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    Default Benjamin Senior c.1795 Wrexham

    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.

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    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

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    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?

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    Quote Originally Posted by bettyespana View Post
    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:

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

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    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?

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    Quote Originally Posted by bettyespana View Post
    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.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by olliecat View Post
    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.

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

    https://
    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by olliecat View Post
    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

    Quote Originally Posted by olliecat View Post
    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.

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