseph] Low[e] of Blakeney (General)

by Lawrence Lowe, Thursday, January 21, 2010, 18:49 (5514 days ago) @ m p griffiths

Thank you again m p griffiths. The Jabez Lowe in Bristol you mention was a hatter (just like the Jabez Lowe in London)and his father was a Joseph who lived in Pensford (Publow). I know of the Bristol Jabez and his family, we think they descend from the Low(e)s of Winterbourne (Richard & Rebecca, feltmakers) through Jabez' father Joseph but that has yet to be proved conclusively.

The Joseph I need to trace now is the father of the London Jabez, Joseph the shipwright. Joseph is named as a shipwright on the certificate for Jabez' second mariage. From IGI Joseph's wife was Harriet, they lived in Rotherhithe when their sons John, Jabez and Joseph were born (from birth records in 1851 census). My challenge is to find out where their father Joseph came from and where he married Harriot, possibly in Rotherhithe around 1805 + or -. They seem to have died by the 1841 census. I mentioned the Joseph and Harriet in Portsea/Portsmouth because there were RN dockyard links between Portsmouth and Rotherhithe but it now looks as though the couple at Portsmouth were a different family just as the Joseph & Harriet frm Blakeney do too.

I am aware that this is now not a Forest of Dean project so although grateful for the help perhaps I should not take any more of your time on this forum?

Thanks again,

Lawrence