3 May 2021

Today we made some progress with finding out more about George Tew’s father Thomas. We confirmed that Thomas married Ann Turvey but we also discovered that he was a widower when he married her and that he had previously been married to a Lydia Fetters or Fletcher. George Tew’s mother was Lydia but the rest of his siblings are the children of Ann and Thomas.

Lydia died in 1826, a year or so after George was born. Thomas then married Ann in 1830. All these events took place in Shalston or just over the border in Whitfield, Northamptonshire. There is some confusion over Lydia’s name. Early on she, her parents and her siblings are recorded as Fetters but later on it has become Fletcher. There are a few early record transcriptions that use the name Fletcher but they are Fetters in the censuses.

We also spent some time organising the Tew baptisms, marriages and burials from Shalstone, as found on findmypast.com

Children of George and Ann Tew

Thomas 1816
John 1819
William 1819, bur. 1819
William 1821
Henry Cooper 1823
George 1825
Stephen 1827
James 1829
Martha 1832
Abraham 1835

Children of John and Mary Tew (Bull) m. 1809

Hannah 1810
William 1811
Joyce 1813
Anne 1814
Charlotte 1816
George 1818
Joyce 1818
William 1820
Thomas 1827
George 1831

Children of Thomas and Ann Tew (Turvey) m. 1830

Hannah 1830
Eliza 1833, bur. 1834 age 8
Robert 1836
Edward 1838
Abel 1839
Jane 1842
Caleb 1846

Children of William and Ann Tew (probably two different families here)

Ann 1791
Sarah 1794
William 1796
Thomas 1796
Mary 1800
Thomas 1802
Elizabeth 1805
William 1807
William 1808
George 1811

Mary Tew (no father given)

Ann 1820
Sarah 1823

Sarah Tew (no father given)

Mary 1832

Shalstone Tew Marriages

1809 John Tew and Mary Bull
1810 Corbett Tew (from Water Stratford) and Martha Tapping
1811 Joseph Russell and Hannah Tew
1813 Samuel White and Ann Tew
1815 George Tew and Ann Keene
1824 Thomas Tew and Lydia Fetters (both of Shabbington)
1830 Thomas Tew and Ann Turvey
1830 Thomas Robinson and Elizabeth Tew
1831 William Beacham (of Shabbington) and Mary Tew
1832 John Watts and Sarah Tew

TODO: All the Buckinghamshire records are available via findmypast so we should look at the Whiteheads in Westbury next time.