SELLERS family - Colyton 1871 please

[SCH2]

Ooooooh! how exciting.....back another generation!!! Thanks Mum44.

I think I have had a really good weekend!!!

....and back to work tomorrow!!

Cheers all. Really appreciate all the help.

Sue H

[Mum44]

Hi Sue

I've been looking at the Parris's - half a story!

The Parris' living next door to James Sellars in 1851 were:

John Head M 30  Anniutant  B. Colyton
Elizabeth  Wife 35   ~        B. Chard, Somerset
Elizabeth Mother 36   ~     B. Axminster, Devon

This last is obviously (  ) incorrect, at least her age must be.

John Parris was baptised at Colyton 31 Mar 1822, he is obviously Sarah and Elizabeth's brother.

In 1841 he was living alone in Colyton, of independent means.

A John Parris married Q4. 1848 Axminster to Elizabeth Quicke.
That is the only John Parris marriage to an Elizabeth that I can see between 1841 and 1851 in Devon or Somerset.

I can't find mother Elizabeth in 1841 - not sure how old she was, whether she was already a widow and where she was living.

So - there is - as I said - half a story - and I'm now going to call it a day !

[SCH2]

Thanks Mum44

Have you got the original for the 1851 census?

Perhaps if we could see it we could decipher how old Elizabeth (mother) REALLY was, that is if it is a mistranscription rather than a dyslexic enumerator!

Sue H

[Mum44]

Hi Sue

Well, it was either a dyslexic enumerator or a lying old lady ( ) because it is clearly 36. !  Maybe he got confused because the other Elizabeth was 35 - and wrote it down automatically - 35,36, (and James Sellers, next line, 37)

[SCH2]

Blimey if that's how they were working, there's no hope!! Perhaps this record was made at the end of a very long day!!!

[MerlinS]

I am not sure if this thread died, but James Sellers was (I think, though there are some date errors)  my great, great grandfather, via (and the rest is definitely true)  his son Tom Henry Sellers, born in Colyton. His daughter  Emily Ida Sellers married my grandfather Theodore Stone, and produced three sons, one of whom Brian Stone was my father. Has anyone made any more progress than recorded in this thread?

[SCH2]

Hi Merlin,
Welcome to the Sellers Saga!
Do you think that your Tom Henry Sellers was the same as Thomas Goodridge b.1849, who then later became known as Sellers? Do you have a date of birth or any other information for him?  According to things found out here, Thomas (Mother Sarah Sophia Parris/Goodridge/Sellers) was born in Exeter and were living in Bedminster when he was 22 years old (in 1871).

Regards
Sue H

[MerlinS]

No, he was not.  James Sellers remarried and Goodridge was his stepson. I have an e-mail from the Colyton local history people which I could forward if you e-mail me on

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[Jackalyn]

Every so often I come accross this thread - I am researching my father's side of the family and have the tree public on ancestry.co.uk if you want to look. I think Paris actually may refer to a street in Exeter. I know at some point there was a John 'Paris' Sellers living in the street but have lost the information due to a computer crash. I think this would have been to distinguish him from my own relations who lived and had carriage works in Exeter which were fairly extensive. They began in Egypt Lane and extended to Bedford street and also to Catherine Street - making them situated exactly between the Half Moon Inn and the London Inn, and near to Bedford Circus and therefore at one point fairly well off! (Later Sellers not so lol.)

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/32129810/family

I am actually wondering if James Rueben Sellers links to the druggist mentioned here but haven't had time to investigate as yet. One reason for this is that the mother in that generation is Rebecca Davills of Crediton, which is not far from Colyton. My father is in the John Alexander line of the tree and the one where the tradition of naming the son John Alexander or John Alexander Rounsiful (or variation of Rounsiful) ends with his elder brother. Sadly they named him Eric. It is odd but my initials are J.A and Jackalyn is a female form of John.............when my kids were born it was absolutely imperative they began with J.......(but I digress!)

Here is the link if it helps any. It is a work in progress and will probably change a bit (sure I have the Alexanders reversed or maybe their wives reversed!)