Horstead Look up please

[Waks]

Hiya...I'm wondering if somemone could please dig some info out for me??

1861 census....

Elizabeth Horstead,     Head,     34,     Seaman's Wife,   Knottingley
George Henry Horstead,     Son,     6,      Knottingley
James Horstead,     Son,       2,           Knottingley

Living at Aire St, Knottingley.


1871 census...family listed as Horslead

Henry Horstead,  Master,    45,       Brigg
Elizabeth Horstead,  Master of Vessel,  45,     Knottingley
Henry Horstead,    Son,     15,   Brigg
James Horstead,    Son,    13,     Brigg

River Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich


1881 census....

Henry Horstead,     Master,    55,      Brigg
Elizabeth Horstead,     Master's Wife,    54,   Knottingley

Aboard the 'Ann Jewitt' vessel


1891 census.....family listed as Harstead

George Henry Horstead,    Master,     36,    Knottingley
Betsy  Horstead,    Master's Wife,     24,    Knottingley

Aboard the 'Jane Jackson' Vessel, Essex



I am wanting to know about Henry & Elizabeth Horstead.....I have two married couples called Henry & Elizabeth in my tree, same area, same profession, roughly same age, but through census records, etc, they are different people, just connected to the same family.  I'm wanting to know who Henry & Elizabeths parents, siblings were.....so I can connect George Henry & siblings, etc, to the correct parents.

Many thanks,

Helen

[the_guvnor]

Hi Helen

Don't know if you are still looking for Horstead connections but I've also been looking at my Horstead ancestors and am trying to check my connection to Elizabeth and Henry. As you have already discovered (judging by your post) one major problem with tracing the Horsteads is the seemingly endless variety of mis-spellings in the census reports and other documents.

Anyway, all I have on Henry and Elizabeth is below:
Henry Horstead: b about 1825, father's name John Horstead
Married Elizabeth Goodyer on 10 May 1846
They had at least 4 children: George Henry b. 1856, James William b. 1858, Elijah b. 1860, d. 1860 and Alchamia b. 1864, d. 1864

I concluded that Henry is the same Henry Horstead in my family tree who was born on 10 May 1824. Although there is a difference of a year or so in the date of birth, Both Henry's were born in Brigg, Lincolnshire and both have a father John who is a 'roper' or rope maker. Also the name Alchamia crops up in later generations of the Horstead family.

If I am right, Henry is the son of John Horstead (b. 21 May 1795) and Elizabeth Bannister (b. 1794).
If you check my family tree on Ancestry, you can see how this then fits in with the other Horsteads of Lincolnshire and the West Ridings of Yorkshire. Or visit the excellent site http://www.lincolnshire-wolds.org which has lots of painstakingly researched information from church records for Lincolnshire.

As with several of my Horstead ancestors, they were watermen, seemingly spending much of their lives on board the barges and schooners which sailed the rivers and coastal seas. That's why they appear in so many locations in the different census returns.

If you're still looking for information, have a look at these two sites which have newspaper reports on Captain George Henry Hosrstead which give a real insight into the hazards of the waterman's life
http://www.knottingley.org/history/disasters-at-sea-012.htm
http://www.knottingley.org/history/pastyears/years_1929.htm

And there's an excellent article on the watermen and the ships they sailed here: http://www.knottingley.org/history/genealogy/adams-family-history.htm

Hope this is still of interest - even though its now a very old post!

I would like to thank you too - your post allowed me to find the records for some census returns with mis-spelt names which I was having real trouble finding.

Dave

[the_guvnor]

Helen

I forgot to say... I'm fascinated by the photo you were using of 'Grandma Hostead'.

If you read this, I'd be very interested to find out who it was. Very likely to be an ancestor of mine too!

Regards

Dave