A Tribute to Women, my earliest matrilineal ancestor Sarah Spurdens

This is my all time favourite line to trace. Much more challenging to identify maiden names, and thus vastly more rewarding.

SPECULATION: that our earliest matrilineal ancestor Sarah Spurdens was the same Sarah Spurdens born in Dickleburgh.

 TIMELINE for Sarah Spurdens (*) indicates probable events
(1745 - Birth  Dickleburgh, Norfolk)
(1748 - Baptism of brother Samuel) age 3
(1751 - baptism of brother William) age 6
(1753 - death of brother William) (1753 death of mother Elizabeth) age 8
(Bef Feb 1755 - death of her mother Elizabeth ?) age 10
(Feb 1755 - remarriage of her father John Spurdens to Letitia Hunt, Tivetshall, Norfolk) age 10
(1755 - baptism of half-sister Letitia) age 10
(1758 - baptism of half-sister Susanna) age 13
(1759 - baptism of half=sister Ann) age 14
(1761 - marriage of older sister Elizabeth, age 20)
(1766 - baptism of half-sister Rebecca) age 21

24 September 1773, age 28
....marriage to Samuel Field in Alburgh , Norfolk England, Friday
son Samuel Field
Abt 1777 daughter Sarah Field age 32
1778 - death of husband Samuel Field, age 33, leaving her with 2 small children
7 October 1779, age 34, marriage to Thomas Woods
2 March 1780 baptism of daughter Elizabeth Woods, South Elmham, St. Cross, Suffolk, age 35
April 22, 1781 baptism of daughter Esther Woods, South Elmham, St Cross Suffolk, age 36
1796 marriage of daughter Sarah Field to Robert Baldry, Alburgh age 51
1810 - burial of husband Thomas Woods South Elmham, St. Margaret age 65

Poss:
Q1 1838 or Q2 1842: Death of Sarah Woods, Depwade 13 34 or 13 31, age 93 or 97
Note: Alburgh was considered part of Depwade registration district


 A mothers tree - Ten Generations of Women
1. my daughters
2. myself
3. my mother
4. Jean Shelvington Parnell ADAMS
5. Harriet Maria Creswick PARNELL
6. Sarah Ann Shelverton CRESWICK
7. Harriet Flora Mackrow SHELVERTON
8. Harriett Baldrey MACKROW
9. Sarah Field BALDRY
10. Sarah Spurdens FIELD

Ten Year Goal:  Can we make it a dozen, or possibly a baker's dozen, of generations for the matrilineal line?

Sarah Spurdens - bap 19 April 1746 to John Spurdens and his wife Elizabeth
11. Elizabeth ? m abt 1738 to John Spurdens Diss, Norfolk, she died bef 12 Feb 1755
Probably Elizabeth ALLEN m. John Spurgeon Norwich, St. James Pockthorpe, now a Puppet Theatre

12.?? Amie CHITTOKE , there is an Elizabeth Allen bap 1710 at St. Stephen's, Norwich, a mile away from St. James Pockthorpe. Her parents are William and Amie. A William Allen married Amie Chittoke at St Stephens in 1701.

Having fun with this - stay tuned for more. Working on disproving / proving these connections.

Francis CRESWICKE 1584 -1649, 10th great-grandfather of my children

Born March 7, 1584 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, Francis Creswicke was the son of Roger Creswicke and his wife Anne Hobson. Francis' father Roger born circa 1557 is our earliest identified Creswick(e) ancestor.
1598 Francis was apprenticed to his uncle Henry Hobson of Bristol, hardwareman. His brother Godfrey Creswicke was also a hardwareman.

Descent of Creswicke of Hanham Court

1608 Buries Inn in Moreton was sold to Francis Creswick. The innkeeper was Anthony Nicholls, his future father in law. Nicholls was a member of a prosperous Moreton family of brewers. This same year Francis became a burgess.

Francis Creswicke married Ann NICHOLLS in Bristol circa 1614, at St. Werberg. They had many children, including our ancestor Sir Henry Creswicke who married Elizabeth HOOKE.
 1618 joined the Society of Merchant Venturers in Bristol.
1629 part-owner of 'The Patience', ship trading out of Bristol
1636 partnership concerning the ships Diligent and Supply and land holdings / fishing rights at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland
1638 Purchased Hanham Court, Bitton
1643 As a prominent Royalist, Francis entertained King Charles and his sons at his house in Small Street.
1645 Mayor of Bristol, prior to this time he held other offices including Warden, Treasurer, Councillor, Sheriff and Alderman

1649 Death and Burial in Bristol, St. Werberg (?)

Creswick wills in Moreton-in-Marsh
Francis Creswicke in another pedigree,  via Henry Creswicke 1736 and Sarah Weymouth

William EVETT, Glover, of Worcester, England

On March 6, 1672, my 8th great-grandfather William Evett was baptised at St. Albans in Worcester, England. His father was also William Evett. (Was this William a brewer, son of Henry and Isabelle of Woodhall Hallow/Worcester?)

William was a glover, during a time when Worcester surpassed London as the largest gloving centre and the industry reached its peak. Glove-making was Worcester's principal industry from the 16th century until the advent of the porcelain industry in the mid-1700s.

William Evett married Elizabeth WOOD at a Quaker meeting in Worcester 1702. (Elizabeth was a widow, possibly of Timothy Biggs?) The couple had at least one child, our ancestor Mary Evett who married Richard MARCHANT in Worcester in 1723.  Elizabeth must have died by 1710, when William's wife was listed as Alice.

William purchased a large property in Worcester called Warmstry House in 1707.This property was leased in 1751 to a member of a group of businessmen who then converted William Evett's glove-making establishment on part of the property into a porcelain factory. Warmstry House was the site of the first Worcester Porcelain factory, later known as Royal Worcester porcelain. Only the wealthy could afford this porcelain at that time. The factory is now closed, after a sale to Spode and then Portmeiron,  but the Worcester Porcelain Museum remains. The collections date to 1751, and the museum houses archives.

William Evert died in April 1755, leaving the property to his son-in-law Richard Marchant. Marchant eventually sold the Warmstry House property to the Worcester Porcelain company which had continued to lease the property. 

links:
http://www.worcesterporcelainmuseum.org.uk/uploaded/documents/9DrWallandthefirstfact.pdf
http://www.worcesterporcelainmuseum.org.uk/collections/starobjects/index.cfm?factory=drwall objects made in the Warmstry House factory
http://www.worcestercitymuseums.org.uk/mag/spirit/pottery/spp1.htm Warmstry House 1752

Hannah OSLAND and George CARTER

March 4 - 251st wedding anniversary, married George CARTER (bap. Portsea 1717) 1759 Saint Thomas, Portsmouth, Hampshire
March 5 Hannah's 278th Birthday, born 1732 Saint Thomas, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Hannah Osland Carter is the 7th Great- Grandmother of my niece Hannah.They were born 272 years apart.

I don't know much about this couple. Maybe this evening ;-)

Hannah Osland was George Carter's 2nd wife, after Ann Bricknall who he married in 1741 in Portsea
They had 13 children. Our line comes from their daughter Sophia CARTER who married James RICHARDS 1788 in Portsea.

some concerns about this line?

PEACOCK family of Waterbeach, Cambridge

John PEACOCK, my 6th Great Grandfather was born (or baptised?) March 2nd, 1746. He was the son of Robert Peacock and his wife Sarah Thurston. He married Phoebe Phillips in 1768 and had six children: Robert, John, Sarah, William, Thomas and Edward. Sarah married William OSLAR of Cambridge.

Waterbeach is just north east of Cambridge

Photos of Waterbeach

Our PEACOCK family lived in Waterbeach, Cambridge in the 1700s and early 1800s.

A short account of the parish of Waterbeach in the diocese of Ely

Waterbeach, Cambridge was the home of several other branches of our family.

CHRISTMAS (early 1700s) the infamous Mary Christmas :-)

COXALL (late 1700s, 1800s)

OSLAR (early 1800s)

PHILLIPS (early 1700s)

THURSTON (early 1700s)

Local geocache   Water but no Beach

For a time we found PEACOCKs on the Drake side, ancestors of Annie Eliza ATKINSON who married John Abraham DRAKE and moved to Canada. Mary PEACOCK married William LENG in Whitby, Yorkshire 1772. It is doubtful that these two Peacock families are connected.

PARTRIDGE family some other time (Condover, Shropshire) on the HAYCOCK side of things.

Samuel TUFFINs - from Sutton, Waldron, Dorset to Southern Ontario

The TUFFINs are one of my favourite lines. The name itself makes me happy. We have four generations of Thomas Tuffins , a James, three generations of Samuels and then Sarah Tuffin of Ontario, the first one we discovered churning through microfilms of Ontario marriage registrations and the Ottawa Family History Centre. TUFFIN was I believe the first surname we discovered through research without having heard about it from family beforehand.

March 1st is the 277th anniversary of the baptism of our earliest Samuel TUFFIN.  He was christened in Sutton Waldron, Dorset 1 March 1733. His parents were James Tuffin and Ruth HISCOCK. I like the serendipity of finding Ruth Hiscock (1704 Fontmell Magna, Dorset -1784). Her gr-gr-gr-granddaughter Sarah Tuffin married John HISCOX January 1st 1883 in Middlesex, Ontario -- this was the record we were so happy to find back in 1998. John Hiscox's British roots lie in Sutton Waldron. I like to think one day we will discover a closer connection between Ruth Hiscock bap. 1704 and John Hiscox's forebears, Philip Hiscox born around the same time.

Feb 29 - Margaretha BACMEISTER STOLTERFOHT

Born 29 Feb 1568 makes this (almost) the 442nd anniversary of her birth, but she has only had 110 Leap Day birthdays 
Born Rostock, where her father was a professor of theology at the University of Rostock.
Nearby geocaches Jacobikirche Ostliche Altstadt
The astronomer Tycho Brahe lost his nose in a fight after attending a party at her father's home two years before Margaretha's birth.

Margaretha married Johannes Stolterfoht, minister of the Marienkirche  in Lubeck, in 1587 Rostock.
She died in Lubeck 5 Jan 1641. The couple had 10 sons and a daughter.


son Jacob Stolterfoht  1600-1668 Lubeck
 

her parents Lucas Bacmeister, who among other things wrote a hymn called "Ach leue Her im höchsten thron" which I have not yet been able to track down. Lucas Bacmeister was the first of his family to have an academic career. His father, Margaretha's paternal grandfather, was a brewer in Luneburg. Before that, the Bacmeisters were bakers.

and Johanna Bording.


Interesting lineage of Bacmeisters posted on this czech language site : something to pursue

Completely unverified line from Bard, Pluntke, Roth, Tolzien homepage

Johann Bacmeister d. 1548, m. Anna Lubbing d. 1583 (dau. of Matthaus Lubbing & Metka Kruse, dau of Erhard Kruse & ? Moringa)
.
Ludek Wilms Bacmeister
..Ludek Bacmeister m. Alheit freden (? died bef 1499 Braunschweig, d. of Henning Freden d. bef 1494 Braunschweig and Grethe Gonteke d. bef 1494)
...Hinrik Bacmeister
....Henneke Bacmeister
.....Engelke Bacmeister
......Johann Bacmeister

http://www.husemann-luenen.de/ahnen/home.htm?/ahnen/htm/galerie/bild_00022818.htm has all those Bacmeisters struck out, not sure what this signifies?
Here are the ones she has rejected:
Ludwig Bacmeister - @ 1460-1548 Lueneburg, Helmstedt (Hofbackermeister at Helmstedt)
..Ludecke Bacmeister - @ 14200-? Braunschweig, Backermeister 1472
...Hinrik Bacmeister @ 1380-1444 Braunschweig, Burger and Backermeisterin Braunschweig 1407-1444, Owner Nr. 7 in der Guldnerstrasse
....Henneke Bacmeister @1330-1399, Goslar, Ratsherr
.....Engelke Bacmeister @ 1300-1384 Goslar, 1317-1384 Ratsherr in Goslar
......Johann Bacmeister @ 1260-1324 Goslar, Burger and Backmeister in Goslar
.......Johann Bacmeister @1230-1284 Goslar, Burger in Goslar 1250

Another link to investigate  sometime: