Parochial Pedigrees compiled by Reverend John G Hale
Pages 30-39

Transcribed and contributed by John Hicks, Oct 2006
For further details see Notes
 
Copied with permission from Herts Archives and Local Studies (HALS), custodian of the original volumes on behalf of the Diocese of St Albans (doc ref: DP/107/29/10-12, microfilms 466 & 467)


   
30 Henry GATWARD, son of John & Sarah GATWARD [27]
bapt.25 Dec 1824, died 4 Mar 1885, bur.12 Mar 1885, commonly called Peter
marr.15 Oct 1846
Sarah ROBINSON, widow of Thomas*, dau of John & Elizth. JONES
born 13 Aug 1823, bapt.25 Dec 1823, died 5 Mar 1902.

A girl, who lived two days, not christened

George, born 29 Dec 1847, bapt.13 Feb 1848, died 30 Jan 1885, marr.3 Nov /1870 Annie PRESTON [154]

Julia Ann, born 6 Nov 1850, bapt.29 Dec 1850, marr.16 Nov 1869 Frederick MANNING [137]

William, born 11 Sep 1853, bapt.25 Dec 1853, buried 16 Dec 1863

Henry Edward, born 29 Jun 1856, bapt.2 Nov 1856, marr.13 Oct 1885 Charlotte KNIGHTS [298]

John, bapt.5 Jun 1859, died 25 Dec 1859, bur.2 Jan 1860

Henry John, born 11 Oct 1860, bapt.30 Nov 1860, confirmed 18 Mar 1876, marr.15 Feb 1887 Martha Ann KING [310]

Lizzie Ann, born 18 Sep 1863, bapt.27 Dec 1863, confirmed 23 Mar 1879, marr.25 Dec 1889 Fredk. William GATWARD.  Mother of illeg dau affiliated to Cushie MANNING, registered Marzillah Maud, born 30 Dec 1886, bapt.25 Dec 1887, and of illeg dau Nellie, born 18 Nov 1889, bapt.18 Nov 1889, died 19 Nov 1889 [327]

Frederick William, born 11 Dec 1865, bapt.25 Mar 1866, confirmed 10 Mar 1882

Francis, born 26 Dec 1867, bapt.30 Jan 1868 died 19 Sep 1884, bur.25 Sep 1884

Frederick, born 1 Dec 1870, bapt.7 Nov 1871

* Thomas, son of Thomas & Joanna ROBINSON [148], born 5 Apr 1823, died Apr 1844, bur.29 Apr 1844, marr.19 Oct 1843 Sarah JONES, dau of John & Elizth. JONES, born 13 Aug 1823, bapt.25 Dec 1823, [son] Thomas, born 24 Dec 1843, baptised at Kelshall, marr.1 Mar 1888, Policeman
   
   
   
31 The Brook
Henry PRATT, son of Edward & Martha PRATT
born 3 Oct 1826, bapt.21 Jan 1827
marr.18 Oct 1845
Harriet, dau of John & Sarah GATWARD [27]
born 20 Apr 1829, bapt.19 Jul 1829

Martha, born 25 Nov 1844, bapt.25 Dec 1844, married Richard EDWARDS (at Chapel) [201]

Julia Ann, born 8 Nov 1846, bapt.25 Dec 1846, married Samuel BATES in London, gone to America Canada.  She died about 1882, leaving 2 boys and 1 girl, who was born about 1876, married in 1906, had 5 children

John, bapt.8 Apr 1849, bur.26 Oct 1849

John, born 1 Sep 1850, bapt.5 Jan 1851, married 1 Jun 1872 Eliza STOTON, died Jan 1904 [82]

Emma, born 2 Feb 1853, bapt.17 Jul 1853, marr.22 Feb 1906 Robert Henry WATSON of Cambridge

George, bapt.10 Jun 1855, bur.23 Jun 1855, 6 weeks

Dennis, born 21 Jun 1856, bapt.2 Nov 1856, married Nellie SLIPPER, at Stratford E7

Edward, born 1858, bapt.5 Jun 1859, bur.21 Dec 1859

Sarah Ann, born 6 Oct 1860, bapt.3 Mar 1861, confirmed 18 Mar 1876

Richard, born 7 Nov 1863, bapt.17 Mar 1864, marr.5 Mar 1889 to Caroline Eliza MARCHANT

Frederick, born 3 Feb 1865, bapt.26 Mar 1865, confirmed 10 Mar 1882, marr.1886 Nellie DEARMAN, went to Canada 1905

Lucy, born 3 Jun 1866, bapt.30 Sep 1866, bur.3 Jul 1867

Edward, born 8 Jun 1868, bapt.25 Oct 1868, registered as Henry, confirmed 11 Mar 1885, marr.4 Feb 1897 Grace MEARS, died 13 Aug 1897, accidentally killed while working at the Surrey Docks

Harry, born 23 Dec 1869, bapt.29 May 1870, confirmed 4 Mar 1885

A Boy, who only lived 6 hours
   
   
   
32 Hay Green
William, son of John & Sarah GATWARD [27]
bapt.16 Jul 1843, died 27 Jan 1888, Bricklayer, Left the parish 1890
marr.26 Oct 1867
Mary Ann CHAPMAN
born 1847

Frederick William, born 22 Jul 1868, bapt.27 Sep 1868, confirmed 4 Mar 1885, marr.25 Dec 1889 Lizzie Ann GATWARD [327]

Elizabeth Annie, born 1 May 1870, bapt.31 Jul 1870

Florence, born 27 Jun 1872, bapt.8 Sep 1872, died in London 18 Jun 1891

Lizzie, born 7 May 1875, bapt.1 Aug 1875

Clara, born 17 Apr 1878, bapt.4 Aug 1878

Horace, born 10 Jun 1881, bapt.2 Oct 1881

Leonard, born 5 Sep 1882, bapt.1 Jul 1883

Ralph, born 2 Aug 1886, bapt.2 Jan 1887
   
   
   
33 The Brook
Thomas GATWARD, son of James & Rebekah [44]
born 21 May 1823, bapt.20 Jul 1823, died 29 May 1888, Farmer
marr.20 Apr 1843
Catharine ANDERSON, dau of David & Catharine
born 29 Oct 1824, bapt.26 Dec 1824

Eliza Jane, born 26 Sep 1845, bapt.21 Dec 1845, marr.21 Dec 1865 Wm. RAND [128]

George, born 14 Mar 1847, bapt.4 Jul 1847, died 30 Jul 1894, married in London to Sarah FOX [34]

Allan, born 14 Mar 1849, bapt.27 May 1849, bur.10 Feb 1850

Allan, born 13 Jul 1850, bapt.18 Aug 1850, marr.25 Dec 1871 to Louisa WILSON, Policeman 1874 - retired [35]

Edwin, born 9 Jun 1852, bapt.18 Jul 1852, marr.28 Dec 1876 Mary PICKETT, dau of James & Georgianna PICKETT, Policeman 1874, retired - 1900 [36]

Ellen, born 5 Dec 1853, bapt.29 Jan 1854, marr.14 Apr [1879] Frank HAMMETT (Grocer) at Kings Walden.  The Mother of illeg. ch. Emily born 2 Jul 1873, bapt.5 Aug 1873, confirmed 1 Mar 1888, marr.16 Feb 1898 Joseph CARTER, Grocer’s Assistant Kings Walden

Caroline, born 29 Jun 1855, bapt.26 Aug 1855, died May 1902, marr.12 Oct 1871 to Walter Owen BEALE [139].  The Mother of illeg. ch. Charles BEALE, born 2 Jul 1871, bapt.20 Aug 1871

Charles, born 21 May 1858, bapt.11 Jul 1858, died 1 Feb 1868, bur.8 Feb 1868

Thomas, born 1 Feb 1860, bapt.8 Apr 1860, marr.16 Apr [1884] Harriett RYDER at St Pancras, dau of W _? RYDER, Supt. Police D.C.C. for Herts

Francis, born 6 Jan 1862, bapt.23 Feb 1862, confirmed 18 Mar 1876, marr.19 May 1887, Martha Catharine PRESTON [314]

Margaret, born 15 Oct 1863, bapt. at Chapel, confirmed 3 Mar 1879, marr.4 Jul 1882 David GILLETT of Little Hadham [276]

Kate, born 14 May 1865, bapt. at Chapel, confirmed at Gt Malvern 23 Mar 1885, marr.12 Sep 1888  Fredk. Henry PARKINS at St Marys Reading

[A newspaper cutting, is attached here, copied as follows.  Two names are handwritten beside it]

Thomas Gatward Farmer
Giffen Shop Keeper
 
      In Miss Helen Pelham Dale's "Life and Letters of the Rev. Thomas Pelham Dale" there is a graphic account of the rural parish of Therfield, near Royston, to which Mr. Dale's father retired on leaving St. Pancras in 1860.  She says: "Dissent was very active, and the rector, while promising an equal distribution of flannel petticoats, tried to persuade the villagers to keep to either church or chapel.  But the country mind is slow to alter.  They had always been accustomed to pay court to the church and attend the chapel, or else to snub the one by going to the other.  A quarrel over a vacant pew, for example, caused a lapse into Dissent.  Two farmers claimed the pew; the one had spoken to the churchwarden; the other had had the use of it suggested to him in the course of conversation by one of the ladies at the rectory.  They both came to take possession and met in the pew, a high one.  They had a whispered dispute, from words they came to blows, they were not noisy about it, but fought together, punching each other's head as quietly as the action permitted in the shelter of the pew.  The final decision was in favour of the churchwarden's nominee, and the defeated farmer retired to the chapel in great wrath - only to return to the church when a suitable pew fell vacant.  
   
  [Thomas GATWARD and (Joseph) GIFFEN are presumed to be the pugilists described in the article.  The winner is not named, but GATWARD's youngest two children were baptised at Chapel in 1863/1865 (his earlier children were baptised at Church), which probably indicates that GATWARD was the loser of the "Battle of the Pew"]
   
   
   
34 George GATWARD, son of Thos. & Catharine GATWARD [33]
born 14 Mar 1847, bapt.4 Jul 1847, died 30 Jul 1894
marr.8 Apr 1867
Sarah FOX, dau of Wm. & Mary Jane FOX (who was born 20 Feb 1804, died 11 Nov 1891, bur.17 Nov 1891), born 8 Sep 1842
Were living in Therfield till 1879, when they went to Yorkshire, near Harrogate, and came back to Therfield after the death of his father in 1888.  Sarah 2nd marr.1899 Reuben ANDERSON [120]

Harriett Ellen, born 22 Sep 1870, bapt.25 Dec 1870, died 3 Feb 1907, in Arlesey lunatic asylum, where she had been for 12 years
   
   
   
35 Allan GATWARD, son of Thomas & Catharine GATWARD [33]
born 13 Jul 1850, bapt.18 Aug 1850
marr.25 Dec 1871
Louisa WILSON
   
   
   
36 Edwin GATWARD, son of Thomas & Catharine GATWARD [33]
born 9 Jun 1852, bapt.18 Jul 1852
marr.28 Dec 1876
Mary PICKETT, daughter of James & Georgiana PICKETT
born 25 Dec 1853, died 6 Sep 1903

Mildred Mary, born 13 Mar 1878, bapt. at Ayot St Lawrence

Henry Edwin, born 2 Jan 1880, bapt. at Ayot St Lawrence, Lance Corporal 1st King’s Royal Rifles, died 21 Feb 1900, of Enteric fever, during the Siege at Ladysmith

Frederick William, born 17 Oct 1883, bapt. at Croxley Green, Rickmansworth

2nd marr.5 Jan 1906 at St Andrews Haverstock Hill, Elizabeth Martha HOWLETT, Widow, of 98 Malden Road Kentish Town, born 1849
   
   
   
37 Hoops Lane 1874
George PRATT, son of James & Kezia PRATT [406]
bapt.24 Sep 1820, died 24 Jan 1890
marr.27 Jul 1844
Mary, dau of Thomas & Sarah HOLLINGSWORTH
born 25 Jan 1823, bapt.16 Mar 1823, went to live with her son Henry at Cambridge, died 16 Dec 1900, buried at Cambridge

James, born 30 Oct 1844, bapt.25 Dec 1844, bur.4 Nov 1846

George, born 31 Oct 1846, bapt.13 Dec 1846, bur.12 Apr 1864

John, born 3 Sep 1848, bapt.5 Dec 1848, at Cambridge

Henry, born 11 May 1850, bapt.11 Aug 1850, in Cambridge

Clara, born 8 Jun 1852, bapt.29 Aug 1852, marr. Jun 1881 Arthur GOODWIN at Pampersford

Julia, born 19 Mar 1854, bapt.7 May 1854, bur.7 Feb 1855

Frederick, born 28 Dec 1855, bapt.2 Mar 1856, marr. Oct 1888 Francis Mary BARNES at Kelshall, died 28 Jan 1890, died at his Fathers house of congestion of the lungs, before his Father was buried [321]

Emma, born 8 Jan 1858, bapt.2 May 1858, confirmed 15 Mar 1873, marr. Aug 1881 Arthur DARTON at Hitchin, in Yorkshire

Walter, born 7 May 1860, bapt.5 Aug 1860, confirmed 18 Mar 1876, in London - Midland Railway

Julia Ann, born 11 Apr 1863, bapt.26 Jul 1863, confirmed at Hitchin, at Bradford

Elizth. Hester born 1 Apr 1867, bapt.25 Aug 1867, confirmed at Hertford 1886

[A 24 Jan 1890 newspaper cutting is attached beside the details for George PRATT, copied as follows]
 
 

SUDDEN DEATH ON THE HEATH

  
       A painful impression was created in the town this (Friday) morning about eleven o'clock by the intelligence that a man had died suddenly while on his way across the Heath from Therfield to Royston.  The deceased, George Pratt, a labourer, residing at Hoops Lane, Therfield, apparently between sixty and seventy years of age,had, it appears, been attended by a doctor, having a club certificate, dated January 17th, upon him and a medicine bottle.  He was on his way to the surgery at Royston, for medicine, and was overtaken by a youth named Frank Hagger, who was also going to the doctor.  To him Pratt complained of a pain in his side, and when near the flagstaff, on the top of the Heath, fell down apparently in a dying condition.  Hagger remained with him some time, when a man named John Robinson, of Therfield, who was also on his way to the doctor, came up when deceased breathed his last, at 9.40.  Hagger went on, leaving Robinson with the deceased till P.c. Westlake, stationed at Therfield, was crossing the heath and was beckoned by Robinson.  P.c. Westlake sent into the town for assistance, and Inspector Goodyear had the body removed to the Royston Hospital.  An inquest will probably be held unless the previous attendance and examination of the body should enable a certificate of the cause of death to be given.  
   
  [in Rev. Hale's writing] "No Inquest was held".
   
   
   
38 Carters Church Lane - Royston
George ANDERSON, son of James North & Eliza ANDERSON [9a]
born 21 Mar 1840, bapt.23 Aug 1840
marr.19 Oct 1861
Esther, dau of James & Ruth MOULE
born 1 Mar 1842

Emily, born 22 Mar 1862, marr. WILSON at Royston

Rosa, born 27 Jan 1864, bapt.29 May 1864, bur.7 Nov 1865

Frederick, born 30 Mar 1866, bapt.26 Apr 1866, marr.7 Apr 1888 Florence ALEXANDER at St Lukes Homerton

Annie, born 7 Nov 1867, bapt.29 Dec 1867, died 25 Mar 1877, bur.30 Mar 1877

Winifred, born 13 Mar 1871, bapt.18 Jun 1871

Florence, born 7 Apr 1873, bapt.1 Jun 1873

Alfred George, born 3 Dec 1876, bapt.4 Feb 1877, died 3 Aug 1879, bur.8 Aug 1879
   
   
   
39 6 The Terrace
William, son of John & Sarah HOLLINGSWORTH, brother of Mrs PEGRAM [94] & Mrs LACEY [101]
bapt.9 Oct 1814, died 16 Jun 1884
marr.5 Apr 1834
Alice, dau of Daniel & Eliz. KNIGHTS [10]
bapt.13 May 1807, bur.6 Jun 1874

George, bapt.14 Jun 1835, married Emma JONES [40]

Joseph, bapt.16 Jul 1837, bur.16 Dec 1855

Lucy, bapt.28 Jul 1839, married James FREEMAN [129]
     Wilfred Henry, bapt.6 Feb 1859
     Joseph, bapt.27 Jul 1862, bur.29 Jul 1863
     Emily Victoria, bapt.25 Jun 1863

Emma, born 29 Apr 1842, bapt.3 Jul 1842, marr.19 May 1866 Wm. SHEPHERD [43]

William, born 27 Jan 1844, bapt.17 Mar 1844, marr.22 Dec 1870 to Sarah Ann LEETE [41]

Elizabeth, bapt.25 Dec 1846, marr.15 Oct 1870 to Thomas FREEMAN [46]

John, bapt.29 Apr 1849, bur.27 Apr 1856

Edward, bapt.25 Dec 1850
   
   

 

 

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