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The Common Room / Re: Antonio Godfrey
« on: Tuesday 30 November 21 15:39 GMT (UK)  »
Has to be the same family!  So that takes us back to Sarah and Mary's generation - my great-great-grandmother and, probably, great-great-aunt.
I'm really busy with other things at the moment but will definitely do some more digging when I get a bit of time.
Thanks for posting.
Sheila

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The Common Room / Re: Antonio Godfrey
« on: Monday 29 November 21 17:51 GMT (UK)  »
Another thought, Jane. Was the marriage of Edward Owens and Mary Ann Godfrey, 17 May 1821, definitely at St Mary's Stoke Newington? It would be good if it was St Mary's Newington (other side of London) where Sarah Godfrey married Joseph Chaves in 1827 and Antonio was christened in 1828.
Sheila

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The Common Room / Re: Antonio Godfrey
« on: Monday 29 November 21 17:40 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for this, Jane. Sounds like Mary Godfrey/Owens could have been one of the family (?sister of Sarah) and the fact that she was proprietor of a shooting gallery in 1861 could make sense with the traveller connection. In the 1861 census Antonio Godfrey was at Hampton Court Fair listed as a pedlar.
Joseph Chaves -not so sure, but he could have gone abroad when he left Sarah and then came back in 1847.
Fascinating!
All best, Sheila

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The Common Room / Re: Antonio Godfrey
« on: Monday 12 October 20 11:19 BST (UK)  »
All very interesting - and complicated. I love the idea of having Spanish blood but haven't been able to find more about Joseph Chaves. Will keep trying.

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The Common Room / Re: Antonio Godfrey
« on: Monday 12 October 20 10:49 BST (UK)  »
Thank you. I have some names for the next generation. Sarah and her husband William Irons (1865-1963) had two children - William (about 1890-1931) and Gladys (1894-1984). They lived in Rochester, New York, in the 1910s or 20s and then in Chessington. Maud Marion (died in 1923) married Daniel O'Connell (died 1935) and they had two children Frederick (1908-1995) and James. Frederick (died 1962) had a son called Frederick Antonio (1910-2002).

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The Common Room / Re: Antonio Godfrey
« on: Monday 12 October 20 10:01 BST (UK)  »
Thank you. It makes sense of the family memory (Antonio's daughter, Sarah) that Antonio's father was a music professor.

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The Common Room / Re: Antonio Godfrey
« on: Monday 12 October 20 01:49 BST (UK)  »
He is my great-grandfather, christened 15 June 1828 at St Mary Newington, Southwark. His mother Sarah Godfrey married Joseph(?) Chaves in 1826. He and Mary Wright had nine or ten children including my grandmother, Maud Marion who died in 1923, and Sarah (1866-1958) who married William Irons and lived in Chessington (I knew them when I was a child). She said that Antonio's father was a Spanish violinist, and that when he left his wife she reverted to her maiden name.
The 1861 census has Antonio, a pedlar, and his wife Eliza (that's a mistake for Mary), and daughters Eliza aged 5 and Emma aged 1 in a cart and tent at Hampton Wick. They would have been working at Hampton Court fair over Easter. In the 1871 census he is a fishdealer in Chatham and they carry on living there.
I've got more names but not much else. I haven't found Antonio's father either.

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