Sarah MEREDITH 1781 (General)

by waboland, Monday, January 19, 2009, 15:41 (5859 days ago) @ slowhands

Hello Searchers/FH Addicts

I am researching the MEREDITH family from Littledean. My link is through
James and Sarah's son George MEREDITH married Harriet WEBB
Children of this marriage christened Drybrook
Caroline
Josiah
Nehemiah
Rosetta
Charles
Alice

My GGGrandfather was Charles born 1841 married MAry Ann DRAISEY -moved to Stoke on Trent

I had come to the same conclusion as others- that Matilda was an error on the part of the clerk who wrote up the parish registers and that the parents of James born 1819 wshould be James and Sarah
I think Sarah's maiden name was COOPER. She is listed as a coal miner's widow in the census records
Her daughter Pheobe states her father's name was James on her marriage record.

I believe the child, William MEREDITH aged 6 years on the 1841 census, was the illegitimate son of James and Sarah's daughter Eliza
He was christened as
William Morgan MEREDITH. Eliza also had a daughter Charlotte who died aged 10 months soon after her mother
I am uncertain who James aged 10 years on the 1841 census belongs to and I ahve not found James MEREDITH christened 1819 in the 1841 census ---YET

I have some certs, photocopies of the Prs plus my own transcription of the Meredith entries for Littledean and I am happy to share them with researchers.

Can anyone tell me if the inquests for 1840 at Gloucester are extant please or if anyone has access to the local newspapers which may have a report of a death in the Bilson pit in 1840?

Good hunting
Wendy
Australia