Walls and Townsends

Richmond Wall, born 30 Mar 1788;
He was the son of William Wall and Elizabeth Atwell.
He married Alice Townsend 15 Oct 1807 in Yate, England.
He died 18 Apr 1841 in Iron Acton, England aged 53 and is buried as Richmond Wale.

Alice Townsend, born 31 Oct 1784 in Yate, England;
She was the daughter of Robert and Alice Townsend.
She died 03 Sep 1854 in Rangeworthy, England aged 70 and is buried at Iron Acton, England

Children of Richmond Wall and Alice Townsend are:
Louisa Wall, born 03 Nov 1805; died 1854; married John Stockden 15 Oct 1826; born 22 Apr 1804; died 1857.
Richmond Wall, born 30 Sep 1810 in Gloustershire; died 1854.
Sarah Wall, born Jun 1815 in Gloucestershire, England; died 24 Oct 1899 in Kyneton;
Elizabeth Wall, born 1820 in Gloucestershire, England; died 1895 in Kyneton;
Eliza Wall, born 1825; married Thomas Adams.

Elizabeth Wall married Thomas DREW who was the son of Robert DREW and Hannah FORD.
Sarah Wall married Ambrose PULLIN.
For further information on both Sarah and Elizabeth's families see the page on Ambrose Pullin.

Rangeworthy 1841 census -
Alice Wall, 58, Coal Carrier
Eliza Wall, 16
Richmond Wall, 28, Labourer
Sarah Pullin, 25
Sarah Pullin, 5
Thomas Pullin, 3
William Pullin, 1
Lewis Derrett, 18
George Drew, 2
Living at Acton Lane, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England

10 years later -
1851 Rangeworthy census
DREW Thomas 36 hauler Rangeworthy
Elizabeth 31 Iron Acton
George 12 Rangeworthy
Hannah 9 Rangeworthy
Mary 6 Rangeworthy
Thomas 1 Rangeworthy
WALL Allis Mother in Law 67








William Wall, born 23 Feb 1743/44.
He was the son of Nehemiah Wall and Elizabeth Bryant.
He married Elizabeth Atwell 11 Jan 1778 in Iron Acton, England.

Elizabeth Atwell was born 1748;
She died 26 Apr 1840.

Children of William Wall and Elizabeth Atwell are:
Hannah Wall, born 04 Oct 1778.
George Wall, born 16 Jan 1780; married Harriet Mills; born 1783; died 1867.
Ann Wall, born 22 Jul 1781.
Elizabeth Wall, born 15 Jun 1783; married William Durham 14 Jun 1798 in Iron Acton and then married Robert Cam 15 Apr 1805 in Iron Acton (see notes below)
Sarah Wall, born 16 Jun 1786.
William Wall, born 16 Jun 1786; died 1786.
Richmond Wall, born 30 Mar 1788; (see notes above).
William Wall, born 05 May 1793.





Nehemiah Wall, born 10 Mar 1702/03;
He was baptised 10 Mar 1704/05, Rangeworthy, Gloucestershire, England
He died 22 Sep 1772 in Rangeworthy, England.
He was the son of Thomas Wall and Sarah.
He married Elizabeth Bryant.

Elizabeth Bryant was born 1707;
She died 21 Jan 1776 in Rangeworthy, England.
She is buried in Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, England

Children of Nehemiah Wall and Elizabeth Bryant are:
Thomas Wall, born 1734.
Betty Wall, born 17 Jul 1743.
William Wall, born 23 Feb 1743/44;(see notes above)
Robert Wall, born 28 May 1749.






Thomas Wall, born Abt. 1670.
He married Sarah in 1693. She was born Abt. 1670.

Children of Thomas Wall and Sarah are:
Sarah Wall, born 12 Sep 1694.
Elizabeth Wall, born 18 Oct 1696.
Hannah Wall, born 04 Feb 1697/98.
Thomas Wall, born 22 Apr 1700.
Hester Wall, born 17 Jan 1701/02.
Nehemiah Wall, born 10 Mar 1702/03




Notes on the marriage of Elizabeth Wall.
William Wall was baptised at Iron Acton in 1803 at the age of 3. It has come to light that he was the son of William Dirham of Westerleigh and Elizabeth Wall of Iron Acton, whose marriage was found to be illegal because he had another wife still living. Hence the baptism simply recorded the infant as son of Ellizabeth Wall, with no comment about the infant being a bastard, or anything else throwing any blame on Elizbeth, since it was in no way her fault that the marrige was illegal. The marriage in 1798 was by licence, the application for this was signed by William Ludlow, a prominent farmer of Yate, and he has the bondsman guaranteeing that all the information was correct, and he was bound in the sum of £200 which was unusually high in those days. William Ludlow appeared at the marriage in Iron Acton the next day, which was a Thursday, and signed the register as a witness.

Elizabeth was baptised at Rangeworthy on 15.6.1783. She would only have been about 15 at the time of the bigamous marriage at Iron Acton on 14.6.1798. She would not have appeared at the time of the application for the marriage licence, and the Rector of Iron Acton probably had never seen her before she appeared at the church to be married. Nor would he have seen the bridegroom, William Dirham, who was not one of his parishioners. But she was already pregnant, her first child, called William, was baptised at Iron Acton on 18.11.1798, but was buried on 27.7.1800. By that time, it was known that the marriage was illegal, and there is an entry in the Vestry Minute Book on 19 11.1800 the parish to be at the expence of takeing of William Duram. And the Rector added his own comment in the burial register when the first child was buried W.W. was the son of William Dirham and Elizabeth Wall, who were married June 14 1798 but it appeared that he had a former wife then living.

The spelling of the bridegroom's name was somewhat variable, and suspect that he was living and probably working for the Yate farmer, William Ludlow - under an assumed name. Anyway, once the news was out, the farmer would have wanted to cover up his own connection with the marriage, and would be in a good financial position to see that the culprit made a clean escape. As far as I know he was never found. It would have been a case for transportation if he was discovered, and the farmer could hardly keep out of the picture. But Elizabeth was already pregnant with a second child, who must have had this William Dirham as his father. Doubtless the farmer would have been taking care of Elizabeth, as there is no record of her receiving any Parish Relief. And the fact that the second child was not baptised at Iron Acton until 1803, with the child stated to be 3 years old, indicates that someone else had eventually got round to organising this.
Elizabeth had a proper marriage at Iron Acton on 15.4.1805, to Robert Cam.



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