William Boonham

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Sep 1817, Saint Peter's, Mancetter, Warwickshire, England
• Residence: 1841, Over Whitacre, Warwickshire, England, Warwickshire, England
• GRO Death Index: Dec 1849; Atherstone 16 - 106 (Age 29)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence at marriage: Arley, Warwickshire, England
• Baptism: 9 Apr 1797, All Saints, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England
• Baptism: 9 Apr 1797, All Saints Churchyard, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England
• Residence: 1830, Arley, Warwickshire, England
• Occupation: 1860; Labourer
• GRO Death Index: Mar 1872; Atherstone 6d - 231 Age 75

Notes:

1841 Census Ratcliffe Culey (Village)
Bolstridge Henry 40 Y
BOLSTRIDGE Mary 40 N
Bolstridge Hannah 10 Y
Bolstridge James 7 N
Bolstridge George 5 N
Bolstridge Sarah 3 N
Bolstridge Hannah 80 N
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Henry was listed in Ratcliffe Culey and Withybrooke in the 1851 Census. The Withybrooke entry was on the farm of John Bacon at Dole House Withybrooke NB Samuel Bacon was the farmer at Manor Farm Ratcliffe Both Samuel and John were said to be born in the same area of Derbyshire!! There were a number of Ratcliffe Culey residents there and all appeared on both censuses
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1851 Census Ratcliffe Culey
Henry BOULSTRIDG E Head M 53 MA g Lab Ratcliffe Culey-LEC
Mary BOULSTRIDGE Wife M 51 F---Berkswell-WAR
Sarah BOULSTRIDGE Daur - 12 F ScholarAtherstone-WAR
Ann BOULSTRIDGE Daur - 6 F Scholar Ratcliffe Culey-LEC
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1851 Census Dole House, Withybrooke, Foleshill
John BACON Head U 25 M Farmer 312 Ac Emp 2 Labs tapenhill-DBY
Thomas TIMBERILL Serv W 52 M Ag Lab Ratcliff-LEC
Henry BOLSTRIDGE Serv M 52 M Ag Lab Ratcliff-LEC
Matthew BAXTER Serv U 22 M Ag Serv Wharton-WAR
Luke BAXTER Serv U 17 M Ag Serv Wharton-WAR
William COPEServU 14 M Ag Serv Ratcliff-LEC
John PARKERServU 14 M Ag Serv Ratcliff-LEC
Mary KNIGHTServU 24 F Gen Serv Ratcliff-LEC
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1861 Census Ratcliffe Culey
SurnameForenameRelaAgeOccupationBorn
BOLSTRIDGE Mary Wife 61 BERKSWELL
BOLSTRIDGE Henry Head 64 RATCLIFFE CULEY
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1871 Census Ratcliffe Culey RG10 - 3166
Henry Bolstridge Head 74 Ag Lab b. Ratcliffe Culey
Mary Bolstridge Wife 72 b. Berkeswell
Mary Breedon Grand Daughter 6 b. Upton; LEI

Henry married Mary Boonham. Mary was born about 1797. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

This was possibly a casual relationship

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 29 Jun 1755, Saint Peter's, Bickenhill, Warwickshire, England
• Residence: 1784, Meriden, Warwickshire, England
• Residence: Aft 1789, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England
• Occupation: Abt 1800; Farmer

Notes:

This assignment,( the son of John and Elizabeth from Packington), is the logical place armed with the purely circumstantial evidence so far collected. The two children found at Bickenhill are the only Bolstridges found there. A substantial number of the marriages and baptisms listed at both Great and Little Packington were because of re-building in adjacent churches at this time. Labour was moving about these areas during this period, 1750 - 1790, no doubt due to the enclosure acts in progress.
Note that many families in Solihull had ties with and moved between Bickenhill and other adjacent parishes. These parish films are in the process of being re-examined.

Jame's son Henry married Mary Suckling from Maxstoke, she was the Grandaughter of William Suckling a tenant farmer in Maxstoke at the time Jame's assumed brother John was there. Both William Suckling and John Bolstridge AKA Boastridge were litterate.

June 2002
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At the time James and Hannah arrived at Ratcliffe Culey, circa 1790, with their 3 eldest children the village was expanding. The process of enclosure had only started in 1767 and a lot of new families settled there in the succeeding 30 years. Some came as small farmers and some as labourers on the new farms carved out of the open field system. The main landlord was the church controlling some 500 acres of glebe. Ratcliffe was a small village and could not support more that 200 - 240 inhabitants and therefore their sons tended to move out of the village on maturity. A Bolstridge presence was maintained in the village however, well into the twentieth century due in no small measure to the availability of non agricultural work nearby at Atherstone and the local coal mines.
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James married Hannah UNKNOWN about 1783. Hannah was born in 1760 in Not in Leicestershire, England; died on 11 Jan 1843 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 13 Jan 1843 in All Saints Churchyard, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• GRO Death Index: Mar 1843; Atherstone 16 - 161

Notes:

In The 1841 Census Hannah was living with Henry her son

Bolstridge Hannah 80 No
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Cert copy of death certificate ; age 83, widow of James Bolstridge,cause of death debility and old age,the mark X of Jane Lakin present at death. 1843 No. 264.

1841 census; Hannah Bolstridge age 80 living with Henry Bolstridge/Mary (son).

Name:
This is NOT Hannah Carter as listed on some public trees. Where that information has come from no one knows and has been copied blindly with out checking.

Died:
Registered by Jane Lakin present at Death

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1745, Bickenhill, Warwickshire, England; Husbandman

Notes:

Witnesses to marriage to Martha (1) Edward Smith
(2) Thomas Osborne

John married Elizabeth Bunts on 4 Oct 1745 in Saint Peter's, Bickenhill, Warwickshire, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Ireneus Bunts and Mary UNKNOWN) was born in Dec 1713 in Bulkington, Warwickshire, England; died in Dec 1775 in Bickenhill, Warwickshire, England; was buried in Dec 1775 in Saint Peter's Churchyard, Bickenhill, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 12 Jan 1714, Saint James', Bulkington, Warwickshire, England
• Residence at marriage: 1745, Bickenhill, Warwickshire, England