John Eddowes

1852-05-22 John Eddowes Death 1797 John Eddowes (Worthen Bap) 1842 John Eddowes Burial 1852 John Eddowes

John was born in 1797 in Worthen and his baptism took place there on August 21st, 1797.^1 2 

• Birth Notes

  Born 1797 if 55 when buried in 1852 (although 52 on death record).
  
  Cant find any birth record in Wales, but assumed to have come from Holt, near Wrexham.
  
  April 1851, Age 55, born Wrexham, Denbighshire
  May 1852: Aged about 55 when died.
  So born 1796-7
  
  Married by licence, so may not originally be from Wrexham or Brymbo, possibly Shropshire:
  
  Name:    John Eddowes
  Baptism date    21 Aug 1797
  Denomination    Anglican
  Place    Worthen, Shropshire
  Father:    John Eddowes
  Mother:    Elizabeth Eddowes
  Register type    Baptism & Burial
  Register date range    1778-1799
  Archive reference    P315/A/1/4
  Page    59
  Record set    Shropshire Baptisms
  Subcategory    Parish Baptisms
  Collections from    Great Britain, England
  

John's father was John Eddowes and his mother was Elizabeth Jones. He had two brothers and a sister, named Ralph, Thomas and Esther.  He was the oldest of the four children.  He died from a heart attack, Visitation of God, at the age of 55 on May 9th, 1852 at Beast Market.  He was buried on May 12th, 1852 in Brymbo.^3 4 

• Death Notes

  Died before 1861, when wife Mary was a widower, living with daughter Esther Brereton and family.
  
  2 Possible John Eddowes Deaths in Wrexham: (1837-1860)
  Deaths Jun 1852   Wrexham  11b, 249    WM/010/40, Aged 52
  Deaths Dec 1859   Wrexham  11b, 240    WM/016/20, Aged 60
  
  Mary should be in Birkenhead somewhere, but John is probably buried at St Chad Holt, Gresford or Brymbo, both just outside Wrexham.
  
  May 1852: SUDDEN DEATHS. - On Sunday last, Mr. John Eddowes, cowkeeper, residing at Beast Market, Wrexham ate his dinner in his usual health and spirits; but after rising from the table he fell down; and instantly expired.
  An inquest was held on the body before Bevis Heywood Thelwall Esq., and a respectable jury, when a verdict of "Died by visitation of God" was returned.  Deceased was about 55 years of age.
  
  Died the Sunday before 22-May which is the 16th
  
  Name:     John Eddowes
  Event Type:     Burial
  Event Date:     12 May 1852
  Event Place:     Brymbo, Denbighshire, Wales
  Age:     55
  Birth Year (Estimated):     1797
  Digital Folder Number:    004631666
  Anode: Wrexham Regis

• General Notes

  John and Mary are my 3x great grandparents.  John is from the Beast Market, Wrexham.  Johs may have somtimes gone by the name Joseph (e.g. on daughter Elizabeth's marriage).
  
  13 Mar 1826, John Eddowes, a Maltster married Mary Whitfield by licence.
  
  In 1827, Elizabeth's baptism also shows John a Malster
  
  There is another John Eddowes from Wrexham b.1814, also a Maltster, also married to Mary (see 1851 Manchester census).
  
  9 May 1852, John died aged 55.  The closest birth match is another John from Worthen, Shropshire, son of John and Elizabeth.  He was born about a year after John and Elizabeth Ford married at Worthern in 1797.  There are no more baptisms there, so the family may have moved on (i.e. to Wrexham).  However, that family moved to Westbury and had Thomas (1799), Edward (1801), William (1803), Sanuel (1805), George (1807), Ann (1810).  This in not our John!
  
  An older John Eddowes had the Tannery in the Beast Market by the Old National School.  It was formerly held by William Poynton, tanner, and after by Mr Walter Jones. Died Nov 19 1799, and was buried at Marchwiel (from Wrexham Parish History).
  
  In 1827, when Elizabeth was baptised, the family were at Bank Street, Wrexham.  They were also at Bank Street when Mary Ann was baptised, this time John shown as a Carrier. Must be the same John, as same address (and it appears Elizabeth got baptised again).
  
  In 1835, when Esther was baptised, John was a farmer at Common Wood (Gresford).
  
  In 1847, they may still havre been at Holt when Johns daughter Elizabeth had her first child.
  
  In 1851 John (55, a Coal Jagger, born Wrexham) was with his Mary (47, born Gresford), at the Beast Market, Wrexham. They were with children Edmund (17), Esther (15), John and Thomas (both 12), Lydia (10), William (8) and Mathew (4).  Elizabeth and George had already left home and married. In 1851, Another John and Mary Eddowes family were at Manchester, also a Maltster (they married at Wrexham in 1841).
  
  Mary (John's wife) was recorded as a Farmers Widow in 1861, so John must have been a farmer earlier in his life.
  
  Mrs Eddowes and Mr William Owen Eddowes (1786-1850) held land and a tannery adjacent to the Beast Market (before 1896, sold in 1824), so may be a parents or close relatives, anthough now thought not.
  
  In 1836 Esther, daughter of John and Mary, Farmer at Common Wood, was baptised.  Common Wood in by Gresford and Holt, so it seems very likely Thomas of Pike Green, Gresford in 1851 is John's brother.
  
  According to the births of the children, the family moved from Holt to Wrexham about 1839-40.  Unfortunately, there are no Census records for Wrexham 1841 that have survived.
  
  John's death was recorded at the Beast Market, Wrexham in 1852.  His wife Mary then moved to her daughter's Esther in Birkenhead where she died in 1868
  

Details of John's family with Mary Whitfield