The Edwards Family of Ingleby
 

 

The Edwards Family of Ingleby I have traced the Edwards family in the registers for Foremark Parish church, it being the closest to Ingleby after the church there was demolished in the 1660s.  John and Ann Edwards (nee Lilley) were married at the church on 3rd November 1779.  Witnesses were Jane Turner and John Barnett.  John signed his name and Ann made her mark.  No mention was made of their parents.  John and Ann had several children including Ann, Elizabeth, William, and I think, Thomas who was my great, great, great grandfather, born about 1797, although this year's register entries were completely illegible, so I cannot prove it.  There were no other Edwards families in Ingleby at that time.

Thomas married Elizabeth Adams at Barrow-on-Trent on 1st December 1817.  In the 1841 Census she gives her birthplace as Aston-on-Trent, he as Ingleby.  I have found details of some of their children.  John born 1820, Thomas born 1823, twins Joseph and Mary born 1825, William born 1827, James born 1830, Elizabeth born 1832 and Samuel born 1835 .  Thomas was my great-great grandfather.  By 1841 both he, John and Joseph have left home.  Thomas moved to Castle Gresley where on 7th August 1848 he married Sarah Foster, also of Castle Gresley, at St Mary and St George, Church Gresley.  Sarah was the daughter of Joseph Foster (deceased) and witnesses were Albine & Ann Foster.  John, at the age of 13,  was apprenticed to John Godwin, Cordwainer (shoemaker) of Derby.  The parish of Foremark paid the premium for his apprenticeship and also for two suits of clothes and his transport to Derby.

By 1851 Thomas and Elizabeth (Betty) are living alone in Ingleby all their children having left home and the village.  Thomas and Sarah are living at Batch House,  Newhall with their one year old daughter Elizabeth.  Elizabeth (Betty) must have died soon after the 1851 censes was taken as Thomas Edwards was married on 20th November 1854 to Harriett Cartlidge, at Foremark.  At this wedding he names his father as John Edwards.  Thomas died in 1863 aged 66.

By 1861 Thomas and Sarah (nee Foster) are still living in Newhall, with more children, Eliza, Thomas (my great-grandfather), Jane and James.  Sometime between the 1861 and 1871 Census Sarah died, because in the 1871 Census for Newhall,  Thomas is a widower living with his children Thomas, Jane, James and Emma.  By 1881 he has married again and is living in Stapenhill with second wife Mary formerly Mary Ann Hodgetts who died in 1889.  Unfortunately for this Thomas by 1891 he is an inmate of the union workhouse, Horninglow, Burton on Trent and is still there in 1901 aged 80.  His son Thomas is, by 1881, married and living at 239 Midway with his wife Sarah Ann and his daughters Sarah Ann and Rose (my grandmother) who was born 3rd February 1879 at Midway.  Thomas married Sarah Ann Hodgetts on 14th February 1875 at St John's Church, Newhall.  She was the daughter of Robert Hodgetts, blacksmith.  On the 1881 Census she gives her birthplace as Birmingham but on the 1891 Census as Newhall, on the 1901 census the birthplace is back to Birmingham.    By the time  of the 1901 Census my grandmother Rose Edwards is in service, as a general domestic servant, in Leicester at the home and workshop of Charles Wright, builder & carpenter, at 177 Fosse Road North. Later that year, on 5th August, she married Henry Gough  at St John's Church, Newhall.

 

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