JILES /ASHMEAD (Middlesex) BRADLEY (Wirral)

[DEE LAPOINTE]

Hello - I am a newbie from British Columbia and am trying to find my JILES ancestors (so frustrating because GILES is the more prominent spelling). Does anyone know where or how this family name originated?

This is the info I have from my Grandfather's birth certificate:

CHARLES FREDERICK JILES b. l June 1861
FATHER: *JOHN JILES
OCCUPATION: BRONZE FIGURE MOLDER
MOTHER: **ISABELLA ASHMEAD
RESIDENCE: 2 CAMBRIDGE TERRACE, PIMBLICO

*JOHN JILES (and household) is listed in one census as:
JOHN JELES 65 Pimblico Rd.,
Census Place: London, Middlesex, England
Family History Library Film 1341023
Public Records Office Reference: RG11
Piece/Folio 0101 / 27
Page Number 7

From this info I wonder how far back my family can be tracked? And if **Isabella's Ashmead's family can also be tracked. (I will leave BRADLEY for another time)!

Many thanks

Dee

[Bo Peep]

|wave|Hello Dee and welcome to the Brit-Gen forum. I am delighted you have joined us and wish you every success with your research.

[DEE LAPOINTE]

Thank you, Pam

The JILES family sure is a scarce and shy one - I hope there is someone out there who can answer my questions.

Best regards

Dee

[lindand]

Hi Dee
I live in Alberta and have some Bradley ancestors mostly from Welby - I'm not sure where Wirral is. I will look further to see if you have posted Bradley info somewhere else in this forum.
Linda

[Jan1954]

Hello Lindad,

The Wirral is the lumpy bit of England that sticks out between Wales and Liverpool. Between the Rivers Mersey and Dee.

(Apologies to anyone from the Wirral... :o)

[Wirral]

Hello Lindad,

The Wirral is the lumpy bit of England that sticks out between Wales and Liverpool.

Lumpy? :eek: I know I've put a bit of weight on, but I've never been called that before! :D

[Jan1954]

Lumpy? :eek: I know I've put a bit of weight on, but I've never been called that before! :D

No, you daft 'apeth, you're not lumpy! :o But England is! :D

[janbooth]

Dee,

If you obtain their marriage certificate - the marriage of an Isabella ASHMEAD was registered in the December qtr 1852 at Leicester registration district, vol 7a, page 736 and there is a corresponding entry for a John JILES - this will give you the names and professions of both bride and groom which should make it easier to trace them in the 1841 census and backwards from 1837 in the parish registers. Certificates can be purchase online at www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/.

HTH and good luck

Janet

[Mutley]

Dee,

If you obtain their marriage certificate - the marriage of an Isabella ASHMEAD was registered in the December qtr 1852 at Leicester registration district, vol 7a, page 736 and there is a corresponding entry for a John JILES -
Janet

Jan,
Could you check your reference, I found it as
Name: Isabella Ashmead
Year of Registration: 1852
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Leicester (1837-1974)
County: Leicestershire
Volume: 7a
Page: 376 (click to see others on page) = John Jiles

[Mutley]

Hello Dee,
On the 1881 census you refer to
Isabella is born abt 1828 in Wells, Norfolk.

She appears in 1841
Name: Isabella Ashmead
Age: 15
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1826
Gender: Female
Where born: Norfolk, England

Civil Parish: Wells Next The Sea
Hundred: North Greenhoe
County/Island: Norfolk
Country: England

Registration district: Walsingham
Sub-registration district: Wells

Household Members: Name Age
Benj Ashmead 25
Isabella Ashmead 15
Class: HO107; Piece 772; Book: 16; Civil Parish: Wells Next The Sea; County: Norfolk; Enumeration District: 2; Folio: 29; Page: 8

Then in 1851, just prior to her marriage
Name: Isabella Ashmead
Age: 24
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1827
Relation: Servant
Gender: Female
Where born: Wells, Norfolk, England

Civil Parish: Kensington
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary Abbots
County/Island: Middlesex
Country: England
Registration district: Kensington
Sub-registration district: Kensington Town
ED, institution, or vessel: 1

Household Members: Name Age
Isabella Ashmead 24
Catherina M Melliss 22
Eliza Melliss 32
William Melliss 26
Jessie Smith 38
Class: HO107; Piece: 1468; Folio: 28; Page: 49

[DEE LAPOINTE]

Oh! Oh! I am so excited about these replies and cannot thank you enough. This is such great news! Finally something about my ancestors. I will send for John and Isabella's marriage certificate and go from there.

As for Bradley, I'm looking for information about my great-grandfather, WILLIAM HENRY BRADLEY. My gandmother's information is:

ELIZA MAY BRADLEY
Christened 31 March 1880
Wallasey, Cheshire
Father: William Henry
Mother: Elizabeth Carey
Batch No. C009503
Dates 1841 - 1901
Source Call No. 1737060
Type: Film
Print Out Call No.: None

I have no idea what 'Batch No.s", etc. are nor do I do how to access them. Can you help, please?

I believe my grandmother was christened at St. Hilary's Church, Wirral. Her mother died when she was very young and she lived with her god-parents. She said she came from Liverpool and I imagine that is where she lived after Wirral. She had two sisters: Lilian and Selina (sp?). We have photos of her taken by Priestley & Son, 17 Falkland Rd., Egremont; Bennet James, Quex Rd. High Rd. Kilburn N.W.; Vandyke The Photographer, 62 Bold St. Liverpool; and Charles Koenig, 373 Edgware Rd. Maida Vales, Paddington, London.

Again many thanks to you all

Dee

[janbooth]

Sorry Dee & Mutley, page number should read 376 - I am still getting used to a new keyboard - I must check everything I type in from now on until I am used to it. Many apologies

Janet