COLE STORY Rebecca R 1847

Children of Samuel and Mary (née RUTLAND) COLE:
1. Martha COLE (1772-).
2. William COLE (1773-1773).
3. John COLE (1774-).
4. Sarah (COLE 1775-).
5. Mary COLE (1779-) and they were all baptised at Great Steeping;
6. Samuel COLE junior.
7. James COLE.
8. John COLE.
9. Sarah COLE - the last four children were all baptised on the same day, Sunday, 28 November 1784 at Sutton St Edmund LIN, near Wisbech.
10. Elizabeth COLE (1787-) also baptised at Sutton St Edmund LIN; and lastly,
11. Our James Rutland COLE (1793-) was baptised at Great Steeping.

James Rutland COLE, a farm labourer, married Lucy WRIGHT on Saturday, 14 May 1814 at Dalby LIN where he, but not his new bride, was able to sign the marriage register.

Children:
1. Mary COLE (1815-1819) baptised at Mavis Enderby LIN.
2. Samuel COLE (1817-aft 1881) also baptised at Mavis Enderby, was a shepherd, married Elizabeth PEARSON, and had at least seven children.
3. Joseph Wright COLE (1819-1852) baptised at Ashby Puerorum LIN, as were the next two children –
4. Harriet COLE (1824-).
5. James Rutland COLE junior (1828-), moved to Edlington LIN where he worked as an agricultural servant.

Joseph Wright COLE, father of Rebecca and son of James Rutland and Lucy (née WRIGHT) COLE, lived at Ashby Puerorum LIN in the Wold countryside, and now reached by deep, winding lanes. The village church is no longer used and access to it on my last visit, was through a farmyard.

Joseph Wright, with his surname spelt COAL and described as a railway labourer, married Mary RANSON, a literate servant, at Immingham LIN in 1846.

Their only child,
1. Rebecca Ranson COLE (the future wife of Thomas CADE junior) was born in 1847.

Rebecca Ranson COLE's father, Joseph Wright COLE, died when she was five and her mother, Mary (née RANSON), died when Rebecca was seven years old. Rebecca then went to live in Immingham LIN with her maternal grandmother, Rebecca RANSON, her deceased mother's brother, John RANSON junior and his wife, Mary.

Rebecca Ranson COLE was baptised on 5 September 1847 at Immingham LIN, the daughter of Joseph Wright COLE and Mary (née RANSON) COLE. In 1866, at Louth Methodist Chapel, Rebecca Ranson COLE married George WILES, a farmer of Ludborough LIN, when both were 19 years old. They had three children, Fred WILES, Mary WILES and Emma WILES. After eight years of marriage, George WILES died at Ludborough, LIN, aged 27. Now a widow, Rebecca Ranson WILES married Thomas CADE junior on Christmas Day, 1877, at the Free Methodist Chapel of Grimsby LIN.

Her great, great grandfather, John COLE married Sarah GREGG in 1739 at Great Steeping LIN, a village set in the Fens and near the southern end of the Wolds. Its neighbouring village is Little Steeping and between them runs the River Lymn, which flows from here to the sea at Gibraltar Point. Little is known of John COLE other than he was a farmer and had at least one son named Samuel COLE, born in 1747.

Samuel COLE was not baptised until 1771 at Great Steeping LIN shortly before his marriage to Mary RUTLAND.