REED, HUNT, BROOKS, DEACON

[aged parents]

At last someone else researching our line.  Aaron & Eliza are brother and sister, two of the children of Benjamin Baker and Hannah Haffenden or Ovendean, depending on the birth cerificate you look at.  Eliza was born on 20 Oct 1851 & Margarer on 24 Jul 1854, both registered in Sellinge Kent.

John Wilson first appears on 1851 census in Mrs Fulbrooks barn in Dallingtion Sx, with Sarah Wilson, his mother, and Richard Reed, his father?.  He is said to have been born in Westfield Sx and is in the registers there.

Eliza and John marry in 1872 in Tenterden, but in the 1871 census they state they are married (surname Reed) and have a daughter Lydia and three neices surname Baker with them as well. Boarsisle & Birdsisle are what is now known as St Michaels.

John died 3 Feb 1907 and is buried in St Michaels churchyard as John Wilson Reed, also in the grave are Eliza and their daughter Kate (Bugden)

[KSD]

That's quite a bit of information to take in at one go and leaves me with lots of questions.

Do you know when Aaron Baker was born?

One of the witnesses on the marriage certificates for Eliza and Aaron is an Adolphous Hurst/Hunt???

Does the name Bridget Reed mean anything to you?  On her marriage certificate she gives her father as David Reed, hawker. 

[aged parents]

Your rapid reply has sent us to search through our old books etc for the original sources and so far no luck.  We have the reference to Aaron somewhere, please bear with us.  It is a most wandering route through Sussex and Kent that the family tread and we think we have them all.  But some may need a further shake of a branch elsewhere! It is not helped with changes of surnames within a marriage.

We have the witness as Adolphus Nast or Hast.  Florid writing is the death of all searches!

Have not dug out a Bridget Reed that we can remember and your response has sent us through notebooks and other papers of thirty years of searching.  I unfortunately have no-one to talk to now as they have all passed on.

We do know that the surnames Fuggle, Bugden, Finnis, Tree, Dunster, Link, Millen, Ottaway and Smith are joined into this one family.

[malty1]

i found this site by total accident and i was amazed my gran was born annie baker she had a sister called rose another called phoebe one called jessie a few more i cant recall at the moment and several brothers they lived in baildon street in deptford when my nan annie married she was only fifteen she didnt use her own surname but called her self annie reed and through the years of my growing up we where always told that if we could find out about aaron reed we would be able to connect all the family can anybody help me find out more of  that side of the family they all seem to be hawkers as was annie her self she spent most of her 20s in the kent country side she died in 1967 i have spent 10 years trying to trace this side of the family it is very hard any help would be great

[nightnurse51]

hi
If you read the previous contributions I think now have clarified that Aaron Reed/Read went through life as Baker but for legal purposes his name was put down as Reed.
My great grandmother Mary Anne Reed was quite a character as all the family were apparently.
Not to be messed with as she would floor you.!
I have a tree on ancestry and some photos of her.
She had epileptic fits and fell onto a fire and burnt her face on one side.
I have not extended her siblings yet. so ill get back to you.

[KSD]

Hi,

If you don't mind me asking, where and when was your Nan born?

[nightnurse51]

Hi,

If you don't mind me asking, where and when was your Nan born?

In 1887 My nan or my great grandmother? Mary anne reed was born in mill lane Deptford to aaron Reed and annie Brooks.
Aaron reed / read was born to Aaron baker and Eleanor Read in 1867 in Hothfield Kent/
Aaron jnr was known as Aaron baker most of his life except for official papers.   
Aaron jnr had two siblings Charlotte Reed b 1865 and Julia Baker b Tenterden/1874 who married a Patrick Donovan. in Walworth 1895.

[sirhc]

Hi everyone

Hope it is ok if I jump in here with some of my queries about my greats.
 Stephen Welling b1860 who later married Rose Baker was once married to Ann Taylor b1858.  They married in Sept 1979 but she died in 1884 leaving a baby Eliza b1880 and possibly a William.
Stephen's father was William Welling - (Tinman) and mother Eliza Field.  I cannot get any futher info on the Wellings.  Any Help would be great.
Ann Taylor's father was William Taylor - Hawker again I cannot find the families.
But I notice these names cropping up on here
ps Stephen and Anns witnesses were William Couch and George reuben Bird.
Thanks
Chris

[nightnurse51]

Hi
I suspect your George Rueban Bird ended up  from the Mitcham/ Croydon area. as do some of the Wellings. I have some transcriptions some where in a notebook taken from the Surrey Archives in Woking, of St Saviours church of marriages, and baptisms of travellers, hawkers .also in Mitcham
 I have found my notes a Reuban Bird on Oct 29 1872 married an Abigail Horn. He was a basket maker. their fathers were Thomas Bird a brazier and James Horn Basket maker. witnessess are Thomas Bird and Laura Wellman.
in August 1872 a Buckingham Bird house decorator from IPSWICH married a Grace Sarah Mills from Mitcham her father being William Mills a relative.

Thomas Bird was the "husband of Susannah (Suke) Mills who was related to Aaron Mills another relative.
also a Samuel Willings(Wellings was christened to a Moses Wellings and Mosella (MIcella )15thaug 1880 they lived in 17 Wilford Road.
So if we go back your Stephen may well be related to Moses Wellings watch this space. its nearly 3 in the morning and I am tired and Ill get back to you.