Tabitha Hunt1,2

(24 December 1809 - 20 February 1865)

BMDB data

     Tabitha Hunt was baptized on 24 Dec 1809 Thornford, DOR, ENG; which date fits with the 1851 census age, if not the place.3,4 Some sources show Tabitha as born cir. 1810 Odcombe, SOM, ENG, (from 1851 census).4 Yet other sources show Tabitha as born cir. 1812 Thornford, DOR.5
     Tabitha Hunt married John Andrews, son of John Andrews and Rebekah Wines, on 26 Mar 1832 Martock, SOM, ENG, (Sheila's tree1 has date as 26 Mar 1832, History of the Andrews, has date as 18436, I've assumed the earlier date as correct given the birth dates of the children).6,1
     Tabitha remarried on 22 Mar 1858 in the Registry Office, Yeovil, SOM, ENG, to William Robins.7,5
     Tabitha Robins died on 20 Feb 1865 in the Union Workhouse, Yeovil, SOM, ENG, at age 55; (reg. Yeovil Mar qtr vol 5c p414).8,9

Census/Where lived/Occupations

     Tabitha Andrews appeared on the census of 7 Jun 1841 Odcombe, SOM, ENG, with John Andrews, as ANDREWS: John 30 ag lab, Tabitha, 30 glover; George 9; Mary 5; Luke 1 (all b County) (son James is assumed to be the 6 yr old with his grdparents John & Rebecca in Martock) (NB enumerators were instructed to round ages down to the nearest multiple of 5).10,11
     The census of 1851 showed Tabitha, with her sons Luke and Job, her dtrs Mary and Emma, Odcombe, SOM, enumerated as ANDREWS (all b. Odcombe, SOM):Tabitha Widow 41 ; Mary 15; Luke 13; Sansom 4; Emma 4m; Lodgers: Mary COLE 16 Glover b Odcombe; John CORNISH 13 Labourer b Beaminster.12 Tabitha Robins appeared on the census of 1861 as wife of William Robins 11 Dunlaw Head, Odcombe, SOM, ENG, enumerated as ROBINS: William head, mar, 59 carpenter b Odcombe, SOM; wife Tabitha 49, b Thornford, DOR; Children (all b Odcombe): Thomas 19 carpenter; Albert 16 lab; Benjamin 14 lab; Letitia 5 scholar; Step children (both ANDREWS b Odcombe): Sansom 12 lab; Emma 9 glover.5

All the other info

     Tabitha outlived her first husband John Andrews who died cir. Jun 1845.13,14

Family 1

John Andrews (21 May 1809 - cir. Jun 1845)
Marriage*
     Tabitha Hunt married John Andrews, son of John Andrews and Rebekah Wines, on 26 Mar 1832 Martock, SOM, ENG, (Sheila's tree1 has date as 26 Mar 1832, History of the Andrews, has date as 18436, I've assumed the earlier date as correct given the birth dates of the children).6,1 
Children

Family 2
Children

Family 3

William Robins (cir. 1802 - aft. 1861)
Marriage*
     Tabitha remarried on 22 Mar 1858 in the Registry Office, Yeovil, SOM, ENG, to William Robins.7,5 
Child
  • Letitia Robins5
ChartsANDREWS
Last Edited15 Nov 2009

Citations

  1. Sheila ANDREWS (7256), "FT ANDREWS/WINES ex Sheila A pre 1994", Rcvd via Sue SHARMAN May 1994.
  2. Janice GRIFFIN (5095), The Griffins of Taranaki.
  3. Malcolm ROBBINS (41091), "EM ANDREWS/HUNT ex Malcolm R," e-mail to L Henderson (1), Bap. 1809 Tabitha to Mark and Sarah (RYALL) HUNT, rcvd Nov 2006.
  4. Devon, Warwick and Norfolk, 1851 UK census CD-ROM, Rootsweb Somerset mailing list: Odcombe Census, extract rcvd Aug 2005.
  5. 1861 Census (images for ENG, transcriptions for SCT), UK, via Ancestry.com, Odcombe, Dist of Coker, Yeovil, SOM Dist 4 RG9/1640 Folio 71 Page 23 Schedule #145, copy d/loaded Aug 2005.
  6. W H A Songi, "Brief History of the Andrews Family of Martock in Somerset", Rcvd Aug 1993.
  7. Malcolm ROBBINS (41091), "EM ANDREWS/HUNT ex Malcolm R," e-mail to L Henderson (1), Mar 1858 Tabitha ANDREWS nee HUNT and William ROBINS, rcvd Aug 2005.
  8. Malcolm ROBBINS (41091), "EM ANDREWS/HUNT ex Malcolm R," e-mail to L Henderson (1), Dth 1865 Tabitha ROBINS, rcvd Aug 2005.
  9. Www FreeBMD ENG online at http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl, Dth 1865 Tabitha ROBINS, extracted Aug 2005.
  10. Miscellaneous ANDREWS web searches & assorted corresondence 1841 Census, Odcombe, SOM HO 107/946/13 (from Somerset Message Board 10 Aug 2005 in response to my request), rcvd Aug 2005.
  11. "Lorna's Family History Musings", Apr 2006.
  12. Miscellaneous ANDREWS web searches & assorted corresondence 1851 Census, Odcombe, SOM (from Somerset Message Board 10 Aug 2005 in response to my request), rcvd Aug 2005.
  13. Janice GRIFFIN (5095), The Griffins of Taranaki, p/copy of pp 3-4 rcvd from Jackie SEWELL, Mar 1994.
  14. Www FreeBMD ENG online at http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl, Dth 1845 John ANDREWS, extracted Aug 2005.
  15. Janice GRIFFIN (5095), The Griffins of Taranaki, (from bap. record 1832 George ANDREWS) p/copy of pp 3-4 rcvd from Jackie SEWELL, Mar 1994.
  16. Janice GRIFFIN (5095), The Griffins of Taranaki, (from bap. record 1836 Mary Ann ANDREWS) p/copy of pp 3-4 rcvd from Jackie SEWELL, Mar 1994.
  17. Janice GRIFFIN (5095), The Griffins of Taranaki, (from bap. record 1836 James ANDREWS) p/copy of pp 3-4 rcvd from Jackie SEWELL, Mar 1994.
  18. Janice GRIFFIN (5095), The Griffins of Taranaki, (from bap. record 1839 Luke ANDREWS) p/copy of pp 3-4 rcvd from Jackie SEWELL, Mar 1994.
  19. Janice GRIFFIN (5095), The Griffins of Taranaki, (from birth cert 1843 Samson ANDREWS) p/copy of pp 3-4 rcvd from Jackie SEWELL, Mar 1994.
  20. Janice GRIFFIN (5095), The Griffins of Taranaki, (from bap. 1847 Job Sampson ANDREWS) p/copy of pp 3-4 rcvd from Jackie SEWELL, Mar 1994.

E. & O. E. Some/most parish records are rather hard to read and names, places hard to interpret, particularly if you are unfamiliar with an area. Corrections welcome
 
  • Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

    — Abraham Lincoln
  • My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

    — Cary Grant
  • Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

    — E. B. White
  • I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

    — e. e. cummings
  • What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

    — Saint Augustine
  • Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

    — Mark Twain
  • If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

    — Henry David Thoreau
  • If two things look the same, look for differences. If they look different, look for similarities.

    — John Cardinal
  • In theory, there is no difference. In practice, there is.

    — Anonymous
  • Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

    — John Adams
  • People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

    — Abraham Lincoln
  • History - what never happened described by someone who wasn't there

    — ?Santayana?
  • What's a "trice"? It's like a jiffy but with three wheels

    — Last of the Summer Wine
  • Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened

    — Terry Pratchett
  • I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

    — Terry Pratchett
  • .. we were trained to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illuson of progress

    — Petronius (210 BC)
  • The time we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains

    — Proust
  • So just as it is not the desire to become famous but the habit of being laborious that enables us to produce a finished work, so it is not the activity of the present moment but wise reflexions from the past that help us to safeguard the future

    — Proust "Within the Budding Grove"
  • You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

    — William J. H. Boetcker
  • Only a genealogist thinks taking a step backwards is progress

    — Lorna
  • No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

    — George Bernard Shaw
  • A TV remote is female: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.

    — Anon
  • Hammers are male: Because in the last 5000 years they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.

    — Anon
  • The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.

    — Tony Cook "The Biology of Terrestrial Molluscs"
  • All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

    — Thomas Carlyle "The Hero as Man of Letters"