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Pat

Thank you so much for your help.

Kate

It's always a good idea to check Bristol for marriages of residents from north Somerset.  There is a marriage on the 26th June 1826 at St Mary Redcliffe of a George RADFORD and a Sarah NEWTON.  This was taken from the transcripts available on CD from the Bristol & Avon FHS and which can also be consulted in Weston Library. The original is in Bristol Record Office.

In our transcriptions of Congresbury there is a possible christening of a Sarah NEWTON in 1804.

James GLOVER the subject of the above query had an interesting family!

His father, John Howard GLOVER was illegitimate, and his mother, Ann GLOVER later married a WOOKEY. 

Ann GLOVER was also illegitimate and her mother, Martha GLOVER later married a TREGO.
These names seem to be interchangeable!!

John Howard GLOVER married Harriet KING 26 April 1866 in St John's Church, Bedminster, Bristol.

They had
William Henry GLOVER
Edward James GLOVER - known as James
Ann GLOVER - died aged 8
John Albert GLOVER
Edward GLOVER - so they had another Edward!
Florence GLOVER
Kate GLOVER
Samuel GLOVER

On the 1881 census John Howard GLOVER has adopted his mother's husband's name of WOOKEY - so he and his family appear as WOOKEY including your James  who is entered as James WOOKEY.  John Howard GLOVER died in 1904 but there could well be descendents from James's siblings in the area - can anyone help with these families?

The names GLOVER, WOOKEY and TREGO all get mentioned so does TRAPNELL if you go back a little further!

I’m not sure that his date of birth is correct.  On freeBMD the nearest birth entry is this

Sept qrt 1869 GLOVER    Edward James   Axbridge              5c            596

And in our transcriptions for Emmanuel Church on this site is this baptism:

1st Aug 1869        Edward James GLOVER  s/o John & Harriet GLOVER, boatman of Christchurch parish

On the 1871 census of Weston-super-Mare is a 1 year old James GLOVER as the son of John & Harriet GLOVER living in Alfred Street – which is in the parish of Christchurch – and John is a waterman.  It looks as if he was possibly born on the 9th of July 1869 and registered and christened as Edward James he was known in the family as James.

He was married as James Edward GLOVER, a seaman, on the 28th Jan 1894 to Rosina Caroline SAUNDERS at the parish church of East Stonehouse,  Plymouth.  By 1901 he is described as James E GLOVER, a Boatswain in the Royal Navy and he is living with Rosina, his wife, in Devonport.

I was intrigued to find a reference on FreeBMD to a marriage in the Devonport district during the Dec Qrt of 1905 of a Rosina Caroline GLOVER to either an Edward GLOVER or a Frederick George WATTS.  Could this be his widow?  Strangely there is another marriage in 1926 of a Rosalind C GLOVER to an Edward GLOVER  - is this just a coincidence?

On the 1911 census Rosalind Caroline GLOVER says she is married (not a widow) but she has a 5 year old daughter, Violet.  There’s a lot more research which could be done to see whether Violet might be a daughter of your man or not. 

Try http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ian.sage/Nailsea/nailsea.html. This site contains a short history of Nailsea and transcripts for Holy Trinity & Christ Church.