See also

Family of Sampson Edwards and Matilda Bent

Husband: Sampson Edwards

  • Name:

  • Sampson Edwards5

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Benjamin Edwards (1754?-1836)

  • Mother:

  • Elizabeth Chapman (1750?-1814?)

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • wheelwright6,7

  • Birth:

  • 10 Jan 1792

  • Weybread, Suffolk, England5,6,7

  • Baptism:

  • 20 May 1792 (age 0)

  • St. John the Baptist Church, Skinners Lane, Metfield, Suffolk, England2,5,8

  •  

  • son of Benjamin Edwards and Elizabeth late Chapman

  • Census:

  • 6 Jun 1841 (age 45)

  • Weybread, Suffolk, England6

  •  

  • a wheelwright living with his wife, three children, father-in-law and a visitor. Born in Suffolk

  • Directory:

  • 1844 (age 51-52)

  • Weybread, Suffolk, England9

  •  

  • as a beer house keeper and wheelwright of

  • Census:

  • 30 Mar 1851 (age 59)

  • Weybread, Suffolk, England7

  •  

  • married head of the household working as a wheelwright and living with his wife, a son and a granddaughter. Born in Weybread Suffolk

  • Directory:

  • 1855 (age 62-63)

  • Weybread, Suffolk, England10

  •  

  • as a wheelwright of

  • Death:

  • Aug 1864 (age 72)

  •  

  • Burial:

  • 22 Aug 1864

  • St. Andrew's Church, Church Road, Weybread, Suffolk, England1,11

  •  

  • aged 72

Wife: Matilda Bent

  • Name:

  • Matilda Bent2,4

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 1793 (app)

  • Brockdish, Norfolk, England6,7

  • Census:

  • 6 Jun 1841 (age 45)

  • Weybread, Suffolk, England6

  •  

  • living with her husband, three children, her father and a visitor. Born in Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 30 Mar 1851 (age 58)

  • Weybread, Suffolk, England7

  •  

  • married wife living with her husband, a son and a granddaughter. Born in Brockdish Norfolk

  • Death:

  • Aug 1859 (app) (age 65-66)

  • Weybread, Suffolk, England

  • Burial:

  • 14 Aug 1859

  • St. Andrew's Church, Church Road, Weybread, Suffolk, England1,11

  •  

  • aged 66

Child 1: Elizabeth Edwards

  • Name:

  • Elizabeth Edwards1

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 12 Oct 1814

  • Weybread, Suffolk, England1

  • Baptism:

  • 13 Nov 1814 (age 0)

  • St. Andrew's Church, Church Road, Weybread, Suffolk, England1

  •  

  • Matlida (late BENT), Samson - wheelwright

Child 2: Harriet Edwards

  • Name:

  • Harriet Edwards1

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • Daniel Gooderham (1817?- )

  • Birth:

  • 31 May 1817

  • Weybread, Suffolk, England1,12

  • Baptism:

  • 3 Jun 1817 (age 0)

  • St. Andrew's Church, Church Road, Weybread, Suffolk, England1

  • Census:

  • 6 Jun 1841 (age 20)

  • Magdalen Street, Eye, Suffolk, England12

  •  

  • living with her husband, a daughter, mother-in-law and a sister-in-law. Born in Suffolk

  • Death:

  • Feb 1850 (age 32)

  • Hartismere "Registration District", Suffolk, England13,14

  • Burial:

  • 22 Feb 1850

  • St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Church Street, Eye, Suffolk, England14

  •  

  • aged 32 of Eye

Child 3: Sarah Edwards

  • Name:

  • Sarah Edwards2

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 26 Oct 1818

  • Weybread, Suffolk, England2

  • Baptism:

  • 24 Jan 1819 (age 0)

  • St. Andrew's Church, Church Road, Weybread, Suffolk, England15

  • Witness:

  • 23 Feb 1841 (age 22)

  • Sarah Edwards witnessed the marriage of Daniel Gooderham and Harriet Edwards on Tuesday on 23 February 1841 in St. Andrew's Church, Church Road, Weybread, Suffolk, England

Child 4: Sampson Edwards

  • Name:

  • Sampson Edwards

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Eliza Beaumont (1823?- )

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • wheelwright6,16

  • Note:

  •  

  •  

  •  

  • 139. Sampson EDWARDS. With his profession of wheelwright, Sampson would have done well in busy London, and that is where the 1881 Census places him in that year. It seems he was in London by about 1855. Although his wife and eldest son were also born in Suffolk, his daughter was a Londoner, born around 1860. Sampson and his family lived at 4 Nutford Place, Marylebone. His wife and daughter were both dressmakers.

     

  • Birth:

  • 29 Oct 1821

  • Weybread, Suffolk, England1,6,16

  • Baptism:

  • 30 Dec 1821 (age 0)

  • St. Andrew's Church, Church Road, Weybread, Suffolk, England2,15

  • Census:

  • 6 Jun 1841 (age 15)

  • Weybread, Suffolk, England6

  •  

  • working as a wheelwright and living with his parents, two siblings, a grandfather and a visitor. Born in Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 7 Apr 1861 (age 38)

  • 4 Nutford Place, St. Marylebone, Westminster, Middlesex, England16

  •  

  • married head of the household working as a carpenter living in a house shared with three other families with his wife and two children. Born in Weybread Suffolk

Child 5: Mary Ann Edwards

  • Name:

  • Mary Ann Edwards2

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 29 Jun 1823

  • Weybread, Suffolk, England1,2

  • Baptism:

  • 11 Jan 1824 (age 0)

  • St. Andrew's Church, Church Road, Weybread, Suffolk, England2

Child 6: Lucy Edwards

  • Name:

  • Lucy Edwards17

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • Richard Ironmonger Grayson (1820?- )

  • Birth:

  • 1825 (app)

  • Weybread, Suffolk, England6,18

  • Census:

  • 6 Jun 1841 (age 15)

  • Willlby Road, Weybread, Suffolk, England6

  •  

  • living with her parents, two siblings, a grandfather and a visitor. Born in Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 30 Mar 1851 (age 26)

  • Hampshire Grove, St. Pancras, Middlesex, England18

  •  

  • married daughter-in-law living with her father-in-law, husband, two children and a brother-in-law. Born in Weybread Norfolk

Child 7: Benjamin Edwards

  • Name:

  • Benjamin Edwards19

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • wheelwright7

  • Birth:

  • 29 Aug 1828

  • Weybread, Suffolk, England1,6,7

  • Baptism:

  • 6 Nov 1828 (age 0)

  • St. Andrew's Church, Church Road, Weybread, Suffolk, England1

  • Census:

  • 6 Jun 1841 (age 10)

  • Weybread, Suffolk, England6

  •  

  • living with his parents, two siblings, a grandfather and a visitor. Born in Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 30 Mar 1851 (age 22)

  • Weybread, Suffolk, England7

  •  

  • unmarried son working as a wheelwright and living with his parents and a niece. Born in Weybread Suffolk

  • Death:

  • Apr 1852 (app) (age 23)

  • Weybread, Suffolk, England

  • Burial:

  • 26 Apr 1852

  • St. Andrew's Church, Church Road, Weybread, Suffolk, England1,11

  •  

  • aged 23

Sources

1.

Suffolk Records Office (Lowestoft) - Parish Records. Weybread St. Andrew. Cit. Date: 21 January 2004. Suffolk Record Office (Lowestoft), Suffolk Record Office, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England.

2.

Colin Edwards - Suffolk Edwards Database.

3.

Phillimore Suffolk Marriages. own copy. Cit. Date: 1 January 2002.

4.

FindMyPast Parish Records Collection - Marriages, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). Suffolk Marriage Index Transcription. Cit. Date: 26 January 2018.

5.

Suffolk Family History Society - Hoxne Baptisms 1754-1812, (2015 SFK-BPI-12/P2 own copy). Cit. Date: 26 January 2018.

6.

England and Wales Census 1841, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:HO107 piece:1026 book:9 folio:10 page:13. Cit. Date: 26 January 2018.

7.

England and Wales Census 1851, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:HO107 piece:1796 folio:167 page:28. Cit. Date: 26 January 2018.

8.

Suffolk Records Office (Lowestoft) - Parish Records. St. John the Baptist, Metfield, Suffolk. Cit. Date: 15 October 2003. Suffolk Record Office (Lowestoft), Suffolk Record Office, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England.

9.

Archive CD Books, White's Directory of Suffolk 1844 (own copy), (CD-ROM). Beccles Library. Cit. Date: 2 March 1998.

10.

Archive CD Books, White's Directory of Suffolk 1855 (own copy), (CD-ROM). own copy. Cit. Date: 30 November 2002.

11.

The Federation of Family History Societies, National Burial Index for England & Wales v.3, (2010 own copy). Cit. Date: 4 August 2001.

12.

England and Wales Census 1841, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:HO107 piece:1023 book:8 folio:8 page:9. Cit. Date: 27 January 2018.

13.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Hartismere 1850 quarter:1 volume:13 page:336. Cit. Date: 27 January 2018.

14.

Suffolk Family History Society - Suffolk Burial Index, (2020 SFK-BUI/03-1 own copy). Cit. Date: 27 January 2018.

15.

Bishops Transcripts. Lowestoft Latter Day Saints Church. Cit. Date: 7 February 1999.

16.

England and Wales Census 1861, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG09 piece:78 folio:25 page:46. Cit. Date: 29 January 2017.

17.

England and Wales Census 1841, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:HO107 piece:1820/9/11/10/p13.

18.

England and Wales Census 1851, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:HO107 piece:1498 folio:381 page:21. Cit. Date: 21 February 2018.

19.

Ibid. Lowestoft Record Office, 1851/1796/167. Cit. Date: 25 July 2001.