Research Notes
The trail back to England
1794 George Onslow(snr) and Rachel Price marry Claines, Worchester
1796 George Onslow chr 25 Nov, All Saints Worchester (LDS)
- Parents George and Rachel Onslow
1797-8 George Onslow convicted burglary in Droitwich 10 March 1821
Worchester City, aged 23,
comb maker (Hindostan shipping Record)
1776-7 George Onslow(snr) aged 64 in 1841 census in St Thomas
Birmingham (Not born in county) - Combmaker
1798 George Onslow year of birth on Ticket of leave
1797-8 Georg Onslow's birth from his headstone
1844 George Onslow dies Liverpool NSW
Jack Hanslow Comments
Name variations: Hanslow, Anslow, Henslow
Jude the Obscure (Genes Reunited)
Has a George Onslow who would be about right for George Senior, but his
profession is "Clerk to a Solicitor"
Sons Matthew and Emannuel
Annette Beresford (Genes
Reunited)
Quoting "
I had provisionally put
Rachael down as the wife of George senior She
lived in Dolby . this is also the place name on the D.certs. for
Emmanuel and Jane's children who die in infancy and who are burried
Allsaints Worcs".
And later, just when I had decided a combmaker was not a Solicitor's
Clerk
"When Emanuel's
1st. wife Jane died Emanuel was a
comb maker . The stumbling block ,as far as my f.h. is concerned ,is
that when Emanuel marries for the second time ,he states that his
father is a lawyer's clerk as indeed Mathew does when he marries . who
is to say George senior wasn't both ? perhaps he took an indoor job in
his retirement or just as likely Emanuel/Mathew elevated his status"
Extract from a letter from Annette 31
Oct 06
I hope you find the following
paper-trail of interest. I must stress that it is allcircumstantial and
even the post-1837 material is as found. However this is how it came
about. Shortly before the death of my grandmother Eva, she wrote on the
back of a photograph of the Woodman tavern in Poole in Dorset, "this is
the hotel owned by my grandfather Matthew Onslow. I am the eldest
daughter of his eldest son John Frederick Onslow." The records do
indeed show that Matthew and his family did live there (although there
is no evidence that they owned it) and later his eldest daughter and
her husband along with another sibling Isabel also lived there. By back
tracking to the 1851 census we find Matthew born <1811> in
Kenilworth in Warwickshire along with a Daughter named Clara born
<1836> in Birmingham living near Southampton in Hampshire. There
is no record of "our " Matthew in the 1841 census (the only one
mentioned has been ruled out as ours). Clara Onslow B<1836> does
feature on the 1841 census living in Tenbury (not far from Worcester)
along with her sister Amelia. Their father is Emanuel Onslow a widower,
and a policeman. The searches on the IGI list Clara and Amelia as the
daughters of Jane and Emanuel and further searches give several other
possible siblings. There is a marriage ref. for Emanuel Onslow to a
Jane Dovey. There is a d. cert. For Jane Onslow (incl.) naming Emanuel
the husband and a comb-maker. There is an address of Friar St.
mentioned. Switching to Emanuel and Jane's children there are refs. for
their burials on Family history on-line. Their place of abode being
Doldy I think this is an area of Worcester now called Dolday although
I'm not sure. There is also a ref. of a burial for Rachel Onslow abode
Doldy (incl.) In 1841 Emanuel a policeman of Tenbury marries Sarah
Colley--- he names his father as George a lawyers clerk and that is the
last we hear of Emmanuel. Sarah remains in and around Tenbury until her
death. Although she seems to remain unmarried, she has two children by
a Robert Tisdale of Burford (near Tenbury) and it is one of these sons
William who is the informant on her D.cert. Interestingly he gives her
as the widow of Charles Onslow a policeman. Given that Emmanuel seems
to vanish before the boys were born it is quite likely William had
forgotten Sarah's husbands name or of course he could have been Charles
Emmanuel. Exit Emmanuel enter Matthew could they be one and the same
person? When Amelia marries she names her father as Matthew--- now
George senior. The IGI has a marriage between George Onslow and Rachel
Price and a son George born to that couple but no ref. for any other
siblings. The links are the occupation of Comb- maker linking George
senior and junior and Emmanuel although on M. certs. of Emmanuel and
Matthew (incl.) George senior becomes a Lawyers clerk! I think the
info. has to be taken in context of the times. Policemen were often
"between" jobs -- until something better came up The family (if your
George was anything to go by) were not exactly pillars of society and
whilst declarations on official documents were not at this time to be
taken as proof perfect, I do feel that these are members of the same
family. I think a quote in the Manchester and Lancs Family history
magazine sums it up "I think my relatives entered an early form of a
witness protection scheme.
Annette followed up with an LDS
entry
Emanuel Hounslow christened 12
Aug 1804 Kenilworth, Warwick, England, Parents George and Rachel
Hounslow
Email
from Ron Madden in Wagga
Your George
Onslow has to be the same George Onslow who was operating a
quarry
on the Georges River by the late 1830's.
I Don't know, but it could be
Genes Reunited checked
for George and Eliza,
found Mary McEvoy in colonial secretary index ie try alternate spelling
on searches tried, no joy
LDS There is a Mrs Rachael
Price b 1772 Worchester. No joy, as by
implication, that is her married name. George(snr) birth no Rachel
nothing
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