Hadleigh and Hadleigh Hamlet Look Up Please

[gadge]

Would you be interested in Blackwell Stow of Hadleigh Suffolk.

[lstow1983]

I am trying to trace back my family history and have come up against an ancient brick wall.  Instead of working my way up the tree I am working down to try and find someone who seems to have evaporated! I am looking for an Arthur Murrells Stow (born c. 1849) who I can find birth details for but then doesn't appear in any of the census until the 1881 census where he is head of a family in Ipswich.  I trawled through all the census and now have piles of 1851 print outs of Stows that all seem to have come from around Hadleigh.  The only other Suffolk Stows in this census are in Sudbury.  I am guessing that Arthur was somehow connected to these Hadleigh Stows but I now lost under a mountain of Josephs, Harriets, Hannahs and Samuels.  Any help would be very much appreciated.  If you have found my allusive Arthur Murrells Stow I would be very appreciative.

[Suffolk Mawther]

Have found Arthur Murrells Stow in several census born in Polstead.

I checked Polstead in the 1855 White's and there is a James Stow, schoolmaster born in Glemsford, A M Stow appears to be his son. Here are details from  1851 Census.

Polstead, Suffolk 1851

James Stow head of household age 45 schoolmaster born Glemsford, Suffolk
Ann Stow, his wife age 46 born Polstead
Children
Elizabeth 23
Jane 21
James 19
Alfred 13
Sarah A 10
Charles A 9
Henry 6
Arthur 2 years
All children born Polstead.

SM

[Suffolk Mawther]

1861 Polstead, Suffolk

James Stow age 55 head of household Schoolmaster born Glemsford
Ann his wife age 56 Laundress
Alfred 23 Currier
Sarah A 20 Dressmaker
Charles A 19 Groom
Henry 16 Shoemaker
Arthur M 12 Scholar
Agnes V ? Mann, grand-daughter age 3 born Nayland

SM

[Suffolk Mawther]

1871 census
Handford Road, St Matthew Parish, Ipswich

Arthur M Stow age 22 head of household, a boot and shoe maker born Polstead

Emma Stow his wife age 23 born Ipswich

Frederick their son age 2 months also born Ipswich

SM

[lstow1983]

You are amazing!  Thank you so much.  I can see that James Stow married Ann in Polstead in 1824 (when he was 18) - I don't suppose you know her maiden name or who his parents were?  I am using findmypast.co.uk to locate people but am only doing the free 14 day trial and I don't get access to parish marriage records.  I was wondering whether his parents' names were on it.

Thank you so so much for your help so far.

[arabrab]

Hi James Stow married Ann Bugg in Polstead 1824 on the 18th August. Hope this helps. Barbara

[ribbo39]

Hi lstow1983,

Several trees on Ancestry.co.uk are showing James Stow as being born 1806 in Glemsford, Suffolk the s/o Abraham Stow (1772-1838) & Sarah ??(1783-1870) - No sources are shown apart from censuses.

They are also saying that Ann or Hannah Bugg born 1797 in Polstead d/o John Bugg(1769-1840) & Rachel (nee Reed) (1772-1853)

Abraham Stow bapt. 3-5-1772 Polstead s/o Francis (4-12-1739-) & Mary

Hope this may help.

James Stow buried 17-6-1887 St.Mary, Polstead.

Alan

[ribbo39]

Hi istow,

The IGI have Hannah Bugg's  birth & baptism listed see here;

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JM1S-T3J

Alan