Last update: March 3rd, 2020
Starting with my Great-great grandfather, George Adams, and the multiple generations of Adams and Hydes who lived in and around Cranborne, here they are.
From left to right: George Adams (we think), Alice and Frank Greed, possibly Bill (William Pitt) Adams (listed as a postman on the 1911 census - is this a postman's uniform?), or Len Adams (also a postman according to the passenger listing on his way to Australia), and Doris and Isabel (Babs) are the two children.
Circa 1915, Bournemouth Beach
Circa 1915, Bournemouth Beach
Starting with my Great-great grandfather, George Adams, and the multiple generations of Adams and Hydes who lived in and around Cranborne, here they are.
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George's first wife and children:
George Adams and Elizabeth (also Adams?) marry [Absolutely cannot find any record of their marriage or her death, so there is a story here: did they divorce and Elizabeth remarry? Did she end up in an asylum or something of that nature? Were they never married and George reported her children as his on the baptismal records? Their lives together were between censuses. N.B. There are no burial records surviving in the Cranborne church for 1876, which could have been when Elizabeth died, but there are also no national registry records that I can find either.]
- Elizabeth Adams: baptized June 6, 1874.
Buried June 9, 1874, aged 1 day.
- Thomas Den(n)is Adams baptized July 4, 1875, Cranborne
- William Pitt Adams baptized July 4, 1875, Cranborne;
buried 21 November 1878, aged 3, St.Clement's Church
[Somewhere between 1875 and 1878, George and family move to Victoria Road, Boscombe. Elizabeth Adams disappears from the records.]
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Generation 5 - George & Isabella Adams
George Adams and Isabella Bathsheba Pearce marry, 22 November, 1879, St.Clement's Church, Boscomb.
Children:
- Alice Mabel Adams, b. 4 July 1880; d. 1964 [Direct Line.]
- Samuel Hyde Adams, b. 22 January, 1882; d. 1958
- William Pitt Adams, b. 24 October 1884
- John Adams, b. 3 November, 1885; d. 3 November, 1885
- Frederick Harold Adams, b. 26 March 1887; d.1957
- Leonard Stewart Adams, b. 13 December 1889
- Reginald Augustus Adams, b. 23 July, 1892
Here are copies of all censuses (less the 1921 census which we'll have access to next year), for George's and Isabella's lives. Click on them for larger views.
1851
1861
1871
1881
1891
1901
1911
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Generation 6
George Adams' Parents: marry 13 May, 1827 in Cranborne.
Thomas Dennis Adams, b. 26 January, 1802, Cranborne; burial April 4, 1875
[registered June 1875, aged 73, in Wimborne.]
Caroline Hyde (Hide), b. 21 July 1804, Cranborne; buried Sept 10, 1892, St.Clements
church, address Malmesbury Park Rd.
Children:
William Pitt Adams: baptized June 15, 1828, Cranborne (to check: 1861 census Lymington Hants?.)
Thomas Adams: baptized march 26,1834, Cranborne
1861 census: 27 y.o. living in Cranborne
1881 census: 47 y.o. widower; living 1 Tower Villas, Christchurch. Occupation: brewer and
beer retailer. No children listed.
Harry Adams: baptized June 16, 1836, Cranborne
George Adams: baptized February 20, 1839 (find death date - childhood he was
in 1841 census, but not listed in 1851census)
Arthur Adams: baptized January 26, 1841, Cranborne
1861 census: 20 y.o. living in Cranborne
Married Annie/Anna Maria Sweatman 28 December, 1863 (he aged 22, she aged 15)
1881 census: 40 y.o.; living Saville Cottage Wyndham Road, Christchurch; married to Anna
M. Adams, aged 35. Occupation: tailor.
Children: William J.O. Adams, 17
Selina A. Adams, 15
Walter Adams, 13
Clara S. Adams, 8
Florence K. Adams, 5
Ernest G. Adams, 3
Ada M. Adams, 0
Caroline Adams: baptized April 16, 1843, Cranborne
1861 census: 18 y.o. living in Cranborne.
November 12, 1864 marries Thomas Head (father: Stephen Head), Cranborne
? Dies Apr-Jun 1920, Christchurch; also ? Thomas Head dies Jul-Sept 1920, Christchurch
[Are these the same Caroline & Thomas Heads? Both aged 77, fitting with Caroline.
Can find no record of birth for Thomas Head, so don't know age.]
George Adams, b. November 22, 1845, Cranborne; d. 7 August, 1923, Bournemouth, aged 77 [Direct Line.]
Owen Adams: Baptized June, 1849
*The Bishop's Transcripts from the church are missing 1801-2, so no baptism date found for Thomas.
- 1841 Census: living on High St.
- 1851 Census: living 97 Salisbury St.
- 1861 Census: living 126 Water St. Cranborne. The Cross Keys Inn is numbered as 129 Water St., which would make it across the street. These large numbers cannot be what we call civic numbers, but were numbers assigned to their home by the census taker, as it was a relatively short street, even on an old map I checked, when it ran further out of town up the river.
- 1871 Census: living on High St. again..[Why did they move around so much? They would soon all be off to Christchurch/Bournemouth after Thomas dies in1875.]
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Generation 7
Caroline Hyde's (Hide) parents marry 14 March 1791, Cranborne.
Thomas Hyde, born c. (?Cranborne)
buried February 17, 1821, age 70. Cranborne.
Martha Caish, baptized 20 April, 1767 Tarrant Hinton; buried December 20, 1818, age 51. Cranborne.
Abode listed as Monkton.
Children:
John, baptized 18 March 1792
Thomas, baptized 1 December 1794
Mary Ann baptized 16 April 1797
Joseph, born 27 January 1798, baptized 18 February 1798; m. Elizabeth Davis
William, baptized 16 June, 1799, buried November 11, 1830, age 30. Cranborne.
Caroline, born 21 July 1804, baptized 26 August 1804 [Direct Line.]
Sophia, born 24 November 1807, baptized 6 December 1807
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Generation 8
Martha Caish's parents marry September 10, 1753, Tarrant Hinton
Henry Caish/Cash/Cosh: baptized 13 January 1730, Tarrant Hinton
Lucy Beach: Baptized 10 June 1740 (?born 18 May 1740)
Children:
William, baptized 4 June, 1759
Diana, baptized 26 July 1761
Ann, baptized 11 June, 1764
Martha Caish, baptized 20 April, 1767 [Direct Line.]
Thomas, baptized 7 July, 1771
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Generation 9
Lucy Beach's parents, Sixpenny Handley:
William Beach
Alice
Lucy Beach [Direct Line.]
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Generation 9
Henry Cosh/Caish baptized 13 January 1730, Tarrant Hinton
** Henry Caish is listed as marriage witness through the years 1760-85, implying literacy; perhaps he was
the parish clerk.
William Caish is listed as marriage witness 1788-9
** There are a lot of Adams listed in Tarrant Hinton records too.
** Church of St. Mary's dates from 1545. Tarrant Hinton is on the main Blandford to Salisbury road.
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Generation 10
William and Elizabeth Cosh
William Cosh: born 1715; died 5 April 1792, buried 6 April, 1792 Bloxworth, Dorset
Children:
Henry baptized 13 January 1731, Tarrant Hinton [Direct Line.]
Thomas: baptized March 1, 1741, Tarrant Hinton
Ann: baptized June 12, 1744, Tarrant Hinton
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Thankyou very much for sharing this information. Have you seen the court record for Cranborne Vs Thomas Hyde in respect of Martha Caish from Sept 1790?
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