MEEK, RODGERS, ENNIS - Lea, Weston Under Penyard (General)

by Fred Beach, Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 08:44 (6333 days ago) @ llangrove

This isn't my family as such, the link is via my G-Grandmother, her eldest sister married Ben Meek who's mother was Ann Ennis.

At first I thought the families were not linked, im 1841 one was in Joyford, Your Frank's family probably, the other in the Weston area, but then I found that John Ennis married Hannah Packs in English Bicknor in 1808.

In 1825 a John Ennis married Maria (Mary)Scrivens in English Bicknor (Frank's family?) and then later John and Hannah's daughter Jane married Henry Smith in English Bicknor. Jane and Henry are from Weston, why marry in Bicknor unless there is a link?

Henry Smith died young, his wife Jane(Ennis)and children were sent to the US, paid for by a parish collection of £50. It was decided that as it was costing £50 a year to support this family, they would save money by sending them all to the US. Other Ennis family also travelled to the US. The mountain renaming was in recognition of a life of good work within the Mormon commumity. In 2003 I was told it was recent.

Finding out how these families link is the problem, there is only one other family in 1841, head Richard Ennis living on May Hill. Any of this help.

fred