Abiah BEACH/ LEADBETER 1816 ish Littledean Woodside (General)

by Lancashire Lass, Monday, May 09, 2011, 19:58 (5008 days ago) @ slowhands

I too have found your site by accident like BSeddon - who happens to be my cousin. Not realising that we were both researching our history we are going to meet up to swap information! My mother Beatrice was George and Abiah's Great grandaughter and when she was 90 we had a family party for as many aged relatives as we could muster. One lady had been married to a son of Eliza Abia Beach and filled us in with names of his relatives and this included the names James Leadbetter and Jemima Morgan so I can confirm that link. She also confirmed that George moved to Wigan (Ince-in Makerfield) seeking work in the Lancashire coalfields. Having seen the family tree at the party my own daughter later decided to perpetuate the name and so my granddaughter now aged 9 has the middle name of Abia. In fact the name has been used in a few generations ie her daughter, Eliza Abia, then her great grand-daughter used a corrupted form, Bya (Atherton) and now her Great Great Great Great Grandaughter is using it in its original form. (I had in fact got George Beach's wife down as the first Eliza Abia but your records seem to suggest that she was just Abia). I hope you have found this information interesting.