Descendants of William Shurmer, b 1802 - branch 1
Generation 3
She was baptised at Latton in Wiltshire on 11th May 1830 and living with her
parents in 1841, probably in Cerney Wick, but does not appear in the 1851
census. She married John Baughn on 21st
June 1860 at Cerney Wick, a small village about two miles from Latton over the
border in Gloucestershire, and the marriage was witnessed by Edwin Gleed and
Ruth Baughn. Ruth was the sister of John, and Edwin appears to be from
South Cerney and about 7 years younger than John, according to the 1851 census,
although I have not found him in a later census.
Their first son, Harry, was born in 1860 and baptised on the 26th August 1860 in
South Cerney church by the curate, John S Foster. John's occupation was
given as thatcher, and he and Kezia were living in Cerney Wick which is about
two and a half miles from South Cerney. Unfortunately he died when he was
about 9 months old and was buried by John Foster at South Cerney.
They had a daughter called Ester Emma who was baptised at South Cerney on the
28th August 1864 by the vicar who was W W Liddell, and then another son, this
time called Thomas, who was born in 1866 but only lived a short time as he died
on the 9th January of the following year.
Emma was baptised on 15th December 1833 at Latton and the family was still in
Latton when
the 1841 census was taken. She had moved to London by the time the next
census was taken, when she was 17,
as she was working as a servant in the household of a commercial traveller in
wines called William Godfue at 45 Woking Hill Square, Kensington She was
still in Kensington ten years later and working as a housemaid for Hannah S
Havelock, the widow of a baronet. By the
time the 1871 census was taken she had moved on and was working as a housemaid, one of 5 servants, at 14
Kensington Park Gardens in the household of John H Fordham, a barrister at
law. It is possible that she married before 1881, but I have been unable
to prove, or disprove, that possibility.
John was baptised on the 6th December 1835 in Latton and lived with his parents until after the 1851 census,
at which time he was working
as a labourer. He married
Elizabeth Berry
in Latton on the 6th February 1858 and she lived in Church Street, Latton, just
around the corner from where John and his parents lived in 1851.
Their address in 1861 was shown as hamlett, South Cerney, which probably means
Cerney Wick and John's occupation was agricultural labourer. He and
Elizabeth had two sons by this time, John and Charles James. During the
next ten years they had four more children - Sarah Jane (who married
John Owens) in 1863, Frank in 1865, Thomas
in 1868 and Harry in 1870. By this time it looks as if they were living in
Cerney Wick very close to the Crown Inn. Another three children followed
by the time of the 1881 census - Mary Ann in 1873, Edwin a year later and then
William in 1877 after they had moved to Cricklade, a pretty little town in
Wiltshire close to Latton and Cerney Wick.
The 1881 census recorded the family
as living in Sims Lane, Cricklade, (in the St Mary parish), where John was still working as an agricultural labourer.
The last child was Emma who was baptised on the 27th of May 1883, but she died
just over one year later on the 20th August 1884 and is commemorated on the
gravestone marking her father's grave in Latton churchyard.
John died on the 1st August 1886 in
Latton
and five years later Elizabeth is now living at Hayes Lane, Cricklade but there
is no mention of how she was supporting herself. Elizabeth lived on, in
Cricklade, until the 5th
January 1900 and died from cardiac failure, influenza and bronchitis, according
to the certificate issued by Frank L Swarne, MRCS. It was probably her
daughter Mary Ann who registered her death in Cricklade on the day she died.
She was buried with her husband in Latton churchyard.
He was living in the High Street in
Latton in 1851
with his parents, but had moved to nearby Kemble in Gloucestershire by 1861 to become a railway labourer
and was lodging with William Sarby, (or Sarky), another railway labourer, and his
wife Harriet. William was born in Kemble but his wife came from Swinbrook
in Oxfordshire. Joseph lived with Mary, (possibly Mary Hughes from Orcop
although I cannot find any trace of a marriage), and they had two children by
1871 - a son called Albert who was born in 1869 in Cerney Wick, Gloucestershire and Joseph a year later
who was born in Orcop, Herefordshire.
(This is the same area where my Pyner ancestors lived in the early 19th
century.) At this date Joseph was an agricultural labourer and they lived at Mount Pleasant, Llanwarne
in Herefordshire, just a few miles from Orcop.
A visitor called Emma Hughes, aged 8, was present on census night and she could
be a niece of Joseph's wife. She was born in Orcop as well.
Some time between 1877 and 1880 the family moved to a house called Quab in Welsh
Newton, also Herefordshire but a few miles north of Monmouth. They had several more children - Annie in 1872, Thomas in 1874,
both born in Llanwarne, Emma in 1875 and Fanny in 1877 - all of whom except Emma were born in Llanwarne.
Emma was born in Orcop in Herefordshire, possibly at her grandmother's house.
Another daughter, Elizabeth, was born in the spring of 1880 in Welsh Newton.
They were still living at Quab, Welsh Newton when the 1881 census was taken.
James was probably born in
Latton like his brothers Joseph and George.
In 1861 he was employed as a plough boy and lived with his mother and father but
had moved to Herefordshire to live in Llanwarne with his brother Joseph by 1871
and stayed with them when they move to Welsh Newton where they were living in
1881. He was shown as a labourer on both the 1871 and 1881 censuses.
He was born in
Latton, Wiltshire in 1849 and was living with his parents
in Gosditch Street until after 1861 and moved to Cirencester Road, Latton by 1871
to live with his parents next to the toll house on the Wiltshire and Berkshire
Canal. He obtained work as an
agricultural labourer in the 1860s.
Frederick was born one month before the 1851 census was taken and started
work as an agricultural labourer in the 1860s. Within the next decade he
moved to Lancashire and married Sarah (Curry?) in spring 1878 in Chorlton
registration district. They had four children - Emma in 1879, William
Corry Shurmer in winter 1880, James in 1883 and Elizabeth A in 1886.
William had a short life as he died, aged 30 months, in spring 1883.
The move meant a change of employment for Frederick who worked as a railway
carter from 1881 to 1901. Their first house was at 10 Markham St, Ardwick,
a district just to the east of Manchester town centre. They seem to have
stayed in this district as they lived at two more addresses in Ardwick, firstly 50
Blackthorn Street and then 8 Ferry Street.
Emma, James and Elizabeth lived with their parents until at least 1901 with
Emma starting work as a mantle machinist in the 1890s, James followed his father
and worked as a porter on the railway while Elizabeth became a dressmaker.
He lived with his mother in Cirencester Road, Latton which was next to the
toll house on the Wiltshire and Berkshire Canal, in 1871 and moved with her to
27 Cricklade Road, Latton by 1881 when he was working as an agricultural
labourer. This may have been next to Street Farm which was where they were
living in 1891.
In the autumn of 1892, about 6 months after his mother died, he married a 29
year old Birmingham woman called Rose Littler. They had a son called
William in late 1899 and were living in Latton Street in Latton in 1901 when
Albert was described as a general farm labourer.
Generation 4
He was born in Cerney Wick and baptised on the 7th November 1858 at South
Cerney, but the 1861 census showed him living in the house of his grandfather
John Shurmer and his wife Elizabeth Berry in Latton. Ten years later he
was living with his uncle John Berry in Cirencester Road, Latton and he then
moved to live in the house of his aunt Jane Mantell in the High Street of
Cricklade and was working as an agricultural labourer.
Towards the end of 1881 he married Elizabeth Sarah Hughes in the Highworth
registration district of Wiltshire, which is near Swindon. He and
Elizabeth then moved into Swindon and four children were born in the next ten
years - they were Agnes, Frank, Amelia and Arthur. The 1891 census shows
John working as a general labourer, (possibly on the Great Western Railway), and
living at 9 Morris Street, Swindon with his family. They also had a
boarder called Albert Hughes who could have been a brother of John's wife Sarah.
Another two children followed - William in 1896 and Harry in 1899. Some
time in the nineties John had become a boilermaker's assistant as this was his
occupation on the 1901 census when the family was at 53 Exmouth Street, Swindon.
According to the 1881 census Charles was still living with his parents in
Sims Lane, Cricklade St Mary and working as an agricultural labourer but had
probably married Elizabeth, (possibly Elizabeth Ann Stone) about two years
later. Their first child was called Charles, after his father, and he was
born in 1884 in Swindon like his siblings, who were Lizzie in 1885, Winifred in 1887,
Reginald in 1889 and Elizabeth who was 5 months old at the time of the 1891
census so would have been born about November 1890.
In 1891 Charles was working as a Railway Factory Messenger, (the railway was
a major employer in Swindon for many years), and lived with his wife Elizabeth
and four children at 7 South View, Swindon in a house with four rooms, one of
which would have been occupied by his younger brother Edwin.
Ten years later, after the birth of their last child William in 1893, he was
still a messenger in a railway factory works but had moved to 55 Exmouth Street,
Swindon. Their six children were still living with them but the eldest son
was working as a railway coach builder, and Lizzie was apprenticed to a
dressmaker.
Sarah Jane was born on 28th January 1863 in South Cerney. By 1881 she
had moved to Latton and was living with her cousin John Berry at 5 Gosditch Lane
which has now been demolished to make way for some 'executive' homes, no doubt a
far cry from the house the Shurmers lived in. The head of the household,
John Berry, was a 32 year old agricultural labourer and also resident were his
sisters Maria, 40, Mary A, 34, both laundresses like Sarah Jane. All three
Berrys were born in
Latton. There was also a niece of John's called Hilary Mantell, aged 13 and who was still at school, living in the house. Hilary
was born at Cricklade.
Sarah Jane moved to Bath and married
John Owens on 15 November 1886 when she
was living in the parish of St Andrew in Walcot, Bath.
See the
Owens History for the descendants of Sarah Jane Shurmer.
Although Frank was living with his parents in Cricklade in 1881 he was
working as an agricultural labourer.
He was still at school when the 1881 census was taken, and living with his
parents. I believe that he married either Mary Jane Weston or Elizabeth
Eleanor B Pearce in the last quarter of 1892 at Barton Regis, which is a
registration district of Bristol.
Harry was born about April 1870 in Cerney Wick, Gloucestershire, next door to
the Crown Inn. By 1881 his family had moved to Bell Lane, Cricklade St
Mary in Wiltshire. In the 1880s Harry started work as a general labourer
and was still living with the family in 1891 when they had moved to Hayes Lane,
Cricklade, but had become a butcher's assistant by 1901 when his sister Mary had
become head of the family shortly after the death of their mother Elizabeth
Berry. Harry was still single in 1901.
Mary had become a general servant by 1891 but presumably she
had given up paid work following the death of her mother in 1900 and was head of the
household looking after her brothers Harry and William in 1901. The house in Hayes
Lane, Cricklade, only had four rooms.
Born in 1874 in Cricklade, Wiltshire, he was still at school in 1881 and
living with his parents at Sims Lane, Cricklade St Mary but had moved to Swindon
to work as a Wagon Builder, presumably for the Great Western Railway, and was
living with his brother Charles at 7 South View, Swindon by 1891. In 1901
he lived at 55 Exmouth Street, Swindon with his uncle Charles Shurmer and
continued to work as a railway wagon builder.
He was an agricultural labourer in 1891, living in Hayes Lane with his
family, but in 1901 he was a railway signalman and unmarried, like the siblings
he shared the house with.
Emma is mentioned on a gravestone in the churchyard at Latton which says that
she was the youngest daughter and died on 20th August 1884, aged 14 months, so
would have been born in June 1883.
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