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FERRINGTON family (Bilston)
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Note: the surname is recorded as both Ferrington and Farrington.
My great-great-great-grandfather was Richard Ferrington of Bilston, born about 1793. He was a miner, probably the son of Richard Ferrington and Mary Guest, who were married at St Peter’s, Wolverhampton, on 31 August 1789. Their other children – all baptised at Bilston – were *William (18 July 1790), Elizabeth (8 Apr 1792), Thomas (21 Feb 1796), John (27 May 1798) and Joseph (27 July 1800).
*In a trade directory of 1828, William appears as a carrier, plying goods from Little London in Willenhall to Birmingham. His brother Joseph married Mary Scrivens at Sedgley on 19 Feb 1821.
Richard Ferrington married Jane Lewis at St Peter’s, Wolverhampton, on 10 July 1814. Their witnesses were Kendrick Perry and Michael Shore.
Their children, all born at Pipes Meadow, Bilston were:
John, baptised at St Leonard’s church 2 November 1817; probably died in infancy.
Jane, baptised 21 March 1819. She died aged 5 years 9 months and was buried at St Leonard’s on 8 July 1824.
Sarah, baptised 19 November 1820. She died aged one year 11 months and was buried at St Leonard’s on 6 October 1822.
Ann, born 1823, also died in infancy and was buried 4 November 1823.
Rebecca – between 1822 and 1825, birth details unknown.
Jane, baptised 17 July 1825.
Richard, baptised 21 October 1827, was buried a year later on
23 October 1828.
Richard, baptised in September 1829.
Anne, baptised 18 February 1832, was buried six days later aged two weeks.
Anne Maria, baptised 21 July 1833, was buried 26 May 1834, aged ten months.
Martha, baptised 19 April 1835.
Rhoda, born in March 1837, was buried on 14 April 1839.
James, born 24 March 1840 at Pipes Meadow.
Richard Ferrington died from asthma on 4 March 1841 at Pipes Meadow, Bilston, and was buried at St Leonard’s church three days later.
On the 1841 Bilston census his widow and family were still living at Pipes Meadow -
Jane Farrington, aged 35
Rebecca, aged 15, iron manufactory (?)
Jane, aged 14, japanner
Richard, aged 11, coal miner
Martha, aged 6
James, aged 1
(James’s birth certificate shows him born on 24 March 1840 at Pipes Meadow, father Richard Ferrington, a miner, mother Jane Ferrington, formerly Lewis.)
Jane Ferrington married her second husband, Daniel Caddick, a blank tray maker, at Sedgley in 1849 (see end note). On the 1851 census they were living at Bridge Street, Bilston, with Jane’s daughter Martha, 16, a japan polisher, and a Jane Farrington, aged 11, described as 'servant' - this may be an erroneous entry for her son James. The same census records Jane's son Richard, aged 22, an ironstone miner, living at 53 Duck Lane with his wife Mary, aged 22, and daughter Mary Ann, aged 3.
Jane Caddick possibly died in the autumn of 1857 aged about 62.
Her daughter Rebecca Ferrington married Thomas Fowler at Sedgley on 9 January 1848 (these are my great-great-grandparents). The marriage was witnessed by Rebecca's sister and brother-in-law Jane and John Davis, who had married at St Peter's on 18 July 1842 when Jane was 17 (two years younger than shown in the register).
On the 1851 census, where her age is recorded as 29, Rebecca was living with her husband and young son in Bridge Street, not far from her mother.
After the death of Thomas Fowler in 1856, Rebecca remarried (6 October 1859) to Peter Nixon, a carpenter, later landlord of the Horse & Jockey in Church Street, Bilston. Peter died 2 February 1880, and on the 1881 census Rebecca is shown as a widow, aged 56, managing a liquor shop (the Horse & Jockey) in Church Street. She died on 31 January 1896, aged 73 according to the death certificate.
Note:
My great-great-great-grandmother Jane Lewis was baptised at St Leonard’s, Bilston, on 5 April 1795, daughter of James and Sarah (Turley) who married at St Peter’s on 22 August 1774.
Their other children, all baptised at Bilston, were: James (18 Apr 1775), Anne (3 Nov 1776), Sarah (25 Nov 1778), Joseph (1 Oct 1780 – died in infancy), Joseph (5 Oct 1782), Mary (20 Jun 1785), Elizabeth (24 June 1787), Phebe (31 May 1789), Rebecca (1 Aug 1791), Hannah (31 Mar 1793 – died in infancy) and John (30 July 1797).
Jane was widowed in 1841. She remarried on 18 July 1849 at Sedgley, when she was 53 years old. The marriage certificate gives her father as James Lewis, a labourer. Her bridegroom was Daniel Caddick, a widower aged 45, a blank maker, son of Samuel Caddick, and both parties gave their place of residence as Hall Green (Bilston).
SURVIVING CHILDREN OF RICHARD AND JANE FERRINGTON
• Jane (born 1825) married John Davis, a tray maker, at St Peter’s on 18 July 1842. The register gives her age as 19, although she was actually two years younger. Their children included Ann Maria (1843), Rebecca (1848), John (1853), and Richard (1856).
• Rebecca (see above). Unlike the full details of her siblings’ baptisms, no record as been found of Rebecca’s birth. During the Bilston cholera epidemic of the early 1830s which left over 400 children orphaned, it was common for infants to be adopted by neighbouring families, so it is quite possible that this is what happened in Rebecca’s case and that she was raised by Richard and Jane Ferrington as their own child.
• Richard (born 1830) married Mary Brown in 1847. Their children included Mary Ann (1847), John (1853), Esther (1855), Emma (1857), Sarah Ann (1863-1935), Ann Maria (c.1866) and Rebecca (1868).
• Martha (born 1835) married Philip Bate at Sedgley in 1853. Their children were Joseph (1855-1940), Richard Alfred (1857-1934), Rebecca Jane (1859), Martha (1860-1942), Eliza (1862), Philip William (1864), Mary Jane (1866, died in infancy), and Clara Louisa (1868, died in infancy). Martha Ferrington Bate died in 1906 at Bow Street, Bilston.
• James (born 1840) married Susanna Cooper in 1863. Their children included Martha (1866), Keziah (1870), Emily (1875), Mary B. (1879), and Bertha (1880).
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of Rebecca Nixon
Died 31 January 1896
This is the last Will and Testament of me Rebecca Nixon relict of the late Peter Nixon of the Horse and Jockey Inn situate in Church Street Bilston in the County of Stafford of sound Will Memory and understanding and hereby revoke all previous Wills by me heretofore made It is my will and desire that the Business of the above House at my decease shall be let at Valuation viz Fixtures Brewing utensils stock in trade Licences Goodwill and possession and the money arising therefrom shall after paying all my Funereal and Testamentary expenses Together with my just debts shall be devided share & share alike between my son John Fowler and my daughter Sarah Johnson I also bequeath to my said son and daughter all my household Furniture ready money and all personal Effects to be sold by auction and the money equally divided between them And I give and divise unto my said son and daughter all my Real Estate consisting of Freehold or other propertys at the time of my decease shall belong equally between them to be sold or otherwise as may be considered best And I appoint my son John Fowler and Israel Bailey my Executors to carry out this my said Will As witness whereof I hereunto set my hand this eighth day of May One thousand eight hundred and Eighty
Signed by the said Rebecca Nixon the
Testratorix in our presence and in the
presence of each other who in the presence of each other at the same time subscribe our names as witnesses to her mark
Israel Bailey x his mark
Edwin Hill Hartshorn St Bilston
On the twenty-first day of February 1896 Probate of this Will was granted at Lichfield to John Fowler the son the surviving Executor
Be it known that at the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament of Rebecca Nixon of Thompson Street Bilston in the County of Stafford widow formerly of the Horse and Jockey Inn High Street Bilston aforesaid deceased, who died on the 31st day of January 1896 at Thompson Street aforesaid and who at the time of her death had a fixed place of abode at Thompson Street aforesaid with the District of the County of Stafford was proved and registered in the District Probate Registry of Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice at Lichfield and that administration of the personal estate of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid Court to John Fowler of 112 New Street in the City of Gloucester Engineer, the son of the said deceased the surviving Executor named in the Will he having been first sworn well and faithfully to administer the same.
Dated the 21st day of February 1896
Gross value of Personal estate £15.0.0.
Net nil
Extracted by Hall Son & Pratt solicitors Bilston
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