Samuel & Mary Denyer of Thursley
Samuel Denyer, son of Frank and Mary, was baptised in Godalming on 11th August 1771.
Mary Cover, daughter of Robert, was baptised in Thursley on 18th April 1763.
Samuel Denyer and Mary Cover were married in Thursley on 18th October 1789 and had the following children baptised:
William
1 Jul 1787
Thursley
Jemima
22 Dec 1789
Thursley
Francis
3 Apr 1791
Thursley
George
2 Dec 1792
Thursley
Berthia
16 Nov 1794
Thursley
Mary
5 Aug 1798
Thursley
Sarah
29 Jun 1800
Thursley
Samuel
10 Jan 1802
Thursley
James
15 Nov 1803
Thursley
Elizabeth
21 Mar 1805
Thursley
Hannah
1 Jan 1807
Thursley
In 1841 Samuel and Mary were still in Thursley and Samuel was shown as the parish clerk.
Samuel died and was buried in Thursley on 31st December 1841, aged 71. The register notes that he had been clerk of the parish for about 40 years.
Mary was buried in Thursley on 20th January 1849, aged 83.
Of their children:
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William married Mary Walker in Thursley on 10th February 1806 and they had two children baptised:
Caroline
1 Jan 1807
Thursley
Mary Ann
12 Jun 1808
Thursley
Mary appears to have been buried in Godalming on 17th April 1814 aged 32 (so born about 1781). William then married Margaret Breach in Godalming on 25th December 1815. They appear to have had seven more children:
Elizabeth
8 Jul 1818
Godalming (d.12 Feb 1824)
George
ca. 1820
Mary
2 Dec 1822
Godalming
Sarah
16 July 1826
Godalming (born ca. 1824)
Thomas
16 July 1826
Godalming
James
26 Oct 1828
Godalming (d. 3 Feb 1831)
Charles
ca. 1830
William, an agricultural labourer, and Margaret were living in Mead Road, Farncombe, near Godalming in 1841 with their children George, Thomas and Charles. In 1851 William was working in the stone quarry and Charles was still with them in Godalming. William died before the 1861 census.
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Jemima married Joseph Phillips in Godalming on 11th December 1814 and they had the following children baptised:
Mary
17 Apr 1816
Godalming
Joseph
18 Jan 1818
Godalming
Charles
27 Dec 1818
Godalming
Hannah
29 Sep 1820
Godalming
Maria
15 Sep 1822
Godalming
Andrew
25 Jul 1824
Godalming
Elizabeth
3 Nov 1826
Godalming
William
5 Dec 1828
Godalming
George
11 Jul 1830
Godalming
James
30 Sep 1832
Godalming
In 1841 Jemima was at Oxford Road, Godalming, with Joseph, who was a groom, and their youngest three children. In 1851 Joseph, an ostler, and Jemima were at Barrack Field, Guildford. By 1861 they had moved to Prospect Place, Swindon, Wiltshire, where Joseph was working as a smith’s labourer. They were still there in 1871 and Jemima died in 1874, age 84.
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Francis married Maria Manvell in Elstead on 5th June 1815 and their known children were:
John
12 Apr 1816
Thursley
Mary Ann
8 Dec 1824
Bethnal Green
Daniel
9 Sep 1827
Bethnal Green
Emma
6 Jun 1830
Bethnal Green
Caroline
10 Mar 1833
Bethnal Green
Francis
1 Jun 1834
Thursley
Francis was buried in Thursley on 25th June 1834.
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George married Eliza Waltham in Thursley on 14th February 1827 and they had the following children baptised:
Henry
15 Jun 1828
Thursley
George
31 Jan 1830
Thursley
Jane Eliza
24 Dec 1831
Thursley
Mary Ann
21 Jul 1833
Thursley
Samuel
15 Feb 1835
Thursley
Crawford
21 May 1837
Thursley
Andrew
7 Dec 1838
Thursley
Maria
19 Apr 1840
Thursley
William
12 Jun 1842
Thursley
Elizabeth
27 Apr 1845
Thursley
Martin
18 Apr 1847
Thursley
Clarissa
20 May 1849
Thursley
In 1841 George was a butcher living in Thursley, but by 1851 he was an agricultural labourer. He was buried in Thursley on 10th October 1858, aged 66.
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Bethia married Thomas Milton, an agricultural labourer, in Thursley on 30th May 1814 and they had ther following children baptised:
William
26 May 1816
Thursley
Thomas
1 Mar 1818
Thursley
Samuel
28 Jul 1822
Thursley
John
ca. 1824
Bethia
19 Mar 1826
Thursley
Elizabeth
10 Aug 1828
Thursley
Helen
19 Sep 1830
Thursley
James
9 Dec 1832
Thursley
Mary Ann
18 May 1834
Thursley
Andrew
13 Mar 1836
Thursley
Maria
18 Mar 1838
Thursley
In 1841 they were living at Redford Farm in Thursley. Bethia died in 1852. They were still in Thursley in 1851 and Bethia was buried there on 4th September 1852 aged 58.
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Maria married Richard Woods and they lived in Catteshall, Surrey.
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Mary married Samuel Mansell, an agricultural labourer, in Thursley on 13th September 1822 and their children were:
Hannah
16 Mar 1823
Thursley
George
2 May 1824
Thursley
Mary
15 Jan 1826
Thursley
Henry
4 Nov 1827
Thursley
John
27 Sep 1829
Thursley
Elizabeth
27 Nov 1831
Thursley
Harriet
3 Apr 1834
Thursley
Martha
3 Apr 1836
Thursley
Margaret
18 Mar 1838
Thursley
Alfred
14 Jun 1840
Thursley
In 1841 and 1851 Samuel and Mary were living at Smallbrook in Thursley. Mary died in 1859.
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Sarah married Daniel Andrews in Thursley on 11th Jun 1823
Andrew
29 Oct 1823
Thursley
Mary
2 Oct 1825
Headley
Alfred
1 Apr 1827
Headley
Elizabeth
26 Oct 1828
Headley
Daniel was buried in Thursley on 15th June 1829, aged 36. In 1841 Sarah, a schoolmistress, was living at Hedge in Thursley with Mary. Mary married Martin Tidy, a master tanner, and Sarah was staying with them in Thursley in 1851. In 1861 she was still in Thursley, although retired from teaching, and lodging with her was Thomas Milton, widower of Sarah’s sister Bethia. Sarah was buried in Thursley on 15th June 1864, aged 63.
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Samuel married Charlotte Newman in Thursley on 17th May 1824 and they are believed to have had these children:
Samuel
26 Jun 1825
Thursley
Henry
10 Dec 1826
Bethnal Green, St Matthew
James
21 Jun 1829
Stepney, St Dunstan
Charlotte
29 Jan 1832
Stepney, St Dunstan
Elizabeth Ann
19 Feb 1837
Stepney, St Dunstan (born ca.1834)
Frances Priscilla
19 Feb 1837
Stepney, St Dunstan
William Hamlet
Q3 1839
Stepney
George Newman
Q2 1842
Stepney (died 1845)
Caroline
Q3 1845
Stepney
In 1851 Samuel was an eating house keeper living at 143 Bethnal Green with his family, but their daughter, Caroline, was staying with her aunt Elizabeth and William Ayling in Fareham, who had no children of their own. She had been baptised there in 1850. In 1861 Samuel was staying at Hill House in Thursley with Caroline. Samuel was buried in Thursley on 20th July 1865, aged 63.
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Elizabeth married William Ayling in Thursley on 28th October 1828, but they had no children of their own. In 1841 she was staying in Thursley with her married sister Hannah. In 1851 she was in Fareham, Hampshire with her husband who was a beer house keeper there and staying with them was her niece Caroline, Samuel’s youngest daughter. Elizabeth was buried in Portsea on 12th December 1858.
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Hannah married Edward Walker in Stepney on 26th December 1833 and they had six children:
Clarissa
17 Nov 1835
Thursley
John
8 Aug 1837
Thursley
Edward
1 Feb 1839
Thursley
George Francis
9 May 1841
Thursley
William Samuel
26 Mar 1843
Thursley
Elizabeth Sarah
21 Mar 1845
Thursley
Edward was a grocer in Thursley but by 1861 he had died and Hannah was recorded as Grocer and Postmistress as she was in 1871. By 1881 she lodging in Edmonton next door to her son John, who by then was married and working as a master coach-builder. Her death was registered in Edmonton in Q1 1885 aged 85.