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January 18th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
The Weeley Hardingham’s
In 1848 my Great Grandfather John Hardingham from Woolpit, Suffolk, arrived at Weeley to live with his aunt and uncle Thomas and Eliza Canham, Thomas was the village Blacksmith. John had left his mother and 5 brothers and sisters in Woolpit, after his father Thomas Hardingham, a railway porter, had been killed on the railway line on the 10th April 1848, aged 42.
The 1851 Census sees him living at 81 The Street, and he is a blacksmith apprentice to his uncle. In 1857 John married Sarah Ager from Layer de le Haye. They moved to 95 Colchester Road, by now John had his own blacksmiths.
They had five children, Eliza Hardingham, who married John William Faulkener from Brightlingsea Essex. Catherine Hardingham who died 1868 aged 9. Charles Ager Hardingham who married Agneta Greggs from Brightlingsea. Fanny Sarah Hardingham who married Henry Ransome from Hellesdon Norfolk. Walter John Hardingham who married Eliza Simpson Becky from St Osyth Essex.
By 1871 they had moved to Heath Road, Weeley, but in the 1881 census they had moved back to 92 The Street, Weeley, Walter was now a blacksmith-wheelwright working with his father. They lived there till John’s death in 1883 at the age of 48.
The 1891 census finds Sarah has moved to 45 The Street, Weeley, and was working as washer- woman. At the beginning of the 1900’s Sarah was living with her son Walter John Hardingham in Great Bentley Essex. She died in Great Bentley in 1908 aged 74.
John, Sarah, and Catherine are buried in St Andrews Church Yard Weeley.
May 9th, 2010 at 6:00 am
Hello. I live in Brisbane, Australia but was born and bred in Melbourne, Victoria. My English Grandfather, George William Kemp had emigrated to Melbourne in 1912; he was the only son and possibly the only child of JANE REBECCA GREEN, the last child of 4 to ROBERT GREEN and SARAH [nee Watkins, from Wales] GREEN. They married at St Bride’s, London, i think it’s them, in 1844. Robert was a widower, Sarah a spinster. They lived on the Heath, Weeley and in St Osyth.
The 4 Green children were all born ‘on’ The Heath, Weeley. Robert Green was born apparently in 1801 in Ardleigh. His father was a Robert Green, and a ‘Miller’ by occupation. The children were John, b 1845, Octavius, b 1847, Sarah Ann b 1849 and then Jane Rebecca in 1855.
Sadly, Robert Green jnr. died but I’m not sure if it was in the Union Workhouse as per one record I have, dated 1858. However, Robert was not given on the 1861 England census which stated that Sarah Green was a ‘Widow’ and had to take in boarders and laundry. I don’t know when Sarah Green died. Records are not specific enough to be sure.
Jane married my greatgrandfather, George Kemp, b1840, in 1881. She was the housekeeper at his pub, The Kings Head, 8 Bow Road, Bromley by Bow – am not sure from when. Sadly George died in 1893 and Jane in 1903. Their only son, my grandfather, was an orphan at 17. He had an extensive family in Middlesex and Surrey, but i have no personal effects recording these only the terrific public records of censuses and the GRO.
I have a fairly good picture, from afar, that gives the skeleton to the Kemp and Green family that is mine.