Silkweavers in Coventry - Pickards

[JosiahS]

Hi Barbara

Many thanks indeed for the kind offer - yes I'd love any headstone transcriptions you may have - please either post theem here or send them via a PM.

All the best

Ashley

[BarSum]

Hello Ashley
 Sorry for delay This is the family of George and Joans eldest brother Joseph
 
Transcripton of headstone in Alnwick church graveyard (parts of stone damaged -------)
FRANCES
daughter of JOSEPH and FRANCES
PICKARD
who died 4th April 1833 aged 18 months
JOSEPH PICKARD
Father of the above died July12th
 1839 aged 41
WILLIAM SMART son of above who
died 20th May 1852 aged 25 years
JOSEPH -----son died in London
April----------aged 43
GEORGE their son died in London
16th July 1870 aged 35
James their son died 27th March
1872 aged 36
also FRANCES PICKARD mother of the above who died 8th April
1872 aged 75 yrs

Question is who is William Smart ??
Regards Barbara
 

[JosiahS]

Hi Barbara

Many thanks for giving that information - it is always good to get the detail.

William Smart Pickard was born in 1829 - baptised 13 May 1829.

Smart was, of course, the maiden name of the mother, Frances.

Some of the sons seemed to be attracted to older women - Joseph their son married a Frances Stoker nee Redhead 19 Jun 1842 in South Shields - he was 21 and she was 40!  She still bore him a child - Josephine in 1844 (she had children from her first marriage too).  Josephine married into a family called Cornelius in London and had 11 children as far as I can tell.  Joseph and Frances seemed to be estranged in the census before his death.

Their son James also married an older woman but I don't think he knew how much older she was.  He married Adelaide Maxwell in Richmond Surrey in 1859.  In the early censuses she looks just a few years older than him but in fact she was 12 years older.  He probably wondered why they didn't have children.

All the best

Ashley

[BarSum]

Thanks Ashley
The Pickards are an interesting family.
Did you know that Mary Pickard (nee Thompson )  died of cholera in 1849 whist living with the Embleton family in Clayport Street Alnwick
I have a copy of her death cert. I cannot find her on the 1841 census and apart from her bapt 6.10.1776 to Robert Thompson and Mary I cannot confirm any more of her family details. As you know there are lots of Thompsons in the Alnwick area.
Regards
Barbara

[JosiahS]

Hello Barbara

Yes I have the death certificate too - sad after such a long life to go with cholera.

Take a look at this website http://communities.northumberland.gov.uk/Alnwick_C16.htm

You will find Mary listed amongst the deserving poor of Alnwick and see the payments she got from the parish.  Considering where the family was at that time Joseph and George certainly built up quite a business and it appears that all of the children of Joseph and Mary were literate.

All the best

Ashley

[BarSum]

Hello Ashley
Many thanks for the website .
Yes the family all did very well and Joan of course made a good marriage.
Regards
Barbara