See also

Family of Robert Edwards and Susan Smith

  • Husband:

  • Robert Edwards (1744?- )

  • Wife:

  • Susan Smith (1749?-1835)

  • Children:

  • Mary Edwards (1770?-1839)

  •  

  • Robert Edwards (1772?-1855)

  • Marriage Banns:

  • 12 Nov 1769

  • St. Mary's Church, Brettenham Road, Buxhall, Suffolk, England1

  •  

  • also published on 19th and 26th November 1769

  • Marriage:

  • 28 Nov 1769

  • St. Mary's Church, Brettenham Road, Buxhall, Suffolk, England2 3 1

  •  

  • both single of this parish, by banns, witnesses Will Pettit? and Edward Searle

Husband: Robert Edwards

  • Name:

  • Robert Edwards4

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Robert Edwards (1718?-1778)

  • Mother:

  • Susan Brooks (1722?-1792)

  • Note:

  •  

  •  

  •  

  • A lot of entries in Ancestry use the burial record in Long Melford in 1819 which says he was in the hospital there (but it was an almshouse, so doesn't fit if wife died in 1835 in Shelland), I suppose it could have been him, but why Long Melford?

  • Birth:

  • 1744 (app)5 4

  •  

  • Baptism:

  • 12 Oct 1744 (age 0)

  • St. George's Church, Westhorpe Road, Wyverstone, Suffolk, England5 4

  •  

  • son of Robert Edwards

Wife: Susan Smith

  • Name:

  • Susan Smith3 1

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Note:

  •  

  •  

  •  

  • baptism noot found at Buxhall fiche 3

  • Birth:

  • 1749 (app)6 7

  •  

  • Death:

  • Sep 1835 (age 85-86)6 7 8

  •  

  • Burial:

  • 30 Sep 1835

  • King Charles the Martyr Church, Church Lane, Shelland, Suffolk, England7 6 8

  •  

  • aged 86 of Shelland

Child 1: Mary Edwards

  • Name:

  • Mary Edwards9

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse (1):

  • Robert Denny (1772?-1798)

  • Spouse (2):

  • Isaac Hawkins (1779?-1844)

  • Birth:

  • 1770 (app)

  • Haughley, Suffolk, England10 9

  • Baptism:

  • 3 Dec 1770 (age 0)

  • St. Mary's Church, Duke Street, Haughley, Suffolk, England2 9

  •  

  • daughter of Robert Edwards and Susan

  • Death:

  • Mar 1839 (age 68-69)

  • Suffolk, England6 7 11

  • Burial:

  • 31 Mar 1839

  • St. Andrew's Church, Church Lane, Norton, Suffolk, England6 7

  •  

  • aged 70 of Norton

Child 2: Robert Edwards

  • Name:

  • Robert Edwards9

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Pleasance Martin (1770-1841)

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • farmer12 13

  • Birth:

  • 1772 (app)

  • Haughley, Suffolk, England12 13

  • Baptism:

  • 11 Oct 1772 (age 0)

  • St. Mary's Church, Duke Street, Haughley, Suffolk, England2 9

  •  

  • son of Robert Edwards and Susanna

  • Miscellaneous:

  • 22 Nov 1821

  • The King's Head, Stowmarket, Suffolk, England14

  •  

  • cottage was to be auctioned as part of the sale of Mr. Thomas Pritty's estate

  • Census:

  • 6 Jun 1841 (age 68-69)

  • Brickwall Farm, Stowmarket Road, Wetherden, Suffolk, England12

  •  

  • aged 65, a farmer living with his wife, two children and two servants. Born in Suffolk

  • Directory:

  • 1844 (age 71-72)

  • Wetherden, Suffolk, England15

  •  

  • as a farmer of

  • Census:

  • 30 Mar 1851 (age 78-79)

  • Brickwall Farm, Stowmarket Road, Wetherden, Suffolk, England13

  •  

  • head of the household aged 75 widowed, a farmer of 176 acres employing two agricultural labourers living with a son, two servants and a servants daughter. Born in Haughley Suffolk

  • Miscellaneous:

  • 19 Apr 1851

  • Brickwall Farm, Stowmarket Road, Wetherden, Suffolk, England16

  •  

  • advertised a quantity of old hay from upland pasture for sale

  • Directory:

  • 1855 (age 82-83)

  • Wetherden, Suffolk, England17

  •  

  • as a farmer of

  • Death:

  • 5 Feb 1855 (age 83)

  • Brickwall Farm, Stowmarket Road, Wetherden, Suffolk, England7 6 18 19

  • Burial:

  • 10 Feb 1855

  • St. Mary's Church, Church Street, Wetherden, Suffolk, England2 20 7 6

  •  

  • aged 83 of Wetherden

Sources

1.

Suffolk Records Office (Ipswich) - Parish Records. Buxhall St. Mary fiche:3 of 10. Suffolk Record Office (Ipswich), Suffolk Record Office, Gateacre Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, England.

2.

Suffolk Records Office (Lowestoft) - Parish Records. Suffolk Record Office (Lowestoft), Suffolk Record Office, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England.

3.

Suffolk Family History Society - Blackbourn, Stow, Thedwastre and Thingoe Marriages 1754-1812, (2010 SFK-MI/05 own copy).

4.

Suffolk Records Office (Ipswich) - Parish Records. Wyverstone St. George fiche:2 of 9. Suffolk Record Office (Ipswich), Suffolk Record Office, Gateacre Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, England.

5.

Terri Richardson personal communication. email. Cit. Date: 3 July 2007.

6.

Suffolk Family History Society - Suffolk Burial Index, (2020 SFK-BUI/03-1 own copy).

7.

The Federation of Family History Societies, National Burial Index for England & Wales v.3, (2010 own copy).

8.

Suffolk Records Office (Ipswich) - Parish Records. Shelland King Charles the Martyr fiche:3 of 3. Suffolk Record Office (Ipswich), Suffolk Record Office, Gateacre Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, England.

9.

Suffolk Family History Society - Stow and Thedwastre Baptisms 1754-1812, (2011 SFK-BPI-05/P2 own copy).

10.

Colin Edwards - Suffolk Edwards Database. Suffolk Edwards Database.

11.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Stow 1839 quarter:1 volume:12 page:525.

12.

England and Wales Census 1841, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:HO107 piece:1035 book:15 folio:9 page:13.

13.

England and Wales Census 1851, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:HO107 piece:1794 folio:352 page:10.

14.

FindMyPast Newspaper article, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). Bury and Norwich Post Wednesday 21 November 1821 page:1.

15.

Archive CD Books, White's Directory of Suffolk 1844 (own copy), (CD-ROM). page:283.

16.

FindMyPast Newspaper article, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). Bury and Norwich Post Saturday 19th April 1851 page:2.

17.

Archive CD Books, White's Directory of Suffolk 1855 (own copy), (CD-ROM). page:427.

18.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Stow 1855 quarter:1 volume:4a page:394.

19.

FindMyPast Newspaper article, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). Bury and Norwich Post Wednesday 21st February 1855 page:2.

20.

Sian Plant (One Name Study) personal communication. ex NBI. Cit. Date: July 2001.