BATSTONE family - Chard - Help Please

[BLUE ROSE]

Hi

Looking for relatives of my GGG Grandmother Maria Batstone Born 1811?? who married to John Shepherd Born 1814.
I know they had a daughter they named Mary Ann who married Joshua Wynn from Bridgwater Somerset.

Rose

[Djiuce]

Hi
 I just found this site this morning by Googleing my GGrandmother .She was Elizabeth Laura Riess( n Batstone ). She married Adolphus Riess.
As of the 1881 census they had 3 children  Frances Anna 15yrs, Augustus Benjm 14 yrs , and Orpha Amelia 5yrs

 Does this help you in any way? I am new to this family history searching and would appreciate any help I can get.
  This info came from the Family History Library of the Mormon church in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Since I moved I no longer have access to it.
  Thanks for reading this

 DJ 

[oldbiker]

Susanna Batstone married William Bond at Axminster in 1801. They were my GGG GPs----has Thenry perhaps any information on Susanna's parentage perhaps?. I posted a similar enquiry on the Devon pages a couple of months back but nobody commented.

Thanks

oldbiker

[dee-jay]

Hi oldbiker

Have you seen or attempted to obtain a copy of Susanna's marriage entry in the Parish Register?  The details could assist us in identifying to which families both parties belonged.  This was at the start of the 'golden' era for coaching in the West Country, which enabled mobility outside the usual '12 mile rule', so it would be useful to know to which parish each belonged and the marital status of each.

I see on the FamilySearch site that they had 4  children baptized at Axminster, the eldest named Robert 04 Apr 1802.  If the Susana recorded aged 70 in 1841 was his mother, it might have been a second marriage for either party.

[oldbiker]

Hi Dee-Jay

The Marriage Cert for Henry Mullins and Sarah Bond 16 April 1840 shows that both parties resided in Axminster and that Sarah was of full age. Her Father was shown as William Bond occ " Potman " nb not Postman.

Henry and Sarah are shown living at Woodhouse, Axminster on the 1841 Census---he as Head---they have a little girl and are giving a home to Mary Bond age 25 and what looks like a Susan Bond age 70. Obviously Susan could be 70 to 74. She appears to be a widow.

Until recently I couldn't research Susan any further as I don't have access to the Axminster Parish Records but via IGI I have now traced the marriage of a William Bond and Susanna Batstone as previously indicated and I am sure that they are the right couple. I hadn't noticed the baptism of Robert but had William in 1804, John in 1806, Mary in  1809 and Sarah in 1814. Susanna would have been 43 or 44 when Sarah was born which is quite possible.
 Curiously The Sherbourne Mercury dated 31 Dec 1804 reports briefly that a William Bond sold Woodhouse at Axminster!

Up to now I haven't ascertained exactly who Susanna's parents were ----there are two in the frame---one Susanna Batstone bp at Seaton and Beer on 31 January 1773---parents John and Margaret and another bp 3 September 1769 at Upottery---parents Thomas and Sarah.

That's all the inf I have on the Bond/Batstone link up to now but would like to know more.

Cheers

oldbiker

[PCAM]

Hi

hope you are still following this site.

My sister is married to a Batstone (links to Devon & West country).

His family ended up in South London (Penge/Croydon).

Any poss links/contacts?

Pxx

[oldbiker]

Hello PCAM

Thanks for your input. Unfortunately I haven't been able to discover anything further and in recent months have been researching other branches of my family so William Bond and Susannah Batstone are as far back as I have gone for the time being in this line. I haven't researched her children other than Sarah and Mary.

Cheers

Oldbiker

[daveaa]

I am also related to Elizabeth Laura Batstone.  She is my GGgrandmother.   She married Adolphus Reiss in 1864 in Bethnal Green in London.  Their daughter Violet Julia married George Acott in Yalding in Kent in 1900 and their son George is my grandfather. 

I know that Violet will have met George when she came to Yalding to pick hops in summer as many people living in the East End of London did this.  However I do not know why Elizabeth left Somerset to come to London where she met Adolphus who had emigrated from Germany. 

From the 1861 census I can see that she was still living in Chard and was employed as a silk winder.  However by 1864 she was living in Bethnal Green and had married Adolphus.  Does anyone have any idea why she would have made this significant move to London?

Adolphus died in 1884 aged 50 after having seven children with Elizabeth.  Elizabeth lived until 1902 when she died aged 64 in the St Pancreas workhouse. 

I would love to hear which child of Elizabeth's you are descended from?