Godmanchester info please

[Blunny]

 Hello All,
I would like to ask for your help in trying to knock down a brick wall. Having had no luck in the direct approach, i am trying the sdeways attack.
Simon Battle has been found for me in Godmanchester, he appears to be related to Mitten Battle in Blunham ,Bedfordshire in 1820. Mitten is my 2 x great grandfather, but cannot find his parents, or his birth, hence the sideways attack. Both Simon & Mitten are married to Richardson girls, there are sisters Ann & Lucy, daughters of Samuel & Eleanor, who are I'm sure correct. I have the details of the family upto today, but could someone please light the fuse to blow up my brick wall.
All help greatly appreciated,
Best wishes Peter.

[dig4gold22]

Hi Peter, did you get anywhere with this?
I am researching the same family. It seems as if Mitten and Simon emerge from nowhere!
I would be grateful for any hard facts.
Regards, Linda

[fiddlerslass]

https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/682998908655749ab8641aac/elizabeth-mitten-leonard-battle-marriage-cambridgeshire-cambridge-1762-11-16?locale=en&search_id=699773958655745ca32298d0&ucf=false

This may be where the name Mitten enters the family.

They have a son Simon Mitten Battle Christened  Oct 1765 st Giles Cambridge.

[fiddlerslass]

I would see if you can track down this will, seeing as Mitten & Simon are brick makers.

RefNo
   KAH/16/2/170/2
AltRefNo
   AH16:dated 1832/2
Title
   Battle, Leonard - Brickmaker of Godmanchester: will
Date
   1832
CreatorName
   Archdeaconry of Huntingdon
Repository
   Huntingdonshire Archives

Another mention of Leonard a brick maker...same man?

https://calm.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=KFIELDEN%2fF3%2f4%2f2&pos=16

[dig4gold22]

Thank you, I had seen details of Leonard, but haven't yet found anything to make a positive link.
Maybe the Will is the answer, I will chase it up....

[trish1120]

LEONARD was buried 31 Oct 1832 St Mary the Virgin, Godmanchester
Age 94
Birth c 1738

So may be the Leonard who married 16 Nov 1762 Cambridgeshire to Elizabeth MITTEN

Marriage for other various Leonards;
15 Oct 1787 Ramsey to Eleanor LOVEN (Son?)
17 Aug 1813 Ramsey to Mary ASHER
01 Sep 1817 Ramsey to Elizabeth FORDHAM, as a Widower

I did notice a THOMAS Battle in Blunham also born c 1799 Ramsey, Hunts
A Brickmaker
+
LEONARD Battle c 1796, Tile Maker, in Essex 1841, not born in County
Anc has a bapt 1 March 1797 Ramsey to LEONARD/ELEANOR age 5, + WILLIAM bapt same day no age given
+
STEPHEN Battle bapt 1 Aug 1801, born 1 Mar. 1800 to LEONARD/ELEANOR

Bit confusing as Stephen is unm on Census and 1851 is with Mother ELIZABETH.
Could this be his Step Mother?
Relating to Marriage of Leonard a widr who remarried 1817 to Elizabeth Fordham?

[dig4gold22]

Wow thanks, lots of interesting info here.
I will try to make sense of all the names and dates. It's a proper detective story!

[trish1120]

Marriages are on FreeREG www.freereg.org.uk

Have a look over my info and post later what you think.
As I am Australia will not be back on here until tomorrow night my time.

Logging off soon as  nearly 1 in the morning here.

Hopefully others still up in the UK can help

Yes a detective story is often what genealogy is!

[dig4gold22]

Hi Trish
Thanks for all your ideas; I have spent the day searching, but there are not many facts, just assumptions.
I have found more brickmakers; there is also a William b. abt 1799,  in St.Ives in 1851.
And another William b.1820, in Blunham, from a different branch.
I need to keep looking, and try to prove that Mitten is Simon's son; it looks likely but no records to prove it.....
Nearly midnight in UK, I'm off to bed now, more to do in the morning.
Linda