Peter Hunnisett

William & Hannah Monk of Send

William Monk, son of William and Rebecca, was baptised in Send & Ripley on 21^st April 1793.

Hannah Dolley, daughter of John and Mary, was baptised in Worplesdon on 8^th January 1792.

William married Hannah in Send & Ripley on 7^th May 1816 and among their children were:

Their son Joseph died at the age of 15 and was buried in Ripley on 7^th April 1841.

Hannah died, aged 48, about a week after their son Joseph and was buried in Send on 16^th April 1841. At the census William was living in Send with several of his children plus a granddaughter, Lydia, Louisa’s illegitimate child.

In 1843 William married a widow, Sarah Ayling, and in 1851 they were living in Ripley with William’s son Samuel and two of Sarah’s children. William was receiving parish relief.

William continued to live in Ripley with Sarah until she died, aged 74, and was buried there on 22^nd May 1861. William died , aged 78, and was buried in Ockham on 19^th July 1864.

Of their children:

• Louisa had a daughter, Lydia, in 1836 and married Robert Turner in 1843.

• Caroline married Samuel May, a farm worker, in Worplesdon on 17^th November 1838 and they had 6 children baptised:

  Henry

  30 May 1841 

  Worplesdon

  Mary

  26 Feb 1843

  Worplesdon

  William

  22 Dec 1844

  Worplesdon

  Samuel

  8 Mar 1846

  Worplesdon

  James

  14 Nov 1847

  Worplesdon

  John

  1 Apr 1849

  Worplesdon

  Their son William was buried on 16^th July 1846, aged 1, and James on 1^st November 1849, aged 2. Then on 22^nd November 1849 Samuel was buried aged 30.

  So in 1851 Caroline was a widow with her remaing four children and she had two lodgers, one of whome was her brother, Isaac. I have not traced her after this.

• Isaac was a farm worker living with his father in 1841 and lodging with his widowed sister, Caroline, in 1851. He married Mary Novel in Seale on 12^th November 1853 and they had one son:

  William

  Q2 1853

  They lived in Seale until Isaac died at the age of 47 and was buried there on 24^th September 1873.

• Joseph died, aged 15, and was buried in Ripley on 7^th April 1841.

• Mary has not been traced after 1841.

• Samuel married Eliza Cox in Battersea on 18^th October 1856 and they had 7 children:

  Samuel

  bapt 27 Dec 1857

  Ockham

  William

  bapt 25 Dec 1859

  Ockham

  Clara

  born 21 Apr 1862

  Ripley (bapt 1 June)

  Lydia

  Q3 1864

  Ockham

  Arthur

  Q4 1866

  Wisley

  Benjamin

  Q4 1868

  Wisley

  Emily Eliza

  bapt 1 Sep 1878

  Stoke D’Abernon

  Samuel was a farm worker and obviously moved around a lot as they were at Batchelor’s in Ockham in 1861, Riverside in Wisley in 1871, Stoke Tilt in Stoke D’Abernon in 1881 and Silvermere in Hersham in 1891 by which time he was recorded as a stockman. In 1901 Samuel was staying with his son, Samuel, in Woking and in 1911 he was living in a room in Croydon. He died in 1912, aged 82.

• Rosanna was working as a servant in Worplesdon in 1851. She married Richard Ricketts, a farm worker from West Clandon, in Ockham on 28^th October 1858 and they had six children:

  Rosanna

  bapt 28 Aug 1859

  Guildford, Holy Trinity

  Ann Louise

  Q13 1861

  West Clandon

  Alice

  Q3 1865

  Stoke

  Eliza

  bapt 24 May 1868

  Guildford, St Mary

  Richard

  bapt 19 Feb 1870

  Guildford, St Mary

  James

  Q4 1872

  Guildford

  In 1861 the family were in West Clandon but they later moved to Guildford where they were living at Milk House Gate in 1871, Drummond Road in 1881 and 17 South Street in 1891.

  Richard died, aged 63, and was buried in Guildford on 4^th January 1896.

  Rosanna was staying with her son James in 1901 and she was buried in Guildford at the age of 70 on 17^th January 1906.