Tuesday, 9 August 2022

Great x3 Uncle Samuel Edworthy

My Great x3 Uncle Samuel (1856 - 1920), was a farm/agricultural servant and labourer, market gardener, father of eight, and a younger brother of my Great Great Grandfather William Edworthy (1852 - 1911).


Samuel was born in Apr/May/June 1856 in East Worlington, Devon, to William Edworthy (about 35), a farm labourer, and Mary Edworthy (nee Harris) (about 32).

On 10th June 1856, Samuel was baptised in East Worlington.

Samuel was the sixth of eleven children (four daughters and seven sons):

  • Ann  1841 - 1882  (about 41)
  • John  1844 - 1910  (about 65)
  • Elizabeth  1849 - 1917  (about 68)
  • William  1852 - 1911  (about 59)
  • George  1854 - 1876  (about 22)
  • Samuel  1856 - 1920  (64)
  • Ellen  1858 -
  • Louis/Lewis  1861 -
  • Frederick  1863 -
  • Frank  1866 -
  • Mary Harris  1869 -

1861 Census:


As a young teen, Samuel was living and working away from his family. He was a indoor farm servant, for the Headon family, headed by farmer of 190 acres Benjamin Headon, at Burrow [Farm], East Worlington.

1871 Census: 


In Oct/Nov/Dec 1874, Samuel (18), an indoor farm servant, married Emma Chanter (only 16), a domestic servant on a farm, in the district of Crediton.

Samuel and Emma had eight children:

  • Mary Ann 'Annie'  1876 -
  • William John  1878 -
  • Eva Jane  1880 -
  • Ernest Samuel  1882 -
  • Gertrude Emma  1885 - 1886  (between 14 and 18 months)
  • Charles Frederick  1886 -
  • Albert Frank 'Frank'  1888 -
  • Florence Gertrude  1890 -

Sadly the couple's fifth child, Gertrude, passed away, aged only one year old, in 1886.

1881 Census:


1891 Census:


1901 Census:



On 31st March 1905, Samuel's wife Emma broke her leg, after slipping off a kerb in Paul Street, in Exeter.

From the Western Times of 1st April 1905:


1911 Census:


In Jul/Aug/Sep 1920, Samuel passed away, aged sixty-four, in the district of Crediton.

Emma outlived her husband by twenty years. In May 1940, she passed away aged eighty-one, in Morchard Bishop.

From the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette of 31st May 1940:

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