John Sewell, Felstead, 1812

[squancette]

Hi, look up and or help to find:
John Sewell, Married to Elizabeth ? prior to 1812. Children are all born in Felstead Essex, Elizabeth 1812, John 1815, Thomas 1816, George 1820, and Henry 1822. We do not have a surname for Elizabeth, nor a marriage date, we have a possible birth year for elizabeth as 1788, and John 1795?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks

[cep]

Felstead or Felsted is in Dunmow district, so we have no 1851 to work with.

Lots of Sewell in Felsted, 1841, but ages are wrong.
May be brothers, uncles, cousins. The names are right.

John b. 1795, m. 1812 ? ?

Tell us more about your sources.


Regards   CP

[findem]

Just in case the year of birth for Elizabeth & John are incorrect, here are a couple of Sewell marriages in Felsted PRs that I noticed "in passing" a few years ago.

John Sewell & Elisabeth Cable 31 Oct 1793.
Joseph Sewell & Elizabeth Collins 6 Nov 1802.

Good luck.

[squancette]

We have a definate birth date of Henry Sewell as 15/12/1822 taken by my uncle from the parish records at Felstead some years ago, and his marriage certificate stating the name of his father as John Sewell.
The Sole society provided us with siblings for Henry and birth dates from their records, which matched Henry's birth date that we already had, and a birth date for John of 1795. We also had this as a possible date from pallots baptism index.
We have therefore presumed that the marriage is prior to 1812 as this is the year of the oldest known siblings' birth.
All the children were born at Felstead so we hope that John and Elizabeth, whose name is also from the Sole Society, were local all their lives.
The occupation that we have in 1855 on the marriage certificate of Henry for John is farmer.
I hope that this helps to confirm some possible candidates!
Thanks

[cep]

I can't sort them out!  They may be in another village nearby.
Here ALL the Sewell I find in Felsted, 1841.

Regards   CP


1841 Felsted                                                 
HO107 331 016                                               

Coblers Green   1 William Sewell      36      Ag Lab  y
Folio 8 p9        Sophia Sewell       36              y
                  Emma Sewell         12              y
                  James Sewell        10              y
                  Sarah Sewell        6               y
                  Eliza Sewell        4               y
                  William Sewell      9m              y

Village         1 John Sewell         61      Farmer  y
Folio 10 p14      Mary Kidds          19      FS      y
                  Rosella? Day        28 Schoolmistress  y
                  Emma Day            6               y
                  William Day         4               y

Village         1 Elizabeth Saville?  66      Widow   y
Folio 12 p17      (Sewell ?)                         
                  Eliza Whips         12              y

Queens Sq       1 Charles Swallow     29  Shoemaker   y
Folio 14 p21      Jane Swallow        28              y
                  Mary Ann Sewell     14      FS      y
                                             
Garnets Farm    1 Henry Sewell        49      Farmer  y
Folio 14 p22      Betsy Sewell        44?             y
                  Peter Sewell        8               y
                  Eliza Brown         20              y
                  William Stubbings   15      MS      y
                  Mary Ann Holey      20      FS      y
                                             
Buck Croft      1 John Sewell         58      Ag Lab  y
Folio 15 p23      Mary Sewell         57              y
                  William Sewell      60              y
                  Henry Brown         12              y

Hostages Farm   1 Peter Sewell        45      Farmer  y
Folio 17 p28      Abigail Sewell      40              y
                  William Layell?     20      MS      y
                  Lucy Mead           18      FS      y

Oak Green       1 Thomas Sewell       55      Ag Lab  y
Folio 42 p28      Mary Sewell         55              y
                  Joseph Sewell       20      Ag Lab  y
                  Emma Sewell         21              y

Rayne Street    1 Sarah Sewell        60      Baker   y
Folio 43 p30                                         
                y = b. Essex

[squancette]

Thanks for that info, i will keep that in my records as i am sure that it will fall into place at some point.
Thanks again

[RobertS]

Sewell is very common name in the area around Felsted. Lots of Sewells in Little Dunmow and Stebbing. Might be worth trying these two villages.
RobertS