William of Clerkenleap’s son James of the Rhydd 1765 – 1834

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James married Mary Day, whose sister Elizabeth Day had married James’s brother, John of Swinesherd. Two of James’s daughters married John’s son Henry (b. 1789).  Henry’s daughter Elizabeth (b. 1824) first husband was Enoch Key Lloyd, stepson of Mary another of James’s daughters.  Wow !  Betty Wells family who are descended from the Lloyds have a large wooden chest once owned by the Hartwrights. It is carved with the initials IH. The initial I is for the old-style J for James.

James’s eldest son was another James (1791 - 1834) and he also chose the name James for his eldest son. James (1824 - 1884) lived  with his wife Penelope Ireland at Lucas Farm, Corse on the borders of Worcestershire and Gloucestershire. For more about James see Every Day Country Folk –  Some Farming Hartwrights.

The Family Tree expands again with descendants of James eldest son James Edward (1850 -1915) and his brother Frederick (1856 - 1913).

James Edward worked as a shepherd or sometimes as a cattleman in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. His eldest son was Edward (1879 - 1964) who married Mabel Sargent at Tamworth in 1909. There were four sisters “Polly”, Pen, and twins Rose and Lily. In 1908 Pen married George Aldridge and Rose, Hubert Lafford. Lily married Harry Ferriman in 1923.  Their youngest brother Frederick (b.1889) was named after his uncle Frederick who was born in 1856.

Edward and Mabel’s Wedding 1909

Edward started work as a groom, but in 1904 he became a chauffeur and was the fifth person in Gloucestershire to hold a driving licence.  When he joined the Army in World War I he was allowed to take his employer’s car, which was fitted out as an ambulance.

James Edward’s youngest son Frederick (1889 -1962)  first worked as a chauffeur to Lord Faringdon, later he was landlord of the Lion Inn, Buscot in Berkshire where he also had a smallholding.  In 1916 he was conscripted into the Army and had to leave his pregnant wife Elsie May Boucher to cope with the pub, smallholding and a daughter who had been born in 1915. This Elsie did until he was demobbed in 1919. Fred’s family which now included a son, Jack, took up an opportunity to move to a farm of their own where Fred and Elsie built up a successful dairy business as well having some arable land. This venture was  expanded in the 1930s.

Members of various branches descended from James Edward Hartwright and his wife Louise Arthurs live in the UK  and the Far East.

James Edward’s youngest brother Frederick (1856 - 1913) went to work as a postboy in Shropshire. He married twice and had ten children, but  the direct Hartwright line appears to have ceased with his son  Edward  (1903 - 1985) and his wife Brinsley as they had a daughter. Frederick’s descendants bear the names of Jones, Slater, Forshaw and Day.

Other names associated with this branch include Clemens.