COMPLETED : 1851-1871 Census Lookup please

[Yak3]

Firstly I forgot to say but guess you realised that all children in 1851 Census were born Tewkesbury.

1861 Census:
James is living in Chance Street [around the corner from Barton Street] and is age 50 - Grocer and Tea Dealer - living with him are:-
Elizabeth his wife is 40
Daughters: 
Ann age 18 -Drapers Asst
Margaret age 14 - Scholar
Mary age 10 - Scholar
Wilhemina age 16 - Dressmaker
Sons:-
Francis J. age 15 - Grocers Apprentice
John age 12 - Scholar
William age 13 - Scholar

Georgiana Ker age 19 is in High Street as a Shop Assistant to James G. Coleman - Draper


1871 - The family had moved to Battersea
121? Grant Road
James is now recorded age 60 as a Trvelling Draper
He is with his wife Elizabeth age 50 and Frank J. Ker; Single age 25; Grocers Shopman

Georgina is an Assistant in the household of widow Jemima Spooner a China Dealer at Brixton Hill Lambeth
Wilhemina is with the Foss household and I cannot fing the others although there is a Margaret on FreeBMD who died age 19 - Ref: Cheltenham Sep qtr 1866 6a 227

other info:-
From 1850 Directory - James Kerr [sic] - Travelling Tea Dealer - Barton Street

1853 - Petty Sessions:
James Bird, Edward Davis And Richard Tompkins, Three Lads, Were Charged Under The By-laws Of The Borough With Wilfully And Wantonly Disturbing James Kerr, An Inhabitant, By Ringing His Door Bell Without Reasonable Cause. They Were Allowed A Week To Pay The Costs.

In 1855 - the son of Mr Ker, Tea Dealer was elected into the Grammar School Tewkesbury

[Gaye]

 

Excellent information there Yak -  MANY MANY THANKS
for that work!

Best regards
GAYE

[Pentony]

FOSS family of Taratahi Clareville Carterton.... I have a recent photograph of Samuel James Beart FOSS taken at Dernacourt only last week, kindly emailed to me here at Clareville Am in touch with Sydney member of the Foss family.  Cannot access ROOTSWEB still, but feel sure there is a person of the same name in USA. with BEART as well.. site is down completely.. Where the Foss family were at Taratahi is literally up the road from where I am at Clareville, have seen the parents grave at Mangatinoaka as well. had to get the local council to alter their records as they had THOMAS FOSS, I said he was Samuel married to Mary Pool! Took them time to believe me! Would love for a family member to get back to me please, as someone wanted to do Samuel the soldier for the WW1 project. thank you. Clareville Taphophile

[Geordie daughter]

Hi Gaye
By now you may have this information, but in case you don't, two Beart sisters married two Foss brothers, which is why there are two Samuel (Beart) Fosses, born in the same year in two different counties. John Foss married Emma Beart, as you already know; Samuel Foss, also born in Litton Cheney, Dorset, circa 1804, married Emma's older sister Thirza/Thyrza, by Licence in Marylebone, and their son Samuel died in 1849. Samuel was widowed by 1857 and is visiting his brother John in Wiltshire at the time of the 1871 census. The Beart family actually came from Wickham Market in Suffolk. (Another sister, Mahala Beart, also married a Dorset man, David Read.) I came on your post while busy untangling the various Samuel Fosses for myself .

[toby webb]

This is a site that somehow I missed. Thank goodness that 'Beart' appeared from time tio time. There were Samuel Foss' everywhere. My earliest in this NZ connnected famiy is a Samuel foss who married Dorothy Rawls in 1729 at Compton Valence.
 'Beart Foss' also enabled me to find recently a civil engineer Samuel Wakeley Beart Foss traveliing frequently  to Malaysia  et al in the 1950s. The 1921 census, I am confident, will confirm his connection. He was born just after the 1911 Census.
Toby