William Thomas Chapman Fairey 1872

[Gillg]

I'm looking for the father of William Thomas Chapman Fairey, birth registered Woburn Sept Q 1872.  You might have thought that his mother's surname was Chapman, but the only Fairey/Chapman marriage I have found so far is between Catherine Fairey and Jacob Chapman in Woburn June Q 1865,  a sister of William's father, maybe.  Her birth is registered in Bedford Sept Q 1841.  William's son was also called William, so maybe that's a clue?

Can anyone help, please?

[KGarrad]

From FamilySearch:

Christening, 7th July 1872 at Tingrith, Bedford
William Thomas Chapman Fairey, son of Mary Fairey (no father named)

[Gillg]

Thanks, KGarrard. That was an almost immediate reply!

So William was illegitimate, but who thinks that Thomas Chapman was his father, then?  Oh dear, another line of searching meets a brick wall, but I'll see where Mary leads me.  Possibly Mary b Mar Q 1863 Bedford.

[KGarrad]

1881 census
Class: RG11, Piece: 4585, Folio: 61, Page: 34
Garden Cottages, Knottingley, Pontefract, West Riding Yorkshire

Carr, Mary  Head  Widow  F  29  Dressmaker  b Westoning, Bedfordshire
Fairey, William Thomas Chapman  Son  M  8  b Tingerwash, Bedfordshire
Carr, Mary Ann  Daughter  F  1  b Knottingley, Yorkshire

[KGarrad]

Marriage, December qtr 1878
Pontefract Registration District     vol 9c, page 168

Fairey, Mary
Carr, Robert


Deaths, June qtr 1880
Pontefract RD     vol 9c, page 56

Carr, Robert     age 24

[Gillg]

How sad.  Mary doesn't seem to have had much luck.  I knew of the move to Yorkshire, where father and son William were both colliers.  Son William married a Lancashire lass in 1919, which is where I started looking at this family.  I have a large family of Lancastrian Faireys, but hadn't met this line before.

Thanks again, KGarrard.

[KGarrad]

Mary marries Arthur Wright in September qtr 1882.

On the 1891 census, William is described as "son-in-law" to Arthur
But this is just an old-fashioned way of saying Step-son

[bedfordshire boy]

How odd!

Yesterday I was looking through the Oxfordshire parish registers which have recently come online, and found a thread which I started on the Gloucs board back in 2010 relating to some Hodgkins research I was doing, to which Gill very kindly helped me out, and I thought, hmmm I haven't come across Gill recently.

What a coincidence that you should have just posted on the Beds board!

Good to catch up again Gill, even though I was too slow to help you.

David

[Gillg]

Hello, David!  It's good to be in touch again.  How's life in sunny France?

As you can see, I'm still on the trail of the Faireys and following up on chance discoveries.  I think maybe this is one of Dale's (Marlene's) lines, but have not been in touch with her lately.  Thanks for all your help along the way, too.

Best regards
Gill