Rouse Rose Genealogy

3 April 2008

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5 Martha ROUSE (KING) 1784-1856

 


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m Stephen SOANES 1814

 

 

 

 

Martha was born in 1784, the daughter of Susannah ROUSE who was unmarried at the time and was baptised at Shipton-on-Cherwell.

 

When Martha was two years old, her mother married Robert KING, a blacksmith, and moved to the next parish of Bletchingdon where Martha took the surname KING.

 

Martha married Stephen SOANES of Forest Hill when she was 30.  Stephen was a 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.

 

 

EVENTS

C=Christened

 

           age

   DATE   MR SS

 

                       EVENT

 7Jun1784     

29Nov1786  2  

12Mar1814 30 24

13Nov1814 30 24

27Apr1817 33 27

14Nov1819 35 29

 4Jun1840 56 50

 6Jun1841 57 51

30Mar1851 67 61

 9Dec1856 72 66

 7Apr1861    71

24Sep1866    76

Martha ROUSE baseborn dau of Susannah ROUSE born and 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

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 married Thomas YOUNG at Kirtlington

Stephen was an ag lab at Kirtlington with married dau Rebecca, but Martha not with them

census: Martha & Stephen living in Forest Hill with 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

 

 

PRINCIPAL RECORDS

b=born  m=married  d=died

C=Christened        B=Buried

BIRTH

 

from census, Martha KING was born about 1787 in Bletchingdon. 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

 

It seems almost certain that this is Martha KING who stated in the census that she was born in Bletchingdon in 1787, ie some three years younger than her real age; Martha was brought up in Bletchingdon and may not have known of her Shipton baptism.  No bastardy bond or other record has been found to indicate whether or not Robert KING was the father of Martha

 

 

 

MARRIAGE

 

Martha KING married Stephen SOANES at Forest Hill in 1814:

 

m 12Mar1814 Stephen x SOANES bch otp & Martha x KING spr otp by banns; wit: George x SOANES, William SOANES

 

DESCENDANTS

from Forest Hill register:

 

C 13Nov1814 Joseph   s Stephen  & Martha SOANES otp lathrender;    m Sarah c1855 (from census)

C 13Nov1814 Benjamin s Stephen  & Martha SOANES otp lathrender;    m Martha c1840 (from census)

C 27Apr1817 Rebecca  d Stephen  & Martha SOANES otp hurdle maker;  m Wm DOWSON 19Dec1836 see Rebecca SOANES-4

C 14Nov1819 William  s Stephen  & Martha SOANES otp labourer

 

as Joseph and Benjamin were baptised on the same day just 9 months after Martha’s marriage it is likely that they were twins

 

DEATH

certificates

 

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

 

CENSUS

 

Martha has not been found in the 1841 census and is not in the 41 Oxfordshire census index; Stephen however was found with their married daughter Rebecca in Kirtlington,  Also present was their Joseph and Eliza SOANES bc1821/6 who has not been identified.  The handwriting on the census form is very good and no possibility of confusing Eliza with Martha

1841 Kirtlington OXF HO/107/886 f8

 

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

 

 

1851 Forest Hill OXF HO107/1727 f125

 

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

 

 

 

 

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