Stanford Rivers Essex

[GWENDOLINE]

I would appreciate it if somebody could tell me something about Stanford Rivers, where it is etc.

[Necromancer]

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=15664

have a butchers in GENUKI too ...

[Frances]

Hi GWENDOLINE,

You could have a look at these but you will find much more on Google. Just enter "stanford Rivers Essex"


http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=6910

http://www.westgallerychurches.com/Essex/Stanford_Rivers/Stanford.html

http://www.historyhouse.co.uk/essexs21.html

Kind Regards,

Frances

[Ballcruncher]

Hi Gwendoline,

Did you get my message that I sent yesterday ? I can provide information on the Jones of Stanford Rivers, Essex.

Regards

Adrian

[GWENDOLINE]

 I have finally picked up your messages re Stephen Jones at Stanford Rivers, so pleased to find somebody else researching the same family.  I have also communicated via GenesReunited so hopefully we can exchange information soon

[Ballcruncher]

Hi Jane,

I sent an email to the address that you gave me on 31st December. It was quite long but  if you didn't receive it  I have posted it below.

Regards

Adrian

Hi Jane (or Phillippa or Gwendoline or whoever you want to be !)

Firstly we can establish our connection. Your Gx6 Grandparents are Stephen Jones and Mary Bull who are also my Gx5 Grandparents which makes us 6th cousins once removed.

I have opened up my family tree on Genes reconnected for you but if you need a GEDCOM file to update the relevant part of your tree then I can send it to you.

I have not researched any of the Keyte family although I do try to research cousins of my direct ancestors I could not go any further on Arthur Keyte because the IGI records him as 'Arthur Keyto', but now you have established contact I can have a look at my resources to see if I can help you gather any further information on the descendants of Arthur and Hester in early 18th Century London.

I am extremely pleased that you have made contact. Over the past few years I have researched most branches of my family tree. I much prefer it when there are others researching the same line. Two or more heads are far more effective one. Up to now I had not discovered anybody else researching the Jones of Stanford Rivers in Essex. I don't know a lot but am beginning to piece some information together.

Originally, I thought there would be a huge problem researching the name because of the surname being so common in the country. However, Jones being a name more associated with Wales and Western England, it was rather less common in Essex than elsewhere. The other thing that worked to my advantage is that Christian name 'Stephen' was far less common than it is nowadays but seemed to passed down from generation to generation within the family.

So it seems that the Jones family was the only Jones family in the village of Stanford Rivers and that all the Jones listed descend from Henry ( c 1680-1758) and Hester (being another name but sometimes written as Esther). Henry was a butcher from Bishops Stortford in Hertfordshire but seems to had property and connections to Chipping Ongar and Stanford Rivers. He was no doubt quite an important person and to the standards of time quite a wealthy man.

Obviously with passing of time and the proliferation of Joneses in Stanford Rivers during the 18th the wealth became more spread out and though they remained property owners in the area, the family's status diminished somewahat. My branch of the family moved to London in the early 19th Century and though relatively well educated were intiallly market traders and grocers in the Holborn area.

I don't know much more than that is on my family tree and what I have discovered online and also to my forays to the SoG and Guildhall Library in London. There is more to discover and at some stage I hope to visit the Essex Records office but we now live in Somerset so it will be difficult.

I am intrigued about how Arthur Keyte found his bride in the Essex countryside if as you say he moved to the City of London from Worcestershire. You say that you discovered information on him from your visit to the Guildhall Library.

Look forward to your reply. In the meantime I will see if I can get you any additional information on the Keytes.

Happy New Year

Regards

Adrian Donne

[GWENDOLINE]

I did receive your message at the New Year and replied to you. this must have gone astray.  I have quite a lot of information about Arthur Keyte, He was a Freeman of the City Of London.  The Guildhall connection was via his Tallow Chandler business In 1840 on one of his daughters marriage certificates he was recorded as a Gentleman.  I do not know if he or Hester would still alive. I would like to find out the dates of death for both Arthur and Hester, I noted a Esther Keyte death in 1838 in Billericay, Essex but have not obtained a certificate yet as seeking more clarification as to where they might have lived etc.

I have details of their children also. They seemed to have been christened at St Botolphs in London. 
The tallow chandler business was passed to Stephen Keyte and in 1836 he was declared bankrupt.

It is nice to know that the family were reasonably wealthy in the 1800s and made at the time a good marriage between Arthur and Hester.

Any information you have would be very exciting to share.

Jane   (my real name)