Person Sheet


Name Jesse BETTS
Birth 1835
Occupation Sawyer
Father Joseph BETTS (1801-)
Mother Catherine AUSTIN
Spouses
1 Mary Ann HOBBS
Birth 1840, Little Addington
Father Frederick HOBBS (1814-1892)
Mother Mary Ann TINEY (~1810-1892)
Marriage 10 Feb 1859, Woodford, Northants
Children Elizabeth Jane (1859-)
Annie (1861-)
Thomas (1867-)
Julia (1870-)
Rose B (1871-)
Frederick (1874-)
Kate (1877-)
Arthur (1879-)
Notes for Jesse BETTS
1841 Census Woodford
Bakehouse Lane
Samuel Roe 75, Jane Roe 75, Catherine Betts Ag Lab wife, Lucinda Betts14, Jesse 6.

1851 Census High St, Thrapston, Jesse Betts, 16, Wood Sawyer living at home of John Starmore, 37, Wood Sawyer.

Married 10 Feb 1859 Woodford to Mary Ann Hobbs. Fathers Joseph Betts, Labourer, Frederick Hobbs, Tailor. Both signed. Witnesses Frederick Tiney, Sarah Manning.

1861 Census Woodford. Jesse 27 Sawyer, Mary Ann 23, Elizabeth Jane 1.

1866 Member of Woodford Baptist Church
Note by name 'Left Village'

1871 Census 16 Church St Woodford. Jesse 35 Sawyer, Mary A 32, Anne 9, Thomas 4, Julia 1.

1881 Census
Hardingstone - 48 Althorp St, Far Cotton, Northampton.
Jesse 44, Sawyer, Mary A 41, Anne 19, Tomo 14, Julia 11, Rose B. 10, Fredrick 7, born Stanion, Kate 4 born Stanion, Arthur 2 born Northamton + Boarder Thomas Whitlock 22, Ry Wagon Builder.
St. Mary's Parish - an area of mostly railway workers - waggon builders, railway labourers etc.

Look as if Jesse & Mary Ann were in Stanion in 1874 & 1877, then in Northampton in 1879 when Arthur born. As a Sawyer he would have to go where wood needed cutting!

Also in Hardingstone,
12 Oxford St,
Frederick Hobbs 66 Tailor, Mary A Hobbs 70 Tailoress, Elizabeth J. Betts, 31 Grandau, Tailoress, Woodford, Ess??, Jessie Betts, 4 Grandson, born Stanion.
This is obviously Elizabeth Betts, daughter of Jesse & Mary A although she should be 21. She is living with her grandparents.
Last Modified 18 Jun 2001 Created 18 Nov 2001 by Reunion for Macintosh

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