Sarah Masser

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 6 May 1838, Saint Peter's, Mancetter, Warwickshire, England

Joseph married Mary James on 22 Oct 1835 in Saint John the Baptist, Middleton, Warwickshire, England. Mary was born about 1814. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1841 Census Ratcliffe Culey Village
Mary Masser 25 Field Worker N
Sarah " 3 Y
Isaac " 5 Y
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Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: James Massy
• Residence: Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England
• Occupation: Between 1841 and 1861; Agicultural Labourer
• Residence at marriage: 1857, Broad Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
• Occupation: 1857; Gardener
• Office: Between 1863 and 1876, All Saints, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; Parish Clerk Ratcliffe Culey

Notes:

1841 Census Ratcliffe Culey
James Masser 50 Ag Lab Y
Sarah " 55 Y
John " 20 Shoe Maker Y
Maria " 15 Y
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1851 Census Ratcliffe Culey
James MASSER Head M 58 M Ag Lab Ratcliffe Culey-LEC
Sarah MASSER Wife M 68 F---Ratcliffe Culey-LEC
John MASSER Son U 32 M Shoe Maker Master No Men Ratcliffe Culey-LEC
Maria MASSER Dau U 26 F House Sv Ratcliffe Culey-LEC
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1861 Census Ratcliffe Culey
James Masser Head 68 Ag Lab b. Ratcliffe
Charlotte " Wife 57 b. ????ksidge; LEI
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1871 Census Ratcliffe Culey
James Masser Head 80 Parish Clerk b. Ratcliffe
Charlotte Masser Wife 67 b. Penkridge
William Matthews Gson 11 b. Ratcliffe Culey
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James married Sarah Tonks on 12 Dec 1812 in All Saints, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England. Sarah (daughter of John Tonks and Sarah Cheatle) was born in Mar 1782 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; died in May 1852 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 28 Apr 1868 in All Saints Churchyard, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence at marriage: Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England

Notes:

In 1807 Sarah witnessed the marriage of John Masser and Ann Pemberton

Notes:

The John Hough who was a Witness was the same John who married her sister Ann

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Wool Comber

John married Sarah Tomson on 10 Dec 1778 in Saint Peter's, Mancetter, Warwickshire, England. Sarah was born in 1754; died on 17 Mar 1817 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 20 Mar 1817 in All Saints Churchyard, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Sarah Thompson

John married Sarah Cheatle on 2 Nov 1769 in All Saints, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England. Sarah (daughter of Joseph Cheatle and Mary Orme) was born in Jun 1746 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; died in Jul 1828 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 20 Jul 1828 in All Saints Churchyard, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 30 Jun 1745, All Saints, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England

Notes:

Of interest is the oldest memorial to survive in All Saints Churchyard, Ratcliffe Culey; LEI, lying to the South West of the Chancel, (that ground being considered in pre-reformation times as being the most holy), a small roughly incised slab of Sarah's Brother Joseph Viz:-
Here Lyeth the Body of Joseph Cheatle
Departed this life March ye 15th
the year of our lord 1765 aged 22
Farwell my wife and child most dear
I am not dead but sleeping here
My life is spent my grave you see
my loving wife mourn not for me
. My mother and Sister too
For now I have bid this world a dew
as I am so you must be steay
but awile and follow me

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The Cheatle family were notable farmers at Bodymoor Heath close to the border with Lea Marston in the Parish of Kingsbury. There are numerous family memorials in the churchyard there. Today at Dosthill there is a building called Cheatle's Court and a farm at Bodymoor heath called Cheatle's Farm.

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Mary the widow of Joseph Cheatle of Ratcliffe Culey in her will dated 1 Aug 1767 named her daughter Sarah as executrix and her main beneficiary including her messuage. after her death in Feb 1797 probate was granted 27 April 1797 to her daughter Sarah wife of John Tonks.

Notes:

John Pemberton was the Parish Clerk and William Farmer the Church Warden