EADES/WOOLMER/WAKEMAN and murder most foul

[Yegvard]

Hi Folks

In 1901 Harriet LAUGHER, nee EADES was murdered, in Bromsgrove, by her daughter who then committed suicide.
There is a suspicion that Harriet had a distant relative who was also murdered.

Does anyone know anything about what is going in this household in 1841 in New Buildings, Bromsgrove?
HO 107/11954/4/35/21

Thomas WOOLMER 60
Elizabeth WOOLMER 70

Thomas WAKEMAN 45
Ann WAKEMAN 40
Charles WAKEMAN 13

Harriet EADES 11
Alice EADES 7
Emma EADES 6
John EADES 3
Caroline EADES 1

In the 1851, Harriet has disappeared and Alice, Emma and John seem to have become WAKEMANs. Harriet married Samuel LAUGHER in 1859.

FreeREG quotes Harriet's parents as Joseph and Ann EADES in 1829. The other children seem only to be baptiesed with Ann as their mother.


Cheers

Mike

[MarkJ]

A guess - and thats all it is - would be

Ann perhaps is the daughter of the Woolmers, then married Joseph Eades (or perhaps didn't - and he was maybe the reputed father or something? You would need to look in parish records for a marriage I think). Joseph - assuming he really was married to Ann - dies (again, a parish record job). With the other children only having Ann as the person baptising them, I suspect something there!
I then guess that Ann marries a widower - Thomas Wakeman (widower guess because of Charles probably being the son of Thomas and a different lady).

The Eades children later either took the Wakeman name for appearences or were adopted.

But just a theory - it will need some parish record searching I think to unwravel!

Mark

[Yegvard]

Hi Mark,

That was my line of thought too. There is no record on the IGI for a Worcestershire marriage between Joseph and Ann. However, I have found one on FreeREG, must have done something stupid first time around. One wonders why Joseph's name wasn't on the baptisms of the other children....(no answer required!)

Ann was Ann Williams, 21st June 1828. Pitty the 1841 doesn't give relationships.

Thanks for making me go and double check

Mike

Still looking for anyone who has progressed further back.