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CommentsCharles Hedges Clevedon c1645
published by - 8 years 1 months 17 days ago. | | Hi Pat
Quite right 1675 fits a lot better :) and thanks for the guidance - will look into these. I found the lease for the farm of Clevedon in the Record Office 25 years ago and the kind archivist of that time said it was Highdale Farm and I was directed to buy a publication called the Annals of Clevedon chapter 4 Highdale farm by JSLilly. Regards
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Charles HEDGES - Clevedon c 1635
published by Pat Hase - 8 years 1 months 17 days ago. | | Not knowing what resources you have already consulted to get this far back with your research - here are a few suggestions. First of all, the date of the baptism of Charles, s/o Charles HEDGES at Tickenham was the 21st Feb 1675/6 - not 1665 - see our baptisms for this one and the images on Ancestry for earlier baptisms at Tickenham for HEDGE/S. This may affect the date of birth and marriage of the father.
Have you tried the National Archives Discovery catalogue for information? This also contains information available at County Record Offices. The Somerset Heritage Centre Archives Catalogue may also be helpful for items not included in the Discovery Catalogue. Although Somerset Wills are sometimes difficult to find as many were lost during Ww2 - have you tried the PCC Wills? Any 17th Century HEDGES Will may list helpful names and relationships. Similarly documents reating to the DIGBY family (Earls of Bristol) may give a more positive location of "the farm of Clevedon".
As Tickenham is very near to Clevedon Court, the home of the ELTON family, their family papers may be helpful. The reference to Walton may also lead you to further information as the Manor of Walton was very important and owned lands over quite an area - including Weston-super-Mare. Our November 2015 Update gave a link to Manorial Records.
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Joseph Johns - Connected with Boys and Clevedon
published by - 8 years 1 months 21 days ago. | | | Yes, Joseph Johns is named on my father's birth certificate (May 1924), and his occupation is given as 'General labourer'. We also found an entry in the baptism register of St Michaels church, Aberystwyth, dated 16 March 1926, and there Joseph's occupation is given as 'Sawyer'. | |
Boys
published by - 8 years 1 months 21 days ago. | | | Thank you for looking into this.
It's not a coincidence! The Edith Boys who was living at St Joseph's in Sudbury is the baby born at 24 Stonebridge, Clevedon, in January 1920. Her full name was Edith Violet Johns Boys. Her mother was Edith Annie Boys, née Edbrooke; she lived Portishead with her husband, Ernest. In 1919 Edith Annie left her husband for a man called Joseph Johns, but I know nothing about him. By 1927 he seems to have disappeared from Edith's life. By then she was in Wales and had had a second child with him - my father. In 1927 the children were sent to Nazareth House: Edith Violet in Cardiff and my father in Swansea. Edith Violet went from Cardiff to a home run by nuns in Sudbury when she was 16, and stayed in the care of the nuns for the rest of her life (she died in 1998). My sister and I were able to obtain some information from the Nazareth House archives, stating that the mother (Edith Annie) was a Catholic, and that Edith Violet had been baptised at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Clevedon. I wrote to the Church a couple of weeks ago to ask if it was possible to find out what's in the baptism register, but unfortunately I haven't had a reply.
My sister and I were unaware of Edith Violet's existence until a couple of years ago, when we were trying to find out about our father's past and who his parents were. We have identified his mother, but so far have been unable to identify his father (apart from his name). Edith Annie said that he came from Wales, and this could explain why she ended up in Wales (our father was born in Ruthin). When we decided to find out who owned Stonebridge in 1920, it was in the hope that there would be a connection with Joseph Johns.
It's interesting that Louisa Sprod was associated with the Catholic church. I note that she was 20 years older than Edith Annie (who was born in 1882). Apparently she was the baby's godmother. There doesn't seem to have been a godfather.
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He DID go to Peru
published by daveerasmus - 8 years 1 months 21 days ago. | | That should have been 1947, of course.
Do please let us know where your research takes you. I am intrigued now!
Dave Erasmus
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