Rebecca Bouldstridge

Other Events and Attributes:

• GRO Death Index: Mar 1901; Shoreditch 1c - 73

Notes:

A Rebecca Boulstridge was found here this appears to be her family.
At her marriage in 1883 to John Thomas Potter here father was quoted as Frederick Boulstridge.
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This rebecca consistantly says she was born in 1833
The IGI shows a baptism at St Pancras of a Rebecca Bouldstridge Parents Frederick and Mary 24 JUL 1828 this has caused confusion in the past as it is before the marriage date. Note the St Pancras IGI finishes at 1832. If this is her family her Brother Edmund was born in the Workhouse at St Pancras. NB in 1828 Frederick Boul(d)stridge was convicted of Larceny at the Old Bailey and sentenced to 3 months. See his own notes for details.
Registers yet to be read
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Pallot's Marriage index lists the following marriage
1826 Rebekah Bouldstridge = Wm Lidgett at Holborn St Andrew
In the 1861 census Rebecca's first husband James Bevan has a Rebecca Lidgett in his household listed as Mother-In-Law.
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The 1841 census has
1841 Census Elm Street, (Saint Andrew Holborn)
William Lidgett 35 Y
Rebecca Boulstridge 8 Y
Mary Lidgett 55 N
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1851 Census
2 Hill Court, Hill Street, Holywell, Shoreditch; LND
William Lidgett Head Mar 41 Iron Founders Trimmer b. St Andrews Holborn
Rebecca Lidgett Wife 42 b. St Pancras
James Bevan Head 25 Cordwainer b. St Lukes
Rebecca Bevan Wife 18 b. Clerkenwell

Ie the Rebeka Bouldstridge father Frederick (from marriage details) aged 8 in 1841was living with William Lidgett who married a Rebecca Bouldstridge in 1826.
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From the 1861 Census (see Notes James Bevan) Rebecca Lidgett (Boulstridge) is listed as James Bevan's Mother-in-Law. This seems to suggest that Rebecca Bevan is Rebecca Lidget's Daughter.
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1871 Census
48 Moneyer Street Hoxton
The Census has Rebecca as a border with John T Potter Who she later married
The were both listed as being married although they did not marry until 1883
John T Potter Head Mar 38 Ladies Shoe Maker b. Clerkenwell
Rebecca Bevan 38 Boarder Mar Brush Drawer b. Clerkenwell
Susan Bevan ----"--- 9 Scholar b. Haggerston (Hoxton Area)
James ----"----- ----"----- 7 ----"--- b. Shoreditch
John T ---"----- ---"----- 5 ---"----- ---"-----
Thomas Potter Son 1 b. St Lukes
James Potter Brother Mar 23 Porter b. Lambeth
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Rebecca married James Bevan on 31 Mar 1850 in Saint Botolph's, Bishopsgate, London, England. James (son of William Bevan and Sarah Budgen) was born on 11 Nov 1825 in Shoreditch, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Benjamin Bevan was born in 1852 in Shoreditch, London, England.
2. William Bevan was born in 1854 in Shoreditch, London, England.
3. Joseph Bevan was born on 10 Jul 1856 in 5, Queen's Head Walk, Hoxton, Shoreditch, London, England.
4. Frederick Charles Bevan was born in 1858 in Shoreditch, London, England.
5. Susan Bevan was born in 1861 in Haggerston, Shoreditch, London, England.
6. James Bevan was born in 1863 in Shoreditch, London, England.
7. John T Bevan was born in 1866 in Shoreditch, London, England.
8. Charles F Bevan was born in 1868 in London, England.

Rebecca married John Thomas Potter on 26 Sep 1883 in Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Pancras, London, England. John was born on 5 Feb 1841 in 40, Gomon Street, Saint Pancras, London, England; died on 4 Dec 1893 in Shoreditch Infirmary, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Frederick Bolstridge
• Baptism: 4 Jan 1807, Saint James, Clerkenwell, London, England
• Sentenced: 23 Oct 1828, Old Bailey, London, England; To 3 Months for Larceny see notes for detail
• Trial: May 1832, Old Bailey, London, England; Found not Gulity of Larcency From the Person
• Sentenced: 2 Apr 1835, Old Bailey, London, England; 3 Months for Larceny from the person
• Sentenced: 4 Jul 1836, Quarter Sessions, Surrey, England; Sentanced to 7 years transportation for Larceny from the Person
• Transported: 18 Mar 1837, New South Wales, Australia; Transported for 7 years on the Ship "Mangles"

Notes:

FREDERICK BOULDSTRIDGE, theft : simple grand larceny.
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Ref: t18281023-117
23 Oct 1828
Trial Summary:
Crime(s): theft : simple grand larceny,
Punishment Type: imprisonment,
(Punishment details may be provided at the end of the trial.)
Verdict: Guilty: with recommendation,
Name search for: FREDERICK BOULDSTRIDGE,
Crime Location: St. John-street, Clerkenwell
Associated Records...
Original Text:
Fifth Middlesex Jury - before Mr. Common Sergeant.

2060. FREDERICK BOULDSTRIDGE was indicted for stealing, on the 7th of October, 1 pair of shoes, value 12s. , the goods of Daniel Dobell .

DANIEL DOBELL. I am a boot-maker, and live in St. John-street, Clerkenwell. On the 7th of October, I went out, about a quarter-past seven o'clock in the evening, leaving my boy Sanders in care of my shop - I returned about five minutes before eight, and he told me that Mr. Parker had detained the prisoner offering a pair of shoes to pawn, which I knew to be mine.

JAMES SANDERS . I am in the employ of the prosecutor: he went out on the evening of the 7th of October - I went to sleep in the parlour, and in the meantime the man came and took the shoes out of the window - it awoke me, and I looked up, and missed them.

HENRY PARKER . I am shopman to a pawnbroker on Clerkenwell-green. The pair of shoes were offered at our shop by the prisoner; I detained him, and sent for the constable.

HENRY BURGESS . I went to the shop, and took the prisoner.(Property produced and sworn to.)

Prisoner's Defence. A man asked me to pawn them for 6s., and said he would give me 1s. for myself.

GUILTY . Aged 23.

Recommended to Mercy by the Prosecutor.

Confined Three Months .

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In May session at the Old Bayley in 1832
Frederick Bouldstridge was found not guilty of Larceny from the Person
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On 2 April 1835
Frederick Boulstridge was found guilty of Larceny from the Person
Sentanced to 3 Months
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At the Suirrey Quarter Sessions in 1836
on the 4 th July foundy Guilty of Larceny from the person and sentanced to 7 years Transportation
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NB also from Convict arrivals in New South Wales
FREDERICK BOWSTRIDGE age 30 Date of arrival in NSW 10 Jul 1837 Ship MANGLES
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Sentenced:
Larcency from the person would usually mean that Frederick was a Pickpocket.

Frederick married Mary Ann Raifield on 30 May 1830 in Saint Leonard's, Shoreditch, London, England. Mary (daughter of William Raifield and Elizabeth Harris) was born on 19 Aug 1808 in Hoxton, Shoreditch, London, England; died in Dec 1834 in Northumberland Place, Clerkenwell, London, England; was buried on 28 Dec 1834 in Saint James' Churchyard, Clerkenwell, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Mary Rayfield
• Baptism: 1808, Saint Leonard's, Shoreditch, London, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Thomas Boulstridge
• Occupation: Engine Weaver
• Baptism: 25 Feb 1770, Saint Leonard's, Shoreditch, London, England
• Residence: Between 1790 and 1796, Hoxton, Shoreditch, London, England
• GRO Death Index: Jun 1841; Clerkenwell 3 - 34

Notes:

Thomas, was apprenticed to Thomas Beaumont, engine weaver, of Coventry on 19th May 1785. He subsequently returned to London, where he had been born, and married Rebecca Roe at St. Buttolph, Bishopsgate, on 25th December 1788. In 1796, as Thomas Bouldstridge of London, weaver, he sought to be admitted as a Freeman of the City of Coventry, but failed to appear before the Court at Coventry to take the oath, on any of the several occasions he was requested to do so, and so was not enrolled.

Thomas married Rebecca Roe on 25 Dec 1788 in Saint Botolph Without Bishopsgate, London, England. Rebecca (daughter of Benjamin Roe and Mary Miller) was born in Aug 1764 in Allesley, Warwickshire, England; died in Nov 1834 in Clerkenwell, London, England; was buried on 16 Nov 1834 in Spa Fields Burial Ground, Clerkenwell, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Parentage: Dau Benjamin Roe and Mary Miller
• Baptism: 25 Aug 1764, All Saints, Allesley, Warwickshire, England

William married Elizabeth Harris on 6 Nov 1803 in Saint Leonard's, Shoreditch, London, England. Elizabeth was born on 15 Sep 1784 in Clerkenwell, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 31 Oct 1784, Saint James, Clerkenwell, London, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 2 Jun 1745, All Saints, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England
• Occupation: Between 1765 and 1780; Ribbon Weaver
• Residence: Between 1768 and 1770, York Street, Shoreditch, London, England
• Residence: 1771, Cock Lane, Shoreditch, London, England
• Residence: 1772, East Street Ward, Coventry, Warwickshire, England
• Office: 1772, Coventry, Warwickshire, England; Freeman of the City of Coventry
• Residence: 1774, Stoke, Coventry, Warwickshire, England

Notes:

Thomas and his wife Ann had several children, three of whom, William, Thomas and John David, were baptised at St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, in London, in 1768, 1770 and 1771. Why Thomas went to live in London at that time is a matter of speculation but, after a few years, he and his family returned to Coventry and in 1772, the year in which Thomas was admitted as a Freeman of the City, they were living in the East Street Ward of the City. Two years later, in October 1774, at the time of the Poll to elect an MP for Coventry, Thomas was listed as an " Out-Voter " , living at Stoke, near Coventry. Thomas and Ann's daughters, Sarah and Phoebe, were baptised at Stoke in 1774 and 1777. In 1785, Thomas was recorded as Thomas Boulstridge of Stoke, engine weaver and, in 1796, as Thomas Bouldstridge, formerly of Gosford Street and East Street Wards, Coventry, the Bouldstridge spelling being that which members of the family acquired in London. Thomas's brother William was living in New Buildings, Coventry at the time he was admitted as a Freeman of the City and, in 1774, was living in Gosford Street.
The Bolstridges alias Boulstridges of Bedworth (Prof. N.A. Dudley)

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NB ---- I do not question the above information it is well documented at Coventry Archives, however I cannot not see the justification for assuming that this Thomas is the same Thomas, the son of Francis and Eleanor from Bedworth Woodlands as placed by Norman Dudley.
The lack of Bol(d)stridges in the Parish Registers preceding this period has more to do with the state or loss of these registers than their absence. A recent index of the Precept Records records Bo(u)l(d)stridges prior to 1772, I shall check these in due course.

A far more likely candidate is the Thomas Bolstridge who married Hannah King (Arnold) at nearby Astly. This Thomas was wrongly allocated to John and Ann Hewitt by Norman Dudley who had missed the burial of their Thomas.

Another likely Candidate is the Thomas Bolstridge buried at Great Packington in 1781. No age is mentioned but these is a connection to Packington via Francis Bolstridges second wife Mary Daniel.
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Thomas married Ann UNKNOWN about 1767. Ann was born about 1745. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 18 Mar 1725, Allesley, Warwickshire, England

Benjamin married Mary Miller on 24 Jan 1754 in Saint Andrew's, Rugby, Warwickshire, England. Mary was born about 1730. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]