This week I thought I'd work on my Freeman heritage and follow the Moore line in Norfolk. Little did I know that it would lead to Balls. And, it has to be said, one of my favourite names so far: Widdup. How good is that?!
This line starts in Ashby in Norfolk - back to 1796 so far; it's an offshoot of the main line (James Moore->Ann->Mary Ann Brown->Albert J E Freeman) and goes down from James' brother Abraham. He and his wife Elizabeth had three children and, save for their son Abraham, the line comes to a grinding halt at the 1851 census.
Luckily, young Abraham reappears in the 1861 census and remains pleasantly visible for the rest of his natural. He and his wife Sarah (nee Larkins) had seven children; Elizabeth (b. 1846) was last seen at age 4, Daniel (b. 1849) disappears from view at age 23, Maria sadly died at age two, and Sarah Ann (b. 1855) similarly fails to trouble the scorers much, vanishing from public record after 1871.
Christiana, born in 1853, is the one who married Mr Balls, of the weak attempt at humour at the beginning. She and David Balls had four children before David's death in 1900. I have yet to find any grandchildren for them.
Maria, 1858-1893, married Free Easter and, with him, produced three children. Free junior sadly/inevitably died in the Great War but is registered on the Commonwealth War Graves site (www.cwgc.org) as H. Easter which puzzles me greatly, but there's no doubt it's him as there is also a Probate entry for him, where the death dates are the same and he names his sister as executor.
Youngest son of Abrahan & Sarah was George. Born in 1861, this particular apple didn't fall far from the tree, living two doors down from his parents in both the 1891 and 1901 census. He married Sarah Chilvers and they had two children. Their daughter Frances married William Widdup. Excellent name, as I've already said; I have yet to see if there were any offspring.
In fact, I shall check now, while Adele continues to blast out from my computer.
More soon.
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