Lattimore's of St Albans

[jibba]

Evening all

I’m trying to trace my Lattimore ancestors who came from the St Albans area in Hertfordshire.

I posted some years ago a query regarding the origins of my 5th great-grandparents Osborn Lattimore & Rosamond West. I believe I have now found Osborn’s baptism record. While he may have been born in St Albans, he was actually baptised at Highgate after his parents had moved to St Pancras.

After finding the above baptism record, here is what I have constructed from a variety of sources:

Father: Jeremiah Lattimore, a wheelwright
Mother: Sarah White

Parents married: 2 Sep 1758 at Sandridge, Hertfordshire (IGI record)

Child 1: Jacob born and baptised 1759 at St Albans
Child 2: Osborn born 1760 at St Albans/St Pancras. Baptised at Highgate

After Osborn’s birth, the trail goes cold. There is a Jeremiah Lattimore mentioned in the 1774 electoral register for Cashio Hundred who could be mine

Trying to trace past Jeremiah is also a problem. The registers for St Albans list a large number of Lattimore’s, who must be related to mine given the number of times the names Jacob and Jeremiah crop up. However I cannot link my Jeremiah to them.

Is there anyone out there who is related to this family and can help me connect the two families together?

[[Ray]]

Hi

HALS has some likely-looking information. . . . . .

An 1815 will for "Jeremiah".
184x workhouse entries for "Osborn b1761"
plus a number of Lattimore marriages.

http://www.hertsdirect.org/services/leisculture/heritage1/hals/indexes/indexes/


Ray

Where did you find the Cashio 1744 electoral register?

[ciderdrinker]

hi
Just a few things to add that may help
Poll Book
Jeremiah Lattimore 1754 Hatfield
Jeremiah Lattimore 1784 Ratcliff X

Possible remarriage St Albans
Jeremiah Lattimore 28.7.1771 to Elizabeth Smith
Joseph Lattimore baptised 26.1.1772 Sandridge s of Jeremiah and Elizabeth Lattimore.
Pallots baptism index Polly Lattimore d of Jeremiah St Peter's St Albans 11 N0v 1781.

The marriage licence to Ann Osbourn in 1737 I presume you have already seen but
18.1.1730 apprenticeship Jeremiah Lattimore of  St Albans to William King wheelwright of St Peter's Hertford?The same occupation as the 1760 baptism.
The same Jeremiah ? wheelwright of Sandridge is taking an apprentice Thomas Robinson 9.12.1767
And a possible baptism 7.11.1717 to Jacob Lattimore at St Albans.
I know this would make him really abit old to get married at 41 in 1758,but was it his first marriage?

There is also a bastardy bond for Jeremiah Lattimore 1749 married wheelwright Sanderidge confessing to be the father of Mary Gardner's child(see History of Thrale village www.thrale.com/ book-two)
Other Child Jeremiah and Ann
Osborn 19.8.1744 Sandridge
What do you think?
ciderdrinker

[jonm]

I can add some more to this from a transcript of the St Albans Corporation Freemen list.

In 1780 an Osborn Lattimore was made free on his father's copy. The father was Jeremiah, weaver.

Presumably the following is the relevant entry for the father in the same list:
1743: Jeremiah, victualler.

Jeremiah appears in the 1753 Land Tax schedule for Middle Ward, St Albans at 12s. He also appears in the St Peters parish poor rate assessment (PRA) in St Albans borough in 1760 & 1761.

As we don't have a complete run of the PRAs for all three main St Albans parishes, he might have slipped through the net before the next Jeremiah appears in 1780, again in St Peters parish.

As to Osborn Lattimore, one by his name appears in the 1801 Abbey parish PRA through until 1816, my last transcription.

Turning to poll books...presumably this is the same Osborn Lattimore as was made free in 1780 as he is entitled to vote:
1807: labourer, residence St Albans
1812: ditto
1818: ditto
1821: ditto
1831 - not listed - but a Jeremiah Lattimore, carpenter, St Albans is listed

As to trade directories...none listed from the right time but there is an Osborn Lattimore in Pigot's of 1839, a shopkeeper and dealer in sundries, residence George St.

Militia lists: I had a look here too and there's an entry for a Jeremiah Lattimore, wheeler, living in St Peters ward in 1785. The presence of "aged" against the entry indicates he is too old to go into the draw but this could still be your man. But why doesn't he appear in the earlier lists - which we have going back for most years to 1758? Was he living outside the town? The same question applies to Osborn.

Judging from the data you provided in your first email, the entries for Jeremiah and Osborn in the Freemen list and poll books appear to correlate nicely. The rest of my material is less certain.

Jon