Rev. 9 March 2010, Gen. 31

 

DESCENDANTS OF ELIZABETH GREAVES OF HEREFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND

 

 

GENERATION 1

 

Elizabeth Greaves (1) was born about 1730.  She married John Lewis.  He was born about 1730.  They lived in Ocle Pychard, Herefordshire, England.  The child listed below was born prior to her marriage to John.  (R‑2)

Children - Greaves

+2.   James Greaves, b.c. 1750, m. Susannah Wilson.

 

 

GENERATION 2

 

CHILDREN OF ELIZABETH GREAVES (1)

James Greaves (2) was born about 1750 in Ocle Pychard, Herefordshire, England.  He married Susannah Wilson.  She was born about 1750 in Ocle Pychard, Herefordshire.  (R‑2)

Children - Greaves

+3.   Mary Greaves, b.c. 1786, m. Joseph Hope.

 

 

GENERATION 3

 

CHILDREN OF JAMES GREAVES (2) AND SUSANNAH WHITE

Mary Greaves (3) was born about 1786 in Ocle Pychard, Herefordshire.  She married Joseph Hope.  He was born about 1786 in Ocle Pychard, Herefordshire.  The child listed below was born prior to her marriage to Joseph.  (R‑2)

Children - Greaves

+4.   Joseph Greaves, b.c. 1808, m. Mary Preece, 22 May 1834.

 

 

GENERATION 4

 

CHILDREN OF MARY GREAVES (3)

Joseph Greaves (4) was born about 1808 in Ocle Pitchard (or Ocle Pychard), Herefordshire, England.  He married Mary Preece on 22 May 1834.  She was born about 1811 in Eyton, Herefordshire, although the 1871 census stated Kingsland, which is about 2.5 miles west of Eyton.  They were in the 1841, 1851 and 1861 censuses for Kimbolton, Herefordshire.  The spelling of their surname is given as Graves in the 1841, 1861, and 1871 censuses, and as Greaves in the 1851 census.  Their ages varied in all the censuses.  Joseph was an agricultural labourer in all censuses.  Mary was a washerwoman in 1861.

Ocle Pitchard is about 15 miles south of Kimbolton, and 8 miles east of Hereford.  Kimbolton is about 4 miles east of Eyton, both near Leominster.  All their children were born in Kimbolton, Herefordshire (according to R‑1), although later censuses seem to indicate son Thomas born in Bodenham.  (R‑1)

Children - Greaves

    5.  Elizabeth Greaves, b.c. 1835.  Not found in 1851 census, but could have married.

    6.  Ann Greaves, b.c. 1840.

    7.  Phebe Greaves, b.c. 1840, probably died young.  Not in 1851 census.

+8.   Sarah Greaves, b.c. 1844, m. John Edwards, 1866.

    9.  James Greaves, b.c. 1846.  Not found in later censuses.

    10.   Thomas Greaves, b.c. 1848, probably never married.  He is probably the one in the 1861 census for Stoke Prior, Herefordshire, servant, working as a carter boy, and the unmarried man in the 1881 census for Leominster, lodger, working as a railway signalman.

 

 

GENERATION 5

 

CHILDREN OF JOSEPH GREAVES (1) AND MARY PREECE

Sarah Greaves (8) was born about 1844 in Kimbolton, Herefordshire.  She married John Edwards in the second quarter of 1866 in Leominster, Herefordshire.  He was born about 1843 in Stockton, Shropshire (sometimes written as Salop, which is an old abbreviation for Shropshire).  They were in the 1871 census for Etnam Street, Leominster, when he was a railway porter.  They were in the 1881 census for 82 Etnam Street, Leominster, Herefordshire, when he was a yardsman.  Their first 2 children were born in Kimbolton, and the others in Leominster.  (R‑1)

Children - Edwards

+11.   James Edwards, b. Aug. 1866, m. Caroline Mary Newing, 16 Feb. 1891, d. 25 July 1961.

    12.   Mary Jane Edwards, b.c. 1869.

    13.   Thomas Edwards, b.c. 1871.

    14.   Elizabeth Edwards, b.c. 1873.

    15.   Joseph J. Edwards, b.c. 1875.

    16.   Henry Edwards, b.c. 1880.

    17.   Anne Edwards, b.c. 1883.

    18.   William Herbert Edwards, b.c. 1885.

    19.   Louisa Caroline Edwards, b.c. 1887.

 

 

GENERATION 6

 

CHILDREN OF SARAH GREAVES (8) AND JOHN EDWARDS

James Edwards (11) was born in Aug. 1866 in Kimbolton, Herefordshire, England, and died 25 July 1961 in New Westminster, BC, Canada.  He married Caroline Mary Newing, son of Stephen Newing and Mary Elizabeth Bowen, on 16 Feb. 1891 in Godstone, Surrey, England.  She was born in Oct. 1867 in Boughton-under-Blean, Kent, England, and died in 1937 in Waterford, Ontario, Canada.

They were in the 1891 census for Creeting Road, Stowupland, Suffolk, when he was an evangelist unsectarian preacher.  They were in the 1901 census for 19 Broad Street, Leominster, Herefordshire, when he was a plumber and gas fitter on his own.  Their first child was born in Caterham, Surrey, the next in Bow, London, the next 2 in Leominster, Herefordshire, and the last 3 in Ontario, Canada (John in Townsend and Fleda in Norfolk).  (R‑1)

Children - Edwards

    20.   Alfred James Edwards, b. 15 Dec. 1892.

    21.   Harold Thomas Edwards, b. April 1894, m. Margaret Russell, 26 Jan. 1920 (Waterford, Norfolk Co., ON, Canada), d. 24 Oct. 1924 (Norfolk, Ontario, Canada).  She was b.c. 1904 in Walpole Twp., Haldimand Co., Ontario.

    22.   Mabel Gladys Edwards, b. July 1896, m. Stanley Skirrow.  5 children.

    23.   Doris Louise Edwards, b. July 1900, d. 1977 (Norfolk Co., Ontario, Canada).

    24.   Margaret Florana Edwards, b. March 1904, d. 1989 (Norfolk Co., Ontario, Canada).

    25.   John Newing Edwards, b. 29 Nov. 1908, m. Helen Marguarite Beecraft, d. 1995 (Vancouver, BC, Canada).  She was b. 5 Aug. 1910 in Norfolk Co., Ontario, and d. 28 March 1999 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.  2 children.

    26.   Fleda Mary Edwards, b. 14 July 1911, m. Archie Meisener.  1 son.

 

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