My genealogist niece came across this previously unseen document the other day, clearly relating to the eldest son of John Edmonds and Ruth nee Hinton of Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire (see under “The Stories” – “The Cloth Dynasty That Went Nowhere”). This threw me a touch that, in all my research, I’d never run into it, or any mention of, this son.
So what we have is – he was born on 15/5/1804, the fact being attested to by Robt Hooper (Surgeon), Elizabeth Hale, and Ann Edmonds, and this was registered with Dr William’s Library in Cripplegate London on 19/12/1820. There are Hoopers and Hales mentioned at other times in the Bradford Edmonds’s story, and Anne Edmonds (nee Bennett) I’m assuming is the grandmother, wife of Elimelech Edmonds.
These “registrations” were largely of Non-Conformists (which the Edmonds and Hintons were) who needed to better “legitimise” their documentation, often as a result of being baptised in an Anglican church in later life, sometimes as a prelude to marriage to an Anglican.
A quick search also found a "John Hinton Edmonds", who had a child John Richard Edmonds in 1824, St Mary's Parish, Lambeth, with wife Elizabeth. This John's occupation was given as "coachman".
So, what’s the story of this “original” John Hinton Edmonds? (There’s been two more in the direct family line since, my Dad, and his grandfather). When did he leave Bradford (and why)? Why isn’t there any mention of him in any family records? Who is his wife? Were there any more kids? Where is he, and his wife, buried?
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