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In the 1820s, my 5 x great grandparents Samuel Cottrell and Ann Baker were Protestant Dissenters, Non-Conformists. What did they believe in? This item from the Christian Monthly Repository, 1827, offers a clue.
This fantastically detailed document records the birth of Martha Cottrell, second child born to my 5 x great grandparents Samuel Cottrell and Ann Baker. The document includes the family’s address, the midwives present, the date and registration of the birth, and that the family were Protestant Dissenters.
On 26 November 1821, my 5 x great grandparents Samuel Cottrell and Ann Baker married, at St. Botolph Bishopsgate, London. Samuel and Ann had been together for over two years, and had already produced a son, my 4 x great grandfather Matthew.
The interior of the church (Wikipedia)
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LOL - Normal for the 19th century.
People just made shit up if it was even slightly inconvenient to be 'accurate'. There was no concept that in 100+ years time anyone would be able to search the entire written database at the press of a button.
e.g. Back then no-one would have had any reason to suspect that my GGF was married twice at the same time and using different names for different jobs. :-)
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On 3 September 1820, my 4 x great grandfather Matthew Cottrell was baptised at St Botolph’s without Bishopsgate, London. His parents, my 5 x great grandparents, Samuel Cottrell and Ann Baker were listed as a married couple. However, they were not married at the time.
I’m researching the life of my 5 x great grandfather Samuel Cottrell, born 11 July 1796 in Finsbury, London. Little is known about Samuel’s upbringing, but in 1819 he met Ann Baker, daughter of William Baker, cordwainer of Bishopsgate, London. In the spring of 1820, Ann discovered that she was pregnant. However, at that stage, marriage was not on the cards.
Street map of Bishopsgate
Hope I'm not too late for #TrainTrackTuesday
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I compose music for my books, this one is an original adventure love story set in the mid 1800s, the main character plays classical guitar.
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One of my favourite Victorian photographs, depicting Lottie Collins. Lottie was a singer and dancer. Her signature song was Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-ay!, a risqué number that made her an icon of the “Naughty Nineties”.
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Details of Mary’s community, which consisted of fifty-eight buildings housing eighty families. https://hannah-howe.com/ancestry/mary-hopkin/
Hannah Howe · Mary HopkinMy 3 x great grandmother Mary Hopkin was born on 27 August 1818 in South Cornelly, the third child of Daniel Hopkin 1781 – 1864 and Anne Lewis 1783 – 1863, farm workers. On 20 September 1818, …
I’m walking in the footsteps of my 3 x great grandmother Mary Hopkin.
October 1837 - Mary’s family adopt an orphan.
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In 1807, Ty Maen, the main house in Mary’s village of South Cornelly, was up for sale. The sale details offered a rich description of the area.
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In 1802 an antiquarian, Sir Richard Colt-Hoare, visited South Cornelly, Glamorgan and noted that ‘the houses were all neatly whitewashed’ which ‘greatly enlivened the landscape, which is in general want of trees’. Twenty years on, my 3 x great grandmother Mary Hopkin would have recognised that description.
Hannah Howe · Mary HopkinMy 3 x great grandmother Mary Hopkin was born on 27 August 1818 in South Cornelly, the third child of Daniel Hopkin 1781 – 1864 and Anne Lewis 1783 – 1863, farm workers. On 20 September 1818, …