James Bolstridge

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 30 Jun 1833, Saint Mary's, Atherstone, Warwickshire, England
• Residence: 1851, Lea Grange, Merevale, Warwickshire, England
• Occupation: 1851; Waggoners Boy
• Residence at marriage: 1858, Merevale, Warwickshire, England
• Occupation: Between 1858 and 1871; Carter
• Residence: Between 1861 and 1881, Church Lane, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England
• Occupation: Between 1881 and 1901; Agricultural Labourer
• Residence: 1891, Botany Farm, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England
• Residence: 1901, To the Right of Red House Farm, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England
• GRO Death Index: Mar 1905; Nuneaton 6d - 260 Age 71

Notes:

1861 Census Ratcliffe Culey

BOLSTRIDGE James HD 27 Carter ATHERSTONE
BOLSTRIDGE Elizabeth WI 24 SHEEPY
In the 1861 census Dau Ann can be found with Aunt Hannah and her husband George Davis
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1871 Census Ratcliffe Culey RG10 - 3166 Page 6
James Bolstridge Head 37 Ag Lab b. Atherstone
Elizabeth Bolstridge Wife 35 b. Sheepy
Ann " Dau 11b. Sheepy
Henry " Son 9 b. Ratcliffe Culey
Mary " Dau 7
Hannah " " 5 --------- " ---------
Ellen " " 4 --------- " ---------
Emma " " 1 --------- " ---------
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1881 Census RG11/3057 folio 89
James BOLSTRIDGE W 47M Ag Lab Atherstone,WAR
Ann BOLSTRIDGE U 21F Da/HK Ratcliffe Culey
Mary BOLSTRIDGE U 18F Da/UE Ratcliffe Culey
Emma BOLSTRIDGE 11F Ratcliffe Culey
Harriet BOLSTRIDGE 9F Ratcliffe Culey
Elizabeth BOLSTRIDGE 7F Ratcliffe Culey
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1891 Census Ratcliffe Culey RG12 /2442 Folio 171 FHL 6097552 -4
In 1891 The census return is considerably damaged for this page but
James Bolstridge now a widower lived with his daughter Ellen and 2 Granddaughters
Sarah Ann ( b. Burton on Trent) age 8 Hannah's illegitimate daughter
and Lily age 1 month Aunt Pem's (Emma) illegitimate daughter b. Leicester

The cottage was between the farms of Aaron and Thomas Henton
It appears to be Bottany Farm between Hill Farm and Eightlands Farm
The location appears to be the same as the 1881 Census

At The Barn Farm nearby is John Rathbone a farm servant living with
Thomas Harding and his family. John married Ellen on 15 Oct 1891
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1901 Census 25 to Right Red House Farm
James Bolstridge age 67 Ag Lab b. Atherstone
Sarah A. Granddaughter aged 18 H/keeper b. Burton-on-Trent
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James married Elizabeth Tredwell on 25 Oct 1858 in Our Lady, Merevale, Warwickshire, England. Elizabeth (daughter of William Tredwell and Ann Alsop) was born in Jun 1836 in Sheepy Magna, Leicestershire, England; died on 14 Mar 1875 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 17 Mar 1875 in All Saints Churchyard, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1851 Census James (Bestridge) was a wagoners boy at Lea Grange Merevale
Elizabeth (Treddle) was a Kitchen Maid to the Rev Inge at Benn Hil Merevale

1. Ann Bolstridge was born on 19 Aug 1859 in Sheepy Magna, Leicestershire, England; died in 1945 in Market Bosworth, : Registration District, England.
2. Henry Bolstridge was born on 7 Apr 1861 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; died in 1940 in Scunthorpe, : Registration District, England.
3. Mary Bolstridge was born on 13 Jan 1863 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; died on 9 Mar 1960 in Windmill Lane, Castlecroft, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England; was buried on 16 Mar 1960 in Saint Philip's Churchyard, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England.
4. Hannah Bolstridge was born on 14 Apr 1865 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; died in Apr 1952 in Cross Hands, Sheepy Magna, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 7 Apr 1952 in All Saints Churchyard, Sheepy Magna, Leicestershire, England.
5. Ellen Bolstridge was born on 6 Mar 1867 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; died in 1933 in Nuneaton, : Registration District, England.
6. Emma Bolstridge was born on 29 Oct 1869 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; died in 1965 in Market Bosworth, : Registration District, England.
7. Harriet Bolstridge was born on 21 Mar 1872 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; died on 28 Dec 1950 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 1 Jan 1951 in All Saints Churchyard, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England.
8. Elizabeth Bolstridge was born on 28 Feb 1874 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence at marriage: Arley, Warwickshire, England
• Baptism: 9 Apr 1797, All Saints, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England
• Baptism: 9 Apr 1797, All Saints Churchyard, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England
• Residence: 1830, Arley, Warwickshire, England
• Occupation: 1860; Labourer
• GRO Death Index: Mar 1872; Atherstone 6d - 231 Age 75

Notes:

1841 Census Ratcliffe Culey (Village)
Bolstridge Henry 40 Y
BOLSTRIDGE Mary 40 N
Bolstridge Hannah 10 Y
Bolstridge James 7 N
Bolstridge George 5 N
Bolstridge Sarah 3 N
Bolstridge Hannah 80 N
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Henry was listed in Ratcliffe Culey and Withybrooke in the 1851 Census. The Withybrooke entry was on the farm of John Bacon at Dole House Withybrooke NB Samuel Bacon was the farmer at Manor Farm Ratcliffe Both Samuel and John were said to be born in the same area of Derbyshire!! There were a number of Ratcliffe Culey residents there and all appeared on both censuses
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1851 Census Ratcliffe Culey
Henry BOULSTRIDG E Head M 53 MA g Lab Ratcliffe Culey-LEC
Mary BOULSTRIDGE Wife M 51 F---Berkswell-WAR
Sarah BOULSTRIDGE Daur - 12 F ScholarAtherstone-WAR
Ann BOULSTRIDGE Daur - 6 F Scholar Ratcliffe Culey-LEC
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1851 Census Dole House, Withybrooke, Foleshill
John BACON Head U 25 M Farmer 312 Ac Emp 2 Labs tapenhill-DBY
Thomas TIMBERILL Serv W 52 M Ag Lab Ratcliff-LEC
Henry BOLSTRIDGE Serv M 52 M Ag Lab Ratcliff-LEC
Matthew BAXTER Serv U 22 M Ag Serv Wharton-WAR
Luke BAXTER Serv U 17 M Ag Serv Wharton-WAR
William COPEServU 14 M Ag Serv Ratcliff-LEC
John PARKERServU 14 M Ag Serv Ratcliff-LEC
Mary KNIGHTServU 24 F Gen Serv Ratcliff-LEC
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1861 Census Ratcliffe Culey
SurnameForenameRelaAgeOccupationBorn
BOLSTRIDGE Mary Wife 61 BERKSWELL
BOLSTRIDGE Henry Head 64 RATCLIFFE CULEY
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1871 Census Ratcliffe Culey RG10 - 3166
Henry Bolstridge Head 74 Ag Lab b. Ratcliffe Culey
Mary Bolstridge Wife 72 b. Berkeswell
Mary Breedon Grand Daughter 6 b. Upton; LEI

Henry married Mary Suckling on 15 Feb 1830 in Saint Leonard's, Over Whitacre, Warwickshire, England, Warwickshire, England. Mary (daughter of George Suckling and Elizabeth Hubbard) was born in Oct 1799 in Berkswell, Warwickshire, England; died in Apr 1891 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 18 Apr 1891 in All Saints Churchyard, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Proviso: See Notes
• Residence at marriage: Over Whitacre, Warwickshire, England, Warwickshire, England
• Occupation: Nurse
• Baptism: 13 Oct 1799, Saint John the Baptist, Berkswell, Warwickshire, England
• Residence: 1830, Over Whitacre, Warwickshire, England, Warwickshire, England
• Residence: 1891, Church Lane, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England
• GRO Death Index: Jun 1891; Atherstone 6d - 364 Age 91

Notes:

NB Mary Suckling was baptised at Berkswell on the same day, 17 Oct 1799, as her Uncle Richard Hubbard although her parents lived at Maxstoke
Witnesses at marriage (1) William Bolstridge
(2) Ann Suckling

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.

June 2002
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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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: George Sucklin
• Baptism: 11 Jun 1756, Saint Michael and All Angels, Maxstoke, Warwickshire, England
• Residence: 1831, Hall End, Maxstoke, Warwickshire, England

George married Elizabeth Hubbard on 17 Apr 1799 in Saint Martin's, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Edward Hubbard and Eleanor Thompson) was born in Dec 1775 in Berkswell, Warwickshire, England; died after 1851. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 31 Dec 1775, Saint John the Baptist, Berkswell, Warwickshire, England

Notes:

1851 Census Maxstoke HO 107/2063 Folio 196
Thomas SUCKLING Head W 40 M Lab Maxstoke-War
Thomas SUCKLING Son - 15 M Lab Maxstoke-War
Emma SUCKLING Daur - 7 F Schl Maxstoke-War
William SUCKLING Son - 5 M Schl Maxstoke-War
Elizabeth SUCKLING Moth M 74 F Lodger Berkeswell-War
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Notes:

Is this the right marriage and is Elizabeth Hubbard the wife of George ?
At This stage we cannot be sure but circumstatial evidence points to it's provenance.
In the 1851 Census Elizabeth is said to be 74 and born at Berkswell.
This puts her birth 1775/6
The Berkswell Registers have an Elizabeth Hubbard dau Edward and Eleanor bapt 31 Dec 1775

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1745, Bickenhill, Warwickshire, England; Husbandman

Notes:

Witnesses to marriage to Martha (1) Edward Smith
(2) Thomas Osborne

John married Elizabeth Bunts on 4 Oct 1745 in Saint Peter's, Bickenhill, Warwickshire, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Ireneus Bunts and Mary UNKNOWN) was born in Dec 1713 in Bulkington, Warwickshire, England; died in Dec 1775 in Bickenhill, Warwickshire, England; was buried in Dec 1775 in Saint Peter's Churchyard, Bickenhill, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 12 Jan 1714, Saint James', Bulkington, Warwickshire, England
• Residence at marriage: 1745, Bickenhill, Warwickshire, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: William Sucklin
• Baptism: 15 Nov 1713, Saint Michael and All Angels, Maxstoke, Warwickshire, England
• Office: Between 1768 and 1769, Saint Michael's, Maxstoke, Warwickshire, England; Church Warden

Notes:

William Sucklin was Church Warden in 1768/69 and signed the Account Books Wm Sucklin. Good Hand
He also signed the accounts in other years not as churchwarden possible as a member of the Vestry

In 1775 in the allocation of pews in Maxstoke Church there is the following entry :
No 4 Lord Leigh for Suckling and Wooley farms 5 sittings Henry Tranter for his freehold 1 sitting.
This indicates that William Suckling was a tenant farmer of Lord Leigh.
Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh Abbey was the major landowner in Warwickshire by the mid ninetenth century. According to Dugdale in 1705, a marriage into the Holbech family, brought another significant addition to the estates, namely in Fillongley and Maxstoke.

William married Mary Smith on 18 Sep 1740 in Holy Trinity, Coventry, Warwickshire, England. Mary was born about 1719; died in May 1790 in Maxstoke, Warwickshire, England; was buried on 19 May 1790 in Saint Michael's Churchyard, Maxstoke, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Eleanor Thompson on 13 Apr 1774 in Saint John the Baptist, Berkswell, Warwickshire, England. Eleanor (daughter of John Thompson and Mary Heath) was born in Jul 1757 in Berkswell, Warwickshire, England; died in Dec 1843 in Berkswell, Warwickshire, England; was buried on 24 Dec 1843 in Saint John's Churchyard, Berkswell, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1752
• Baptism: 11 Jul 1757, Saint John the Baptist, Berkswell, Warwickshire, England

Notes:

1841 Census Berkswell (near Balsall Road and Berkswell Hall)
Idah Mathews F 65 Yes
Elinor Hubbard F 90 Yes
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