I am indebted to Renn Edward Wortley (email [email protected]), June Seward (email [email protected]) and Sue Swinchatt (email [email protected]) for details of Catherine Le Hair and the Morris and Barfoot families into which she married. They write:-
Dear Alan Stanier,
I see on your family history website that Abraham Leahair (1789-1879) was an ancestor of your wife.
Abraham's younger sister Catharine, baptised Thorney CAM 30 April 1798, married Thomas Morriss at Thorney on 5 June 1827. They had a daughter Catharine Morriss, born circa 1830. She was still 'living on own means' at Thorney, aged 70 and unmarried, at the time of the 1901 census (recorded as 'Catherine Morris').
A number of records I have spell 'Morriss' with the extra 's', and 'Catharine' with a second 'a' instead of an 'e'.
Samuel Barfoot (1791/2-1884) was baptised on 8 January 1792 at Witham-on-the-Hill, LIN, a son of Henry Barfoot (1751-1796), farmer & grazier, and his wife Mary Barfoot, nee Sharpe (1756-1833). Samuel became a miller.
On 18 August 1819, at Thorney, Samuel Barfoot married Elizabeth Ridlington (c1794-1835). They had two surviving sons: Henry Sharpe Barfoot (1827-1909), who became a woollen merchant in London and lived in Kent, and William Ridlington Barfoot (c1834-1927), who from the 1860s to the 1880s was a Schoolmaster/Head Teacher in Queensland, Australia, and died in 1927 at Sandgate, Brisbane, Queensland, aged 92.
Mrs Elizabeth Barfoot died in 1835, aged 41, and was buried at Thorney.
On 29 August 1839, at Thorney, Catharine Morriss, widow (daughter of Daniel Leahair, farmer) married Samuel Barfoot, widower, a miller, son of Henry Barfoot, farmer. Samuel and Catherine had one child, Samuel Barfoot junior (1840-1917).
Mrs Catharine Barfoot (formerly Morriss, nee Leahair) died at Thorney on 9 April 1881, aged 83. Samuel Barfoot survived her by almost three years, and died at Thorney on 7 March 1884, aged 92.
Samuel Barfoot junior married Mary (surname not known) in 1864. Samuel became a carpet merchant in Aston (Birmingham) and Wolverhampton, and later in Wanstead, Essex. Mrs Mary Barfoot died between 1901 and 1916, and Samuel junior died at Wanstead in 1917, aged 77. Their known children, all of whom were living when their father died in 1917, were Samuel Henry Barfoot, Frank Morriss Barfoot, Kate Martha Barfoot (m. Arthur Frederick Phelp), and Maud Mary Barfoot (c1869-1948).
[The 1881 census return for 15 Salway Hill, Woodford ESS (RG11/1733 f80 p5) also lists Fred Barfoot, aged 6. The 1901 census of "Joy Bank", Tavistock Road, Wanstead ESS (RG13/1608 f47 p40) shows the household of Samuel and Mary Ann Barford; including their grand-daughter Violet Phelp, born 1894, presumably daughter of Kate Martha Barfoot and Arthur Frederick Phelp.]
Shortly after her father died Maud Mary Barfoot, a school teacher aged 47, married a widower, Sir Joseph Guinness Broodbank (1857-1944), formerly of the Port of London Authority. Lady Broodbank died in 1948.
My interest in this Barfoot line is collateral. An older sister of Samuel Barfoot senior of Thorney, Elizabeth Barfoot (1788-1862), married my 2 x great-grandfather Valentine Wortley in 1809, and they settled in St Pancras, London.
I can tell you that Samuel Barfoot junior married Mary Ann (or Anna) Stone on 03/10/1864. She was the daughter of Henry Stone, a Tailor. I have a copy of their marriage certificate.
Kate Martha Barfoot and Arthur Frederick Phelp were my paternal grandparents. I am the daughter of their youngest son.
... my mother's maternal grandparents were also Samuel Barfoot and Mary Ann Stone - their son Samuel Henry Barfoot was Kate Martha's older brother.
Samuel married Annie Jackson from Hackney in 1890 and they had my grandmother, Maud Annie Barfoot (1891-1966) and William Jackson Barfoot. In 1915 Maud Annie married Claude Augustus James (1891-1967) who became Managing Director of a vegetable wholesale business in Convent Garden. They had two children, my mother Sylvia Ivy James (b1923), and her older brother Derick Claude (1920-1955). (Yes, this is the way they spelt Derick).
A little more information for you on Lady Maud Mary Broodbank - she was his secretary when they wed and after Sir Joseph died, she lived for a few years in the Felix Hotel, Felixstowe - my mother recalls her Great Aunt Maud visiting her when she was a pupil at Felixstowe College. Later Lady Broodbank was asked to move out of the hotel (she was not the easiest of people to please!) and she spent the rest of her life in a nursing home in Bournemouth near my grandmother's house until her death in 1948.
The 1851 census of Mill Road, Thorney (HO107/1747 f1023 p45) shows the Barfoot family: Samuel (59), wife Catherine (53), sons William (16) and Samuel (11), wife's daughter Catherine Morriss (20), niece Sarah Ann Morriss (12), and two lodgers, William Henry Wise (25) and Marshall Stocker (20). Sarah Ann Morriss is shown as being born in Newark NTH, so she is presumably the Sarah Ann Morriss listed in the 1841 census of Palethorpe's Buildings, Newark (HO107/868/5 f5 p2) in the household of John and Sarah Morriss.
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