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Memoirs of Mrs Rebecca Wakefield Now On-Line
19 July 2009 - 12:14:17pm

The University of Toronto has scanned and published on-line the third edition of "Memoirs of Mrs Rebecca Wakefield, Missionary in East Africa" by Robert Brewin, 1888.

It can be accessed in four different formats from the following web page:

http://www.archive.org/details/memoirsofmrsrebe00brewuoft

Happy reading,

Kevin
Carters in Heston, Middlesex
25 February 2007 - 10:56:28am

Combining information from the 1841 census for the village of Heston, Middlesex, with details from the baptismal register (1813-1821) for Heston’s parish church (St Leonard's), it is possible to develop a picture of the Carter clan in Heston in the first half of the 19th century.

It appears that there were no less than 10 separate households with the surname Carter living in the village at some point in the period 1813-1841 as follows:

1. Sarah Carter + unnamed sergeant at barracks
2. James & Sarah Carter (ancestors of the Wrights in my family tree)
3. Henry Carter & Mary Wheeler (parents of Sarah, base born)
4. Mary Carter & unknown (Workhouse)
5. William & Mary Ann Carter
6. George & Ann Cater
7. Joseph & Amy Carter
8. Elizabeth Carter
9. Francis & Harriett Carter
10. John & Sarah Carter

Just how these households related to one another still remains unknown, but Heston has always been a relatively small place (in 1794 there were only 62 houses in the village itself), so it almost certain that some of these families are related to one another.

Sources: 1841 Census index at www.ancestry.com and Register of Baptisms, St Leonard's, Heston, Middlesex, Jan 1813 - Sep 1827 held at the London Metropolitan Archives.
Nutkins Mystery Deepens
9 September 2006 - 10:47:44am

Although Nutkins is a well-known surname (thanks largely to Beatrix Potter's character Squirrel Nutkins), it is in fact very rare. There are only 109 people named Nutkins listed in the entire 1881 census of the British Isles. Even if you allow for other spellings, this scarcity should in theory make tracing the relationships between them easier, but in practice I have still had enormous difficulty.

One of my great great great grandfathers was named James Nutkins (b. 1811, Woolwich, Kent), and with him I have pretty much hit a brick wall. Although I know his father's name, I've failed to find any record of James' baptism, which in effect means I'm stuck. I can't progress my Nutkins line with confidence until I have more facts about my 3X great grandfather, James.

Recently, however, my Nutkins ancestors have become even more mysterious. James' daughter, Emma Susannah Nutkins (b. 1842 London), married James Taylor, a carriage driver, in Kensington in 1863. Their first child of whom I'm aware (Thomas James Taylor) was born in Marylebone in 1869, but his father was recorded as ELIAS Taylor, a coachman. There's no doubt about his mother. She was listed as Emma Susannah Taylor formerly Nutkins. How did James become known as Elias?

Things get even more confusing when you include data from the 1871 census. It lists Emma living at 25 North Street in Marylebone as the wife of Elias CONNETT, a coachman born in Devonshire. With them are children Annie aged 11, Beatrice 9, John 7, Thomas 2, and Samuel aged 3 months (all with the surname Connett). The first three children were all born in Devonshire. Thomas and Samuel were both born in London. I'm confident that this is the correct census entry because not only are the details for Emma, Thomas and Samuel correct, but they were still listed as living at 25 North Street in the 1881 census (with the surname Taylor, not Connett), by which time Emma had married my 2X great grandfather, Edward Wright.

So the question becomes: how did James Taylor become Elias Taylor and subsequently Elias Connett? What was going on? Was James/Elias trying to hide something? I have ordered a birth certificate for Samuel and a death certificate for James Taylor, so perhaps these documents will help me answer this perplexing question.

Update 9 Sep 2006 - Unfortunately, neither certificate was relevant and I am no further ahead. It all remains a mystery.
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The Reverend William Fidler (I11)
Birth 18 December 1796 25 35 Carlisle, Cumbria, England
Death 30 July 1866 (Age 69) Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England
William Fidler served three separate missions to the West Indies as a Methodist Minister over the course of 42 years. He witnessed the abolition of slavery in both the British and Dutch colonies. The diary in which he recorded his first journey to St Vincent in 1825 is held at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
Rebecca Brewin (I2216)
Birth 19 August 1844 64 42 Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, England
Death 16 July 1873 (Age 28) Ribé, Kenya
For Rebecca Wakefield growing up in an earnest religious environment made the choice of being a missionary wife a desirable challenge. To preach the gospel to the "heathen" was an exciting religious adventure for women as well as for men. When she died at twenty-nine, she was experienced as a worker in the field, dispensing medicine daily, planning Christian festivals, and self-consciously providing a model for Christian womanhood. Her brother Robert Brewin turned her graphic letters home into her memorial, Memoirs of Rebecca Wakefield, wife of the Rev. T. Wakefield, United Methodist Free Churches missionary in eastern Africa (1876).
Mabel Maud Fidler (I189)
Birth 2 March 1871 41 Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Death 25 February 1960 (Age 88) Chatswood, Australia
Founded Ravenswood School for Girls, in Sydney, Australia, which is still going strong more than 100 years later. See the entries in the Australian Dictionary of Biography (http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080723b.htm) and in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenswood_School_for_Girls).
The Reverend John Cook Barratt (I297)
Birth 26 February 1832 30 23 Wakefield, Yorkshire, England
Death 4 November 1892 (Age 60) Bad Cannstatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
It is difficult to sum up the striking qualities, many and varied, that go to the making of so great a man and a Missionary as J.C. Barratt. Perhaps the few words in which this is done in the report for the year 1893 are best, though the amplest elaboration of each single term would scarcely do justice to one of the greatest Missionaries of the Methodist Church. He was "A wise and good man, one who served with fidelity and ruled with descretion, and his name will stand honourably conspicuous in the history of German methodism." - The History of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society Citation Details: Vol. 4, Pg. 471.
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Earliest Birth Yearde Sandcroft, William ‎(I3529)‎
Birth about 1236 Chepenhall, Fressingfield, Suffolk, England
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Earliest Death Yearde Sancroft, Simon ‎(I3525)‎
Birth about 1292 26 22 Fressingfield, Suffolk, England
Death after 1327 (Age 35)
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Birth 30 December 1905 25 23 Trinidad
Death 28 April 2009 (Age 103) Exeter, Devon, England
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Fidler, Esther ‎(I701)‎
Birth 1875 38 38
Death 1978 (Age 103)
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Maingot, Louis Ferdinand
Leotaud, Uranie
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Kelshall, John Bryan Gilbert John Bryan Gilbert29 March 191298Birth 
Steggall, George George29 March 1879131Death 
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Cook, Albine
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Sharp, Violet Violet30 March 199515Death 
du Cloux, Gerauld Johannes Gerauld Johannes30 March 1887123Death 
Wassum, Ida E. Ida E.30 March 1885125Birth 
Barratt, Jane Annie Jane Annie30 March 1868142Birth 
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Thavenot, Peter Raymond Gordon Peter Raymond Gordon7 April 191892Birth 
Brown, Julia Julia7 April 1906104Death 
Barratt, Norman Cuthbert Garner Norman Cuthbert Garner7 April 1895115Birth 
Damant, Elizabeth Elizabeth7 April 1804206Birth 
Gipps, Susanna Susanna7 April 1717293Christening 
Gipps, Susanna Susanna7 April 1717293Birth 
Laurence, The Hon. Dr. Stephen Moister
Fidler, Eliza Wale "Cissie"
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Grandidier, Marthe
Philippe7 April 1647363Marriage 
Cleaver, Dora Dora8 April 1861149Birth 
Turner, Jane Jane8 April 1855155Christening 
Steggall, John Henry John Henry8 April 1852158Death 
Duffey, Mary Mary8 April 1847163Death 
Barratt, Albert Albert8 April 1839171Birth 
Fidler, The Reverend John Mortier The Reverend John Mortier8 April 1831179Birth 
Martin, Doris Doris9 April 199515Death 
Llewellyn, Alfred Lewis Percy Alfred Lewis Percy9 April 191496Birth 
Telfer, Marion Victoria Marion Victoria9 April 1885125Death 
Cook, Albine Albine9 April 1790220Birth 
du Cloux, Antoine Antoine9 April 1732278Birth 
Culpeper, George
Kelshall, Letitia
George9 April 1839171Marriage 
Emmerson, Katherine "Kate" Katherine "Kate"10 April 1859151Baptism 
Hogdon, Sarah A Sarah A10 April 1852158Birth 
Kerridge, Alfred Albert Charles Alfred Albert Charles10 April 1840170Death 
Fiddler, John James John James10 April 1836174Christening 
Fiddler, John James John James10 April 1836174Christening 
Wale, John John10 April 1796214Birth 
Steggall, Henry Henry10 April 1780230Burial 
Osborn, George George10 April 1764246Birth 
Wale, Thomas
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Thomas10 April 1727283Marriage 

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