Elimelech EDMONDS [ 008 ]
Ann BENNETT [ 009 ]
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These are the parents of John Edmonds, who
married Ruth Hinton in Br-on-Avon Wilts in 1803.
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c 1740 - 1760 - Born,
prob in Wilts [guess based on mar date]
1/10/1762 - An Ann
Bennett was bapt B-on-A, to William Bennett and Mary [b]
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MARRIED ---------------
19/8/1781 - An Elimelek
Edmunds of B-on-A mar an Ann Bennett of B-on-A in parish church, by banns,
(both signed), witnesses Mary James and William Bennett [a]
(This Ann Bennett had a
father William and a brother William and an older sister Mary, but no mar on
IGI of a Mary Bennett to a ... James c 1780.
A Mary James was born in BoA 1761 to Silas and Eliz, but several James
families in BonA).
27/10/1782 - A John
Edmunds bapt B-on-A to Elimelek Edmunds and Ann [b]
9/12/1784 – At
Winkfield(?) Wilts, an “Ely” Edmonds witnessed the will of John Marshman of
Nowhere Lane BonA, along with N.Phene and Thomas Stratten [ j ]
27/1/1785 - Ezekial Edmunds
bapt to Elimelek Edmunds and Ann [b]
(This is the Ezekiel
referred to as Ezekiel “Snr” after John’s son Ezekiel – referred to as “Jnr” –
is born)
27/1/1785 - An Elimelek
Edmunds was bapt "as an adult" in B-on-A parish church, along with
his infant son Ezekial [b]
(Why
didn't he get bapt with his first son, or at time of marriage??)
1789 - The Ezekiel
Edmonds who mar Mary Hart, born BoA [b]
1791 – The “Edmonds
family… had a successful career…” (in BonA wool mills) since at least this date
[n]
early 1800s - “At the beginning of the 1800s the
Wilts-Som border section of the West of England woollen industry appeared to be
in reasonably good shape. During the
1700s it had certainly not expanded like the Yorkshire woollen industry, but it
had maintained its reputation for making, and particularly finishing, the best
woollen cloths, for which there was a sustained but limited demand. With Francis Yerbury’s invention of the
“cassimere” (also “kerseymere”?) in 1769 a new, finer and lighter cloth had
been added to the main production of the area…. The really important difference
between broadcloth and cassimere was the fine spinning of the yarn… three times
finer…
The period around 1800 saw the advent of
factory spinning and the area adopted these new tecniques with considerable
enthusiasm, certainly as far as the clothiers were concerned. The workers were naturally less ceretain,
and the riots of 1802-3 are often dicussed.
They were more concerned with the coming of machine finishing than machine
spinning, and show that the feeling against new factories, although
considerable, was certainly not sufficient to prevent the introduction of the
new methods. The area showed little sign of decline, and in 1816 there appears
to have been no indication that the 19th century was to be so disastrous for
the West of England clothiers.” [r]
Early 1800s – “The
Edmonds family are to be found frequently turning up in the 19th C BonA trade.
They were probably domestic clothiers but were already involved in Yerbury
Tugwell & Edmonds…” [x]
1804 – (Greenland Upper
Mill) "The Mill with the other
adjoining mills was owned by the Halls and then the Duke of Kingston who in
1718 is shown leasing it to Thomas Methuen. By 1804 it had been bought by John
Hinton, and a factory had been built on the site. Thomas Tugwell, grandson
of Humphrey Tugwell, ran this factory from 1810 until 1825. By 1832, the
tenants were Yerbury, Edmonds and Company. In 1841, the factory was empty
except for the fulling mill, which was being occupied by Thomas Spackman
junior. The executor's of the owner John Hinton offered the factory for sale in
1844. [j]
1805 – First Directory
ref (extant) to E. Edmonds, Clothier, in BoA
[d]
1807 – John Saunders
occ a home and a w/shop on the wester part of the two-mill Abbey Mill site in
Church St, when his partnership bough a 20hp B+W steam engine (by 1816 had over
300 hands, and in 1824 he exchanged with YT+E for Greenland Lwr. The factory built by Saunders & Fanner
on the Abbey Mill site can be seen on mid 1800s views of the town. It was replaced in 1874 by the present
bldg) [n]
1807 – John Hodder
Moggridge sold the Bullpit factory property to Yerbury, Tugwell &
Edmonds. In 1810 they enquired after
the price of a Boulton & Watt steam engine to drive the machinery. By 1813
the factory was owned and occupied by James Baker. [n]
1811 - (Greenland Lower
Mill) "There is an early reference
to a Tucking Mill being occupied by John Yewe and Richard Horne in 1592 as part
of the John Hall's Estate. Later a successor, the Duke of Kingston let it and
is referred to as the lower fulling mill. It was bought by John Renison and
William Shrapnell in 1797 from Lord Newark for £1,350. later John Renison let
his part of the Mill to Philip Shrapnell of Monkton Combe.
By 1808 the rateable value had shot up
from 3d to 2s1d, indicating that a factory had been built by William and Philip
Shrapnell as partners.
But by 1811 it was taken over by Elimelech
Edmonds and Mawbey Tugwell (21 year lease) at a rent of £460. Mawbey died in 1815, but the firm known as
Yerbury, Tugwell and Edmonds, remained there until 1824.
In 1816 it employed 158 hands, but in 1824
Edmonds assigned the remainder of the leasehold interest to Saunders, Fanner
and Saunders, and moved his business to their larger factory in Church Street.
(The new operators went bankrupt in 1841)" [ j ] [n]
1811 - Mawbey Tugwell, his brother (Thomas?), and a
partner (Elimelech Edmonds?) had taken Greenland Lower Mill over at a rent of
£460. After Mawbey's death the firm -
Yerbury, Tugwell and Edmonds - remained there until 1824. (Brother Thomas ran
the Greenland Upper Mill from 1810 to 1825).
Mawbey (and his three siblings George
Hayward Tugwell, Thomas Tugwell, and Elizabeth Tugwell) inherited from his
grandfather Humphrey Tugwell (1704-1775) as his father William was already dead
in 1775. [p]
14/10/1811 - Church
Poor Rates (Occupier / Owner / Descrptn)
[s]
Church St & Druces
Hill -
Edmonds Jn / Ely Edmonds / House
" /
" / Shops
Edmonds Ely / J Yerbury Sr / House
Woolley St -
White Betty / Jn Hinton / House &
Stock
Godwin Saml / " / House
Wiltshire Wm / " / House
Jennings Thos / " / House
St Margarets St -
Cook
? / Jams Edmonds(?) / House
Hinton Jams / P Shrapnel / House, Garden,
Stock
Hinton Jno / Himself / House, Garden, Shops
England Geo / Jno Hinton / Shops
Jones Saml / " / House
Newtown -
Hinton Thos / Thos Dike / House
Clothiers Stock -
Hinton & Edmonds / Himself / Stock
By 1813 – The Bullpit
Mill was owned and occpd by James Baker
[n]
c 1813 to 1824 –
Saunders & Co were replaced in the Bradford (rlwy side)Avoncliff Mill by
Yerbery, Tugwell, & Edmonds, who were still in there in 1835 (but not in
1841) [n]
(Elimelech died in 1829)
16/4/1814 –
“Elimeleth”(?) Edmonds (abt 60?) witnessed a will made by Daniel Hinton, (a
clothier of BonA, the son of John Hinton), along with an Ezekiel Edmonds (abt
29?). The executors were John Edmonds
(abt 32?) and William Heal [m]
1815 – Mawbey Tugwell
died [ j ] [n]
1816 – Bradford Mills
in 1816 (Mill/Occupier/Ap Period of Trading) [x]
Greenland Upper / T Tugwell / c 1810-c1825
Greenland Mid / Stoddard Gale Howell &
Co / c1800-c1829
Greenland Lwr / Yerbury Tugwell &
Edmonds / 1811-1825
Kingston / Divett & Co / c1807-c1827
Church St / Saunders Fanner & Co /
1807-1824
Bridge Foot / Bush Newton & Bush /
c1816
Mill in Church St / Samuel Hart / c1808-c1820
Bullpit / James Baker / 1816-1826
Factory adj Chantry / S Mundy / c1800-1835
1816 – 77 hands
employed at Greenland Lower Mill, 158 at Greenland Upper [n]
1816 – “Yerbury,
Tugwell & Edmonds were in the Greenland Lower Mill in 1816 and stayed till
1824 when… they changed factories with T H & J Saunders (in the Church St
Mill)…
“As far as the Greenland Lower Mill site
is concerned, there had in the 1700s been a fulling mill there, also apparently
a braying mill, possibly part of the fulling mill and dyehouse, then early in
the 1800s a factory was built…
“The Yerbury family had been one of the
leading clothing families of Bradford. Old-established and wealthy, if one may
judge from what they did to their home at Belcombe, they were in a position to
finance the change needed to build the new factories for spinning and
finishing. Equally they were at the
forefront of the trade in the technical sense – Francis Yerbury had been the
inventor of the “cassimere”…
In 1816 the capital would have been est at
ap £47,000 and the money probably came largely from Yerbury. Edmonds never had much capital and Tugwells
were already involved at Greenland Upper Mill.
The expansion involved in moving to Church St would probably have come
from the Yerburys as there is no evidence of money coming in from outside the
trade…” [r]
late 1821, early 1822 -
John Hinton died, prob BoA [m]
1822 - A ref to
Yerbury, Tugwell, Edmonds, & Co, Clothiers of Druces-hill, BoA [e]
(Is this Elimelech? Sons John and Ezekiel are shown sep in same
directory, but both as at Druces-hill also.
By 1830 - after Elimelech's death - this entry is Yerbery, Edmonds,
Edmonds, & Co of Church St. But why
doesn't Elimelech show separately in the 1822 Pigots, like he does in
1802?)
1822 to 1831 – An E.
Edmonds (have to be Elimelech) appears to be the treasurer of Morgans Hill
Independent Chapel in BonA [k]
1824 – Saunders,
Fanner, & Co of Abbey Mill, exchanged this factory for the Greenland Lower
Mill of Yerbury, Tugwell, & Edmonds
[n]
1824 – “A rather
strange position arose in 1824 when the firm of Saunders, Fanner & Co
(Church St Mills) changed premises with Yerbury, Tugwell & Edmonds… which,
compared to the 1816 return meant they (Y T & E) became larger…” [r]
30/12/1825 - An
Elimelech Edmonds, a Clothier of B-on-A, made a will (a short time his death)
naming his two sons John and Ezekiel (in that order) as the executors of his
estate, provided an annuity of £150 a year for "my dear wife Ann"
(abt 63), and the balance of his estate to be divided evenly between his two
sons, allowing them to invest "as they think proper" including
"in their Trade and Business in all respects" as long as his wife's
annuity is secure. He signed, plus
three witnesses Joseph Gordon Jones a local attorney, David Marshman a local
businessman, and John Bush. [c]
Jan/March 1826 –
Elimelech died in BonA (How old was he ???) [c] [q]
22/3/1826 – Notice is
hereby given, that the Partnenship lately subsisting between John Yerbury,
Mawbey Tugwell (deceased), Elimelech Edmonds, (deceased), and Ezekiel Edmonds
(Snr), of Bradford, in the County of Wilts, Clothiers, expired on the 31st day
of December last (1825) by efluxion of time —
Witness, our hands the 22d day of March
1826 -
John Yerbury,
Thos Tugwell,
John Yerbury (Executors of Mawbey
Tugwell)
John Edmonds, Ezekiel Edmonds (Executors
of Elimelech Edmonds)
Ezekiel Edmonds [q]
28/7/1829 - Elimelech's
will was "Proved" in the London courts [c]
After 1825 ?? – When
did Ann die ??
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SOURCES .....
[a] Mar data (Wilts CRO)
[b] Birth/bapt data (Wilts CRO)
[c] Elimelech Edmonds' will (PRO)
[d] Trade Directories (BoA Library)
[e] Trade directories (online)
[f] Sarum Mar Lic Bonds (FHO)
[g] IGI (LDS)
[h] 1841 Census (Ancestry)
[j] Freshford website data
[k] Other Wilts CRO data
[m] Will ex Wilts CRO
[n] Book “Wilts & Som Woollen Mills”
[p] Tugwell Family website
[q] London Gazette online
[r] “Structure of Wilts-Som Border Woollen
Mills 1816-40” – K G Ponting
[s] The 888 series material from Wilts CRO
[x] Stray bits online
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