Married in 1805, Thomas and Martha had nine children over the next 22 years, all born in Chisledon (or probably more accurately in the village of Badbury). The only child that I have done much research on is their fourth son Joseph. Virtually all that i have about their youngest child Matthew is shown on the above chart other than that he married in Lyddington, Wilts. and was an agricultural labourer like his father in Badbury.
Badbury is a village about 3km south of Swindon in the Parish of Chisledon (where children would have been christened) in Wiltshire. In the 1841 census it had a population of 395.
The
map shows Badbury and the nearby villages relevant to the family. The
urban area in the North West of the map is the modern day outskirts of
Swindon. The pub The Plough on the Hill is located on the road
immediately to the west of the marker and level with it. One family
member (Louisa) wrote on a census that she was born at Plough Hill,
Badbury.
Joseph was an Agricultural labourer all his life for the most part living in Badbury but in the 1881 census when both he and his wife Sarah are 60 years old the family are living in Draycott Foliat a nearby village. Sons Alfred and John were still living with their parents and all four have given their occupation as Agricultural Labourer.
Sarah, born Sarah Carter in Lyddington parish was baptised in 1820. On the transcript her father's name is not given and her mother, Elizabeth, is stated to be a pauper. On her marriage to Joseph Sarah gives her father's name as William Webb. It is interesting to note that 10 years after the birth of Sarah William Webb married Elizabeth's younger sister Hannah.. Hannah was the eighth child in the family and fourteen years younger than Elizabeth.
It is probable that Sarah was a relative of Joseph's mothers family as both were from a Carter family in lyddington.
It is not known whether Elizabeth ever married.
Joseph and Sarah had seven children (3 girls), I only have information on the second son Thomas which is on a separate page (follow the link in the left hand column).
Matthew married Mary Rawlings from Cliffe (Cliffe Pypard) in Lyddington in 1950 he was 23 and worked as a labourer. In the 1851 census they were living with his widowed mother. Over the next 25 years Sarah gave birth to 9 children (7 boys) all registered in the Chisledon district.