The Bennetts of Kent. Please Help!

[RyanBB86]

This information is all too good to be left un-published.

If anyone has and suggestions to an online tree-builder, if there is of such, that doesn't cost the world like the Ancestry.com ones, i would be again, greatly appreciative. 

[trish1120]

Hi Ryan,
Nice photo of the Opera House!
I live in Sydney but was born/grew up in NZ.
You a very welcome to the info and I am glad I could help you.

I would still try and contact the person on Curiousfox as I posted there in 2007 and am still around!

Be careful with Birth Dates as most dates given on Parish Records are only Christening dates and sometimes Families Christened Children in Batches. Sometimes both dates are there but usually not.

Try Tribal Pages for a Free On-Line Tree but dont post any info on living People in your Tree.

I'll scout around and see if I can find any more info for you.


Trish

[groom]

This looks like Obadiah's death

Name:   Obadiah Bennett
Record Type:   Burial
Estimated Death Date:   abt 1854
Burial Date:   7 Jan 1854
Age:   80
Estimated Birth Year:   abt 1774
Parish or Poor Law Union:   Hackney
Borough:   Hackney
County:   Middlesex

It has a user submitted comment saying he was born in Exeter and was a tailor and breeches maker in London. 

Looking at the original record it gives his address as Brunswick Grove which fits with where he was in the 1851 census, so it is the right person. 

Jan

[trish1120]

Thanks Jan

I am a bit worried about the Census inf for Charles's Wife though as it does not match birth c 1799.
Could Sarah have died earlier and Charles remarried another Sarah I wonder?

Siblings of Obadiah, born to GEORGE/ SARAH, Christening dates, Saint Edmunds, Exeter, Devon;
JOHN WOTTON 10 Dec 1762
GEORGE 04 April 1764
MARY 30 March 1766
CORNELIUS 14 Sept 1768
CHRISTOPHER 17 Dec 1769
MATTHEW 12 Oct 1771
SALLY 28 Sept 1783
(Source IGI Extracted)

[trish1120]

Someone has a Tree with Obadiahs Bennetts Wife Mary as nee REDGATE.
This is not possible as they didnt Marry til 18 Oct 1807, Duffield, Derbyshire (IGI)
So could not be the Mother of Charles 1799.

They reason I always check the IGI Batch Ryan for Siblings of whoever we are looking at is to find the right Marriage.
EG;
George and Sarah had Children from 1762- 1783 so the Marriage was pre 1762. So I looked for a Marriage for George to a Mary 1762 +/- 2 yrs on the IGI. First Child has Wotton as their second name so it all fits.

[groom]

I am a bit worried about the Census inf for Charles's Wife though as it does not match birth c 1799.

You could be right as she seems to have lost 8 or 9 years.  

Also the christening you found for Sarah Blackall was for Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London, England, but in the 1851 and 1861 she gives her place of birth as  Gt Bustead, Essex.

Jan

[groom]

Someone has a Tree with Obadiahs Bennetts Wife Mary as nee REDGATE.

If that is the same tree I looked at, I dont think it  has been checked properly as they have Sarah's death as 4th May 1860 in Jersey, however she appears with Charles in the 1861 census in Shoreditch St Leonard, Middlesex.   

[trish1120]

Do you have access to London/Eng births/Baptisms Jan?
John William Hyde BENNETT, 09 April 1817, Holborn St Sepulche

[groom]

Record Type:   Baptism
Estimated Birth Date:   abt 1817
Baptism Date:   9 Apr 1817
Father's name:   Obadiah Bennett
Mother's name:   Mary Bennett
Parish or Poor Law Union:   Holborn St Sepulchre
Borough:   City of London

Father was a tailor, address Wood Street