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Martha was born in 1784, and baptised at Shipton-on-Cherwell, the daughter of Susannah ROUSE who was unmarried at the time. When Martha was two years old, her mother married Robert KING, a blacksmith from the next parish of Bletchingdon. The family settled in Bletchingdon and Martha took the surname KING. Martha married Stephen SOANES of Forest Hill when she was 30. Stephen was a lath and hurdle maker, and Forest Hill is about 8 miles from Bletchingdon along a good road. They had four children, the first two probably twins as they were baptised on the same day just 9 months after the marriage. Martha died at Forest Hill aged 72, ten years before Stephen. |
C=Christened
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age DATE
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7Jun1784 29Nov1786 2 12Mar1814 30 24 13Nov1814 30 24 27Apr1817 33 27 14Nov1819 35 29 4Jun1840 36 30 6Jun1841 57 51 30Mar1851 67 61 9Dec1856 72 66 7Apr1861 71 24Sep1866 76 |
Martha ROUSE baseborn dau of Susannah ROUSE born; C at Shipton on Cherwell on 13 June Martha's mother married Robert KING of Bletchingdon at Shipton Martha and Stephen SOANES married at Forest Hill; wit: George SOANES,
William SOANES sons Joseph and Benjamin C at Forest Hill, probably twins; Stephen was
a lathrender dau Rebecca C at Forest Hill; Stephen was a hurdle maker son William C at Forest Hill; Stephen was a labourer dau Rebecca mar Thomas YOUNG a stonemason at Kirtlington Parish Church census: not found; husband Stephen at Kirtlington with married dau
Rebecca YOUNG census: living in Forest Hill with Stephen and unmarried son Joseph;
Stephen was a hurdle maker Martha died at Forest Hill census: Stephen living with married son Joseph and his family; Stephen
was a master hurdle maker Stephen died at Forest Hill |
b=born m=married d=died
C=Christened B=Buried
from census,
Martha KING was born about 1787 in Bletchingdon; or about 1784 from age on
death certificate. There is no baptism
of Martha KING there, but the following entries were found in the adjacent
parish of Shipton-on-Cherwell, some 3 miles from Bletchingdon:
C
13Jun1784 Martha ROUSE baseborn d Susannah ROUSE; b 7Jun1784
m
29Nov1786 Robert x KING of Bletchingdon & Susanna x ROUSE by lic; wit: John
TOMS, Richard LEONARD
The date
of birth agrees with the death certificate age and there is no burial of Martha
ROUSE at Shipton; the only burial in the national index is in 1794 at Langford
some 20m from Bletchingdon. It seems
very probable that Martha ROUSE became Martha KING after the marriage of her
mother and who stated in the census that she was born in Bletchingdon in 1787,
ie some 3 years younger than her real age; Martha was brought up in
Bletchingdon and may not have known of her Shipton baptism.
If this
analysis is correct, the father of Martha remains unknown. A bastardy bond if it exists may give the
name of the reputed father. The family
of Robert KING has however been further researched, pending any evidence of
Martha’s father
Stephen
SOANES–5 was married at Forest Hill OXF in 1814:
m
12Mar1814 Stephen x SOANES bch otp & Martha x KING spr otp by banns; wit:
George x SOANES, William SOANES
C
13Nov1814 Joseph s Stephen & Martha SOANES otp lathrender; m Sarah
c1855
C
13Nov1814 Benjamin s Stephen &
Martha SOANES otp lathrender; m Martha c1840
C 27Apr1817
Rebecca d Stephen & Martha SOANES otp hurdle maker;m
19Dec1836 Wm DOWSON of SSJ see
Rebecca SOANES-4
C
14Nov1819 William s Stephen & Martha SOANES otp labourer
the 1841 census
has Eliza SOANS an ag lab aged 20, so born c1816-1821; she may be another
daughter, or a niece C1819 at Forest Hill daughter of Stephen’s brother
William; another possibility is an enumerators error for Martha aged 50
d 9Dec1856
Martha SOANES 72 wife of Stephen SOANES lath render at Forest Hill; cause:
disease of liver
r
9Dec1856 by Sarah x LANE pad Forest Hill at Headington, OXF, (sub-district
Wheatley)
d
24Sep1866 Stephen SOANES 76 hurdle-maker at Forest Hill; cause: neglected
diarrhae
r
26Sep1866 by Ann THORNTON pad Forest Hill at Headington, OXF, (sub-district
Wheatley)
burials
at Forest Hill extracted to 1858 but Martha not found
Martha has
not been found in the 1841 census and is not in the Oxford 1841 index. Her husband Stephen was in Kirtlington with
their son Joseph and newly married daughter Rebecca. Possibly Martha was there also but incorrectly entered as Eliza,
though the handwriting is very clear on the census form
William YOUNG 55 1785 butcher y
Frances YOUNG 55 1785
n
Thomas YOUNG 25 1815 mason y
Rebecca YOUNG 24 1816
y
Ann YOUNG 20 1820
y
John YOUNG 20 1820 y
Joseph YOUNG 14 1826
y
Stephen SOANS 40 1801 ag lab y
Joseph SOANS 20 1821
ag lab y
Eliza SOANS 20 1821 ag lab y
Stephen SOANES he mar 60 1790 hurdlemaker &c Forest Hill OXF
Martha SOANES wi mar 63 1787
Bletchington OXF
Joseph SOANES so unm 35 1815 hurdlemaker &c Forest Hill
OXF
Stephen SOANES he wdr 70 1790 master hurdle maker Forest Hill OXF
Joseph SOANES so mar 45 1815
Forest Hill OXF
Sarah SOANES dl mar 32 1828
Forest Hill OXF
Stephen SOANES gs unm 3 1857 scholar Forest Hill OXF
James SOANES gs 4m 1860
infant Forest Hill OXF