A great grandmother of mine was Sarah Edwards. She married John Thomas Robinson, a publican and later a farmer, at Church Stretton, Shropshire, in 1877. She was born on 22nd November 1852 at Wall in the parish of Rushbury, Shropshire, and was baptised at Rushbury on Boxing Day, 1852, the daughter of Edward and Mary Edwards. Her name is omitted from the birth certificate. She and John Thomas had ten children, including my grandfather, Herbert Thomas Robinson, and she died in 1939, aged 86, and is buried at Richard's Castle, Salop.
Sarah's parents were Edward Edwards and Mary Bevan. Edward is recorded in the baptism register for Sarah as being a farmer, though her birth certificate says he was an innkeeper (deceased). In fact by 1851 he was an innkeeper at Castle Foregate, Shrewsbury. Unfortunately the 1851 census only identifies his place of birth as Shropshire, and he died, aged 27, in August 1852, three months before Sarah was born. By then the family had moved to The Plough Inn at Rushbury. The marriage certificate for Edward Edwards and Mary Bevan (February 18th, 1849) describes Edward as a farmer from Munslow, son of Edward Edwards, also a farmer.
Edward's father was probably the Edward Edwards farming in Munslow in 1851, then aged 60, born in Eaton. Also present are his wife, Sarah (64, born in Munslow) and their children, Mary and Harriet (22 and 20). This Edward married Sarah Wilkes at Munslow on 14th October 1810. He is believed to have been baptised at Eaton-under-Heywood on 27th July 1788 (in fact making him probably 62 at the time of the 1851 census), the son of John Edwards and Susannah (née Evans), who were married on 28th February 1788 at Tugford, Salop.
Sarah Edwards's mother, Mary (née Bevan), married a second time, to William Hayes in 1855 and they remained at The Plough in Rushbury. The marriage register misled me for some considerable time as the father's name was poorly written, but I identified it wrongly as Thomas Beton (ruling out Bevan at the time), which led me into extensive searching of Beton records for the ancestry (Beton/Betton was a family of some note in Shropshire). Needless to say the search was fruitless!
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