Compiled by David S. Church of South Wales and Tywyn, Meirioneth, with research work by
Mr H. J. Faulkner of South Petherton, and Mrs C.B. de Tracey Reade, of Chewton
Mendip.
Contributions from:
Mr & Mrs M.S. Church of Barry, Glamorgan, and Solva, Pembs.,
Mrs Tyra Miller of Paignton, Devon,
Mrs J.A.Fisher of Waimauku, New Zealand,
Mrs J Shergold, of Southampton,
Mr I.W. Tucker, of Niddrie, Australia,
Miss Megan Church, of Barry, Glamorgan,
And their families.
The product is mostly a genealogical table constructed from the Parish Records and Censuses.
Background information is limited to mainly later years and S. Wales, and current family
news.
Abbreviations used are :
b = born
p = presented for Christening ( or baptism)
d = died
c = buried, covered, or cremated
m = married
1881c = 1881 census
2.4.1885 = 2nd of April
L = Litton
CM = Chewton Mendip
CML = both the above
RD = Registration District (census)
RO = (County) Record Office
HB = Hinton Blewitt or Bluett, the next Parish north.
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William CHURCH b ~ 1680 d ? 1738 m 15.11.1701 CM m 19.11.1701 Timsbury to
Mary GREEN b ~ 1677 CM c 29.11.1750 CM; lived CM
children :
Sarah p 1.2.1701/2 CM ( ? m James MILLARD, Litton, 3.12.1763)
William b 7.10.1703 p 12.10.1703 CM ? c 31.7.1743 CM
Gabriel p 7.4.1706 CM c 14.6.1774 CM see next generation.
Mary p 11.1.1709/10 CM
Lucy p April 1712 CM, c 29.8.1734 CM
Ann p 19.2.1715/6 CM thought buried Litton 1804, unmarried, but with 2 sons,
John CHURCH p 12.1.1746 Litton and Joseph CHURCH p 19.5.1749
Litton. Future of Joseph unknown. Future of John unsure, but besides him
were a cousin John, and 2 slightly older Johns also at the time, see descendents
of Gabriel - 1706
Allis/Alice p 7.5.1719 m 16.4.1744 Samuel HOUSE - future unknown.
New Paragraph
Gabriel - 1706 married Elizabeth, born about 1717, and c 29.3.1801 CM
Children were :
William p 4.4.1739 L, c 28.12.1813 CML , m1 Abigail CURTIS and m2 Betty
CULLIFORD see family A
Gabriel p 1.10.1741 CM c ? after 1805, m Ann SPHERE see family B
Lucy p 14.8.1743 CM ?m Benjamin RICK, 1771, CM and ?m Richard
DALLIMORE, 1802, Bedminster
Betty p 20.10.1745 CM m Theodore PAIN
Robert p 8.4.1748 CM m Mary, see family C
John p 1.4.1750 CM will 1814-1818 see below
Mary p 15.12.1754 CM and ? 1755 too - future unknown
Of the 2 Johns, probably one married Hester about 1785 and lived to at least 1798. Their
son, Benjamin CHURCH married 1813 CM Ann MIDDLE, and see family D
The other John married 1789 Elizabeth CLARK , a widow, of Wookey Parish. There were 2
other Johns around at the time, but slightly older, source unknown.
NOTES :
Robert CHURCH of Emborrow c 11.5.1750, CM
William CHURCH c 1.5.1738 CM
John CHURCH c 1.1.1753 CM
c 8.10.1789 CM s Gabriel and Elizabeth (from will)
c 6.6.1791 CM
c 23.5.1803 CM
John CHURCH son Gabriel/Elizabeth left will written 1789, and proved 1814-1818 ( NB after
death of William 1739-1813 ) **
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family A - William CHURCH 1739 L
m1 15.4.1765 CM Abigail CURTIS of CM, c 5.3.1770 CM, they lived in Litton
children
Dorinda p 12.10.1766 L
Elizabeth p 22.2.1769 L - m 10.4.1793 CM George SAGE
M2 29.4.1771 CM Betty CULLIFORD ( thought to be her married name ) Assuming
William's 2 daughters were still living, they were aged about 3 1/2 and 1 year at death of
Abigail, and would have been only 1 year older at the second marriage. Betty also had a
daughter Frances CULLIFORD, at the time of the marriage. Her date of birth, and father,
have not been acurately established, but she is recorded in baptisms in Litton, 1771. A girl
named frances, middle name Culliford, was then baptised daughter of William CHURCH and
Betty on 6th May, 1772, 1 week after the marriage. The event is recorded in the Registers of
both CM and Litton, and this seems unusual, but possibly to officialise the fact, but
publicising, that she was adopted by William as being his child. Since the register entry would
carry significance in proving inheritance, it seems likely this was used to signify formal
adoption.
It seems a prudent move to join formally the 2 single-parent families.
The Family lived CM, and Betty buried probably 31.8.1831 CM
Children
Frances Culliford p 1771 and 6.5.1772 CML m 16.10.1792 L Isaac Hodges
TUCKER ( b 1774, d 1847) and they had children :
William TUCKER, 1793 m Holly, s William 1824
Elizabeth, 1796
George, 1801 m1 Hester HIBLURD - se family J, m2 Mary HIBLURD, 1845
Jane, 1810
Grace, 1814-1820
Frances, 1817
Elihu, 1808, m 1833 Frances MASTERS - see family K
Richard CHURCH, b 4.6.1773, p 11.8.1774 CM, m ? Betty, and they had children :
George p 9.3.1800 L , ? m Phoebe BENDALL
John p 15.8.1802 L ?? m Elizabeth SAGE
Agripriail p 14.1.1808 L
Sarah, p 20.5.1810 L, transcribed Fanny
Alexander, p 21.12.1817 L
James CHURCH b 13.7.1774, p 11.8.1774 CM, c 16.2.1837 CM, m1 6.2.1803 L
Betty BAKER ( ? c 1820 L, at 48 years)
m2 Elizabeth, ( b ~ 1793, d ~ 1844 CM, at 52 years ) circumstances and
details of 2 marriages unclear, but conclusion necessitated by ages of children
and mother on censuses.
Children (alltogether)
James p 26.6.1803 - m Jane see family L
John b 18.10.1805, p 29.12.1805 CM, ?M Elizabeth SAGE - see family M
William p 1.8.1811 CM, m Ann, Ag Lab, see William Notes below :
George p 20.3.1814 CM, m Eliza ?
Sarah p 28.3.1823 CM
Elihu b about 1827 , p 6.1.1832 CM m Sarah HARRINGTON see family P
William, p 11.6.1776 CM see William Notes below:
Sarah b 22.12.1779, p 7.1.1779 CM
Amos b 15.5.1780, p 29.6.1780 , m Lucy,
Children :
Mark p 3.12.1807 L
Samuel p 14.1.1810 CM
William p 12.4.1812 CM see William Notes
Elizabeth p 29.5.1814 CM
Dorinda p 26.6.1817 L , m? 8.4.1844 Seth DURBIN
Fanny p 19.12.1827 L
Clementine p 30.10.1831 L, m 1860 L, John WOOKEY
Ann b 7.1.1782, p 25.1.1782 , m ? 15.4.1805 CM John SAGE ?
Elizabeth Culliford b 24.5.1783 , p 3.7.1783 CM
Mary Ann p 1.7.1789 L
NOTES on WILLIAMS :
Assuming William 1770 m 1793 Sarah BENDALL, then :
William CHURCH p 11.6.1776 CM s William and Betty, and
William CHURCH p 3.8.1784 L s William and Mary,
The latter is possibly the William who appears on the census 1841 of CM ( but I cannot trace
his father), age 50 ( therefore born about 1790, ag lab, born in county:
Wife Hannah 50, b ~ 1790
Son John 15 b 1821 m Ann ANNETTS 1849
Son Joseph 13 b ~ 1823 m Hester MAJOR 1847
dr Mary 12, 1826
Son Henry 10, 1828
Son Robert 9, 1831
dr Hester 7, 1834
One of the 2 above Williams married Susan, and christened a daughter Jane, 2.4.1809 at
Litton.
The other group of Williams is :
William CHURCH p 12.4.1812 CM s Amos and Lucy
William CHURCH p 17.4.1814 CM s Charles and Hannah
William CHURCH b ~ 1811, CM, from 1841 census living with Elihu and his mother.
This last William could have been a brother of Elihu, or he could have been Elihu's cousin,
William-1812, or Elihu's second cousin, William-1814. Both William-1811 and Elihu had
sons called Charles.
William b ~ 1816, buried CM 22.8.1820, parents unknown, was possibly William p 2.8.1818
son ofGabriel CHURCH and Elizabeth nee BENDALL.
William 1811 married Ann (census) and children were William, Martha, Charles.
A William married Sarah YOUNG at CM 26.1.1837, botp, and they had several children
including Frederick - p 8.1.1843, see note ** to family C
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Family B Gabriel CHURCH p 1.10.1741 CM
m 23.1.1764 CM, Ann SPHERE, of CM ( c 7.1.1805, CML) and they lived at Litton :
children :
Thomas p 22.4.1764 L d
Lucy p 8.12.1765 L
Thomas p 2.2.1768 L , m 1798 - Banns only at Chewton so probably married
at East Harptree, to Hannah BARWELL, of East Harptree.
William p 31.5.1770 L, most likely c 18.1.1837 CM and m 29.5.1793 L to
Sarah BENDALL(c 25.6.1851 CM "of East Harptree"),
they had children :
Elizabeth b 16.8.1792, p 25.8.1792 CM
Mary b 15.2.1794, p 25.2.1794 CM
Lucy b 21.4.1797, p 19.5.1797 CM
Anna b 24.7.1799, p 28.8.1799 CM
George b 23.3.1802, p 28.3.1802 CM ?m 5.5.1823 CM to Phoebe BENDALL
of CM
Charlotte b 7.2.1804, p26.2.1804 CM
Mariah b 14.4.1806, p 27.4.1806 CM
Anne b 13.1.1809, p 26.2.1809 CM
Sarah b 13.3.1811, p 21.4.1811 CM
Ann p 27.7,1772 L
Mary p 29.4.1781 L , c 23.7.1795 CM
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8 - Family C
Robert CHURCH p 8.4.1748 CM married to Mary and lived at Litton
Children :
Mary Dalman b 27.11.1780, p 21.12.1780 CM, possibly married 16.11.1806 CM,
Francis NICHOLLS, a sojourner
Robert p 8.7.1782 L CM, possibly buried CM 12.1.1837 at 53 years, married Hannah
(or Ann), probably buried CM 3.1.1836 at 47 years; children
? Mary Ann p 25.3.1802 Litton
? John p 6.2.1804 Litton
Phoebe b 16.4.1805, p 12.5.1805 CM
Jacob b 17.4.1808, p 22.5.1808 CM, buried CM 16.1.1811 at 2 years
Elizabeth b 5.4.1810, p 3.6.1810 CM
Ann p 17.4.1814 CM, buried 22.5.1814 CM at 3 months
George p 11.6.1815 CM possibly married Elizabeth HARES, 18.12.1848 at
CM
Thomas p 4.6.1818 CM probably married Jane, and recorded on c1841 at 25
years, Ag Lab, living West End.
Frances p 19.8.1821 CM
Gabriel b 24.6.1784 p 20.11.1784 CM, probably buried Litton, 1805 (TM)
?Doris 1786, Litton
Dorindah p 23.4.1787 CM
Charles (*) b 2.12.1789, p 13.12.1789 CM , married Hannah, (see notes below)
children :
Dorinda b 21.2.? ,p 3.1.1811 CM possibly married 1844 Seth DURBIN
William p 17.4.1814 CM possibly married sarah YOUNG 26.1.1837, botp.
John b 3.6.1791, p 3.8.1791 CM, possibly married CM 17.9.1809 Hannah
STEPHENS of CM (notable that he married younger, at just 18, than most relatives at that
time, especially females).
George p 20.9.1797, possibly married 5.5.1823 CM Phoebe BENDALL of CM
Notes to page 8 :
Ann CHURCH c 3.1.1836 CM at 47 years
Hannah CHURCH c 31.1.1852 CM at 62 years of Red Hill
John CHURCH m Ann ANNETTS 1849 CM
Phoebe CHURCH m Joseph WALKER 1852 CM, she a widow - ie possibly Phoebe
BENDALL.
Gabriel, son of Robert and Mary buried 1805 Litton (T.Miller) -
So who was the Gabriel who married Elizabeth BENDALL at CM 31.12.1815 ?
(*) - this is the only Charles in the baptism register -
Jean SHERGOLD says Michael BARFOOT is descended from :
Charles CHURCH, Carpenter, and Phoebe, who had a son Charles CHURCH p 3.8.1823 CM,
and this latter may be the one who married Mary Ann WATTS in 1848, but his witness was
George CHURCH.
We also know that :
George CHURCH m 5.5.1823 Phoebe BENDALL, CM, and their children, presumably all
except Charles (?), were baptised at Litton :
Matilda, 5.2.1826, Henry, 9.6.1828, and George is recorded as a Carpenter.
(**) Frederick (born about 1843), probably the younger son of William CHURCH and Sarah
YOUNG, was living with Charles (1823) and Mary (nee WATTS) at the 1861 census,
suggesting he was nephew to Charles(1823).
More census data is needed to prove the above.
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Family D
John CHURCH born about 1760, possibly buried Litton 1803, married Hester, children :
Twins:
Joseph born 3.7.1787, p 1.8.1787 CM , c 3.2.1788 CM
Benjamin born 3.7.1787, p 1.8.1787 CM, appears on c1841 with wife Ann, drs Ann
and Martha, married 16.6.1813 CM, Ann MIDDLE, daughters :
Charlotte p 10.7.1814 CM, c 10.11.1814 CM at 4 months
Ann p 3.12.1815 CM, on c1841 living at home.
Martha p 4.11.1819 CM living at home c 1841 with her daughters :
Eliza p 13.12.1840 CM, c1841
Emma p 1.6.1845 CM
Sarah p 22.5.1825 CM
Sarah born 13.2.1789, p 28.2.1789 (also p Litton 1792, and possibly married 1819 ??)
Grace born 5.7.1792, p 28.7.1792
Betty born 6.5.1798, p 13.5.1798 (Litton)
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Family J
George TUCKER, B 1801, BLACKSMITH,
MARRIED - 1 Hester HIBLURD, who d 1843, had son Elihu, who went to Australia with
his wife Martha
Married - 2 1845, in Bristol, Mary HIBLURD (1821-1872) and moved about 1858 to Hinton
Blewitt, and had children :
James 1845
William 1847-1874, shoemaker
Isaac 1849-1863
Alfred 1851-1912, farmer, sons :
George Edgar, 1882-1959, and had son Henry George, a farmer
Gilbert Mark, who married Julie, and had sons:
Percy - who had 2 sons, and
Gilbert, who had son John
Albert 1853, shoemaker
Fanny Elizabeth, 1855-1903
Jane, 1860, Hinton Blewitt
Alice, 1863, Hinton Blewitt
George, 1869-1940, Hinton Blewitt, married 1892, Litton, Ann Louisa Gunning
EDWARDS (1864-1903), and had children :
Elise, 1893-1964, married J MOODY, son :
Austin MOODY, married Marjorie TAPP, children
John
Martin
Ann
Female
Irene, 1897-1972, married (2) William Edward Haynes GOUGH, (1895-1972),
daughter :
Tyra MILLER (nee GOUGH), Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devon, 1929, who
has descendents.
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Family K
Elihu TUCKER born about 1808, married 1833 Frances MASTERS, too to Australia most of
his family :
Charles Masters, b 1834, daughters :
Margere Jane, 1854
Charlotte Ann, 1858
Jane, 1836
Stephen, 1838
Frances Masters, 1839
Joanna, 1842
Mary Ann 1844
Sydney 1846-1847
Sydney 1849
Lewis, 1851
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Family L
James CHURCH, p 26.6.1803 CM, m about 1837, Jane MALLARD (born about 1814, West
Yatton, Wiltshire, both on c1851 with some of their children :
Elizabeth p 14.8.1836 CM
Hannah, born Wells, p 6.5.1838 CM, on c1851
James, p 3.1.1841 L and CM see notes on 'N'
Robert p 19.3.1843 CM, c 3.10.1843 CM at 9 months
Eliza p 28.9.1845 CM, on c1851
George Sidney p 17.2.1847 CM, married 25.12.1871 at St. Pauls, Bedminster
(Bristol), Phoebe Beer HINGE, they had a daughter, who married a BEAVIS, and they had a
son Robert George BEAVIS
Mary p 21.9.1849 CM, on c1851
Emma p 5.10.1851 CM
James p 12.3.1854 CM
William Henry p 9.5.1858 CM - this is possibly the Henry on c1881 at 23 years as
Ag.lab with wife Elizabeth, and also possibly c 7.5.1930 CM at 74 years, with a stretch of the
addings!
Family L6
Robert George BEAVIS married Violet Emma CHURCH (b 15.4.1898 West Ham), and they
had a graddaughter Jacqui, who is Jacqui FISHER, of New Zealand.
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Family M
John CHURCH b about 1810, d about 1860, lived CM as Ag lab. Married 15.4.1833 CM
Elizabeth SAGE of Cm (b about 1808) address as follows :
C1841 'Town', CM ; c1851 CM ; c1861 'Folly', East CM ; c1871 'Folly', wid, Ag lab ; c1881
'Folly' wid, no occupation. Children :
(Henry) John p 23.5.1833, married about 1882-90 Eliza (born about 1821, Wells)
lived with his mother until her death : 1871c Ag lab, c1881 Mason (born Litton), c1891 Eliza
is recorded living at the 'Folly' as 'John's wife', aged 70ish.
Ann Sage p 25.12.1834 CM
Alfred born about 1835, c1871 an Ag lab living at 'Folly'
Albert p 11.4.1840 CM
Hubert p 2.2.1848 CM, c1881 Ag Lab; c1891 Quarryman, widower, living at
'Bathway', CM, married to Elizabeth (botn about 1847, Litton, died about 1890ish), and
children :
Emma 1871, on c1881
Mary 1873, on c1881
Alice 1874
Albert 1877, on c1891 as ag lab
Frances A (female) 1880, on c1891
Oswald 1882, on c1891
Arthur George 1889 CM, on c1891.
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Family N
George CHURCH b 1814 CM married Eliza (born about 1817 CM) children :
James b 1840/41, possibly Gurney Slade, died posssibly 1915, married Sarah Ann
(1846-1902, East Harrington), lived at Folly, children :
Ernest Charles p27.2.1876 CM, c 15.5.1948 CM, lived Folly
Mabel Julia Grace p 4.8.1878 CM
Arthur Edgar p 28.8.1881 CM, d 12.6.1924, c 17.6.1924 CM
Maurice James p 27.7.1884 CM, d 24.1.1951, c 27.1.1951 CM, married :
1 - Nellie (born about 1885, c 11.8.1922 CM, children :
Donald Edmund CHURCH b 24.12.1916 p 18.2.1917 CM,
living Bristol in 1995
Geoffrey Maurice b 3.4.1922, p 18.6.1922 CM, c 11.7.1974
CM, married Edith May, son Paul James Alan born 11.10.1969, p 5.2.1961 CM, and he has 2
children.
2 - Lilla Rose (born about 1888, d 22.8.1970, CM, children :
Kenneth CHURCH, born about 1927, Oxford, married ethel,
lives at CM in 1995
Pamela, born Oxford
Edward p 26.5.1843 CM
Ann p 15.4.1849 CM
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NOTES :
George/Eliza/James from 1851census :
George CHURCH p 20.3.1814 son of James and betty (?Elizabeth)
George CHURCH p 11.6.1815 son of robert and Ann (?Hannah)
Also George b 1797 CM,
George b 1802 CM
George b 1800 Litton
Then a George CHURCH married :
5.5.1823 Phoebe BENDALL CM, botp and a different George married
18.12.1848 Elizabeth HARES CM, botp
since James was born about 1840, his mother was not Elizabeth HARES.
1851c records James born CM, but he is not in PR of CM or Litton.
There is a James p 3.1.1841 son of James and Jane at Litton.
Both Jameses are therefore the same age.
PR of CM gives Edward 1843 and Ann 1849 children of George and Eliza ( the previous ones
children of only their father ?)
1881 and 1891 censuses for CM have a James of the right age but born at Gurney Slade (next
parish). I think this is the same James, but would need Gurney Slade registers to prove this,
unless Ken Knows ??
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Family P
Elihu CHURCH b about 1827 ?, p 6.1.1832 CM d about 1891 (Wells RD) married 15.5.1854
Walcot, Bath, Sarah HARRINGTON (p 11.12.1832 Ston Easton, ? d 1914 CM) children :
Arthur Walter, b about 1855 Bath, p 28.10.1857 CM, c 26.10.1922 CM, married
Sarah (born about 1851, Pensford, lived at Folly), children :
Herbert Frank p 25.6.1882 CM d 18.7.1962, c 21.7.1962 CM married Amelia
Annie (c 8.10.1891 CM), children :
Victor Herbert b 29.1.1915 CM, p 21.3.1915 CM, c 6.5.1988 CM 'of
D.P.', had a daughter, Margaret WILTSHIRE, (L)
George Henry b about 1883 p 23.4.1886 CM
Edmund Alfred p 23.4.1886 CM, married Florence Emily, daughter Nellie
Joyce b 9.7.1920, p 1.8.1920 CM
Ernest James p 4.1.1890 CM
George William p 28.10.1857 CM
Emily Jane p 28.11.1858 CM
Joseph b 6.6.1860, p 8.7.1860, m 2.9.1886 Cardiff R.O. Sarah BROOKS (5.11.1862,
Monmouth), children :
William Joseph b 21.8.1887 Canton, Cardiff, see Family P1, married 8.4.1912
Cadoxton (-juxta-Barry) Grace FORSYTH (8.7.1888 Cadoxton)
Annie b about 1897, lived Barry 1990.
J., further details unknown at present
Charles James p 20.2.1863 CM
Albert John p 3.7.1864 CM d 31.7, c 4.8.1936 CM, married Alice Mary (born 1873, d
25.8, c 29.8.1932 CM) children :
Wilfred Elihu James b 2.6, p 21.7.1901 CM
Ernest Albert Edward b 21.2, p 26.4.1903 CM
Hilda Mary Joyce b 17.9, p 19.10.1913 CM
Sarah (Ann) Jane p 25.4.1866 CM
Julia Mary p 31.10.1867 CM
Frederick Elihu b about 1872 CM
Kate Ellen p 16.3.1874 CM
Agnes Louisa p 7.2.1875 CM
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Family P1
William Joseph CHURCH b 21.8.1887, Canton, Cardiff, married 8.4.1912
Cadoxton-juxta-Barry parish church to Grace FORSYTH (b 8.7.1888, Cadoxton), children :
Grace Vera
William Joseph b 28.6.1914 Cardiff, d 25.11.1982 Llandough Hospital, of Barry,
married Edna SANDERSON(b 24.4.1909 Barry), child:
Malcolm Sanderson, married Elsie Lilian BUTCHER, children:
David Samuel b 19.6.1966 Barry, married Hull 1992 Hilary
BALLARD, now living Tywyn, Meirioneth, children :
Robin born 1997, Southland, New Zealand
Daniel born 1999, Aberystwyth, Wales
Carys, living in Barry.
Megan
Doris
Ron
Ivan born about 1925, d 1992, m Olive
Josephine Muriel
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Family
William CHURCH about 1780-1855, married Hannah (b about 1790, c 31.1.1852 CM) lived
Red Hill and (?Tor) Hole, children :
John (Hoppinley?) p 15.4.1821 CM, m 10.4.1849 CM Ann ANNETTS of CM but b
about 1828 Collingbourne Kingston, Wilts, children :
Emily p 2.5.1850 CM
William Frederick p 8.12.1851 CM, baker, grocer, and methodist preacher, m
Eliza Jane HARRIS (b about 1855, Pilton, Somerset)
Martha p 30.8.1853 CM c 22.8.1853 ??
Keturah p 10.7.1854 CM
Mary p 28.10.1856 CM
May p 8.6.1861 CM and
Charles p 8.6.1861 CM, gardener and insurance agent
Joseph p 13.4.1823 CM, d 13.4.1898, c CM, m 11.10.1847 Hester MAJOR (b 1826/7,
d 9.9.1898 , c CM, children :
Hannah p 14.7.1850 CM
Robert p 29.7.1853 CM
Mary p 29.6.1856 CM
Sarah Ann p 22.5.1859 CM
Rosina p 9.8.1863 CM
George William p 11.4.1867 CM, c? 1924 CM or more likely 1931 CM, m
Ellen, children :
Minnie Louisa b 6.4., p 17.5.1896 CM
Arthur George b 27.10, p21.11.1897 CM, d 4.11.1964
Weston-Super-Mare, c 9.11.1964 CM
Mary p 19.2.1826 CM, m 25.12.1854 CM to Joseph HOSKINS
Henry p 22.11.1828 CM, m? 3.2.1857 CM to Fanny OXLEY of CM, children :
Henry p 6.2.1859 CM, c 7.5.1930 CM , m Elizabeth, and had offspring
John p 17.5.1860 CM
Robert b about 1832 CM (on c1841)
Hester p 29.6.1834 CM, c? 20.5.1853 CM
Notes :
Also Robert 1831, son of Joseph and Edith,
Also Robert 1843 son of James and Jane,
One of these 3 Roberts married Grace, son Frederick p 1860 CM.
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Henry CHURCH p 6.2.1859 CM, c 7.5.1930 CM, m Elizabeth, children :
Eli p 16.1.1878 CM
Charles p 1.5.1881 CM
George p 4.11.1883 CM, d
Alice p 16.8.1885 CM
Harry p 21.8.1887 CM, c 14.7.1922 CM, d Bath RMW Hospital.
Florrie p 20.10.1889 CM
Frederick b 5.12.1891, p 17.1.1892 CM
Ernest b 15.6, p16.7.1893 CM
Edith b 13.11, p 15.12.1895 CM
Frances b 17.10, p 21.11.1897 CM
Austin b 9.8, p 16.9.1900 CM, d 9.3.1955 Griggs Pitt, c 15.3.1955 CM
Eva b 28.11.1902 , p 18.1.1893
Olive b 1.4.1906, p 20.5.1906 CM, c 18.3.1908 CM
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SPARE FAMILIES :
Charles CHURCH B ABOUT 1820 CM, c1881 and c1891 , children :
Caroline b about 1854 Wells c1891
Charles b about 1865 CM c1881
William b about 1869 CM c1881 and c1891
Charles CHURCH b about 1823/4, father ? George CHURCH, 'servant' in 1851, and 'ostler'
on c 1861, probably died before 1891, m 10.12.1848 Mary Ann WATTS(father James ), b
about 1825/6 Midsomer Norton (c1881) and dressmaker, of Litton Road (c1891), children :
Elizabeth, b Hillsgrove, Wells, p 20.4.1851 CM, (father farm labourer on census)
Albert Charles p 1.6.1851 CM (father farm servant), carpenter on c1881 and c1891, c
10.8.1903 CM
Mary Ann p 25.5.1854 CM (father ostler) dressmaker on c1881, unemployed c1891, c
21.5.1904 CM
Henry p 15.11.1855 CM (father labourer), possibly married Elizabeth (but see Henry
1859),but was not on c1861 anyway, so may have already died.
William CHURCH, 1837 ? possibly son of William CHURCH AND Sarah YOUNG, married
Hester (1875-1946), and had children :
William Charles Wofenden 1895, m Ethel CHAPELL, childeren:
Irene May(1921-1921 at 14d) or ???
Eva, married Vincent COOPER,
Ann, married Norman HASKINS - * ADDRESS ???
Edward James 1900
John CHURCH married Hannah STEPHENS, 1809
At Chewton Hill, c 1891 :
Harry CHURCH, ag lab, b Litton, about 1865, married Matilda Ellen (b Priddy about 1864)
children :
William p 1892 CM
Henry John b 1884 Priddy
Albert b 1886 Priddy
Rosina b 1887 Litton
Laura b 1888 Litton
Arthur b 1890 (summer/autumn) Litton
Joseph CHURCH married Edith, son Robert, p 1831 CM
Robert CHURCH married Grace, son Frederick p 1860 CM
Lucy CHURCH, had a child of Benjamin RICK, named Grace RICK (1771-4), and may have
married Richard DALLIMORE , possibly after 1789.
James CHURCH married Martha LANE of Hinton Blewitt, and had a son Richard CHURCH
p 1802 in Litton
Gabriel CHURCH married Elizabeth, both born about 1795 on 1841c
Gabriel CHURCH ag lab, born Som, married 31.12.1814 CM, botp, Elizabeth
BENDALL(POSSIBLY DIED 1844 CM), and had children
John Bendall p 31.12.1815 CM, from c1851 he was born about 1821ish, and married
Phoebe, of similar age, and they had children :
Eli p 1839 CM, m 1866
Elizabeth p 1842
Sarah p 1844
Hannah p 1849
William (?) Bendall p 2.8.1818 CM
Simon Bendall p 22.8.1820 CM
John CHURCH married Emma DURBIN, children :
Sydney 1878
Frank 1880
Emsly 1882
Eliza 1883
Alice 1885 (father James)
Amelia 1887 (father John again)
Ethel 1888
Martha 1890
Gertrude Maud 1892
Page 21 - Family Notes :
William CHURCH (1739) married twice. His first wife, Abigail, died 5 years later leaving him
with 2 toddlrs to raise. A year later he married Betty CULLIFORD, who also had a small
daughter, reputedly fathered by William's brother Gabriel. In May 1772 the=is girl was
baptised in the churches of both Litton and Chewton as the daughter of William and Betty.
She later married Isaac TUCKER and had 7 children - George had a son Elihu (who went to
Australia), and then moved to Bristol, and later Hinton Blewitt, where another son, George, is
an ancestor of Tyra MILLER.
- Elihu married and went to Australia, where it seems his like-named nephew joined him.
Of Wiliam and Betty's other children, Ann, Amos, and Richard, all had families that have not
been traced beyond one generation. William (1776) may have married Hannah (about 1790),
and begun the branch of the family that lived in the south of the Parish (Red Hill and Tor
Hole) until at least the 1930's. Living in this rural part of the parish they all worked on the
land. James married Betty BAKER, 1803, and may have had a second wife called Elizabeth.
James and Elizabeth, or Betty, had 6 children, 4 of them having large families. William (1811)
had a small family, but they, and his sister Sarah, later disappear from the records. James
junior (1803) went away, but came back with his wife and young family to Chewton. One of
his children was an ancestor to Mrs Jacqui FISHER, who lives in New Zealand.
John (1805) married Elizabeth SAGE, and the family lived at the Folly and Bathway.
George (1814) married a local girl, Eliza, but seems to have temporarily left Chewton, as his
first son, James (1840), was probably born at Gurney Slade, although James' family all lived
near the Folly, indeed, of his grandchildren, Donald CHURCH lives in Bristol, and Ken (and
Ethel) at Bray's Batch, Chewton.
Elihu (1827), James' last son, moved around a bit in early life, but returned to end his life near
to home. He was probably not born in Chewton, as he was not baptised there until 1832. He
was living in Bath at the time of his marriage, although Sarah was born in Ston Easton, and his
first son was probably born there. Between working on the land he found time for a large
family. Later in life he moved into the village and probably spent a lot of time visiting his
family in South Wales. His children disappear one by one from the census books, leaving only
3 that we know more about.
Albert John (1864) had 3 children and lived in the village.
Arthur Walter (1855) wandered around the southern end of the parish with his family from
Tor Hole to East End, ending up at the Folly, presumably an agricultural worker. His
grandson Victor Herbert (1915) lived in Dinas Powys, near Cardiff, but Victor's daughter
Margaret WILTSHIRE has returned to live in Litton.
Joseph (1860) moved to Cardiff about 1880, and had been training as a printer (stereotyper).
He lived in Canton for a while, then moved to Cadoxton, and later Barry, where he was a
quarryman. This may have had something to do with the excavation of the docks at Barry. He
probably took advantage of the availability of employment at the Docks, which were being
excavated at the time, although it seems a pity he could not pursue a career as a printer after
his apprenticeship. Having finished digging big holes he became a market gardener at Merthyr
Dovan (Barry). He had 3 children. William Joseph was born in Canton, 1887, and worked as
an engine cleaner at Cadoxton, on the Barry Railway, and later lived at Colcot Road, where,
like his father ( and later his daughters), he kept a large kitchen garden.
William Joseph Junior was also born in Canton (1914), (as yet unsure what the connection still
was ???), but grew up in Barry. After a spell at Ranks' flour mills, and careful saving, he was
able to train as a Nurse and work at Llandough and Saint David's Hospitals in Cardiff. Wiliam
Joseph Junior and Edna SANDERSON had a son Malcolm, who lived in Barry until recently
with his wife Elsie (daughter of Mayor W.H.BUTCHER). They have now retired to
Pembrokeshire. Their daughter Carys has worked in a number of schools in Wales, France,
and Jersey, teaching French/English, and son David is a General Practitioner in mid-Wales.
David and Hilary have 2 sons - Robin is a Kiwi souvenir born in New Zealand, and Daniel
born in Aberystwyth
There are other parts of the family who do not yet fit easily into the picture. There must also
be many errors and ommissions. We would be grateful for any corrections, also any other
information, and current family news.
The above was compiled in 1995, except for additions in [square brackets] which are from
new information, mostly supplied by
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