Alice Mathews

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 15 Sep 1834, All Saints, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England
• Occupation: 1870; Agricultural Labourer

Notes:

1881 Census Ratcliffe Culey, Leicester, England
George MATTHEWS M 47 M Ratcliffe Culey, Leicester, England
Rel:Head
Occ:Agrl Lab
Hannah MATTHEWS M4 7 F Ratcliffe Culey, Leicester, England
Rel:Wife
Occ:Field Work (AH)
Mary MATTHEWS U 18 F Ratcliffe Culey, Leicester, England
Rel:DaurHandicap: Blind
Charlotte MATTHEWS U 17 F Ratcliffe Culey, Leicester, England
Rel:Daur
Occ:Hat Trimmer (Millr)
Hannah MATTHEW SU 10 F Ratcliffe Culey, Leicester, England
Rel:Daur
Occ:Scholar
Maria MATTHEWS U 7 F Ratcliffe Culey, Leicester, England
Rel:Daur
Occ:Scholar
George MATTHEWS 6 M Ratcliffe Culey, Leicester, England
Rel:Son
Occ:Scholar
Alice MATTHEWS 3 F Ratcliffe Culey, Leicester, England
Rel:Daur

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1891 Census Ratcliffe
In a 3 room house by the School in 1891 lived 7 people
George his wife Hannah, John and Arthur Coles his wife's sons,
Mary and Alice his Daughters and John his Grandson

George married Hannah Bolstridge on 17 Oct 1870 in All Saints, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England. Hannah (daughter of Samuel Bolstridge and Ann Forster) was born in Aug 1834 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; died in Apr 1891 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 1 May 1891 in All Saints Churchyard, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1851; Domestic Servant, Nether Whitacre
• Occupation: 1871; Field Worker

Notes:

In 1851 servant at Church End Nether Whitacre the farm of Robert and Jane Rotherham
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Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Shoe Maker
• Baptism: 25 Dec 1802, All Saints, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England

John married Charlotte Taylor on 8 Apr 1833 in All Saints, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England. Charlotte (daughter of Henry Taylor) was born in 1806 in Penkridge, Staffordshire, England; died in Aug 1876 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 9 Aug 1876 in All Saints Churchyard, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Removal Order: 24 Apr 1840, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; to Higham on the Hill; LEI
• Residence at marriage: 1857, Broad Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England

Notes:

24 April 1840 (not dated assigned to removal order)
Settlement Examination of Charlotte Mathews
Widow of John Mathews, Shoe Maker, who died 29 July 1840. She was married on Easter Monday 1833 at Ratcliffe Culey formerly Charlotte Taylor. Her father in law George Mathews died 3 years ago.

There are many more family details in this examination call No DE491/5/21 Leicester Records Office

The removal order dated 24 April 1840
Charlotte Mathews widow of John Ratcliffe Culey to Higham on the hill, children George 5, John 3

It does not appear that this order was ever carried out, see 1841 census
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1841 Census Ratcliffe Culey Village
Charlotte Mathews 25 Field Hand N
George " 9 Y
John " 4 Y
Henry Taylor 7 N
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1851 Census Ratcliffe Culey
Charlotte MATTHEWS Head W 46 F Farmers Svt Penkridge-STF
John MATTHEWS Son - 13 M Ag Lab Ratcliffe Culey-LEC
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Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence at marriage: Bentley, Warwickshire, England
• Occupation: Ag Lab
• Occupation: Agricultural Labourer
• Baptism: 4 Aug 1799, All Saints, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England
• Baptism: 4 Aug 1799, All Saints Churchyard, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England
• Residence: 1830, Bentley, Warwickshire, England
• GRO Death Index: Mar 1863; Atherstone 6d - 268

Notes:

1841 Census Ratcliffe Culey, Coleman's Farm

Bolstridge Samuel 35 Y
Bolstridge Ann 30 N
Bolstridge Hannah 6 Y
Bolstridge James 2 Y
Bolstridge Ann 4M Y
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1851 Census Ratcliffe Culey LEI
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Samuel BOULSTRIDGE Head M 52 M Ag LabRatcliffe Culey----
Ann BOULSTRIDGE Wife M 45 F---Neher Whitacre-WAR
James BOULSTRIDGE Son - 12 M Plough Boy Leicester-LEC
Ann BOULSTRIDGE Daur - 9 F ScholarRatcliffe Culey-LEC
Eliza BOULSTRIDGE Daur - 6 F ScholarRatcliffe Culey-LEC
Samuel BOULSTRIDGE Son - 4 M ScholarRatcliffe Culey-LEC
Emma BOULSTRIDGE Daur - 2 F---Ratcliffe Culey-LEC
Mary Ann BOULSTRIDGE Daur - 5m F---Ratcliffe Culey-LEC
John WOODVist U 30 M Ag Lab Ratcliffe Culey-LEC
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1861 Census Ratcliffe Culey
SurnameForenameRelaAgeOccupationBorn
BOLSTRIDGE Samue lHd 62 Widower RATCLIFFE CULEY
BOLSTRIDGE Mary Ann Dau 10 RATCLIFFE CULEY
********************************************************************** **************Witnesses at marriage to Ann (1) William X Bolstridge
(2) Edward Vale

Witnesses at marriage to Sarah (1) Samuel Payne
(2) Elizabeth Payne

Samuel married Ann Forster on 15 Nov 1830 in St. Cuthbert's, Shustoke, Warwickshire, England. Ann (daughter of John Forster and Mary UNKNOWN) was born in Sep 1808 in Nether Whitacre, Warwickshire, England; died in Jun 1856 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 6 Jun 1856 in All Saints Churchyard, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence at marriage: Bentley, Warwickshire, England
• Baptism: 25 Sep 1808, Saint Giles, Nether Whitacre, Warwickshire, England
• Residence: 1830, Bentley, Warwickshire, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Cooper

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.

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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

John married Mary UNKNOWN. Mary was born about 1780. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]