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Dr Geoffrey Mann
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5 Martha KING (ROUSE)1784-1856

6 Robert King


spouse's records

m Stephen SOANES 1814

 

 

 

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 at Forest Hill, the first two probably twins as they were baptised on the same day just 9 months after the marriage. Life was probably hard in 1841, as Martha was then a live-in servant to a farmer while her husband was a labourer some 10 miles away in Kirtlington.

 

They were together again in 1851 at Forest Hill, where Martha died in 1856 aged 72, ten years before Stephen.

 

 

 

C=Christened

 

           age

   DATE   MK SS

 

EVENT

 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

servant to a farmer in Holton (1 mile from Forest Hill) Stephen an ag lab in Kirtlington

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

 

PRINCIPAL RECORDS

b=born  m=married  d=died

C=Christened       B=Buried

BIRTH

 

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

 

MARRIAGE

 

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

 

DESCENDANTS

from Forest Hill register:

 

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

 

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

 

1841 Holton, OXF HO107/877/2/f4

Robt     PARROTT 30 1811 Farmer N

Martha   SONES   50 1791 FS     Y  [FS=female servant]

Elizth   DAWSON  15 1826 FS     Y

John     RING    20 1821 MS     Y

 

Holton is only 1½ miles from Forest Hill where Martha was living with her husband in the next census.  Her husband Stephen was in Kirtlington with their son Joseph and newly married daughter Rebecca. 

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

 

1861 Forest Hill OXF RG9/889 f84

 

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

 

 

 

 

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