William Joseph Bolstridge

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Joseph Bolstridge
• GRO Birth Index: Dec 1857; Foleshill 6d - 343
• Baptism: 14 Jan 1858, All Saints, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England
• GRO Death Index: Mar 1861; Foleshill 6d - 242

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Josiah Bolstridge
• Residence: 1851, King William Street, Coventry, Warwickshire, England
• Occupation: Between 1851 and 1861; Ribbon Weaver
• Residence: 1861, Bulkington Lane, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England
• Occupation: 1864; Railway Policeman
• Residence at marriage: 1874, Railway Terrace, Duddleston, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
• Residence: 1881, Coventry Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
• GRO Death Index: Mar 1886; Aston 6d - 229 Age 61

Notes:

1841 Census Enly Foleshill see notes father
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1851 Census
King Wm St, Coventry Holy Trinity Coventry, Warwickshire

Wm. BOLSTRIDGE Head M 26 M Ribbon Weaver Bedworth - War
Martha BOLSTRIDGE Wife M 24 F Ribbon Weaver Bedworth - War
Harriett BOLSTRIDGE Daur - 5 F --- Bedworth - War
Thomas BOLSTRIDGE Son - 3 M --- Bedworth - War
Emily BOLSTRIDGE Daur - 5m F --- Coventry-War
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1861 Census RG9/2199 Bulkington Lane Bedworth
Josiah Bolstridge Head 34 Ribbon Factory Weaver b. Bedworth
Martha " Wife 32 Ribbon Factory Picker b. Griff
Harriet " Dau 16 ---------- " ---------- b. Bedworth
Thomas " Son 14 ---------- " ----------- "
Emily " Dau 9 Scholar b. Coventry
Samuel " Son 7 b. Bedworth
William " " 7months "
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1871 Census RG10/ 3144 Folio 68
37 Railway Terrace, Duddleston, Aston, Birmingham; WAR
William Bolstridge Head 45 Porter b. Bedworth
Martha " Wife 44 Charwoman b. Bedworth
William " Son 10 b. Bedworth
Alfred " Son 8 b. Birmingham
Mary Ann " Dau 5 b. "
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1881 Census Coventry St, 4 Court 6 House, Birmingham RG11/ 2989 Folio 34
Ann TURNER U 49 F Birmingham, Warwick, England
Rel:Head
Occ:Charwoman
Charlotte U 6 F Bedworth, Leicester, England
Rel: Grand Daur
Occ:Scholar
William BOLSTRIDGE U 52 M Birmingham, Warwick, England
Rel:Boarder
Occ:Porter
Mary Ann BOLSTRIDGEU16 FBirmingham, Warwick, England
Rel:Boarder
Occ:Umbrella Maker
NB William's son Samuel married a Selina Turner And his Mother was Mary Turner !
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From " The Bolstridges alias Bulstrode of Bedworth " Norman Dudley
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In August 1861, the Vicar of Bulkington, near Bedworth, recorded in his parish register that some 27 members of six local families were emigrating to Canada in consequence of the continued depression of the ribbon trade and that, at that time, there were 83 vacant houses in the parish. A year or two later, William Josiah Bolstridge (4 x great grandson of Thomas and Rebecca Bulstrode alias Bolstridge), who was born at Bedworth in 1825, and his wife, Martha Jaques, descendant of a once prosperous Huguenot family, who was born at Griff, in the parish of Chilvers Coton, both previously employed as ribbon weavers, as were their two eldest children, left their home in Bulkington Lane, Bedworth, and took their children to start a new life at Aston juxta Birmingham.

In 1861, William Josiah's father, Thomas, then aged 80, and Martha's grandmother, Mary Jaques, aged 77, both formerly ribbon weavers , were inmates of Bedworth Almshouses. Martha's father, Thomas, and grandfather, Thomas Jaques, had both been miners at the Griff colliery. Their ancestor, William Jaques, a yeoman of Chilvers Coton Woodland, was recorded in the 1674 Hearth Tax Returns as having a house with six chargeable hearths Mary, the first wife of Mr. Jaques of Coton Parish was buried in the Churchyard of Astley parish church on 17th February 1682. At that time, he was serving as a bailiff on the estate of the Newdigates of Arbury Hall.

William Josiah and Martha Jaques were married at Chilvers Coton parish church on 2nd September 1844. After their move to Aston, William Josiah (sometimes recorded as William and sometimes as Josiah) found employment as a railway porter and waggoner. Martha died there in 1874 at the age of 46, having borne twelve children, five of whom died in infancy.

William Josiah and Martha's son Samuel, who was born at Bedworth on 29th April 1854, was a young schoolboy when his parents moved to Aston, He married twice, having two children, Samuel and Ann Selina, by his first wife, Selina Turner, who died at the age of 26, and nine children by his second wife, Clara, daughter of William and Emma Cherry and granddaughter of Mark Cherry, a watchmaker, who was born in Buckinghamshire, where the family had lived since the 17th century.
The Bolstridges alias Bulstrode of Bedworth

William married Martha Jaques on 2 Sep 1844 in All Saints, Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England. Martha (daughter of Thomas Jaques and Mary Johnson) was born in 1826 in Griff, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England; died in 1874 in Aston, : Registration District, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Ribbon Weaver
• Baptism: 29 Jul 1827, Independent Church, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England
• Residence at marriage: 1844, Griff, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England
• GRO Death Index: Mar 1874; Aston 6d - 253 Age 46

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Ribbon Weaver
• Baptism: 9 Sep 1781, All Saints, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England
• Residence: 1841, Enly, Coventry, Warwickshire, England
• Residence: 1851, Black Bank, Exhall, Warwickshire, England
• Residence: 1861, Almshouses, Market Street, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England

Notes:

1841 Census Foleshill Folio 36 HO 107 1104
Enly
Thomas Bolstridge 60 Ribbon Weaver Yes
Mary Bolstridge Ribbon Weaver 60 Yes
William Bolstridge Ribbon Weaver 25 Yes
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1851 Census HO/107/2066Folio:170
Black Bank Exhall in Foleshill
Thomas BOLSTRIDGE Head W 69 /M Ribbon Weaver Bedworth - War
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and Next Door

Rhodea RITCHISON Head W 46/ F Ribbon Weaver Bedworth - War
Jane RITCHISON DaurW20/F Ribbon Weaver Bedworth - War
Thomas RITCHISON Son - 14/M Miner Coal Bedworth - War
Albert RITCHISON Son - 7/M Scholar Bedworth - War
Lucey RITCHISON Daur - 8m/ F--- Bedworth - War
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1861 Census Market Street Hospital (Alms Houses)
Thomas Bolstridge Head Widower Almsman b. Bedworth.
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Thomas married Mary Turner on 16 Mar 1816 in All Saints, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England. Mary was born in 1782 in Warwickshire, England; died on 8 Feb 1848 in Exhall, Warwickshire, England; was buried on 13 Feb 1848 in Bedworth, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence at marriage: 1799, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England
• GRO Death Index: Mar 1848; Foleshill 16/424

Thomas married Mary Johnson on 6 Nov 1825 in Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England. Mary was born about 1804. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 17 May 1744, All Saints, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England

William married Martha Shilton on 1 Feb 1768 in All Saints, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England. Martha (daughter of John Shilton and Elizabeth Stinson) was born in Jan 1749 in Bedworth, Warwickshire, England; died in Sep 1820 in Bedworth, Warwickshire, England; was buried on 1 Oct 1820 in All Saints Churchyard, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 21 Jan 1749, All Saints, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England