Benjamin Senior c.1795 Wrexham

[bettyespana]

I am looking for any info about Benjamin Senior as per the title of the message.
Benjamin was b.Wrexham as far as I am to believe c.1795.I believe he was a Wesleyan Methodist.
All I have is that his spouse was Elizabeth(Bythell?)
They had 4 children Ann c.1818,Amelia c.1821,Joseph 1822(my husbands 2xgt grandfather) & Mary 1833
I also have pencilled in that Benjamin was deceased June 1870 - Wrexham.

I don't know what happened to any of the children except for Joseph who worked at a sugar refinery in London 1881c
Joseph & family were in Warrington,Lancs by 1891c.He died in 1894.

I am at a standstill with Benjamin Senior & would like to find further info if poss.

[emeltee]

Hi,

I can't help with Benjamin's birth but from the entries for the births of his children his wife was Elizabeth Blythell daughter of Joseph and Mary Blythell. Also the child born 1833 is not the daughter of your Benjamin. She was born to Benjamin Senior, a shoemaker and his wife Keturah. The entries for the baptisms of Amelia, Mary Ann and Joseph state that their father was a wire drawer.

Emeltee

[lesleys]

From the Surman Index of Methodist ministers:


Career:
Date Place County
1814-1825 Tintwistle Cheshire
1825-52 Nantwich Cheshire
1832-n.d. Addingham Yorkshire, West Riding

do these dates fit with your Benjamin?

[Coromandel]

I also have pencilled in that Benjamin was deceased June 1870 - Wrexham.

The Wrexham Advertiser, 4 June 1870, announced this death:

'SENIOR - On the 25th ult., at Coedpoeth, Mr Benjamin Senior, aged 69 years.'

I think this is probably the Benjamin whose wife was Keturah (see emeltee's post), for both Benjamin and 'Kethrah' and a James Senior are mentioned on a memorial at Rehoboth, Coedpoeth, according to an index of monumental inscriptions here:

http://www.
tom-mercer-mi-indexes.org.uk/Rehoboth,%20Coedpoeth.htm

[Coromandel]

Another death announcement, this time from the Northern Star & Leeds General Advertiser of 3 April 1841:

'On Friday, the 19th ult., at Ashton-under-Lyne, in the 13th year of her age, Miss Martha Senior, eldest daughter of Mr. Benjamin Senior, wire worker, of Wales. She was greatly lamented by a large circle of both friends and relations.'

But if she really was the eldest daughter, yet only aged 13, it seems this isn't the same Benjamin Senior (with wife Elizabeth) who was having children baptised in 1818-1823 (unless the older girls died). What was Martha doing in Ashton under Lyne, and why was her death announced in the Northern Star?

[olliecat]

Joseph & family were in Warrington,Lancs by 1891c.

If I have the correct Joseph then he was living in Warrington in 1851 and 1861. Looking for a Benjamin Senior in Warrington, I came across this one...

1861: Piece: 2793 Folio: 20 Page: 33 (crown copyright, care of the TNA)
Model Cottage, Church Street, Warrington, Lancashire
SENIOR, Benj, head, 65 (b.1796), wire drawer, Gwersyllt? Denbighshire
SENIOR, Elizth, wife, 60 (b.1801), Wrexham Denbighshire
SENIOR, Benj, son, 17 (b.1844), pupil teacher, Warrington Lancashire

Transcribed as Bent LENSOR on Ancestry.

[olliecat]

Still don't know if Benjamin in Warrington is the right one, however, following him back through the census ...

1851: Piece: 2203 Folio: 629 Page: 12 (crown copyright, care of the TNA)
Bewsey Road, Saint Paul, Warrington
SENIOR?, Benjamin, head, 54 (b.1797), wire drawer, Gurney? Flintshire
SENIOR, Elen?, wife, 50, (b.1801) Moss Broughton? Derbyshire
SENIOR, Sabey, son, 21 (b.1830, tailor, Brighouse Yorkshire
SENIOR, Benj, son, 7 (b.1844), Warrington Lancashire
BURNS, Mary, servant, 26, Ireland

Note: Transcribed as SEMIR on FMP and LEWIS on Ancestry.

[Coromandel]

Transcribed as Bent LENSOR on Ancestry.

Now that olliecat has found Benj. Senior in Warrington (despite Ancestry's best attempts to disguise him), this death registration seems more likely:

September quarter 1867
Benjamin Senior, 71, Warrington district, vol. 8c, page 108.

[Coromandel]

There are numerous references to Seniors from Clwyd parish registers here:

http://
freespace.virgin.net/jill.farndon25/S.html

which might provide some more pieces of the jigsaw. Then there's 'A history of the older nonconformity of Wrexham and its neighbourhood' by Alfred Neobard Palmer, which has several references to Seniors, including some who were wire workers. You can see scanned images of the pages on Ancestry, or there's an e-text on

www.
ebooksread.com

[Coromandel]

Still don't know if Benjamin in Warrington is the right one, however, following him back through the census ...

1851: Piece: 2203 Folio: 629 Page: 12 (crown copyright, care of the TNA)
Bewsey Road, Saint Paul, Warrington
SENIOR?, Benjamin, head, 54 (b.1797), wire drawer, Gurney? Flintshire
SENIOR, Elen?, wife, 50, (b.1801) Moss Broughton? Derbyshire
SENIOR, Sabey, son, 21 (b.1830, tailor, Brighouse Yorkshire
SENIOR, Benj, son, 7 (b.1844), Warrington Lancashire
BURNS, Mary, servant, 26, Ireland

On later censuses I think 'Sabey' is called Jabez.
1861: RG 9/2793, f.73, p.32
1871: RG 10/3998, f.43, p.30

SENIOR, Elen?, wife, 50, (b.1801) Moss Broughton? Derbyshire

There are places called Moss and Broughton very near Gwersyllt so I suspect 'Derbyshire' may mean 'Denbyshire' in this case.