Thomas MARGRATE 1780 Newnham / Awre (General)

by MPGriffiths , Sunday, August 21, 2016, 15:25 (3018 days ago) @ smargrate

1851 Census, Hinton, Thornbury

Thomas MARGRATE aged 70 - Pilot on Servant - born Newnham
Mary - aged 70 born Newnham

Mary PROSSER - Christened at Newnham - 19 October 1780 - parents: John & Jane

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Looking for family christian names can sometimes help as very often they go through generation after generation.

Forest of Dean records

12 Mar 1804

Thomas MARGRATE married Mary PROSSER at Newnham - witnesses: William SMITH and Elizabeth ROBBINS

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and had these children
christened at Newnham

William MARGRATE 1805
Thomas MARGARET - 1806
Edwin MARGARET - 1810
Jane MARGARET - 1812
Mary MARGARET - 1815 - occupation Waterman
James MARGARET - 1816

and then a second generation

Thomas & Mary

Elizabeth MARGARET - 1844 - residence: Gatcomb, Waterman, Blakeney
Edwin James MARGARET - 1849 - residence: Milky Head, Pilot, Blakeney
Sarah MARGARETH - 1854 - Gatcombe, Waterman, Blakeney

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There is on the'net' a discussion, where a ancestor was called Edmund (Edwin or Edward) from Berkeley.....

On the Burial Index - there is a burial at Sherborne - 17 February 1851 of Edwin MARGETTS aged 1 week

John MARGATTS married Hannah LANCHBERRY 1845 at Sherborne

John MARGETTS was christened 12 December 1810 at Sherborne - parents: Edmund & Sarah

? possible family names are William and Edwin/Edmund MARGETTS

and John is also James

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1841 Census Sherborne Glos

MARGATTS

Edmund - 50-54 (not born in County)
Sarah - 55-59
Elizabeth - 25-29
John - 20-24
Henry - 15-19

On the 1851 Census, at Sherborne - Edmund MARGETTS is aged 60 and born in Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire

Gloucestershire Marriage Index Cd pre 1800

at Sherborne

GROOMS

Thomas MARGETTS - married Elizabeth STEPHENS by Lic. 24 Jan 1756
William MARGETTS of Bibury married Anne COOPER by Lic. 9 Dec 1770
Thomas MARGATTS - married Ann HALE by Lic. 16 Dec 1776
John MARGETTS - married Jane LANE - at Sherborne - 22 Jan 1782
Thomas MARGATS Widr - married Jane HALE - by Lic. 18 October 1787 **

BRIDES

Elizabeth MARGETTS - Wid married George SMITH by Lic - 25 Sept 1774
Elizabeth MARGETTS - married Anthony HALE - Wdr by Lic - 5 July 1779

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at Elmstone Hardwick

GROOMS

Stephen MARGREAT - married Sarah GEENS - 7 Nov 1787

at Longney

GROOMS

Samuel MARGARET - married Mary SLY by Lic 9 July 1794
Joseph MARGARETT - marred Mary SLY - 9 July 1794

at Aldsworth

BRIDE

Mary GARATTS - married William JEWELL of Shireborne - 21 April 1788

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at North Cerney

BRIDE

Elizabeth MARGITES married John RADWAY - by Lic - 28 June 1788

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There appears to be a number of MARGETTS around Sherborne

and on the Forest of Dean Marriage Allegations

15 Dec 1776

Thomas MARGETTS - aged 23, Batchelor, husbandman of Shireborne

married

Anne HALE

etc etc

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Thomas, William, Jane, etc - names appear at Sherborne

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The surname is a difficult one i.e.

On the 18 November 1850 at Minsterworth

William MAGRETT - father: William MARGRETT
married
Phebe PRICE

one witness was : Thomas MARGRETT

and when

Luke MARCHANT - married Harriet HYETT at The Leigh - 13 October 1833

witnesses were: Martha OAKEY and Thomas MARGARETT