THOROGOOD Chart 0500

This is a Chart for Joseph Thorogood and Hannah Beneworth

  4,6married
 13th February 1826
Little Waltham
Essex
witnesses
Samuel WALLER
Mary WALLER
banns 		 
 
1,5,7,16,21
JOSEPH THOROGOOD
8born 2nd August 1799
 4Rayne, Essex
baptised
2nd April 1810
Rayne Parish Church
Rayne, Essex
occupation
1841 Coachman
1861, 1866 Groom
1863 Gentleman's Servant
1827 to 1835 and 1871 and 1874 Coachman
1878 Formerly a Groom
address
1861 2Felsted Village
Felsted, Essex
died
9th November 1878
Union Workhouse, Great Dunmow, Essex
of
Pneumonia 5 days
Age 81
informant at death
Clins? Roydhouse-Master
Union Workhouse, Great Dunmow, Essex 		  5,7,13,17,19
HANNAH BENEWORTH
born 1800
Great Oakley, Essex
baptised
9th August 1801
Great Oakley, Essex
occupation
1861 Laundress
died 
6th April 1866
Felsted Village
Felsted, Essex
Age 64
of
Anuerism Long Standing
informant at death
Mary Ann Lazell
present at death
Felsted Village
buried
18th April 1866
Felsted Parish Church
Felsted, Essex
Union Workhouse, Great Dunmow,
where Joseph THOROGOOD died in 1878. This picture is circa 1910
1,9,10,12
James
THOROGOOD
born 22nd July 1827
Felsted, Essex
baptised 12th August 1827
Felsted Parish Church
Felsted, Essex
died
10th August 1880
Queens Head Inn
Wormley, Hertfordshire
Aged 53 years

married
10th August 1863
Parish Church
Wormley
Hertfordshire
witnesses
William BENNETT
Harriet BENNETT
Mary
SORRELL

 		1,7,20William
THOROGOOD
born 4th November 1829
Felstead, Essex
baptised 11th April 1830
Felsted Parish Church
Felsted, Essex
possibly died
May 1870
Wormley, Hertfordshire
buried
28th May 1870
Wormley Church
Wormley, Hertfordshire

possibly married
December quarter
1854
Braintree district
Essex
1Hannah
COOK
born 1829
Great Oakley
Essex

 3,5,7Mary Ann
THOROGOOD
born 21st March 1832
Felsted, Essex
baptised 10th June 1832
Felsted Parish Church
Felsted, Essex
died 
19th July 1916
Rose Cottage
Felsted, Essex

married
21st March 1858
Felsted Chapel
Felsted, Essex
witnesses
Joseph THOROGOOD
Martha WALSH
James
MUNSON

 7Henry
THOROGOOD
born 15th September 1835
Felsted, Essex
baptised 30th December 1835
Felsted Parish Church
Felsted, Essex
died 20th August 1908
Kingston, Surrey

married
12th February 1874
Parish Church
Croydon, Surrey
witnesses
Thomas GRAY
Sarah GRAY
Ebenezer WHITTAKER
Bets(e)y
CHITTENDEN 		7,10,11,12,14,15,18
Frederick
THOROGOOD
born about
March quarter
1839
Felsted, Essex
occupation
1871, 1881 General Servant
1891 Agricultural Labourer
1901 General Garden Labourer
possibly died
March quarter
1907
Ware district
Hertfordshire
Age 65
  1. There were only two THOROGOODs living in Felsted, Essex, on the 1861 census, one Joseph, a Groom, which ties up nicely with the Joseph mentioned on his sons marriage certificate as a Coachman and Hannah, who was born in Great Oakley, Essex. Both were living in different abodes and were both head of the household, but down as married. This chart therefore assumes that they were connected, and their spouse in both cases had died before the 1861 census. This has now been confirmed in the case of Hannah the wife of Joseph. It would be nice to be able to find them in the 1851 census, but the census for Felsted is missing, so we will never find this. I spent some time looking for Felsted in the 1841 census (Have now found using Ancestry.com-see Note 7). On the 1861 Joseph was Groom at the Bell Inn, Felsted Village, Essex
  2. Felsted/Felstead can be spelt with or without an a, for ease and consistency on these charts I have gone for the Felsted spelling.
  3. A Mary Ann THOROGOOD was buried at Felsted Parish Church on 21st June 1872, aged 56 . This is not this  Mary Ann as we now know she lived until 1916 and was of course then named MUNSON. It is therefore possible that it could have been the wife of Joseph or William.. 
  4. I have been through the parish records for Felsted and Rayne without success for the marriage of Joseph and Hannah and the baptism of Joseph. The marriage of course could have taken place in the bride’s parish which could have been anywhere. Joseph on the 1861 census put his birth place as Rayne, but he might not have been baptised. I could only find two THOROGOOD marriages in Rayne both in 1795, six years before the birth of Joseph. One on 19th January 1795 a Samuel THOROGOOD to an Ann SMITH, both of this parish and on 29th September 1795 a John THOROGOOD (widower) to Elizabeth RUTTEG again both of this parish. Only one THOROGOOD marriage at Felsted, a William THOROGOOD to a Ruth MILTON on 21st October 1826 was found.
  5. Details of Mary Ann THOROGOOD and her descendants and the father and mother of Joseph THOROGOOD received from a Robert THORPE of Cedar Rapids,  Iowa on 24th January 2004.
  6. It appears that Joseph and Hannah married as now listed here at Little Waltham, Essex.
  7. 1841 Census - Village, Felstead, Essex. This confirms the family as I had it, other than the eldest son Joseph. It also adds a younger son, Frederick.
  8. IGI
  9. I originally had Joseph for this child, Robert Thorpe thought it should be James and today, the 20th November 2006 I looked at the Parish Records again and it is definitely James. I have therefore removed the Joseph/James is all cases.  There is a Frederick THOROGOOD on he 1871, 1881 Census born in 1839 in Felstead, Essex with a James THOROGOOD born in 1827 in Hertfordshire. It is possible that there was a Joseph and a James but for the present I have shown this child as Joseph/James
  10. 1871 High Street, Wormley, Hertfordshire. Frederick THOROGOOD was visiting the family. James and Mary had a son Frederick born 1865 in Wormley, Hertfordshire. 
  11. 1881 New Star Inn, Wormley, Hertfordshire. Frederick is down as a Lodger.
  12. 1861 Rectory, Little Waltham, Essex
  13. 1861 Village, Felsted, Essex. Hannah was the Head, but I think her husband was possibly living in at The Bell Inn at the time.
  14. 1891 High Road, Wormley, Hertfordshire. Frederick is down as a Lodger
  15. 1901 High Road, Wormley, Hertfordshire. Frederick is down as a Boarder
  16. 1871 Village, Felstead, Essex, Joseph is down as a Lodger, He is also down as a Widower. He is 73, born in Rayne.
  17. Hannah BENEWORTH is how Hannah's second name is spelt on her Baptism. On her marriage it is BENNEWORTH. We have standardised the spelling as BENEWORTH for these Charts.
  18. BMD death, but only a possiblity as the age does not quite tie up with the birth date. However this is not unusual so I would think it is likely to be the correct Frederick THOROGOOD.
  19. Daughter of Samuel and Hannah BENNEWORTH
  20. Robert THORPE sent me on 23rd October 2006 the following funeral bill which we think relates to this William. It was sent to his brother James who lived in Wormley. 
    Wormley
    28th May 1870
    Mr James Thorogood Dr to Thomas Clark
    For the Funeral of the Late Thomas Thorogood
    To Wormley Church
    To A Elm Coffin with double row of Black Nails
    4 Prs of Handles Plate and Inscription Lid
    Ornaments and Inside Linings Sheets and Pillow
    And for the use of Pall and attending the Funeral
    with Silk Band and Silk Gloves to Wormley Church £3 5s 0d
    8 men bearers £1 0s 0d
    Funeral fees 11s 6d
    £4 16s. 6d

    Settled Thomas Clark
    August 10th 1870
  21. Details of Dunmow Workhouse are as follow:
    Dunmow Poor Law Union was formed on 26th March 1835. Its operation was overseen by an elected Board of Guardians, 33 in number, representing its 26 constituent parishes as listed below (figures in brackets indicate numbers of Guardians if more than one):
    County of Essex: Great Bardfield, Little Bardfield, Saling Bardfield [Bardfield Saling], Barnston, Broxted, Great Canfield, Little Canfield, Chickney, Great Dunmow (3), Little Dunmow, Great Easton, Little Easton, High Easter, Felstead (2), Hatfield Broad Oaks (2), Lindsell, Aythorpe Roothing [Roding], High Roothing [Roding], Morrell Roothing [Roding], White Roothing [Roding], Stebbing (2), Takeley, Thaxted (3), Tilty. 
    The population falling within the Union at the 1831 census had been 18,769 — with parishes ranging in size from Morrell Roothing (population 32) to Great Dunmow (2,462). The average annual poor-rate expenditure for the period 1831-34 had been £20,109 or £1.1s.5d. per head of the population. 
    Dunmow Union workhouse was erected in 1838-40 at Great Dunmow. It was designed by George Gilbert Scott and William Bonython Moffatt where were the architects of many other workhouses during this period including ones for the Witham, Billericay and Tendring Unions. The Dunmow workhouse was erected on a site to the east of the town on the north side of the road to Chelmsford. It cost about £8,000 to build and could accommodate 350. The workhouse location and layout are shown on the 1896 map below.

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