Please help me find Walter Isaac ACLAND and Honor RIDLER

[Lindad]

My great great grandfather was Walter Isaac ACLAND and he married Honor RIDLER. Their daughter, Honor Ann Ridler ACLAND, was born in Tiverton in April 1841.

Walter was a carpenter and died in Camberwell, Surrey in 1865 (by accidental death when his neck became caught between two fence posts...) He was 46 years old when he died so would have been born c.1819.

I have never been able to find Walter or Honor (his wife) on any censuses, so have no real idea where he was born. Likewise, I don't know where Honor Ridler was born, when or where she married Walter, or when and where she died.

I am working on the assumption (dangerous I know) that Walter and Honor were from the Tiverton area and that they married there. I wonder if their daughter Honor had any siblings?

Does anyone have access to the 1851 (or an earlier) census for Tiverton... or a local directory for 1840-ish directory which might include carpenters?

[janbooth]

I have had a look in the LDS 1851 of Devon and can find no Walter ACLAND or Honor ACLAND (ACKLAND) at all. The only ACLAND with a Tiverton connection is the following family (as William is a cabinet maker, thought it was worth a mention):

William ACLAND Head M 48 M Cabinet Maker Tiverton-Dev
Mary ACLAND Wife - 45 F Tavistock-Dev
Elizth. ACLAND Daur U 29 F Dressmaker Tiverton-Dev
Emma J. ACLAND Daur U 18 F Lace Mender Tiverton-Dev
Frances ACLAND Daur U 16 F Lace Mender Tiverton-Dev
James ACLAND Son - 9 M Tiverton-Dev
Edwin ACLAND Son - 6 M Tiverton-Dev
Thomas ACLAND Son - 7 M Tiverton-Dev
George ACLAND Son - 3 M Tiverton-Dev

Address: Townsend, Tiverton
Census Place: Tiverton Tiverton, Devonshire
PRO Reference: HO/107/1889 Folio: 243 Page: 42 FHL Film: 0221039

I also looked for RIDLER (RIDDLER) with a Tiverton connection and the only two families I could find are the following:

William THORNE Head M 70 M Ag Lab Tiverton-Dev
Jane THORNE Wife M 68 F Witheridge-Dev
Mary RIDLER Daur W 49 F Crocombe-Dev

Address: Lusby Lane, Tiverton
Census Place: Tiverton Tiverton, Devonshire
PRO Reference: HO/107/1889 Folio: 11 Page: 14 FHL Film: 0221039

Harriet RIDLER Paup U 26 F Servant Morebath-Dev
Mary Ann RIDLER Paup - 5 F Tiverton-Dev

Address: I-"Tiverton Union Workhouse", Tiverton
Census Place: Tiverton Tiverton, Devonshire
PRO Reference: HO/107/1889 Folio: 359 Page: 11 FHL Film: 0221039

Sorry not to have been of more help.

Janet.

[Geoffers]

I have had a look in the LDS 1851 of Devon and can find no Walter ACLAND or Honor ACLAND (ACKLAND) at all. The only ACLAND with a Tiverton connection is the following family (as William is a cabinet maker, thought it was worth a mention)Janet.

Thera re a couple more with different spellings of the surname......

HO107/1889 f143 p20
Bampton St, Tiverton
Robert ACKLAND, Head, Mar, 50, Carpenter, Tiverton-DEV
Jemmiah ACKLAND, Wife, Mar, 75, Carpenter, Tiverton-DEV


HO107/1889 f186 p18
Elmore, Tiverton
James AGLAND, Head, Mar, 29, Lab, Burlescombe-Dev
Ann AGLAND, Wife, , 30,, Ashbrittle-Som
Amlia AGLAND, Daur, , 8,, Burlescombe-Dev
Saml. AGLAND, Son, , 5,, Tiverton-Dev
Sarah AGLAND, Daur, , 3,, Tiverton-Dev
Ellen AGLAND, Daur, , 1,, Tiverton-Dev

Geoffers
Charlbury, Oxfordshire

[Lindad]

Thanks so much for these look-ups. I'm just back from holiday and it'll take a few days to get back into gear... but I'll look forward to looking at all these Aclands and Aglands a bit more carefully.

[Lindad]

It's taken a while, but I'm trying to pick up the pieces of this particular search again...

I'm interested in finding out if my William Acland (carpenter) is connected with this Robert Ackland (carpenter). I think the key may well be the 1841 census as my great grandmother, Honor Ann Ridler Acland was born in Tiverton in April 1941. Therefore, her parents, Walter Acland and Honor Ridler, must have been in the Tiverton area in 1941 even if they didn't originate from there and even if the family left shortly afterwards.

PLEASE... does anyone have the 1841 census for the Tiverton area? I would happily buy the CD - but, unfortunately, this family are the only westcountry roots that I have and so it doesn't really seem worth it. Although I may get desperate...

[Karen Newman]

If Walter is the one whose death is registered in Camberwell in 1865, are you aware that there is a death in 1870 for a Honor Acland aged 63 - also Camberwell? Taken from FreeBMD so would need verification.

[alkell]

Hi,
are you still interested in the Acland family etc. I have in my possession marriage certificate for a Honor Acland. My Maternal family
come from Mortlake, which would make her my great great grandmother. I was wondering if this is just coincidence and look forward to your reply.
Alkell