GOATHURST

William appears to be the brother of John (also b. Cross) who was married to Lydia and living in Bridgwater in 1841 and 1851 census. Interestingly enough they had a son Melbourne b. abt 1847.
Cross (William's birthplace) is a small village half way between Axbridge and Compton Regis. It is not a parish.

                               William                         m.                Charlotte Shattock
                           20 Jun 1808            22 May 1836              abt 1804
                            Cross, Som.             Goathurst                Goathurst
                                                                                            d. 4Q 1892
                     ________________________________________
                     I                                                                               I                                         
             Elizabeth                                                                    William
             abt 1838                                                              4 Aug 3Q 1839                                  
              London
            m.                                                                           m. 1Q 1859
                                                                                        Bristol Reg Dist
            Parminter ?                                                            Louisa Hole

                                                                                             abt 1839
                                                                                              London                       rest b. Goathurst.
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                    I                                    I                                 I                               I                              I                                 I                                        I                                 I                                  I
      Ernest Edgar                   William            Albert Adolphus      Melbourne V       Maud Lillian       Frances Charlotte        Kate Elizabeth               Mabel                    Lucy Leah
                                                   7 Sep                      11 Nov                      5 Aug              21 Feb 1869                15 May                                                                                                25 Aug
               1859                            1862                         1863                     3Q 1866                4Q 1867                 1Q 1870                        4Q 1872                   3Q 1875                    1Q 1878
                                                                                                               b. Bridgwater                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                 d. 2Q 1931   
                                                                                                              Newton Abbott 
                                                                                                           registration district                                                                                                                                                                       
            m. 1883                                                                                                                                                      m. 3Q 1895                                                                                   m. 7 Oct 4Q 1905
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Bishops Hull
Annie Davey Selway
      

NOTES:
ALBERT ESCOTT 1863:   1871 - 7 yrs, with family.  1881 - page (serv) in hh Thomas Broadmead, Enmore Park House.
ELIZABETH  ESCOTT abt 1838: 1841 - 3 yrs with family. 1851 - 13 yrs, at home with family - says b. London, whereas in 1841 says b. In county of Somerset.
ERNEST EDGAR ESCOTT 1859:  1871 - 12 yrs, with family.
FRANCES CHARLOTTE 1870:   1871 - 1 yrs, with family.  1881 - 11 yrs, with family.
KATE ELIZABETH 1872: 1881 - 8 yrs, with family.
LUCY LEAH ESCOTT 1878" 1881 - 3 yrs, with family.  1901 - 23 yrs, dressmaker, working on her own account at home with her parents in Goathurst.  1905 - daughter of William, tailor, spinster of Bishops Hull, married Tom Glover, 27 yrs, auctioneers clerk, bachelor (son of William John Glover, foreman carpenter). Witnesses - Mabel Childs, Frederick Thomas Howlin & Mary Jane Glover.
MABEL ESCOTT 1875: 1881 - 15 yrs, with family.
MAUD LILLIAN ESCOTT 1867:  1871 - 3 yrs, with family.
MELBOURNE V ESCOTT abt 1867: 1871 - 4 yrs, with family.  1881 - 14 yrs, domestic servant, dwelling with family.
WILLIAM ESCOTT 1808: 1836 marriage banns 8, 15 & 22 May - he a bachelor of St George Hanover Sqare and she of Goathurst.1839 - servant. 1841 - 30 yrs, male servant, dwelling Goathurst with wife and family of two - appears to be at same property as Jonathan Shattock a 70 yr ols agricultural labourer.  1851 - 43 yrs, pauper, servant, dwelling Goathurst with wife and two children, also a lodger in residence.  . 1861 - 52 yrs, pauper, formerly servant, dwelling in village at Goathurst with wife.
Wife CHARLOTTE SHATTOCK:   1841 - 35 yrs. 1851 - 47 yrs, needlewoman. 1861 - 57 yrs, grocer. 1881 - 77 yrs, widow, grocer, dwelling Grocers Shop, Goathurst with three Parminter grandchildren - Henry 12, Ida 8, Jessie 7. Died aged 89 yrs in Bridgwater registration district.
WILLIAM ESCOTT 1839: 1841 - 1 yr dwelling with family. 1851 - 11 yrs, scholar living with parents and older sister. 1861 - 21 yrs dwelling Bridgwater. 1862 - 1866 postman. By 1869 a tailor.   1871 - 34 yrs,             with wife and five children.  1881 - 41 yrs, Tailor, dwelling Cottage, Goathurst, with wife and 5 children. Next on census list to mother Charlotte.   1891 - 52 yrs,              1901 - 61 yrs, tailor, working on own account at home, with wife and youngest daughter at no. 5 & 6 Goathurst.   1911 - 72 yrs, tailor, working on own account from 6 roomed home with wife of 52 yrs.  They had 10 children, three of which have died by 1911.
Wife LOUISA (Lucy) HOLE abt 1839:   1871 - 32 yrs.   1881 - 42 yrs.  1891 - 52 yrs.  1901 - 62 yrs.

ESCOTT FAMILIES OF GOATHURST, SOMERSET
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