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Parish Register - St James Church, Bristol, England
Baptisms in the year 1790
Nov 7, William son of William & Mary Clothier.
Marriage 1 - 12 Jan 1818
Marriages folemnized in the Parish of Bedminster in the County of Somerset in the year One thousand eight hundred & eighteen.
William Clothier of this Parish, Bachelor and;
Sarah Monks of this Parish, Spinster,
were married in this Church by Banns this twelfth Day of January in the Year One thoufand eight hundred and eighteen.
By me S. Morris, Curate.
This Marriage was folemnized between us: - The x mark of William Clothier
: - The x mark of Sarah Monks
In the Prefence of : - The x mark of William Baker
: - Bery n (?) John Room
No. 689.
1841 Census of England- 7 June 1841.
City or Borough of Bath.
Page 12, Enumeration Schedule 10
Parish or Township of Lyncombe & Widcombe.
Place: - 13 Westmorland Buildings.
Houses Inhabited: - 1
Name of each person who abode therein the preceding night: - William Clothier.
Age: - 40.
Profession, Trade, Employment: - Cordwainer.
Where born; whether born in same County: - No. (Looks like No, the other entries if answer is yes have a big Y, this is like a curly looping N)
Marriage 2 - 7 Jul 1841
Certified copy of an entry of marriage.
1841 Marriage solemnized By Banns in the parish of St James in the County of Sommerset
No 26, when married July 7 1841,
Name and Surname - William Clothier; Age - of age; Condition - Widower; Rank or Profession - Shoemaker; Residence at Time of Marriage - Westmorland Buildings; Fathers Name and Surname - William Clothier; Rank or Profession of Father - Shoemaker.
Name and Surname - Elizabeth Moysen; Age - of age; Condition - Spinster;
Residence at Time of Marriage - Westmorland Buildings; Fathers Name and Surname - Daniel Moysen; Rank or Profession of Father - Labourer.
Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England by me John C Bennett, Curate.
In the presence of George Powell and Ann Webb Powell
Hi Matt
William CLOTHIER married Sarah MONKS, in St Johns, Bedminster, 12 January
1818.
(From BAFHS Marriage CD8, 1813-1837.)
This is the only William CLOTHIER on the list. Age looks right to be your
1797 chap as they seemed to marry about 20 -21, when they had finished their
apprenticeships.
I have no connection with the name.
Lee
Perth too.
1851 Census of England - South Wraxhall, Wiltshire:-
H.O. 107/1841
page 17
Upper Wraxhall, Village of South Wraxhall, Parish of Bradord Wilts.
64
CLOTHIER William, Head, Married, 54 (or 34), Shoemaker, St James Bristol
Elizabeth, Wife, Married, 37, Agricultural Labourer, South Wraxhall Wilts
Mary Jane, Daughter, 8, Scholar, Bath Somerset.
Henry, 7, Scholar, South Wraxhall Wilts.
Charles, 3, South Wraxhall Wilts.
In fact Bath, then in Somerset but now in Avon, is close to the Wiltshire border and South Wraxall is about 5 miles east of Bath as the crow flies. It looks as if William had forgotten that Henry was actually born in Widcombe, and I guess they may well have moved to South Wraxall shortly after his birth.
The GRO index has this possible marriage (only possible because there were four marriages to a page then without any pairing of the spouses), : - William CLOTHIER & Elizabeth MOYSEY Q Sep 1841 Bath district, XI 2. So did the vicar like Moysey rather than Mizen or is it the wrong marriage? Type Moysey into the 1881 census for the southwestern region and up come 69 of them but they are virtually all born in Devon and none in Wiltshire. I wonder if the vicar came from Devon too and that was why he thought he recognised the name? On balance, I think the marriage could be right.
For info FMD a
Thomas CLOTHIER of Bath married q Dec 1842 vol 11 page 7
Ann CLOTHIER of Bath born Q Mar 1844 vol 11 page 44
Margaret CLOTHIER of Bath born Q Jun 1845 vol 11 page 34
William CLOTHIER of Bath married Q Jun 1845 vol 11 page 37
Joseph CLOTHIER of Bath married Q Dec 1846 vol 11 page 7
Richard CLOTHIER of Bath married Q Dec 1846 vol 11 page 52
Sarah CLOTHIER of Bath born Q Dec 1848 vol 11 page 46
Bathwick (population in 1831, 4,033) and Lyncombe , and Widcombe (population 8,704), are suburbs of Bath, and by late acts are included both in the parliamentary and municipal boundaries. Bathwick is separated from Bath proper by the Avon, which is here crossed by Pulteney Bridge. By the extension of the buildings in later years, some of the finest parts of Bath (Pulteney Street, Laura Place, and Sydney Gardens) are in Bathwick. The Kennet and Avon Canal and the Great Western Railway, both run through the parish. Many Roman antiquities have been found at Bathwick. Lyncombe and Widcombe parish is separated from Bath by the Avon : it contains a number of streets, which may be considered as forming the manufacturing part of Bath ; and a number of detached villas or rows of good private houses, rather more distant from the town. The valley of Lyncombe is very beautiful, and, considering its proximity to so large a city, remarkably secluded. The woollen-manufacture in 1831 employed 565 men.
I've checked the 1851 and 1861 censuses but, not surprisingly, there is no trace of Clothiers but positively shed loads of shoemakers in the area - possibly that address was a shop. Westmorland Buildings was in the parish of Lyncombe/Widcombe. If you look at a modern map of Bath and locate where the railway line crosses over the river, in the city centre, you will find, to the left, the Lower Bristol Road extending westwards... there was a rank of houses on the left-hand side of the first part of Lower Bristol Road - these were Westmorland Buildings - I have them on a 1924 map but they do not exist now - I would hazard a guess that they were bombed out in the war. Cheers Karen
England GRO Deaths Index
Q 30 Jun 1859, Clothier William, Bradford H(?), Vol 5a, page 82
Burials in the parish of South Wraxall in the County of Wilts in the year 1859
No 413, William Clothier, abode - Lower Wraxall, Date of burial - June 26, Age - Yrs 62. [1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, 11]
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