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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Worcestershire => Topic started by: dudleylad on Friday 02 May 08 13:35 BST (UK)
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Im looking for more information on the Beck Family of Hanbury
My great great great grandfather was William Henry Beck who died sometime between 1857-1861 he was married to Elizabeth Kent. They had my great great grandmother Mary Emma Beck who was born in Birmingham in 1857. William had a uncle called Embury I believe. Elizabeth was living with Embury at the time of one census release
Any information would be greatly recieved I know that William was a builder/carpenter so perhaps he died in a building accident im not sure
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Hello, it seems that Embury died in 1869 , b 1812 ish. That may help with a time frame but i cannot see Elizabeth in '51
DJ
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sorry 1851 it seems that she is with them !! leat i think that it is she
i'll type it up
dj
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hanbury district 9c
looks like Cobblers Hall
I don't think that it is she unless she married Embry.
anyway..this is it
Embry BECK head 39 cordwainer b hanbury
elizabeth Beck wife 45 b Whittley worcs
george Hanks 16 apprentice cordwainer
HO 107 2046 folio 615 page 15
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in 1841 Embry is living with a Sarah age 38 and Eliz aged 5
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no that's not right as i have found william henry beck in an 1851 census
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if Embury died in 1869 then the only census that Elizabeth could be in is 1861...sorry ...have i been really thick ::)
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bingo !! i think
1861
wilmore green in Hanbury
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embury beck widower 49 boot / SHOE MAKER
ELISA BECK niece widow 28 house keeper born birmingham
mary Emma Daughter of above 3 born birmingham
RG9 2112 folio 18 page 9
hope this helps after all my witterings !!!
Debz
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Hi According to the IGI William Henry was the son of Thomas & Mary Beck baptised 27th Nove 1825 in Hanbury
they also had Elizabeth in 1822 and George in 1824
In 1841 I think this is the family in Dodderhil Worcs
Thomas 45 shoemaker Y
Mary 45 Y
George 15 shoemaker ap Y
Hernry 15 carpenter Y
Thomas 10 Y
Edith 4 Y
and 3 of the children including William in 1851
1851 Birmingahm
George Beck 27 brother carpenter born Hanbury Worcs
William Henry Beck 25 brother carpenter born Hanbury Worcs
Elizabeth Beck 26 sister milliner born Hanbury Worcs
Debbie
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Embrey was baptised 10th Nove 1812 in Hanbury the son of John & Mary, which would make Thomas the one baptised 13th April 1794 in Hanbury also son of John & Mary, they also had
BECK Elizabeth 17 Apr 1796
BECK George 27 Jan 1799
BECK Wm. 12 Mar 1800
BECK Mary 6 Feb 1803
BECK Henry 23 Sep 1804
BECK Joseph 19 Jun 1808
all baptised in Hanbury
Em(b)rey was buried 13th Jan 1869 in Hanbury
there is also a burial 11th December 1869 for and Eliza Beck aged 37 - could this be William Henry's widow?
Debbie
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Thanks very much this does indeed seem the right family
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HI,
What you do next depends to some extent on where you live. If you can get to Worcester Record Office you need to trawl the parish records of St. Mary's, Hanbury. If that is not practical then one of the LDS (Mormons) Family History Centres will get the microfilms for you. (About £5.50 per film if I remember rightly) You can use their readers too.
In addition, there is the Worcestershire Marriage Index which covers 1660-1837 so you can find every BECK marriage in the county, as it covers both bride and groom. This was created by BMSGH - the Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry. Only two hard copies exist, one at Worcester record office the other is in BMSGH's own library. Not available on the Internet postal applications can be obtained at http://www.bmsgh.org/search/Wo_marr_index.html.
BMSGH also has Worcestershire well covered for burials. See http://www.bmsgh.org/search/Wo_burial_index.html but you can also see the same burials with the CD set -The National Burial Index II.
As you push further back in time resources become much scarcer. Digging around the catalogues of county record offices becomes a must. Wills, inventories, enclosure awards, estate maps, Poor Relief and much more come to light. Also contacting other researchers, who may be relatives. Sometimes connections can be made because they are coming at the same problem from a different angle. So beside RootsChat use the RootsWeb email lists as well as the other boards, e.g.Genealogy.com., Ancestry.com and the other UK based boards. You never know where on earth relatives pop up from!
Good luck
Mike
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The Parish Registers for Hanbury, are I believe not complete.
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Hi,
Late to the Party but we are relatives. I descend from Mary Beck b. 1857 (my gg grandma) daughter, Ellen Eliza Walker b. 1887 (my great grandma). I was looking for historical records for shoemakers. I’m not allowed to send personal messages on here, probably because I only signed up this evening. If you ever return to this site then we should exchange contact details. We live not far from you in Kidderminster.
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Hi Worcestershiregal lovely to hear from.... we are relatives I have a photo of the whole family together at a wedding including your great grandma and grandad.
My email address is garysmarshall@yahoo.co.uk feel free to contact myself.
Not sure how much you know about your great grandmas brothers and sister?
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Hi Gary,
I will drop you an email. We have some photos that may be of interest to you also. We are still making sense of the photos inherited. My grandparents kept everything! We don’t know much about the brothers and sister. Other than the few records found. We work in Droitwich, I lived there for a short period so was particularly drawn to the Hanbury family.
Louise
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Its always the way. I was lucky that one of our other family members (another Walker) had done alot of research so he copied me lots of information.
Look forward to hearing from you.