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The Adams Family
Great Brickhill, Bucks and surrounding villages
First draft of a family account by Angela Bowmaker
Research is ongoing
1800's - The Labourers
William Adams (born 1752) married Mary Gates of Leighton Buzzard. They
had a daughter Sarah and three sons, John, William and James. Our family
line [Angela Bowmaker's] is through John (born
1797). His birth was difficult to trace because in the parish register
he had first been recorded as William. In the Bishop's transcript this
is changed to John. John married Zilpha Vass in 1819 and they had 4
sons, our ancestor William (born1822), Charles, George and Edmund.
A piece of oral history, right through to the present day, is that
a Sarah Bunyan, who was a descendant of John Bunyan, married into the
Adams family. In fact Sarah Bunyan was the mother of Zilpha Vass. As
yet no connection back to John Bunyan has been found.
In 1842 William (born 1822) married Rosehannah Norman who was born
in Hanborough, Oxon. Girls of this time seem to have travelled "in
service" as domestic servants, following their employers to various
houses, then maybe leaving and hiring out again in the new area. William
and Rosehannah had ten children over sixteen years. It was a difficult
time for these large families. Four of the childen died in infancy,
one daughter, Emily, at the age of 6 and a son, Amos, at the age of
11.
George 1842, Juliana 1845 and Walter 1856, lived to adulthood and to
marry. The eldest son George married Emily Dillow in 1864 (Angela's
Great grandparents) and had 10 children. Juliana married William Jorden
in 1871, lived in Stewkley and had 2 sons by the time of the 1881 census.
Walter married Ellen Cook in 1885. They had 4 children and this line
also continues. Alfred Arthur is not recorded in Great Brickhill after
baptism, however it is probably he who appears in the 1881 census unmarried
in Lee, Kent near his 2nd/3rd cousins.
(The Labourers section is to be expanded)
Last updated February 2001
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