Hi Joy
We have communicated before, about your own research, while I was living in
England. I have now moved to Canada.
With reference to your query, the 1851 English Census (taken 30/31 March)
found Henry Chandler, an unmarried Bricklayer's Labourer aged 17 and born at
Bampton, Oxfordshire, living at 107 Vauxhall (pronounced Voxall) Walk,
Lambeth, Surrey (now London) (reference HO 107 1572 folio 135), the home of
his brother-in-law Joseph Ansell, a Bricklayer aged 39 born at Baldock in
Hertfordshire and his wife Eliza aged 31 also born at Bampton (presumably
Henry's sister).
The IGI has a christening of Henry Daniel Chandler at Bampton on 15th
December 1833 which fits - he is the son of Thomas and Ann (not Elizabeth -
where did the information about Elizabeth Taylor come from?). They also
christen Harriett there on 2nd December 1827. Eliza Chandler is christened
at Bampton on 19th March 1820 (the right year) but her parents are John and
Ann Chandler, not Thomas. Perhaps John and Thomas were brothers, in which
case Henry and Eliza were cousins, not brother and sister. Thomas and Ann
also christened William at Bampton on 4th August 1822, Thomas on 22nd May
1831, Susanna on 11th January 1837, and Maria on 13th February 1825.
I couldn't locate Thomas the father in Oxfordshire in the 1851 Census, so I
looked for John his ?brother and think I found him at Church Street,
Bampton, a Hay Trusser aged 66 with wife Ann (59) and (mysteriously) son
Thomas aged 19 born at Bampton. This is the right age to be Thomas and
Ann's boy, and John and Ann didn't baptise a Thomas at Bampton!!
Nearby, at Sandfords Cottages, Weald, are William Chandler aged 28, also a
Hay Trusser and the right age to be Thomas and Ann's William, born at
Bampton as were his wife Sarah (30) and unmarried brother-in-law Timothy
Townsend (29). Now the interesting thing is that John Chandler and his wife
Sarah were not born in Oxfordshire - they are shown as born at Lambourn,
Berkshire. So perhaps Thomas was born there too? Sure enough, I find a
Thomas Chandler, married and aged 54 "in charge of a house" at 22 Hill
Street (reference HO107 1476 folio 384b), in the parish of St George Hanover
Square (central London), with no other Chandlers in the house - and he says
he was born at Letcombe, Berkshire, which is about two miles from Lambourn.
BINGO, I think! (Incidentally that part of Berkshire is very close to the
border with Oxfordshire, which has been re-drawn, so the original statement
about Oxfordshire birth may well be correct).
So what has happened to Henry's mother Ann? Thomas didn't call himself a
Widower, suggesting she is still alive in 1851. I have been through the 300
or so Ann Chandlers I have in the 1851 Census, and can't plausibly suggest
any of them.
I do notice, however, that the IGI has an interesting marriage of Thomas
Chandler to Ann Taylor (there's the name!) at Lambourn, Berkshire on 14th
October 1816........there is also a Thos Chandler christening at Lambourn
(parents William and Hannah) but the date is 3rd December 1787 - 10 years
too early for our purposes (if it was transcribed correctly). I also notice
that Jeremiah and Ann Chandler christen a John there on 14th October 1784 -
just right to be 66 in 1851 (this suggests that John and Thomas were NOT
brothers).
So that's about as far as I can take it at present.
Dick Chandler in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada, researching the
CHANDLER and HADATH surnames
Member of the Guild Of One-Name Studies (
www.one-name.org)
Member of the Society of Genealogists (
www.sog.org.uk)
Member of the British Columbia Genealogical Society (
www.npsnet.com/bcgs/)
----- Original Message -----
From: "J&J Bedson" <jbedson(a)ozemail.com.au>
To: <CHANDLER-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 10:28 PM
Subject: [CHANDLER] Henry Daniel CHANDLER in Oxford
Hi everyone,
I am submitting this for a friend in Australia.
Her ggrandfather was Henry Daniel, born in Oxford(shire?) c 1833.
He went to Australia in 1852 and married Martha PLAICE and later Eliza
Jane
WALLACE.
His father was Thomas CHANDLER, born also Oxford and married Elizabeth
TAYLOR.
Is there an1851 index for any of Oxfordshire?
Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
Joy Bedson, NSW
MY CHANDLERS are from Westminster, later Thomas, born c1810 moved to
Wandsworth,
Battersea, Lambeth area.
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