My Newbury/Berkshire family

[candrjm]

Yes Deb, I can confirm I'm of the fairer sex and I'm just glad I've been able to help you both.

Tony, there is this Mary Moulding recorded in the 1815 census (age out a little so could be a different Mary):

East side of Northbrook Street Newbury

Jene Bunny aged 23 occ: Attorney
Clara Bunny aged 27
Clara Bunny aged 1
Caroline Eliza Bunny infant
Eliza Newbury aged 19
Hannah Smith aged 18
Mary Moulding aged 30

(Eliza, Hannah and Mary were possibly servants )

I need to have another look in the parish records and will get back to you later.

Chris

[Anthony J Mayo]

In that case it's a couple of glasses of champagne we owe you!!!!!
I think from memory and will check when we get home, that the family lived in Northbrook Street in which case Mary may very well have been a family friend who our great, great grandfather turned to when his first wife died. Tony M.

[candrjm]

Hi Tony,

Looking at the parish records for St Nicolas Church (for elimination purposes) this is what I have found:

Checked baptisms 1799-1822: No Moulding children with mother Mary Moulding (apart from George Leander Moulding in 1813) found.

Checked baptisms 1780-1790: No record for a Mary Moulding found.

Checked marriages 1799-1812: No record for a male Moulding to a Mary ? found

so it looks like the Mary Moulding in the 1815 census is George Leander Moulding's mother.


Whilst I was looking at the baptisms for 1799-1812 I did find this baptism (I obviously missed this one when searching the records before):

Name: John Mayo
Born: 22nd Aug 1809
Bapt: 13th Sept 1809
Parents: John and Mary Mayo

Which closes the gap a little (between 1807-1813).

Presumably this John died before 1816. (when John number 2 was born). I did look for a death/burial for both this John and one for Robert born 1807 (unlike his siblings Robert doesn't appear in any records other than his baptism) on both the NBI and the BBI but couldn't find any.

With regard to Northbrook Street, there are only about 50 shops/houses on both sides (as per Newburychap's post on page 10) and the  population of Newbury in1815 was 5,309 so it's highly likely that the Mayo and the Moulding families would have known each other. Perhaps John Totty Mayo popped into the George & Dragon for a drink or two.  (coincidentally my ancestors  moved to Newbury and held the license for the George and Dragon from 1929-1953)

In the 1841 census John, Mary and their son Thomas Totty Mayo were recorded living in West Mills Newbury, this road ran down the north side of St Nicolas Church see here:

Link to google maps (If you swivel the picture around you can then travel down the road and see what West Mills looks like today) :

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4010224,-1.3253692,3a,75y,84.65h,99.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1snmO-g6rFEo_lxADfvFLeKw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

in the 1851 census John and Mary are recorded as living in Raymonds Almshouses there are two Raymonds Almshouses in Newbury, Lower Raymond (built 1796) and Upper Raymond (built 1826)

Pictures of Lower Raymond Almshouses:
https://www.onephotographaday.org.uk/the-lower-raymond-almshouses-newtown-road-newbury/

Pictures of Upper Raymond Almshouses:
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101210612-upper-raymond-almshouses-newbury

Both of these Almshouses are still standing and in use today. I can't be absolutely sure but looking at the 1851 census I would favour the Lower Raymond Almshouses as the residence for John and Mary as looking at the census pages they seem to record the Raymond Almshouses then Newtown Road .


Here is a link to Newtown Road which shows you Lower Raymonds Almshouses as they are today:
https://tinyurl.com/y5ukmqyt

If you swivel the picture around and then travel forward along the road up to the roundabout, go all around the roundabout and then travel down the road marked no entry (Derby Road) half way down on the right you should see a patch of grass with cars parked on there, beyond the cars is Upper Raymonds Almshouses

If you go back to the link (below) swivel round and travel back to the roundabout and then go straight across (taking the 2nd exit (Newtown Road) then travel along the road a little way you should see a cemetery on the right hand side, this is where John Totty Mayo was laid to rest:

https://tinyurl.com/y5ukmqyt

Here is a link to Friends of Newtown Road Cemetery where you can view the record for John Totty Mayo (other Mayo's recorded also)
http://www.fnrcnewbury.org.uk/index.asp
 

Best Wishes
Chris

[Anthony J Mayo]

Hi Chris,
Coming to an end of our holiday so looking forward to piecing this all together when I get home. What a fantastic piece of field work you have done. Cousin Maggie  and I had been planning to visit Reading Records Office earlier this year though it never happened but even if it had part of a day at Reading would not have revealed a fraction of what you have achieved in Newbury. Thanks so much for your diligence.
Tony Mayo

[Deb Clark Rennie]

Thought I might add a question or two back on this post - I tried starting a new thread but although it’s been read haven’t had any takers.

With this all popping back up again it made me review what was originally found.

That my Mary and Anthony’s Totty Mayo were siblings and children of Totty and Sarah Mayo née Poor.  Totty we believe is the son of Thomas and Dina Mayo with Totty’s baptism (1723)
probably  being mis transcribed as female instead of male being born in Salisbury Wiltshire  possibly dying in Newbury as this is where his marriage took place and the birth of all his children. We don’t have a death as yet for him or his wife.

Thomas Mayo was the son of Thomas and Katheren Mayo née Totty - hence where the Totty name came from.

Katheren’s father left a Will which I’ve had transcribed and names all of her siblings.  Her father was John Totty occupation gardener and he left an extensive Will.  Katheren was not married at the time of his death as she was youngest.  John’s father Richard also left a Will and both John and Richard mention a cousin James Townsend.  To confuse matters there is a James senior and James junior.  I’ve not worked out yet how they are cousins as I don’t know the maiden names of either John or Richards wives.  However what I did note was James Townsend senior mentions in his Will his brother in law William Mayo.  So I’ve made a mini tree linking these Mayo’s to the Townsend family. But so far haven’t connected any of them to our Thomas Mayo. 

He’s a right mystery I did find a document on find my past which I will add that gives the parish he was living in at the time of his marriage to Katheren as Corsley Wiltshire and he’s a clothier  and she was living in Frome Selwood Somerset.  As she had been youngest and orphaned perhaps she had family there?  I also noticed that the person listed as bondsman was a Francis Mayo from Ferris Norton Somerset?  So I wondered if he holds the key to working out who Thomas Mayo is, he is 30 when he married so puts his year of birth around 1664 but I haven’t found any Thomas Mayo’s that fit that time frame except one in an odd sound area Sutton Benger Wiltshire (although this is 1666 so would make him younger) and wouldn’t you know it no parents are listed. 

So if anyone has time to have a look at Thomas Mayo Clothier and can find any possible links to family it would be greatly appreciated.

Blessings
Deb

[Deb Clark Rennie]

I’m trying to add the marriage document but the attachment button doesn’t seem to be working

[BumbleB]

I’m trying to add the marriage document but the attachment button doesn’t seem to be working

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[Deb Clark Rennie]

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Oh I didn’t realise that thank you

[Anthony J Mayo]

Hi again Chris. Have been working through all that information you and Deb have unearthed recently. Included was a link to the Friends of Newtown Road Cemetery and you are quite correct as well as John Totty Mayo there are a number of other Mayos who must fit into the Family Tree somewhere. Two immediately stand out, the first John Jolty Mayo in 1903. I would imagine that Jolty is a miss spelling of Totty somewhere down the line. The second is William Mayo 17/4/1875 aged 62, therefore born in 1813. This must be William, son of John Totty and Mary Dear.
Tony