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From: HILARY BLANFORD <>
Subject: Re: [DEV] WILLIAM LEWORTHY & ANN
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:20:57 +0100 (BST)
In-Reply-To: <000001cc2767$f3d29240$db77b6c0$@norris@ntlworld.com>


The shipwrights in the various naval dockyards were a very mobile bunch. It was not uncommon for them to be loaned to anouther dockyard, even as far away as Chatham and Greenwich
HB

--- On Fri, 10/6/11, Val Norris <> wrote:

> From: Val Norris <>
> Subject: [DEV] WILLIAM LEWORTHY & ANN
> To:
> Date: Friday, 10 June, 2011, 13:14
> I have an estate duty certificate of
> William Leworthy in which his heirs are
> named, i.e. John, born circa 1807, my 3xgreat grandfather
> who married Nancy
> Frost, William, Alexander and James, the last two both
> baptised on the same
> day at Devonport in 1816.  Unfortunately, both William
> and his wife, Ann,
> died shortly before the first census.
>
> >From the monumental inscriptions in Stoke Damarel I
> discovered that William
> died on 25 Aug 1836 , aged 56, (b circa 1780) and Ann died
> on 3 Mar 1838,
> aged 61, therefore born circa 1776.  The family lived
> at 24 Dock Wall
> Street, Devonport and William was a shipwright.
>
> I ordered the pre-1837 marriages from the DFHS and the only
> marriage of a
> William Leworthy & Ann which fitted into the birth date
> of their first son
> was a marriage at Fremington on 23 December 1802 and Ann's
> surname was
> Harding.
>
> John moved to London and I have his descendants up to the
> present day.  I
> also have a marriage of Alexander Leworthy to Elizabeth
> Doddridge on the 10
> January 1836 at Rame, Cornwall.  He was baptised the
> same day as James.
>
> James, baptised 22 December 1816 at Devonport is
> elusive.  I can't find him
> anywhere.
>
> For years I looked for William, junior, and found in the
> 1851 Census a
> William Leworthy, shipwright in HM Dockyard, Devonport,
> born Pilton, Devon.
> He is married to another Ann and they have two children,
> Ann, 15, born 1835,
> and Susanna, 7, born 1844.  It is the fact that he is
> a shipwright, like the
> first William Leworthy that made me think he might be
> William's son.
>
> I am doing a One-Name Study of the Leworthys and the vast
> majority of them
> were born in North Devon.  Does anyone know anything
> of this family?  Is my
> 4xgreat grandmother Ann HARDING?  And where was
> William senior born, and who
> were his parents?  Are there any descendants of
> Alexander Leworthy and
> Elizabeth Doddridge out there?
>
> Any help gratefully received. 
>
>
>
> Valerie Norris (No. 678)
>
>
>
>
>
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