This directory also has a John Wimbush, Chymist & Druggist in Manchester at 5 Ravald St, Butler St.
This is the son of John Wimbush and Mary Gardner. He married Elizabeth Eaton 27 Jun 1836 Manchester Cathedral. I believe this John to have been born c1806 in Byfield, Northamptonshire. I don't have any siblings for him but I do have an Elizabeth born Byfield c1796 and George c1816, no parents for either as yet.
I wonder if that's a coincidence that John went from Byfield to Manchester?
I wonder if Northampton said with an accent could sound like Wolverhampton - Norfampton/Norvampton -> Wolv'ampton or if a scrawly or badly written "Nort" can look like "Wolv". To me it has the same sort of shape. I can see "No" and "Wo" easily confused, the upper stroke of the "t" and the "l"...
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Edit He had formerly been in Swansea
That is very interesting. Fanny Ann (b1853) and Mary Ann Sarah (b1855) daughters of "John Wimbush, a master grocer" died in Swansea in 1858.
John Neal (son of Benjamin Wimbush and Hannah Neal) married Sarah Ann Butcher 1849 Q1 Buckingham RD and the children I have for them are Henry Alexander 1850; Leoni Nelson Neal 1851; John Butcher 1859; Frederick William Richard 1862; Ambrose Durrant 1865 - with a big gap between 1851 and 1859...
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In reply 2 - he's my other "alien"
3. Another "alien"! I hadn't realised or made any hint of a connection here until right this minute. I don't have any baptism or census entries or even a death, but I do have 2 marriages and 4 children.
m. 22 Jan 1824 to France Watts in Leamington Hastings (2 children Isaac 1824 and Mary 1826) then m. 24 Oct 1827 to Mary Wes(t)ley (2 children Sophia 1828 and John 1830). Burial for Mary 11 Sep 1831 Wappenbury, no death found for Frances.
In 1841 Isaac is a farm servant in Leamington Hastings, Mary - not found, Sophia is in Eathorpe with an elderly Parker couple, John also in Eathorpe (next door) with the Heritage family at the Plough Inn. No sign of their father Samuel. No deaths for a Samuel until 1854 in Barnet (father of Samuel 1 in this post) and 1859 Manchester (the Samuel we are looking for in Manchester/Wolverhampton).
It's less than 5 miles from Wappenbury to Leamington Hastings via Eathorpe and Marton.
I wonder if Samuel 3 and Samuel 0 are one and same? Is it possible he left Wappenbury after his 2nd (?) wife died in 1831 and headed for Manchester? And if he might be and if he was born in Wolverhampton what was he doing in the Wappenbury area? Of course they could just be two totally separate people.
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I think it's probable that the Samuel we are looking for is either Samuel who married Frances Watts and Mary Westley or possibly related (brother?) to John from Byfield who moved to Manchester, or even that all this is one person.
OK going to post a look up request on Northampton board (will link it to here) for John Wimbush (son of John and Mary) and ask if there is a Samuel in a similar time frame.
Edit: posted request here
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=465342
