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The Mabey/Maby family Lived in Burry Hill and Winterbourne |
Winterbourne Family History Online... |
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James Mabey, born 1781 in
Winterbourne, married Suzanna.
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James & Suzanna Mabey had 8 children... William - 1807 Anne - 1808? Elizabeth - 1809 George - 1813 |
Sarah - 1815 Hannah - 1818 Mark - 1821 Samuel - 1825 |
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Samuel Mabey lived at Burry Hill, Mangotsfield Parish. He was a stone cutter and dresser, and later a coal miner. Samuel married Elizabeth Huff in July 1850. They had two children... Maria - 1851 - She married Alfred Cordy. Edward - 1852 - He married Sarah Jane Gleed in 1878. [Witnesses at the wedding of Edward Mabey and Sarah Jane were Edwin MAGGS and Ruth GLEED.]
Sam died in 1907. |
Samuel Mabey Edward Mabey and Sarah Jane Mabey, nee Gleed. |
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Edward Mabey was a carpenter and wheelwright. Edward and Sarah Jane lived at Burry Hill and for some time at Winterbourne and Frampton Cotterell. They had four children... William James - 1878 - He was a shunter on the local GWR line. He died during a TB epidemic in the early 1900s. Margareta Edith - 1881 - She too died during the TB epidemic in the early 1900s. Ernest Scott - 1882 - He was a head shunter at Stoke Gifford and became secretary of the Railwaymen's Union for the West of England. Later emigrated to Australia. Archie Charles - 1886 - He too emigrated to Australia.
The gravestones of Samuel and Elizabeth, their son Edward, daughter-in-law Sarah Jane, and their grandchild Margareta Edith, can be seen in the graveyard at Winterbourne Down Methodist Church. |
Back row, left to right: 1 Edward Mabey, 2 William James Mabey, 3 Ernest Scott Mabey, 4 Margareta Edith Mabey Front row: 5 Archie Charles Mabey, 6 Sarah Jane Mabey nee Gleed |
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Ernest Scott
Mabey is seated in the centre of this wonderful photograph of
employees of the Great Western Railway. His older brother William James is seated on the right. Ernest's dog was called Tojo
We are grateful to Chris Mabey, great great great grandson of Samuel and Elizabeth Mabey, for these excellent photographs and names. Thanks, Chris. |
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