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I am trying to find out some more precise details on the CLEWES family of Horton/Hanley in Staffordshire.
My ggg grandfather Jesse Clewes was born about 1806 in Horton. He married Elizabeth (no surname yet) and born 1801 also in Horton.
They had at least 6 children:
Emma (1825)
Ann (1830)
Elizabeth (1834)
Jesse (1838)
Sarah (1839)
Ellen (my gg grandmother - b. 1842)
All dates of birth approximate from census.
If anybody has access to the Parish Records for this area I would be very grateful for anything you can tell me.
Thanks in anticipation. ;)
Best wishes
Ticker
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Have you looked on the IGI? Possiby the birth of Jesse Jr is on there, haven't looked for the others:
JESSE CLEWS
Male
Birth: 08 APR 1837
Christening: 17 APR 1837 Bethesda Chapel Albion Street-Methodist New Connexshe, Shelton, Stafford, England
Parents:
Father: JESSE CLEWS Family
Mother: ELIZABETH SCRAGG
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Thanks Sam.
Best wishes
Ticker
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Hello Ticker,
I have been doing some transcribing of Memorial Inscriptions on the Find a Grave website, & have uploaded details of Jesse CLEWES, Elizabeth CLEWES & their daughter, Emma CLEWES memorial in the Bethesda Chapel Churchyard. It is one of just 3 memorials still standing in the former churchyard, most of them being removed, or laid flat at the edge of the area when it was turned into a park in the 1980s.
I found your request for information when looking on the web for possible photos of your forebears as I like to give as much information as possible. Here's the link to the details I've just uploaded to the internet. The different names are each a separate entry. (there is also a different family name included on the monument I think) http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=2350250
Edit: I just looked at my photographs of the memorial again, & the additional name is FINNEY, which is Jesse & Elizabeth's daughter, Ann. She married John FINNEY & is laid to rest with her parents & at least 3 siblings, Emma & 2 unnamed children.
If I have the opportunity to look into the records of Bethesda Chapel I intend to add to the Find a Grave information. I will let you know if I locate & can check them for further information on the CLEWES family.
Hope this helps! ~Meredith x
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Whilst I can't at the moment connect to the Jesse Clewes,I would be very interested in any of the following families graves if you can find any please.Any Brindley,"Cartlidge" or Mountford family names.
Regards
William Russell Jones.
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Hello William,
I have been looking into the records held at the Stoke-on-Trent Archives & there are some records for Bethesda. I work part time & have other, casual work, but when I can do some further research I will keep those family names in mind & let you know if I find anything for you! Let me know if there are any other church yards or cemeteries you're interested in records from in this area, as I am now living in Stoke-on-Trent, & have a reader's card for the Archives.
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Many thanks,I wouldn't volunteer like that if I were you.lolThe Bethesda Chapel Churchyard for the names I gave though is just one of many Graveyards in the area of interest.
Regards
William Russell Jones.
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Ha ha ha!! :D
As long as you're not in a hurry, I'm happy to try to help you!
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Ha ha ha!! :D
As long as you're not in a hurry, I'm happy to try to help you!
Thanks,absolutely no rush!
Regards
William Russell Jones.
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William, I have made a note of your family names in this area & wondered (if you're not from hereabouts yourself) whether you know that Stoke-on-Trent is in the "top corner" of Staffordshire? It is very close to the Cheshire border (about 2 miles from where I live) & Nantwich is not far into Cheshire. Shropshire is, likewise, very close by... I've made a note of your family names in those places - but alas, I don't know when I'll be in Northern Wales... my relations were in the South!
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Thanks,my Conway relatives from Flint Flintshire first settled in the Mow Cop area soon after 1850,spreading also to Stoke-on-Trent itself and also to the Congleton/Crewe areas.All the Staffordshire names I have come from the marriage of my Grandparents Sarah M.M. Conway and Joseph Durber at Bagillt Flintshire in 1913.
Regards
William Russell Jones.
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Mow Cop :D :D !! Lovely!! I can see the folly from my house! My partner is working up there tonight!
It's practically part of Stoke-on-Trent!
The border of Cheshire & Staffordshire actually runs through Mow Cop... it's tricky doing youth work up there, because various regional grants have cut-off zones & each thinks the other county should be covering the village on the border!
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Yes it was tricky following my rellies from there too.Some given as born Cheshire and some born Staffordshire.All those funding issues.lol
Regards
William Russell Jones.