John Tonks

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 10 Jun 1832, All Saints, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Agicultural Labourer

Notes:

1841 Census Ratcliffe Culey
Tonks William 35 Y
Tonks Elizabeth 30 N
Tonks Ann 10 Y
Tonks John 9 Y
Tonks Richard 6 Y
Tonks Abraham 3 Y
Tonks Job 1 Y
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1851 Census Ratcliffe Culey HO/107/2064 Folio:201
William TONKS Head M 39 M Ag Lab Ratcliffe Culey-LEC
Elizabeth TONKS Wife M 40 F---Atherstone-WAR
Job TONKS Son - 11 M Plough Boy Ratcliffe Culey-LEC
David TONKS Son - 9M Scholar Ratcliffe Culey-LEC
Mary TONKS Daur - 7F Scholar Ratcliffe Culey-LEC
Hannah TONKS Daur - 5 F Scholar Ratcliffe Culey-LEC
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1861 Census Ratcliffe Culey
William Tonks Head 49 Lbr b. Ratcliffe Culey
Elizabeth " Wife 50 b. Atherstone
Richard " Son 26 Ag Lab b. Ratcliffe
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William married Elizabeth Quinney on 3 May 1830 in Saint John the Baptist, Wolvey, Warwickshire, England. Elizabeth was born in 1805 in Not in Leicestershire, England; died in Dec 1847 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 1 Jan 1848 in All Saints Churchyard, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence at marriage: Wolvey, Warwickshire, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: John Tonks
• Residence at marriage: Orton on the Hill, Leicestershire, England
• Occupation: Labourer

Notes:

1841 Census Ratcliffe Culey

Tunks John 60 Y
Tunks An n60 Y
Tunks Elizabeth 50 Y

John married Frances Chamberlain on 8 Oct 1801 in Saint Mary Magdalane, Peckleton, Leicestershire, England. Frances was born in 1772; died in Jan 1847 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 17 Jan 1847 in All Saints Churchyard, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Fanny Tunks
• Residence at marriage: Peckleton, Leicestershire, England

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