Ann Foot
 

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Name - "official" name and what they were known as – Ann Foot

Date and place of birth – 1782, Bristol, Gloucestershire

Names of parents - unknown

Date and place of baptism - unknown

Details of each of his or her marriages – to James Paines, 11 October 1813, Clifton, Gloucestershire

Occupation(s) – Shoe Binder (1851 census)

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!).
Eldest known child born/baptised in Bath, Somerset in 1819
4 other known children born/baptised in Westminster, London area between 1823 & 1831
1841 census - 12 Rose Street, Westminster, London
1851 census – 18 Rose Street, Westminster, London (with daughter Ann)
Address on death certificate in 1854 – 18 Rose Street, Long Acre, London

Date, place and cause of death – 1854, Westminster, London

Date and place of burial – 20 July 1854, St Martin in the Fields, Westminster, London

Details of will / administration of their estate - unknown

Memorial inscription – unknown

Son
Joseph Paines

Husband
James Paines

The marriage is on my CD but it doesn't say whether she was a spinster or a widow. Some of the other marriages at the same church do say, so it could be that the actual register entry doesn't say either. The CD doesn't give the witnesses' names but they would be in the register. If she really was 30-31 when she married Joseph then she could well have been a widow, but if her last child was born in 1831 I've thinking maybe she was younger than the age given on the censuses etc?

There is an Ann Foot baptised 27 Dec 1785 at St Philip & St Jacob, Bristol, parents John and Elizabeth. Abode Parson's Lane, father's occupation shoe maker.

Thank you for looking on your CD Kite.
The father's occupation on that baptism would fit with Ann's occupation of Shoe Binder on 1851 census. Her son Joseph was listed as a cordwainer/shoemaker/boot maker/boot finisher on various census. Maybe taught by his grandfather?

Ooh, that sounds like a good fit, then! I'll see if I can find any more about that family.

So... the Bristol Burgess Books have an entry for a John Foot, cordwainer, 4 Sep 1794 Patron William Pope Foot, patron's trade whittawer (? don't know what that is?). There is an "F" in the "mode" column, and "deceased" in the "other information" column. F means that he became a burgess by virtue of his father having been a freeman, so I think this means that John's father was William Pope Foot and was deceased by 1794.

There is another entry with patron William Foot alias William Pope Foot, whittawer and glover, 4 Dec 1769, and it is mode M (by having married the daughter or widow of a freeman), the burgess being James Hopkins, house carpenter, and it says "Elizabeth w/o" so I think this means that James Hopkins married Elizabeth, the widow of William Pope Foot.

Will have a look at marriages and baptisms next...

Anne Foot, daughter of William Pope Foot, baptised 5 Jul 1758 St Philip & St Jacob, abode Elbroad Street
Betty Foot, daughter of William Pope Foot, baptised 31 Jul 1760 St Philip & St Jacob, same abode
John Foot, son of William Pope Foot, baptised 27 Jul 1763 St Philip & St Jacob
Margaret Foot, daughter of William Pope Foot, baptised 10 Feb 1762 St Philip & St Jacob
William Foot, son of William Pope Foot, baptised 7 Feb 1765 St Philip & St Jacob

William Hay Foot, son of John and Elizabeth, baptised 10 Aug 1783 St James.

I can't see either William Pope Foot or John Foot's marriage on the marriage CD. But it does have James Hopkins marrying Elizabeth Foot 8 Apr 1769 at St Philip & St Jacob.

Thanks Kite for all that information. There's plenty for me to explore & digest.

Whittawer = a person who converts skins into white leather, a tawer
(from Collins English Dictionary).
Well you learn something every day! ;)