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Hello, I'm new to this forum and just beginning to look at the Lowe family links in the area.

I'm a Lowe descended from Lowes from Winterbourne in Gloucestershire and have a brick-wall at my gr-gr-grandfather's parents. My gr-gr-grandfather was Thomas Low(e), a hatter, born in 1805 possibly in Winterbourne. I've researched the Winterbourne Lowes for some time and found no link.

I am now researching a Joseph Lowe who lived in London and had a son, Jabez Lowe (a hatter) in London. Joseph gives his birthplace as Blakeney in 1851 and Forest of Dean in 1861. Joseph would have been born around 1778. Does anyone recognise Joseph as a part of their tree? I am looking for possible links between the Winterbourne Lowes and Blakeney area or directly with Thomas.

Lawrence

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This might be him

Year: 1778
Month: Jul
Day: 12
Parents_Surname: LOW
Child_Forenames: Josiah
Fathers_Forenames: Richard
Mothers_Forenames: Rebekah
Mothers_Surname:
Residence:
Occupation:
Officiating_Minister:
Event: Baptism
Memoranda: S[on] of
Notes: Blakeney Chapel
Register_Reference: P30 1 IN 1 Part 2
Page_Number: 447
Parish_Chapel: Awre

Year: 1769
Month: May
Day: 1
Grooms_Surname: LOWE
Grooms_Forenames: Richard
Grooms_Age:
Groom_Condition: [not stated]
Grooms_Occupation:
Grooms_Residence:
Grooms_Fathers_Surname:
Grooms_Fathers_Forenames:
Grooms_Fathers_Occupation:
Brides_Surname: BEDDIS
Brides_Forenames: Rebecka
Brides_Age:
Brides_Condition: [not stated]
Brides_Occupation:
Brides_Residence:
Brides_Fathers_Surname:
Brides_Fathers_Forenames:
Brides_Fathers_Occupation:
Licence_or_Banns: Banns
Date_of_Banns:
Signature_or_Mark:
Witness_1:
Witness_2:
Other_Witnesses:
Officiating_Minister:
Event: Marriage
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P30 1 IN 1 Part 2
Page_Number: 336
Parish_Chapel: Awre

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Josiah Low identified by slowhands is the same as the Joseph you have found as a Whitesmith in the 1851 and 1861 census. Josiah married Harriet Bugby c1801 and they had eleven children. I have no record of a Jabez Lowe born to Josiah and Harriet.

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Slowhands, Paul, thank you.

Interesting, it seems I have a Jabez Lowe in London born to a different Joseph Lowe and Harriet to the one you are both describing. I am awaiting the marriage certificate of Jabez which will hopefully provide some more information to clear this up. Thanks again.

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Hi

I have them in my tree .

The link is through my girlfriend

However it is Joseph son of Joseph son Of Richard

Pete

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Hello again Paul,

Your reply from last year:

Josiah Low identified by slowhands is the same as the Joseph you have found as a Whitesmith in the 1851 and 1861 census. Josiah married Harriet Bugby c1801 and they had eleven children. I have no record of a Jabez Lowe born to Josiah and Harriet.<<

Early last year you kindly replied to a request I made for information about a Joseph Lowe (wife Harriet) who lived and worked in London as a "whitesmith". I've been away from my research for a while but am now getting back to it. I now have three Joseph Lowes married to Harriets around that time so I need to separate them out. You told me your Joseph did not have a child named Jabez but did have 11 chldren; were these children born/baptised in Portsea by any chance? Would you mind giving me their names so that I can "eliminate them from my equiries" so to speak?

Best regards,
Lawrence Lowe

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I was interested to know what a whitesmith was, so have looked it up. It was someone who worked with tin, enamel, light metals, etc. This ties in with the area's industry, whether immediately local or in South Wales. I have found several of my extended F of D family, if not engaged as blacksmiths worked in the tin industry.

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Looking briefly at the London Births - (actual register on Ancestry - and reading like this)....

27 December 1835 - address 20 Bride Lane

Jabez LOWE, christened 27 December 1835, (born 3 August 1835). Son of Jabez (Hatter)
and Caroline LOWE

Next entry - same address 20 Bride Lane

Mary Ann LOWE, christened 27 December 1835, born 18 September 1807 - daughter of Joseph (occupation Shipwright) & Harriet

Next entry - same address 20 Bride Lane

27 December 1835 (born 13 June 1812) Jabez LOWE - son of Joseph (Hatter) & Harriet LOWE

Will check for more entries.

Again... actual register on Ancestry

Hillingdon, St Margaret, Uxbridge (address of the LOWE family given as Uxbridge)
Parents Joseph and Harriet

Elizabeth - 23 May 1813
(Joseph - listed as a SMITH)

William - 8 October 1815,
(Joseph - Whitesmith)

Richard - 11 January 1818
(Joseph - Smith)

Joseph - 17 September 1820
(Joseph Snr. listed as a Whitesmith)

Ann - 23 March 1823
(Joseph - Whitesmith)

Thomas - 26 August 1827
(Joseph - Whitesmith)

Joseph LOWE died 20 January 1865 at 88 years at Hillingdon

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Thank you, that fills in some gaps. I discovered earlier today that my membership of Ancestry does not let me see the London Registers, must do something about that.

I had found the entries you mention on IGI but without the added detail of address and occupations so thank you for that. According to IGI the Jabez, son of Jabez, you mention died a year later. I wonder if the group baptism was due to infant Jabez being sickly? Joseph and Jabez were born in Rotherhithe but I have no access to those registers to see if they were baptised previously. I now need to trace the father's, Joseph the shipwright, origins but it is not looking likely that it was the Forest of Dean.

Thank you for the inputs.

Lawrence

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Saint Bride - Jabez LOWE age 1 of Bride Lane, buried 30 October 1836.

Not sure if this helps, but there is a Marriage of a

Jabez LOWE (father Joseph) 21 August 1841, Bristol Gloucester to Mary Ann BALL (father Samuel) - but I'm not sure which dates you are looking for.

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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

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Hello again,

I forgot to mention, the later Lowes you mentioned are the family descended from Josiah/Joseph Lowe from Blakeney, another family with a Joseph and Harriet; these were the whitesmiths and the ones I think might have lived in Portsmouth in the 1810 to 1820 period.

Lawrence

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Hello Lawrence,

I'm pleased to see that you have been able to return to your research.

The eleven children of my Joseph/Josiah and Harriet Bugby were all born/baptised in Uxbridge, Middlesex.

They were:-

Harriot Rebecca Lowe Bap 3/10/1802 St Margaret's, Uxbridge, Middlesex
Joseph Lowe Bap 6/5/1804 St Margaret's, Uxbridge, Middlesex - Died 1806
John Lowe Bap 8/2/1807 St Margaret's, Uxbridge, Middlesex - Died 1870
Rebecca Lowe Bap 19/3/1809 St Margaret's, Uxbridge, Middlesex
Margaret Lowe Bap 16/6/1811 St Margaret's, Uxbridge, Middlesex
and those identified by m p griffiths in the recent posting.

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Paul,

Thank you for your reply that was really helpful at separating out the families.

From my latest reply to m p griffiths you will see my current thinking.

Cheers,
Lawrence

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Hello,

I'm a Lowe and have a great great grandfather born in Coleford, Forest of Dean in 25th October 1875. Might be a link with your family.

Regards
Andrew Lowe

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