John Jeanes and Susanna Bridle in Somerset

 

Is Jane Jeanes the daughter of John Jeanes and Susanna Bridle or James and Priscilla Jeanes?

 John Jeanes was born about 1763. He died in 1842 in Wincanton, Somerset, England. He married Susanna Bridle on 2 September 1799 in Wincanton.  Susanna Bridle was born about 1778 in Evercreech, Somerset.

At their marriage, John was a widower; Susanna was a spinster.  They were married by licence and both lived in the Wincanton Parish.  The witnesses were John Mallair and Nathaniel Farewell.  John Jeanes was a master cordwainer (shoemaker) in Wincanton in 1796.  His apprentice was James Brown. 

John and Susanna had three children: Jane, born in 1801 married John Goodfellow in 1823.  Susanna and Ann were born in about 1804 and 1806, remained single, living with their parents.  

 There is another Jeanes family.  James and Priscilla Jeanes’ daughter Jane, was baptised on 6 February 1799.  Their son, Henry, was baptised on 17 October 1800.  Is this the Jane who married John Goodfellow? 

Dorset Record Office, PF/SN: RE1/4

At the 1841 Census, John and Susan were living at Church Street, Wincanton. John was aged 75, so born about 1766.  He was an auctioneer.  Susan was aged 60, so born about 1781.  Living with them were Susan and Ann Jeanes, both aged 30, so born about 1811. Their neighbour was Benjamin Dove.  In 1773, William Goodfellow married Dolly (Dorothy) Dove; at William and Dolly's marriage the witnesses were Thomas Goodfellow and Wm Mitchell.  The other neighbour was John Long, also an auctioneer. 

At the 1851 Census, Susannah was a widow aged 71, so born about 1780.  John had died in 1842.  On his Monumental Inscription he was “Husband of Susanna”.  One daughter, Susan, was living at Church Street, a school mistress, unmarried.  She was aged 46, so born about 1805 in Wincanton.  There were two girl scholars, sisters from Frome, Somerset.  Their neighbours were Philip Dove, baker, and Henry Vining, blacksmith. 

At the 1861 Census, Susanna and her daughters Susanna and Ann were living at High Street, Wincanton.  Susannah aged 82 (so born about 1779) had no occupation.  Susanna aged 57 and Ann aged 55, so born about 1804 and 1805 were school assistants.  Susanna was born in Wincanton, Ann in Bourton, Dorset.  Elizabeth Goodfellow, a granddaughter aged 11, was a scholar.  Another scholar was Joanna Jeans from Salisbury.  There were three assistant school mistresses; one was Mary Jeans from Wednesbury check Staffordshire, four other girl scholars and a servant, Ann Jukes. 

At the 1871 Census, Susanna was aged 92, so born about 1779.  High Street?  Her daughters were Susanna aged 66 (1805) and Ann aged 64 (1807).  There were five female boarders aged between 6 and 25 and a servant Mary Pond.  Also in High Street was Mary Goodfellow, a school mistress aged 68 (born 1813) and her brothers Charles, grocer and Edward, photographer aged 57 (born 1814).  Henry Goodfellow was an early photographer in Yeovil in the 1860s and from 1880s in Wincanton. 

Susanna died on 16 July 1874 in Wincanton.