John
Edmonds of Buckinghamshire
Most of us love a mystery, and this one has always had me intrigued.
Maybe you can make some sense of it.
Quite a few years back I came across a batch of files in the Wiltshire
CRO, designated “888 Series – The Edmonds’s of Bradford”. So I bought a copy,
on a data CD. Full of wonderful stuff about my ancestors, which is incorporated
in their stories here on “The Bones”.
But amongst them was also a Will and a Marriage Settlement for a John
Edmonds, of Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire. I asked the CRO why this was
in the Series, never got a reply, and I moved on with all the other data,
forgot it.
But then that “John Hinton Edmonds” bit (see below) turned up the other day and,
wondering what might have become of him, I remembered these two files. But the
Bucks guy is definitely NOT “my” John Edmonds, the eldest Edmonds-of-Bradford son that I
missed.
But the question remains - WHY is
it in with the Bradford Edmonds stuff?? So here it is, and eventually it’ll go
down into “The Strays”. See what you can make of it.
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A Marriage Settlement was written dated 9/4/1829, between a John Edmonds
a Jeweller of The Strand London, and a Cordelia Pitter Of Oxford St
Westminster, the widow of John Pitter late of Covent Garden. It mentions her son
John Robert Pitter.
A John Edmonds (a “Widower” of this
parish - St Martins in the Field Westminster) married a Cordelia Pitter (a
“Widow” of St Mary Paddington – about 3kms away) on 11/4/1829. (Her maiden name
was apparently Elliott).
In the 1841 Census of Bucks a John Edmonds and a Cordelia Edmonds were
living in the High St of Princes Risborough. John was 70, [so born c1771], the
Head, and “Born in this County”, and Cordelia [his wife] was 72. They had a
bunch of others living with them, so presume they were running a boarding
house.
In 1851 he was 80, a Widower, born “England”, a retired Jeweller, living
in the High St of Princes Risborough.
A Cordelia Edmonds died in the Wycombe Berks Regn Dist (incs Princes
Risb) in Sept ¼ 1845, and he died Dec ¼ 1852, also in the Wycombe RD.
A “John Edmonds” of Princes Risborough made a Will on 14/10/1852, which
was proven on 27/4/1853, the execs being John Robert Pitter esq, and James
Stratton. The will mentions his “late wife Cordelia”, his daus Charlotte
(Descrepgny??) and Cordelia (Boyd), and a “friend Thomas Clapham”.
That’s about it. William Bennett Edmonds’ wife’s mother Ann Chapman came
from the Haddenham area of Bucks, not far from Princes Risborough, but other
than that, it’s hard to see any connection with this guy and the Bradford
Edmonds’s.
But WHY is his Marriage Settlement and Will in with the Bradford
Edmonds’s stuff in the Wilts CRO?? No idea!
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