INCE & FEREDAY LINES continued

INDEX

EIGHTH GENERATION

136. John Ferriday

137. Mary unknown

In 1891, 50% of the Feredays in the UK were in Staffordshire. Another 19% were in neighboring Warwickshire and Worchestershire

The Feredays and Walkers of St. Phillips appear to have been connected with the Bond Street Baptist Chapel, and with the ward of Edgbaston.

"Edgbaston had a reputation for being the most affluent part of Birmingham or "where the trees begin". In the 19th century the town was under the control of the Gough-Calthorpe family who refused to allow factories or warehouses to be built in Edgbaston, thus making it attractive for the middle class. However, while the central and southern parts of the suburb remains ostensibly affluent, there are several areas in the northern part that are less so, with a high proportion of multi-occupancy rented private housing, as well as council-owned accommodation."

-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgbaston

Bond Street Baptist Meeting House "was just off Constitution Hill on the right, the road still exists on a modern map it is just down the road from Snow Hill Train station in the A to Z page 73 2. H."

-- http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/WARWICK/2001-05/0989658280

138. prob. Thomas Walker

139. prob. Ann Cutler

Walker yDNA appears to be all of one type: R1b1c 13 22 14 11 11 14 12 12 13 13 13 29 (FTDNA sequence)

-- http://www.familytreedna.com/public/WalkerDNA0ProjectmtDNAResults/index.aspx?fixed_columns=on

The name Walker is of Anglo-Saxon origin, first appearing in Engish records in Yorkshire. In 1891, 24% of the English & Welsh Walkers were in Yorkshire; 19% were in Lancashire, and 10% in London.

142. prob. James Cox

143. prob. Susanna Nichols

Witnesses at the wedding of (70) Edward Tanner and (71) Frances Cock were James & Susanah Cock. There was no special place in the record for "parents", so it is possible that (142) James and (143) Susanna were Frances's parents. No birth record has been found, though, for Frances

-- parish registers, St. Giles Cripplegate

In his diary, (8) Stanley Edward Ince stated that "(70) Mr. Tanner" married "(71) Miss [Frances] Cox, a farmer's daughter from Lincolnshire". I have been unable to find a Cox family in Lincolnshire that adequately fits the constraints of either (1) a Mr. Cox having lived there and bearing a daughter who married a Mr. Tanner, or (2) a Susannah Nichols born there who had reason to marry a Mr. Cox in London.

Barring a fabricated family history (Stanley would have gotten the story from his mother, who would have heard it from her late mother concerning her late grandmother), it is conceivable that not Frances but her mother was a farmer's daughter from Lincolnshire, or perhaps a granddaughter, left in the Foundling Hospital in St. Pancras. By coincidence, a (142?) James Cox was left in the same hospital in the same year. It is also possible that James was born to one of the Cox families resident in St. Giles Cripplegate (where James and (143) Susanna were later married). I have tentatively noted both possibilities above.

If Stanley's ancestors were raised in the Foundling Hospital, they were privileged to have lived in an institution with a rather illustrious history. George Handel performed his "Messiah" there, donating the proceeds to the charity, and the place is adorned with several works of art, including an altar-piece picture of Christ painted by Benjamin West.

REF: http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/MDX/StPancras/StPancrasHistory.html

"A basket was accordingly hung outside the hospital; the maximum age for admission was raised from two to twelve months, and a flood of children poured in from country workhouses. In less than four years 14,934 children were presented, and a vile trade grew up among vagrants, who sometimes became known as "Coram Men," of promising to carry children from the country to the hospital, an undertaking which they often did not perform or performed with great cruelty."

-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundling_Hospital

The name Cox was first found in Herefordshire, and is of Anglo-Saxon origin.

NINTH GENERATION

under construction...

284. poss. George Cox

285. poss. Mary Thompson

TENTH GENERATION

568. poss. John Cox

569. poss. Sarah [Gale]

570. poss. John Thompson

571. poss. Ann unknown

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