The Nashes of Sudbury
[This is so much playing around. I can't pin down Ann Nash's family for the life of me!]Yesterday I explained how I found all the Prices in the civil parish of Mathon, Worcestershire. I went from the Prices to the Nashes. My great-great grandfather James left Mathon for Sudbury in Derbyshire, where he married Ann Nash.
When my father was researching his family he didn't get too far with the Nashes because apparently there are a lot of them in Derbyshire. But I'm hypothesizing that all or most of the Sudbury Nashes are related to one another.
Maybe I am inventing a family for myself. Maybe not.
The Nashes were interesting. I just looked the 1861 census -- a snapshot. There were 24 Nashes in Sudbury -- most of them in 3 households (plus William and Ann Price). But each household had at least one other non-Nash family living with them. From the ages, these look like the families of married daughters with their babies. The Nashes were poor laboring people, so I guess they just piled in with one another. Some Nashes were working as servants for other families. All the people listed here were born in the civil parish of Sudbury, unless stated otherwise.
Thomas (b 1808, agricultural
laborer)
... Eliza (b. 1835) Married to Henry
Brooks. [Living in same household as Thomas, assumed to be daughter]
... ... George (b. 1854)
... ... Emily (b. 1856)
... ... Henry (b. 1858)
William
(b. 1803, ag lab). Married to Mary (b. 1806)
... Fanny (b. 1835)
... Joseph (b. 1841)
... Edward J (b. 1851)
... Lucy (b. 1843) Married to Joseph
Wilson [family "living in the parlour" - assumed to be a daughter]
... ... Arthur John (b. 1860)
... ... Mary Jane (b. 1861)
[unknown]
Married to Ann Nash (b. 1801
Smalley, washerwoman). These family members were mostly born in Ripley
rather than Sudbury. For whatever reason they all moved to Sudbury and
were all living with Grandma Ann.
... Catherine (b. 1844 Foston)
... Unknown
... ... George Green (b. 1860, Ripley). Listed as grandson and orphan
... Thomas (b. 1826 Smalley).
Married to Sarah Ann (b. 1831 Ripley)
... ... George (b. 1852 Ripley)
... ... William (b. 1854 Ripley)
... ... Henry (b. 1858 Ripley)
... ... Ruth (b. 1860 Chesterfield)
... Dorothy (b. 1835 Smalley)
Married to William Wood [living with Ann - assumed to be daughter]
... ... Annie (b. 1857 Blythe)
... ... Catherine Elizabeth (b. 1860 Ripley)
Eliza (b. 1807 Snelston). Working as a servant for the Mold Family at Vernon Oak. Could be unmarried or the widowed wife of a Nash)
Single males working as servants (included only those born in Sudbury)
... William (b. 1834) Working for
Allen family.
... Thomas (b. 1835) Working for
Booth family.
... Charles (b. 1848)
Who was Ann's father? In 1861 Ann and James had a 2-year-old (my dad's grandpa Bill). Giving the multi-generational households, it's surprising they weren't living with her parents. Maybe there were other daughters living in "nuclear" households, but (since their names would have changed), they are lost to the "Nash" count.
Anyway, I think I've sort of identified the Nashes that I'm related to, give or take a few family members.
Check out the Nashes of Sudbury Family Tree (.pdf)
9.15.05 (Revised 12.08.2005)
Check out the Nashes of Sudbury Family Tree (.pdf)
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