MORSE/DAVIES/PREEST (General)

by MPGriffiths , Saturday, August 23, 2014, 12:24 (3739 days ago) @ janethowell

previous thread re: this Court Case + and also DAVIES/KEAR connections

http://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=44286

Thomas JENKINS 1785 married Maria PRIEST - Newland - 17 September 1811

http://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=44106

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James MORSE (1861 census very faint)

Newland, District 9 - page 12 of 18

MORSE

James - 61, Farmer and Grocer born West Dean
Sarah - 52 - born Bream
Thomas KEAR - age 22 - adopted son - Iron Miner, born West Dean
Louisa WORGAN - House Servant, age 19 - born West Dean
Alfred HERBERT - Servant, age 29, Carter, born Monmouth Dixton

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1851 Census, Newland
Woodside

James MORSE - 51 - Farmer of 15 acres and grocer, born West Dean
Sarah MORSE - 42 - born Bream
Thomas KEAR - 12 - adopted son - born West Dean **

*** According to Public Members Tree on Ancestry: Thomas was the son of Thomas KEAR and Eliza and on the 1841 census Bream Eaves (transcribed as REAVE)

Thomas - 24
Eliza - 24 (nee PREEST) (father : Thomas PRIEST, Collier - re marriage records)
Thomas -2 (on this tree, Thomas married Louse CATHCART - 9 April 1864 - witnesses: Helen, her sister & James MORSE)***
Anne - 1

house before that a BEACH family (again in previous threads re DAVIES/PREEST etc)

Thomas BEACH - 35
Sarah - 30
Eliza - 5
Ann - 3

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Thomas KEAR married Elizabeth PRIEST - 22 September 1838, Newland (father Thomas PRIEST)
Thomas KEAR baptised - 14 April 1839

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Fod Records

Marriage 9 April 1864 (Bream)

Thomas KEAR aged 25, Bachelor, Farmer, residence: Bream Woodside
father: Thomas KEAR, Innkeeper

married

Louise CATHCART - aged 26, Spinster, residence, Bream Woodside

father: Robert James CATHCART, Solicitor

by Licence:

witnesses: James MORSE and Helen CATHCART