This lot is from a fam hist “Notice Board” (Rootsweb?) from some time ago....
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EDMONDS HENRY - ENG 1811 - 1895 ( 333 )
b. ABT 1811 Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England
d. ABT Sep 1895 Freshford, Somerset, England
Census 02 Apr 1871 -
St. Margaret`s Street, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England
m. Duell, Maria 12 Feb 1832 Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England
d. ABT Dec 1850
remar. Bowles, Elizabeth Mar 1853 Bradford North, Wiltshire, England
Henry and Maria's children ..
Edmonds, William H. b. ABT 1834 Hilperton, Wiltshire, England
Edmonds, Henry b. 1838 Hilperton, Wiltshire, England
Edmonds, Ezekiel b. 1841 Hilperton, Wiltshire, England
m. Gerrish, Amelia
Edmonds, Edward b. 1843 Hilperton, Wiltshire, England
Edmonds, Walter b. ABT Sep 1844 Hilperton, Wiltshire, England
Edmonds, Benjamin b. 1847 Hilperton, Wiltshire, England
Henry and Elizabeth's children ..
Edmonds, Richard b. 1854 Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire, England
m. Culverhouse, Emily
Edmonds, Betty Maria b. ABT 1857 Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England
m. Humphries, Jabez
Edmonds, Fanny H. b. ABT 1859 Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England
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EDMONDS JOHN ( 1782 - WILTSHIRE - ENG )- ( 333 )
Edmonds, Elimelech
b. ABT 1760 d. 1829 m. Bennett, Ann
Edmonds, John
b. 27 Oct 1782 Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England
Census 06 Jun 1841
Church Street, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England
Occupation 1848 Church Street, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England
m. Hinton, Ruth 15 Mar 1803 Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England
d. Mar 1856
Was listed in the Commercial Directory for Bradford-on-Avon for 1822. Woollen cloth manufacturers Yerbury, Edmonds& Edmonds were operating on Church Street, Bradford-on-Avon. This partnership was between Frank Yerbury and brothers John and Ezekiel Edmonds
Occupation Notes
was Proprieter of John Edmonds & Co., Woollen Cloth Manufacturers
Edmonds, William Bennett
b. ABT 1817 Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England
d. 01 Aug 1870 Goolwa, South Australia
m. Evans, Elizabeth
Edmonds, Samuel Edwin
b. 06 Dec 1818 Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England
m. Hooper, Mary
Edmonds, Ruth
b. 06 Apr 1824 Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England
d. 10 Mar 1892 Axbridge, Somerset, England
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EDMONDS-EZEKIEL “JNR” - 1813 - 1881 - ENG- ( 333 )
b. ABT 1813 Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England
d. Dec 1881 Fulham, Greater London, England
Census 07 Apr 1861
Berryfield House, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England
m. Steer, Sophia A. ABT 1846
d. Jun 1899
Was listed in the Directory for Bradford-on-Avon at Belcombe Brook House
Edmonds, Alice Bury
b. Sep 1847 Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England
m. Allen, Henry
Edmonds, Augusta Isabel
b. ABT 1849 Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England
m. Dyer or Mealand, William
Edmonds, Gertrude
b. ABT Sep 1850 Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England
m. Wallis, Charles
Edmonds, Walter John Rastall
b. 28 Sep 1853 Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England
d. Dec 1861 (??) Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England
Edmonds, Dora
b. ABT Jun 1857 Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England
m. Stokes, Louis
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[Wilts CRO]
Berryfield, or Bearfield, House was built in the early 19th century. Bearfield is an area in the north of the town. The name Bearfield first appears in a document in 1639 as Bearefeelde; 'Bear' can mean wood or hill and the area known as Bearfield is at the top of the steep side of the Avon valley. In the mid 19th century it was the home of Ezekiel Edmonds, Liberal M.P. and Deputy Lord Lieutenant for Wiltshire, while in the late 19th century it was occupied by Gerald Fitzgerald, a barrister. After that it was owned by Brigadier General Llewellen Palmer who, after service in the First World War, was M.P. for the constituency from 1918-22. He was a benefactor to both Bradford and Trowbridge, particularly in education and help for young people. He also gave land to be used as school gardens and playing fields.
He lived there until the early 1930s, maintaining the 'big house' tradition. By 1939 it had been empty for some time and was requisitioned by Wiltshire County Council in August to be used as a maternity hospital. This was in anticipation of the arrival of evacuees and their mothers. It continued as a maternity hospital until 1979 when it became Bradford on Avon Hospital.
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“Monthly Magazine” Jan – June 1826
[Jan 1826] Patents
To Ezekiel Edmonds, of Bradford, Wilts, clothier, for improvements on machines for scribbling and carding sheep's wool, cotton, or any fibrous articles requiring such process—3d December — 6 months.
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From: "William Highley"< william@whighley.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:17:33 +0100
As you suggested I had a look for Sophia Anne Edmonds' daughter. I used her maiden name Dora Edmonds and came to the same entry in the 1861 census as
you. What makes the find very interesting for me is that the Sophia J. Steer
mentioned is my Great Grandmother. She married Edward Flinders a banker
/stockbroker. She was Sophia Jane Steer the daughter of Capt. Sulivan
Harington Steer and Sarah Jane Baldwin. It also just about confirms that
Sophia Anne Steer was the daughter of Charles Steer and Jane Woodburne
Watson. I look forward to trying to find her on the 1851 census. She would
have been born in 1845 and unless her father had gone back to India she
might have been in Devon where she was born.I have never found any siblings
for her as yet.
In the printed version of the census Sophia J. Steer is down as Sophia J.
Edmonds. Also Ezekiel Edmonds and Sophia Anne Edmonds are both transcribed
as Edmond i.e. without the "s" on the end. I have never been able to find
Sophia Jane Steer (prior to her marriage to Edward Flinders) on a census. I
assume the search facility uses the printed version when trying to find a
name and not the original handwritten version.
Also Dora Edmonds married Louis Stokes who was a curate.
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From: "margaret wilkinson" <margaretjanew@hotmail.com>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 7:06 PM
1861 census
Ezekiel Edmonds, Head, Mar, M, 48, Landed Proprietor and Woollen
Manufacturer,Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire, Wilts, Bradford
Sophia A Edmonds, Wife, Mar, F, 38, Cape of Good Hope
Alice B, 13 Augusta J, 12 Gertrude, 10 All born Wilts, Bradford
Walter J, 7 Dora, 3 plus
Sophia J Steer, Neice, Unm, F, 16, Devon, Exeter
governess and 4 servants
Living at Berryfield House, Bradford on Avon
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From: "William Highley" <william@whighley.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Sophia Anne Edmonds/Steer, Bertram Steer, Valentia Steer & others.
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:28:43 +0100
Does any one have any information on a Sophia Anne Edmonds nee Steer who was born in 1823 at the Cape of Good Hope.
I have found her on the 1881 census staying at the house of her brother-in-law Alexander A Jackson in Hampstead. She is described as his sister-in-law. Also mentioned is Alexander Jackson's wife Eliza Jackson. She was the daughter of Charles William Steer and Jane Woodburne Watson ( one of the Steers in India)
Eliza Jackson (nee Steer) had several brothers and sisters as follows:-
Charles Steer b.1811 who married 1st. Caroline Thompson and 2nd.Jane Wetherell.
Lieut. William Watson Steer 1813-1842.
Capt.Sulivan Harington Steer b.1817 who married Sarah Jane Baldwin
Jane Dunkin Steer 1825-1898. She married Charles R. Harford
Susan Mainwaring Steer b.1833. She married Frederick Nicholas Miles
Being described as Alexander Jackson's sister in law she could also be the wife of his brother. Sophia Anne Edmonds is though also mentioned in the will of her uncle George John Steer 1799-1879 and described as his niece. George John Steer was the brother among others to the Charles William Steer and Jane Woodburne Watson I mentioned above. She therefore must be a sister to Eliza Jackson nee Steer and her siblings as described above. The odd thing is though apart from the mention in the 1881 census and in George John Steer's will there is no other record of her that I can find. Does anyone know anything more about her so that I can confirm the above? As she was born in the Cape of Good Hope I presume her parents might well have been on their way to or coming back from India.
I have also found a Bertram Steer in the "Old Westminsters." Bertram was at the school from 1894-1896. He was born 20th April 1881 and described as the son of Charles Boyes Steer C.B. Bertram was a driver in the B.A.C in the Great War; discharged medically unfit Nov 5th 1915. Nothing else about him I am afraid.
Charles Boyes Steer 1836-1901) who married Emilie Hume Harrison was the son of the Charles Steer and Caroline Thompson I mentioned above. In addition to Bertram he had Valentia Steer who was described as a Newspaper correspondent on the 1901 census. He was still single then. Valentia was born 1880 St. Georges, London and married Evelyn Mary Edwards Sept 1901 the Strand, London.
I recently saw a message on the Ancestry message board from Joanne Allen asking about a Victor Valencia Boyes Steer ( her Grandfather) born Dec 31st 1903. I replied asking if he was a relation of Valentia Steer. Joanne Allen replied confirming that Victor Valencia Boyes Steer was Valentia and Evelyn Steer's son. Victor was born in Madras in 1902. His father Valentia was an Editor working on the Madras Times in India when he was born. Victor married Freda Ellen Rogers and they immigrated to Australia shortly after they were married. It seems Valentia disowned his son Victor when he went to Australia.
I have emailed Joanne Allen with all the information I have on this line of Steers.
There is another Steer who I feel might be of the same family and that is Boyes D'Arcy V. Steer born June 1905 Dartford,Kent. I have no other information on him but he may well be a son of Valentia or Bertram. Has anyone come across him in their researches?
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From: "margaret wilkinson"< margaretjanew@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:41:23 +0100
Still living in Hampstead in 1891 census, this time as head of household
Sophia A Edmonds, Head, Wid, F, 68, Living on own means, Cape of Good Hope
Dora Stokes, Daur, Wid, F, 31, Wells, Bradford on Avon
plus 2 servants
Living at 1, Greencroft Gardens, St John's Hampstead, London
Perhaps daughter Dora in previous censuses may prove fruitful?
Margaret
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From: "margaret wilkinson"< margaretjanew@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:06:04 +0100
1861 census
Ezekiel Edmonds, Head, Mar, M, 48, Landed Proprietor and Woollen
Manufacturer,Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire, Wilts, Bradford
Sophia A Edmonds, Wife, Mar, F, 38, Cape of Good Hope
Alice B, 13 Augusta J, 12 Gertrude, 10 All born Wilts, Bradford
Walter J, 7 Dora, 3
Plus Sophia J Steer, Neice, Unm, F, 16, Devon, Exeter
plus governess and 4 servants
Living at Berryfield House, Bradford on Avon
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Baptists At Bradford.
1. The chapel or meeting-house, with the vestry and burial ground adjoining. Part of this property is leasehold, held for a term of 1,000 years from 22d October 1689. The remainder of the property and that which is occupied as school-rooms in Bradford ...
...St. Margaret's-street, and two dwelling-houses adjoining, together with the road Gifts (0^~^ benefit
... leading into the chapel from St. Margaret's-street, is held for two terms of 99 0f the Society of
... years each, determinable on the death of three lives, renewable on payment of a Protestant Particu
... fine of 21 /. for putting in every new life within a year after the preceding life g^^sts at
... has dropped. _ ra TMnt'intletL
2. Five freehold messuages and the workshops adjoining, in Bush's-alley.
3. Three messuages in French Grass, and garden ground adjoining.
This is held for the remainder of a term or terms of 99 years, determinable with three lives; but renewable on payment of 30s. for putting in each life within 12 months after the preceding life drops.
The two properties numbered 2 and 3 were conveyed by deeds dated 27th and 28th November 1750, in trust, for the minister of the congregation, with monies bequeathed, as follows:
The trustees of that part of No. 1 held for the remainder of a term of 1,000 years, and also of Nos. 3 and 4, appointed by Indentures of Lease and Release of the 16th and 17th of February 1824, are John Edmonds the elder, Ezekiel Edmonds and John Edmonds the younger, clothiers, James Batten, carpenter, Samuel Munday, cloth-dresser, Joseph Gorton Jones, accountant, and George William Jotham, surgeon, all of Bradford ; Stephen Brown Clift, of Trowbridge, gentleman; John Wilkins, grocer, and Nathaniel Overbury, clothier, both of Westbury, Wilts; Joshua Whitaker, of Bratton, in the parish of Westbury aforesaid, gentleman, and James Clift, of Bristol, druggist, of whom John Edmonds the younger and Samuel Munday are dead.
The trustees of that part of No. 1 held for 99 years are John Hinton, clothworker, William Hart the elder, clothier, Posthumus Bush, yeoman, Samuel Stevens, clothier, Isaac Batten, mason, William Hart the younger, clothier, George Head, clothier, Francis England, spinner, William Taylor, shopkeeper, Joseph Hosey, Jeremiah Batchelor and James Kettlely, broad weavers, all of the parish of Bradford, all of whom are dead except Posthumus Bush, William Hart the younger, Francis England, Jeremiah Batchelor and James Kettlely.
The rents and profits of Nos. 2 and 3 are applied for the benefit of the minister of the congregation, as directed.
4. 100/., bequeathed by Mrs. Elizabeth Reyner, by Will, dated 25th March 1763. The trust is that the annual interest and produce of the above sum should be paid unto or for the use of the pastor or minister, pastors or ministers of the above congregation ; if more than one, the trustees of the Will, or the survivor, is to decide in what proportion the same is to be paid to them. On the decease of the survivor of the trustees, the pastor and deacons of Broadmead chapel, Bristol, are to apportion the same.
The minister and deacons for the time being of the said Broadmead chapel are the present trustees thereof. The money is invested in the funds.
The interest of the 100/. is applied as directed. Mrs. Reyner, by her Will, also gave 50/., the interest and produce thereof to be paid to. the poor members or hearers of the said congregation.
This is also invested in the funds in the names of the same persons who are trustees of the 100/.
The interest is applied as directed.
5. Mr. Richard Haynes, then minister of the congregation, by his Will, dated 31st January 1767, gave 100/., the interest thereof to be paid to the minister of the congregation for the time being. The money is now invested in the funds.
The present trustees, who were appointed by deed dated 8th July 1823, are Samuel Salter, of Trowbridge, clothier, John Ledyard Phillips, of Melksham, clothier, and Stephen Brown Clift, of Trowbridge, gentleman.
The dividends are regularly applied as directed.
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London Gazette 1826
NOtice is hereby given, that the Partnenship lately subsisting between John Yerbury, Mawbey Tugwell (deceased), Elimelech Edmonds, (deceased), and Ezekiel Edmonds, of Bradford, in the County o( Wilts, Clothiers, expired on the 31st day of December last by efluxion of time —
Witness, our hands the 22d day of March 1826 -
John Yerbury Thos. Tugwell John Yerbury
Executors of Mawbey Tugwell, deceased
John Edmonds Ezekiel Edmonds
Executors of Elimelech Edmonds, deceased.,
Ezekiel Edmonds
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1871 Census
Freshford Mills Ezekiel Edmonds Head M 30 Cloth Manufacturer bn Hilperton Wiltshire
Sarah Edmonds Wife M 34 bn Melksham Wiltshire,,
Jane Webb 14 Domestic Servant bn Potterne Wiltshire,,
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List of Patent Applics Wilts CRO
No. 5303. December 3, 1825. EZEKIEL EDMONDS, of Bradford, clothier, "Scribbling and carding wool and other fibres."
No. 13,182. July 17, 1850. EZEKIEL EDMONDS the younger, of Bradford, cloth manufacturer, "Woollen fabrics."
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From “Hist of Co of Wiltshire” Pugh & Crittal
These slumps brought with them weavers' riots.This was nothing new. There had been labour troublesat Bradford in 1726. (fn. 917) In 1766 a gang of rioters, ledby a weaver named James Kitlety, had plundered warehouses in the town. (fn. 918) In 1787 a combination ofweavers was broken by the determined action of JohnYerbury of Belcombe Court. (fn. 919) In 1791 a mob of 500weavers attacked the house of a clothier named Phelpsand burnt a scribbling machine. (fn. 920) There were againriots in 1802. (fn. 921) In 1820 Henry Daubeny of WraxallHouse, writing to the Home Secretary, Lord Sidmouth,referred to the distress of the Bradford poor anddescribed it as 'a notorious fact' that the clothiers ofthe town were in the habit of sending cart-loads of goodsto be manufactured in Chippenham, where cheaperrates could be obtained. The distressed weavers ofBradford, Daubeny asserted, were thus thrown uponthe parish poor-rates, to which the clothiers were underassessed. (fn. 922) In 1822 the Bradford magistrates were saidto have applied for a troop of cavalry to be stationed atTrowbridge to protect the area against rioters. Therehad apparently been a riotous assembly near Bradfordin January of that year, but peace had been restoredbefore the arrival of two troops of yeomanry. E. H.Mortimer of Trowbridge, who gave this informationin a letter to the Home Secretary, did not take thematter seriously and urged that there was no need forthe permanent presence of troops. Meanwhile theBradford weavers were starving. Four suicides weresaid to have taken place on a single day in 1821, (fn. 923) In1826 William Cobbett while staying at Heytesburymet a number of men and boys who had tramped fromBradford to get nuts. They told him they had all beenemployed in cloth factories in or near Bradford, onquarter work at 1s. a yard. They added that 'there wasa turn out last winter when the price was reduced to1s. but it was put an end to in the usual way—theconstable's staff, the bayonet and the gaol'.
There is much evidence of industrial depression inBradford in the late thirties and the forties. In 1839the secretary of the Bradford Working Men's Association averred that in 1814 wages were nearly doubletheir 1839 level and in 1820 more than a third of it. (fn. 925) In 1815, said Ezekiel Edmonds, an anti-Corn-Lawsupporter, 678 ends of broad-cloth were manufacturedin Bradford each week by 30 masters, but in 1838 only144 by 3 masters. Rents, the selling price of houses,and the profits of retail trade were all said to be aquarter of what they once were. (fn. 926) In 1840 182 handlooms out of a total of 367 were idle and the weaverswere described as 'absolutely in great distress'. (fn. 927) In1841 a local bank failed and put several of the largestmanufacturers out of business. (fn. 928) A Chartist newspaper stated in the same year that 15 years before therehad been 27 master manufacturers and that in onefactory 50 double pieces a week were made. In 1841there were only 2 masters who 'have not half work fortheir men to do'. (fn. 929)
A directory for 1842 gives the names of only threecloth manufacturers (Edmonds& Co., Church Street,Samuel Pitman, Mill Street, (fn. 930) and Thomas Spackman,jr., Coppice Lane) and one dyer (Charles Timbrell). (fn. 931) Between 1840 and 1850 emigration caused the population of the town to decrease by about 25 per cent. (fn. 932)
In these circumstances it would not have been surprising if the cloth industry in Bradford had died outin the middle of the 19th century. In fact it remainedalive until 1905, when the last cloth mill closed. (fn. 933) In1855 there were four cloth manufacturers in the town — Edmonds & Co., John King, St. Margaret's Street,H. Applegate, also in St. Margaret's Street, and J. Applegate at Greenland Mills. (fn. 934) Four years later Kinghad dropped out and Edmonds had evidently taken apartner named Harper: their factory was Bull PitMill. (fn. 935) In 1867 only Greenland and Bull Pit millswere still active (fn. 936) but by 1875 the Abbey Mill hadbeen built in Church Street for Harpy, Taylor & Co.(later Ward & Taylor). (fn. 937) Another new mill builtabout this time was that behind the Lamb Inn. (fn. 938) In1885 Greenland Mill was still working under Applegate Bros., and Ward& Taylor had the Church Streetand Abbey mills. At the same date Moore Bros.had a wool dyeing establishment in St. Margaret'sStreet. (fn. 939) By 1903, however, none of these businessessurvived except the Greenland Mill (fn. 940) and this has nowceased to produce cloth.
In the absence of business records for Bradford it isdifficult to say why the early-19th-century depressionwas more serious there than in neighbouring Trowbridge (q.v.). The main reason for the depression inboth places was undoubtedly the increasing competition of the Yorkshire woollen industry. The historyof the woollen firm of J. & T. Clark of Trowbridgeshows that it was possible for a Wiltshire clothier tomeet that competition successfully by increasedmechanization and general efficiency. (fn. 941) The failureof most of the Bradford clothiers was probably dueto out-of-date methods. It is surely significant that Edmonds& Co., one of the few firms of clothiers tosurvive the slump of 1810 to 1840, took out two patentsfor woollen manufacture, in 1825 and 1850. (fn. 942) By 1834all the six surviving clothiers of the town were usingsteam-engines but none of them carried out weavingin their factories. (fn. 943) In 1840 there were said to be inBradford and its environs 367 hand-looms operated byweavers in their own homes, and only 159 'factorylooms'—whether operated by power is not stated. (fn. 944)
The last fifty years of cloth manufacture in the towncoincided with the rise of a new industry. In 1848Stephen Moulton bought Kingston Mill and a numberof smaller mills near it, and in October of that yearstarted to make rubber. (fn. 945) The choice of Bradford asthe site of one of the first rubber mills in England wasat least partly due to Moulton's friendship with CaptainPalairet, of Woolley Grange, who sank £5,000 in thebusiness at its inception. (fn. 946) Like Paul Methuen, inthe 17th century, Stephen Moulton brought foreigntechnicians to Bradford. A Mr. Frost of the VulcanIron Works, New York, came to help with the installation of new machinery at Kingston Mills. OtherAmerican workers were S. P. Abbott and AmeliaFisher. (fn. 947) In its first week the factory employed 21men and 2 women. In its early years the firm's mainproduct was waterproof clothing. This accounts for thefact that three-quarters of the 60-odd workers in 1858were women. (fn. 948) Government contracts during theCrimean War helped to put the firm on its feet. (fn. 949) Asearly as 1850 Moulton had established relations withover 40 business houses and had entered the exportmarket. (fn. 950) An early connexion with the G.W.R. led toconcentration on the production of rubber springs andvacuum pipes for railway use. (fn. 951) From about 1860these railway goods became the main product and as aresult the proportion of men to women in the factoryrose considerably. (fn. 952) In 1891 the firm amalgamatedwith that of George Spencer of London. (fn. 953) Soon afterthis the Bradford section of the firm was extended bythe purchase of several large houses and two small inns,and of the 'Lamb', Church Street, and Abbey mills,formerly cloth mills. All these premises were converted for use in the making of rubber. New laboratory buildings were opened in 1948, to mark thecentenary of the firm. At that time there were about600 on the pay-roll. (fn. 954)
From: 'Parishes: Bradford-on-Avon', A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 7 (1953), pp. 4-51. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=115456 Date accessed: 11 July 2011.
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1841 Bradford, Wiltshire
CENSUS 4
Page 19/F324
Thomas HAINES, svt, 15, Footman, b. Wroterham (?Wrotham) Kent
head: Ezekiel Edmonds, J.P., Woollen Mfr.
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Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the
County of Wilts. Dated 17th August 1852, to be Deputy Lieutenants
Frederick Henry Paul
Lord Methiaen
Henry Danby Seymour, Esq
James Wilson, Esq
Robert Parry Nisbet, Esq
John Neeld, Esq.
Francis Crowdy, Esq
John Bird Fuller, Esq.
Thomas Luce, Esq.
Ambrose Lethbridge Goddard, Esq.
Edmund Lewis Clutterbuck, Esq.
Ezekiel Edmonds, junr. Esq.
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London Gazette July 2 1867
Notice to Separate Creditors of Ezekiel Edmonds.
In the Matter of Ezekiel Edmonds and William Charles Webb, of Bradford and Staverton, in the county of Wilts, Cloth jManufacturers and Copartners. nr^HE trustees of the assignment executed by the above-named for the benefit of their creditors, hereby give notice, that they will on Wednesday, the l?th July instant, proceed to declare a Dividend under the separate estate of the above-named Ezekiel Edmonds, and will divide the assets thereof among such of his separate creditors only who shall, on or before that day, have sent in the particulars of their claims to the undersigned, or to Messrs. Ladbury, Collison, and Viney, of No. 99, Cheapside, London, Accountants.
The trustees further give notice, that they will not be liable for the assets, or any part thereof, so distributed, or be answerable or accountable to any person or persons of whose claim or demand they shall not then have had notice, and have been substantiated by proof if required.
Dated this 1st day of July, 1867
WM. MARDON, Solicitor, No. 99, Newgate-street, London.
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London Gazette Oct 1875
NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, James Moore and Ezekiel Edmonds, carrying on business as
Woollen Cloth Manufacturers, under the style or firm of Moore and. Edmonds, in Freshford, in the county of Wilts, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent.
As witness our hands this 8th day of October, 1875.
James Moore. Ezekiel Edmonds.
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Pigots Dir Br on Av 1830 Index
Edmonds Ezekiel Bradford p792
Edmonds Isaac Bradford p793
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WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE.
THE TENTH GENERAL MEETING OF THE Mtltsijtre ^rc!)itoIosical anti Natural l^istorg ^ocietg, HELD AT DEVIZES, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 18th, 19th, and 20th August, 1863.
REPORT FOR 1863.
... ... the Museum and Library have been enriched by various dona-
tions during the past year : among which we would gratefully
record sundry fossils presented by Dr. Thurnam, and others by
Mr. Ezekiel Edmonds ...
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TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLAND, IN FOUR VOLUMES.
COMPRISING THE SEVERAL COUNTIES, CITIES, BOROUGHS, CORPORATE AND MARKET TOWNS,
PARISHES, CHAPELRIES, AND TOWNSHIPS, AND THE ISLANDS OF GUERNSEY, JERSEY, AND MAN, WITH HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL DESCRIPTIONS; IllUsTRaTED BY MAPS OF THE DIFFERENT COUNTIES AND ISLANDS; sHEWING THE PRINCIPAL TOWNS, ROADS, RAILWAYS, NAVIGABLE RIVERS, AND CANALS; A PLAN OF LONDON AND ITS ENVIRONS; AND EMBELLIsHED WITH ENGRAVINGS OF THE ARMS OF THE CITIES, BISHOPRICKS, UNIVERSITIES, COLLEGES, CORPORATE TOWNS, AND BOROUGHS; AND OF THE SEALS OF THE SEVERAL MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.
BY SAMUEL LEWIS.
In list of Subscribers – Ezekiel Edmonds Esq of Berryfield Hse Bradford Wilts
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Wiltshire Quarter Session Calendars
Day: 31 Month: Dec Year: 1839
Forenames: Ezekiel
Surname: EDMONDS
Type: Victim or witness
Age:
Prison:
Parish: Bradford Wiltshire England
Destination:
Notes:
Record source: Wiltshire Quarter Session Calendars
Data provider: Wiltshire Family History Society
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Day: 9 Month: Jan Year: 1821
Forenames: Ezekiel
Surname: EDMONDS
Type: Victim or witness
Age:
Prison:
Parish: Wiltshire
Destination:
Notes:
Record source: Wiltshire Quarter Session Calendars
Data provider: Wiltshire Family History Society
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Day: 28 Month: Jun Year: 1842
Forenames: Ezekiel
Surname: EDMONDS
Type: Victim or witness
Age:
Prison:
Parish: Bradford Wiltshire
Destination:
Notes:
Record source: Wiltshire Quarter Session Calendars
Data provider: Wiltshire Family History Society
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Day: 27 Month: Jun Year: 1848
Forenames: Ezekiel
Surname: EDMONDS
Type: Victim or witness
Age:
Prison:
Parish: Bradford Wiltshire
Destination:
Notes:
Record source: Wiltshire Quarter Session Calendars
Data provider: Wiltshire Family History Society
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Great Western Railway Shareholders 1835-1932
Shareholder: Ezekiel EDMONDS
Role/Event: Death
Date: 21 Aug 1852
Place: Bradford Wiltshire England
Reference: Volume 2 Folio 60 Entry 1449 Column 3
All the names under this entry:
Name Role/Event Date Place Column
Ezekiel EDMONDS Death 21 Aug 1852 Bradford, Wiltshire, England 3
Mrs Mary EDMONDS Executor (Widow) 20 Sep 1852 7
Rev John LITTLE Executor 20 Sep 1852 7
John OVERBURY Executor 20 Sep 1852 7
John SLATER Executor 20 Sep 1852 7
Transcriptions © Society of Genealogists
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Parish Records Collection 1538-2005 marriage
Day: 30 Month: May Year: 1767
Groom Forenames: Ezekiel
Groom Surname: EDMONDS
Groom's parish: Bradford
Groom's county: Wiltshire,England
Groom's condition: wid
Groom's occupation: scribler
Groom's age:
Groom's notes:
Bride Forenames: Ann
Bride Surname: LITTLE
Bride's parish: Clyffe Pypard
Bride's county: Wiltshire,England
Bride's condition: wid
Bride's age:
Bride's notes:
Place of Marriage:
Bondsman 1: KELSON James,broadweaver,Bradford
Bondsman 2:
Jurisdiction: The Bishop of Salisbury in Wiltshire and Berkshire
Record source: Sarum Marriage Licence Bonds
Data provider: Wiltshire Family History Society
Transcriptions © Wiltshire Family History Society
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A Joyce Edmonds (bn abt 1781), was in Melksham in 1841 Census acc to FindMyPast Index
Ancestry Index says there’s one in Wilts bn 1781, in Wilts (s/be SOM ?)
Not in FREECEN at all ! (but supposed to be 100% done in Wilts)
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From (online) – “Life History of Reuben Niblett, Hand Loom Woollen Weaver 1812-1866
Reuben must have taken their advice because he and his family moved to Bradford on Avon, Witshire which was another woollen cloth area with mills about 50 miles south of Bisley.
The census records that they were living in the district known as White Hill in 1841. Esther their first daughter was baptised 12th May 1839 at Holy Trinity Church, Bradford, but died in infancy. Their second daughter Esther O'Conner Niblett was born at Bradford on 6th October 1841. I believe she was given the second name of O'Conner because it relates to Fergus O'Conner the leader of the "physical force" Section of the Chartist movement. And because a Chartist Chapel was situated at White Hill, Bradford in April 1841 and was still used for meetings in July 1842, I believe Reuben and Mary were members of these Bradford Chapels.
In 1836 the Chartist movement was set up by a group of skilled tradesman and small shopkeepers in London which aimed to 'seek by every legal means to place all classes of society in possession of equal political and social rights' and drew up a charter of political demands. The six main points being:-
1. The vote for all adult males.
2. Election by secret ballot.
3. Equal electoral districts.
4. Abolition of the property qualification for M.P.s.
5. M.P.s. to be paid a salary.
6. Annual parliaments, with a general election every June.
In January 1839, the Chartist movement which had established itself in Bradford had two associations one for each sex. The Bradford Working Men's Association and the female society called Bradford Female Patriotic Association, each had its own premises, which in May 1839, the membership of these associations numbered 517 and 342 bodies respectively. Chartism, however, though sufficiently prevalent in Bradford, does not seem in the earlier troubled months of 1839 to have assumed such alarming forms as it did in other places, This may perhaps be attributed to the continuous presence of troops in Bradford from early May 1839.
The movement seems to have died out by 1848, and the leader Fergus O'Conner went out of his mind and died in an asylum in 1855.
One of the financial institutions collapsed in 1841. So the year 1842 is often cited as marking the catastrophic decline of the woollen industry in Bradford on Avon.
The crisis is generally ascribed to the failure of the Bank of Hobhouse & Co in the previous autumn. But this failure was itself caused by the insolvency of two of the largest factories, Coopers of Staverton and Saunders of Bradford, which the Bank had been supporting for the previous five years.
Distress among weavers was extreme here as well and it was reported in 1840 that average full time wage clear of deductions was eleven shillings per week, and within twelve months had reduced to five shillings and six pence per week. And that 182 looms out of 367 were idle. During the next decade the population fell by 25%.
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Cotswold Clothiers - online
Machines for finishing the cloth (gig mills and shearing frames) were opposed in Bradford from 1788 and in 1807 an attempt was made to burn down Kingston Mill, which had just been built. Some of the purpose-built buildings were:
Greenland Upper Mill c.1804 (John HINTON, later Thomas TUGWELL)
Greenland Middle Mill c.1807 (STODDART, GALE, HOWELL& Co)
Kingston Mill c.1807 (DIVETT & Co.)
Abbey Mill (not present building) c.1807 (SAUNDERS, FANNER & Co.)
Greenland Lower Mill c.1808 (William and Philip SHRAPNELL)
By the 1830s the cloth industry was in another decline. A disaster for the town occurred in 1841 when the local bank failed because it was very heavily involved with two of the local mills. Many people were out of work and it was said that 400 had to go to the workhouse. Many of those out of work were handloom weavers; some went abroad or to the textile towns in the north of England. Expansion of the town stopped and some rows of houses for handloom weavers were left unfinished. Many factories closed during the next few years and the 1840s were a time of great depression. … In 1905 an era ended when the last cloth mill in the town shut down, bringing to a close an industry which had sustained Bradford for around 700 years
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