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Begent Family

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Begent Family St Martins

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The IGI gives Sarah Jane Begent daughter of James & Sarah Begent b.15.9.1822 ch. 4.11.1822 St Martin, Birmingham. My last known relative James Begent b.1804 London and his Father also James Begent was supposed to have come from France via Birmingham where he was a Carriage Maker (Horse & Carts). Can anyone help in finding James.
 
They were living in Suffolk Street and James's occupation was wire worker.
 
This is the only other mention of the name Begent

Feb 16th 1893 marriage
Thomas John Begent age 70, widower, accountant, abode St Martins Hotel, father Thomas Begent occupation Gentleman.
Sarah Helar age 76, spinster, abode St Martins Hotel, father Charles Helar occupation Farmer.
Witnesses Poss? (NS) Smallwood and Sarah Ann Smallwood.
 
1841 Census, at 8 Wilton Mews, Westminster (London)
James Begent 35
Rachael Begent 35
Sarah Begent 10
James Begent 8
Emma Begent 3
Rachael Begent 1
All born 'This county' (Middlesex?)

1851 census, at 6 Quebec Court or Mews (both are there)
James is 46, Rachael 35, Sarah not there, other children all +10 years, new child Gilbert Begent 4



James Begent b. 1804: death registration.
1st quarter 1868 St Olave Southwark, London, Surrey. volume 1d page 35. Age at death 64.

1861 census, at 'Orange Tree beer house', St Mary's Terrace, Willesden
James 57 Rachaell(sic) 56, Gilbert 14. Others not there.

James Begent death registration, 1st quarter 1868, St Olave Southwark, London, Surrey.
Volume 1d page 35. Age at death 64. (Born 1804).
 
James Begent is on a public family tree on Ancestry.com. owned by 'philipradford07', I think you have to be a member to see it.
 
Thanks everyone - what a great site - The London Begents are my relatives and I have not seen the early census records - particularly I would like to find James Begent's birth records - but the Birmingham connection remains very interesting. Family history is certainly addictive and on one side of my family I am already back to 1530, its just a pity that the other side of my family is William Jones from Wales - the nightmare needle in the haystack situation.
 
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