NAMES LIST 2

SOME NAMES APPEARING

My BEDDERs are from Bedworth, in Warwickshire, and were Weavers.

It is believed that Frances BEDDER, my earliest traced Bedder ancestor, was born in Broseley, Shropshire in about 1684 and came to Bedworth before 1705 along with his brother Joseph. I have traced 5 sons and one daughter. The only known details of the BEDDER generations are the registration details of the family members, see the Descendant Chart for Frances Bedder.
My BEDDER records end in 1831 with the marriage of Hannah to William ISON at Bedworth.

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My HOWEs are first found at Dunchurch in 1814 when James Howe, an Ostler, married Mary Harratt. Around 1820 they moved to Foleshill, Coventry where James became the Landlord of the Prince William Henry Public House on the Foleshill Road. Later the family moved to central Coventry where they stayed. Their first child, Edward Reading Howe, was born in Dunchurch in June 1815 but he died at 1 year old. They had 2 more children in Dunchurch before the move to Coventry. Later they had 8 more children. In 1841 James was in Coventry Gaol (reason not known) and Mary was a coal dealer at Well Street in central Coventry with the children. By 1851 James was back with the family, now in Cook Street, Coventry and described as a Brewer. It is believed he died about 1858.

Their 4th son, also Edward Reading Howe, was born in 1825 and married Mary Pickard sometime about 1848. He was a butcher at first and then became a gardener. They had 9 children and lived in Little Park Street in central Coventry for many years until Edward's death in 1908.

My gt.grandfather, Abraham Howe, was born in 1854 and married Mary Basheameth Ison in Bedworth in 1874. They had 6 children including my grandmother Ellen Elizabeth Howe in 1880. During the first few years of their marriage they moved around central Coventry living in various cramped court houses in Union Street, Spon Street, Chauntry Place and Little Park Street. Later they lived at Park Terrace and finally 59 St. John Street. At the time of his marriage Abraham was a Miner, but later was a Labourer and a Driver of a stationary engine.

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My HARDINGSs were a Bedworth family.

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My PICKARDs were a family from central Coventry.

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My HUNTs are a north Oxfordshire family from the Cropredy area near Banbury.

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My NICHOLLS are first found in Whetstone, Leicestershire but are later my gt.gt.grandfather James moved to Central Coventry family.
Early spellings were "Nickolls", but I have used "Nicholls" all the time.

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OTHER NAMES which appear less often and little is known about these families.

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