VIRGOE/HILL + RUCK + BROOKS + YEMM (General)

by m p griffiths , Monday, October 10, 2011, 07:42 (4797 days ago) @ unknown

FOD records, christening at Blakeney - children of Richard (occupation Blacksmith & also Labourer) & Hester and Ester VIRGO/VIRGOE

Stephen - 28 March 1826
Emily - 23 November 1830
Samuel - 19 June 1831
Richard - 18 August 1839 - address Old Furnace (Old Furnace area on Photo section of Blakeney FOD)

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? Richard VIRGO was a witness at this wedding

AWRE

7 December 1838

Thomas VIRGO (occupation Miner, address Old Furnace)

father: Thomas VIRGO (Quarryman ? confirms Richard's father, so ? is this is brother[/b]

married: Elizabeth BROOKS, (Minor) address Old Furnace

father: Thomas BROOKS (occupation - Waterman)

by banns

witnesses: Richard VIRGO + Thomas CADOGAN

? FOD records - baptism at Awre (Blakeney Chapel) - 22 January 1786, born 14 Jan - parents Thomas & Mary) Notes on Richard baptism gives mother's name as Sarah and Mary

siblings: christened at Awre (Blakeney Chapel - FOD records) - parents Thomas and Sarah (nee PETERS)

Joseph - 21 February 1796, James and Sarah christened the same day, 1 December 1793)

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The two witness at the wedding of Richard VIRGOE to Hester HILL, were Sarah HILL and Charles FENNELL.

By using the Advance Search for witnesses at weddings - at least one comes up so far

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AWRE - 3 September 1825

Edward RUCK of the FOD, married Sarah HILL

witnesses: Richard and Hester VIRGOE

FOD records have baptism - children, father Edward (occupation Blacksmith) & Sarah RUCK at Parkend

Louisa - 27 August 1826 - residence: Yorkley
Edward - 31 May 1829 - residence: Yorkley
Henry - 5 June 1831 - residence: Yorkley
Samuel - 25 January 1835 - residence: Whitecroft
Milanda - 18 June 1837 - residence: Whitecroft

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1841 Census, Dean Forest, Whitecroft

(Ancestry transcribed as LUCE)

RUCK

Edward - 35 - all born in County
Sarah - 35 (nee HILL - possibly Hester HILL's sister/cousin)
Edward - 12
Henry - 10
Summer (transcribed as) - looks like Samuell - age 5
Belinda - 3

1851 Census, West Dean
Whitecroft

RUCK

Edward - 50 - Blacksmith, born Little Dean
Sarah - 52 (c1799) - born Awre
Henry - 18 - Coal Miner, born Yorkley
Samuel - 16 - born Yorkley
Belinda - 13 - House Servant, born Yorkley
William - 8 - Scholar - born Whitecroft. ***

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Gloucestershire BDM

http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/bmd/

William RUCK (mother's maiden name HILL) - 1842, Forest of Dean, Westbury on Severn, Newnham

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1861 Census
West Dean, Clearwell Meend

- Transcribed as RENCK

RUCK

Edward - 62 - Blackmsmith, born Little Dean
Sarah - 62 - born Awre
Samuel - 26 - Blacksmith, born West Dean
William - 18 - ditto
William Edward WALKINS - Grandson, age 9 - born Monmouth, Monmouthshire

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FOD records have a baptism at Awre

10 April 1803

Esther HILL - parents Thomas & Esther **(nee BROWN) born 11 March

Notes: B.T.s show date of baptism as 15 March

*** it may be the mother's name should read HANNAH (nee BROWN), as a Thomas HILL married a Hannah BROWN at Awre 8 May 1800, and a son James was christened at Awre 2 September 1804, parents Thomas HILL and Hannah, mother's maiden name BROWN). Another Son Thomas christened at Awre - 10 January 1813.

1841 Census Awre

HILL

James - 35 - labourer - all born in County
Mariam - 30
Hannah - 60
Walter - 6
Ann - 3
Jas - 1

FOD records - Marriage at Awre - 17 October 1833

James HILL married Mariam YEMM - with consent of parents

witnesses: Thomas HILL and Edw(ar)d RUCK (who married Sarah HILL)