Short Genealogy	20 August 2006
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view SHORT family tree view SHORT family summary view SHORT ancestor chart view spouse's records		Dr G.M.W.Mann. Baytrees Burnhams Rd, Lt.Bookham Surrey, U.K. KT23 3AU geoff.mann@btinternet.com
	6 Francis SHORT 1755-1815
	m Margaret BLACK 1782

Francis was born in 1755 the son of a weaver in Mile End New Town. He became a weaver like his father and in 1782 aged 27 he married Margaret BLACK at Stepney, St Dunstan.

Three children were baptised in Shoreditch while there were living in Moors Alley and George Yard. Five more children were then baptised at St Matthew Bethnal Green. Hand weaving was becoming an increasingly difficult trade to sustain a living because of competition from power looms, and in the 1790s, Francis was noted as a pauper.

Francis died at Club Row in 1816 aged 61. Two years later, his widow remarried Robert HEBDEN at Shoreditch but nothing further is known of her life.

EVENTS

age DATE FS MB

EVENT

7Jun1755 14Jun1755 30Jun1782 27 ?? 28Sep1782 27 16Nov1783 28 4May1785 30 19Feb1786 31 28Sep1786 31 26Feb1789 34 12Dec1793 38 30Nov1795 40 18Jul1797 42 31Aug1800 45 30Jan1816 61 13Jun1818

Francis born Francis christened at St Dunstan; parents Thomas, a weaver of Mile End New Town, and Anne Francis & Margaret BLACK m at St Dunstan; both of Mile End New Town son Jacob born son John born Jacob and John christened at St Leonard's Shoreditch; Francis & M at Moors Alley son Charles born son Charles christened at St Leonards; Francis & M at George Yard dau Margt Ann born; Francis weaver of St Matthew parish dau Hannah born; Francis weaver, pauper of St Matthew son George born; Francis weaver of St Matthew son William born; Francis pauper of St Matthew dau Ann born; Francis poor; St Matthew Francis of Club Row buried at St Matthew Margaret wid m Robert HEBDEN wdr at Leonards Shoreditch; both of this parish

PRINCIPAL RECORDS

b=born m=married d=died

C=Christened B=Buried

BIRTH

From his age at burial, Francis was born about 1755. He married in 1782 at Stepney St Dunstan when he would have been about 27. Francis is not a common name, and there is only one suitable baptism in the IGI:

C 14Jun1755 St Dunstan; Francis s Thomas SHORT, Mile End New Town, weaver, and Anne; 7 days

The good fit with burial age, marriage at the same church, the same trade of both Francis and Thomas, and Francis living at Mile End when he married, leaves little doubt that this is the correct baptism

MARRIAGE

William SHORT-5 was baptised at St Matthew Bethnal Green son of Francis & Margaret. Five baptisms to these parents at St. Matthew are preceded by three baptisms at Shoreditch St Leomards. The earliest baptism is in 1785, but the date of birth was 28Sep1782. Three months earlier is the following marriage:

m 30Jun1782 at Stepney St Dunstan after banns on 5,12,19Jun1782; Francis x SHORT bch otp and hamlet of Mile End New Town & Margt x BLACK spr otp and hamlet of Mile End New Town witness: John TILOOR [? Tyler or Taylor?] R VAUGHAN [frequent witness]

Both Francis & Margaret are relatively uncommon christian names, leaving little doubt that this is the correct m; no other m of these names in IGI.

DESCENDANTS

from register of Shoreditch St Leonards:

C 4May1785 b 28Sep1782 Jacob s Francis & Margaret SHORT; Moors Alley

C 4May1785 b 16Nov1783 John s Francis & Margaret SHORT; Moors Alley

C 28Sep1786 b 19Feb1786 Charles s Francis & Margaret SHORT; George Yard

from register of St Matthew Bethnal Green:

C 27Mar1789 b 26Feb1789 Margt Ann d Francis & Margaret SHORT; weaver

C 3Jan1794 b 12Dec1793 Hannah d Francis & Margaret SHORT; weaver P [P=pauper]

C 18Dec1795 b 30Nov1795 George s Francis & Margaret SHORT; weaver

C 4Aug1797 b 18Jul1797 William s Francis & Margaret SHORT; P [P=pauper]

C 14Sep1800 b 31Aug1800 Ann d Francis & Margaret SHORT; poor

DEATH

B 30Jan1816 Frances SHORT, Club Row, 61 [b1755] at Shoreditch St Leonard

the burial of Margaret SHORT has not been found, but there is a re-marriage of Margaret two years after the death of Francis:

m 13Jun1818 Robert HEBDEN wdr otp & Margaret SHORT wid otp by banns; at Shoreditch St.Leonard; wit: Joseph NASH, Ann x POVEY

Both Margaret and Francis are relatively uncommon names, and the remarriage of a Margaret SHORT, widow, 2 years after burial of a Frances SHORT gives confidence that this is the right burial of Francis.

Burial of Margaret HEBDEN not found, but a Margaret HEBDEN married William PRICE 9Jul1850 at St Lawrence Jewry and St Mary Magd Milk St; if she were 18 at first m, she would be 86 in 1850! Could it be her??

BLACK family

There are several possible C of Margaret BLACK in London IGI:

C 9Jan1756 d James & Jane at St George in the East

C 24Jun1759 d James & Elizabeth at St Ann Blackfriars

C 20Sep1765 d David & Margaret at St Olave

C 3Feb1768 d Michael & Mary at St George in the East

none of these look promising; not at Shoreditch or Stepney and fathers’ names not used for Margaret’s children

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