My earliest known Weddell ancestor:
My earliest
proven
Weddell ancestor is
Samuel
Robert Weddell, below.
In each census, 1851-1881, he stated that he was born in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
No record of a baptism has been found there, or in the surrounding
area, but there is a Weddell family
for which strong circumstantial evidence exists suggesting that they
are his parents.
The family is that of
William
George WEDDELL and Elizabeth LYON,
who married in Newcastle in 1804, and had one known son, George
William, born in 1805. Outline details of the family are
shown below, with detailed reasoning as to why they are probably the
parents of Samuel Robert Weddell being given on a separate page.
William George Weddell and
Elizabeth Lyon
Son of Samuel WEDDELL and Mary
Born: Wednesday 7 June 1780
Christened: Sunday 2 July 1780, St
George, Bloomsbury, Middx
Married: Monday 27 August 1804,
Newcastle, All Saints
Daughter of Robert LYON and
Hannah SIMPSON
Christened Monday 20 February 1786,
Mill Hill Independent, Hendon
George William
Born: Wednesday 26 June 1805
Christened: Sunday 23 March 1806,
Newcastle
Died: Not known
Was Samuel Robert
Weddell (below) a member of this family?
Detailed reasons for concluding that
Samuel Robert Weddell was probably a son of
William George Weddell and Elizabeth Lyon are given as background
information.
Born: circa 1810, Newcastle-upon-Tyne?
Died: Sunday 29 March 1874, Aigburth
Vale, Garston
Married: Monday 3 December 1838, St
Philip's Church, Liverpool, Lancashire
Born: Foregate St, Chester
Christened: Sunday 23 January 1820, St
John the Baptist, Chester, Cheshire
Died Wednesday 12 November 1873,
Aigburth Vale, Garston
Charles
Christened: Monday 25 November 1839, St
Peter's Church, Liverpool, Lancashire
Died: pre-1851 ?
Elizabeth Hannah
Christened: Monday 9 January 1843, St
Peter's Church, Liverpool, Lancashire
Married: Friday 25 March 1864, St James,
Walton on the Hill, Lancashire
Born circa 1837, Liverpool, Lancashire
Known Children:
James H., Born
circa 1865, Liverpool, Lancashire
Alfred, Born circa
1867, Liverpool, Lancashire
Louisa, Born circa
1871, Liverpool, Lancashire
Samuel R., Born
circa 1873, Liverpool, Lancashire
Frederick W., Born
circa 1876, Liverpool, Lancashire
Elizabeth C., Born
circa 1880, Liverpool, Lancashire
Ellen
Christened: Monday 20 January 1845, St
Peter's Church, Liverpool, Lancashire
Sarah
Born: circa 1847
Married: Monday 26 May 1873, St Michaels
Church, Toxteth
Born circa 1841, Liverpool, Lancashire
Known Children:
Harriet A., Born
circa 1875, Liverpool, Lancashire
Arthur J., Born
cica 1877, Liverpool, Lancashire
Jessie, Born circa
1878, Liverpool, Lancashire
Jennie, Born circa
Sept 1880, Liverpool, Lancashire
Harriet
Born: Aigburth, Liverpool, Lancashire
Christened: Thursday 20 December 1849,
St Peter's Church, Liverpool, Lancashire
Married: 1876 (Jun qtr), Ref: West Derby
8b591
Born circa 1848, Broxton, Cheshire
Known Children:
Emily, Born circa
1878, Wycherley, Lancashire
Thomas, Born circa
1880, Aighburth, Lancashire
Charlotte
Born: Thursday 13 November 1851,
Aigburth Vale, Garston, Lancashire
Married: Thursday 12 June 1873, St
Anne's Church, Aigburth, Lancashire
Born circa 1843, Westbury, Wiltshire
Known Child:
George F., Born
circa 1875, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, Lancashire
Martha
Born: circa 1853, Aigburth, Liverpool,
Lancashire
Married: 1888 (June qtr), Ref: Liverpool
8b65
Samual Robert
Born: 1855 (Dec qtr), Aigburth (ref:
West Derby 8b269)
Louisa
Born: 1857 (Dec qtr), Aigburth (Ref:
West Derby 8b271)
Married: Wednesday 4 March 1885, St
Michaels, Toxteth, Lancashire
Frederick James
Born: 1859 (Sept qtr), Toxteth Park
(Ref: West Derby 8b271)
Christened: Friday 26 August 1859, St
Anne's Church, Aigburth, Lancashire
Died: 1873
Born: Tuesday 18 March 1862, Toxteth
Park, Liverpool, Lancashire
Christened: Sunday 6 April 1862, St
Anne's Church, Aigburth, Lancashire
Died (Aged 102): Friday 20 November
1964, Bournemouth, Hants
Married (1): Wednesday 11 April 1883, St
Mary's Church, Edge Hill, West Derby, Lancs
Richard EDWARDS
[Richard and Mary Jane are shown in
the 1891 census living at 9 Gladstone Road, West Derby,
see below, but no further information
has been found about Richard after that date.]
Married? (2): 1895?, [No record of a
marriage has been found in England/Scotland]
Born: c.1862/3, Switzerland (Fribourg?)
Died: Saturday 30 November 1940, St
Pancras Hospital
In the 1851 census, Samuel Robert
& Ellen Weddell are living at 15 Victoria
Buildings, Garston, with four children
| Samuel Weddell |
Head |
Marr |
39 |
Saddler |
Northumberland, Newcastle |
| Ellen |
Wife |
Marr |
31 |
[No occupation given] |
Cheshire, Chester |
| Elizabeth |
Dau |
- |
8 |
Scholar |
Lancs, L'pool |
| Eliza [should be Ellen] |
Dau |
- |
6 |
at home |
Lancs, L'pool |
| Sarah |
Dau |
- |
4 |
- |
Lancs, L'pool |
| Harriet |
Dau |
- |
1 |
- |
Lancs, L'pool |
In the 1861 census, Samuel Robert
& Ellen Weddell are living in 9 Aigburth
Road, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, with seven children
| Samuel Robert Weddell |
Head |
Marr |
57 |
Saddler |
Newcastle on Tyne |
| Ellen |
Wife |
Marr |
41 |
[No occupation given] |
Chester |
| Sarah |
Dau |
- |
14 |
- |
Toxteth Park |
| Harriet |
Dau |
- |
12 |
- |
Aigburth |
| Charlotte |
Dau |
- |
10 |
- |
Aigburth |
| Martha |
Dau |
- |
8 |
- |
Aigburth |
| Samuel Robert |
Son |
- |
6 |
- |
Aigburth |
| Louisa |
Dau |
- |
4 |
- |
Toxteth Park |
| Frederick James |
Son |
- |
8 |
- |
Toxteth Park |
In the 1871 census, Samuel Robert
& Ellen Weddell are living at 4 Georges
Terrace, Aigburth, Garston. Only the three younger children are still
at home
| Samuel Robert Weddell |
Head |
Marr |
60 |
Saddler |
Newcastle on Tyne |
| Ellen |
Wife |
Marr |
54 |
-do- wife |
Cheshire, Chester |
| Samuel Robert |
Son |
UnM |
15 |
Saddler |
Lancashire, Aigburth |
| Louisa |
Dau |
- |
13 |
Scholar |
Lancashire, Aigburth |
| Mary Jane |
Dau |
- |
9 |
Scholar |
Lancashire, Aigburth |
In the 1891 census, Richard &
Mary Jane Edwards are living at 9 Gladstone Road,
West Derby, Liverpool
| Richard Edwards |
Head |
Marr |
28 |
Coachmans Groom |
Lancashire, Liverpool |
| Mary J. |
Wife |
Marr |
26 |
[No occupation given] |
Lancashire, Liverpool |
Updated: 28th November 2006
Reformatted: 5th December 2006
