Kate Eliza Burch and her ancestry

JAMES BURCH (1746-18??) was probably the son of John Burch, who had been baptized at Brabourne on 26 July 1709, and Elizabeth Woodland. He was born in London on 25 July 1746. He married Sarah Drury. Sarah died, aged 87, on 31 January 1848. They had issue:

1 JOHN BURCH (1783-??), born at High Halden on 11 September 1783.

2 THOMAS BURCH (1785-??), born at High Halden on 18 May 1785. (see below).

3 WILLIAM BURCH (1787-1872), born at High Halden on 22 September 1787. His wife was Jane. She died on 8 January 1845. In 1851 William was at Bachelor Farm, High Halden, farming 60 acres and employing two men and a boy. He died on 13 January 1872, aged 84. His issue included:

3.1 ALLEN BURCH (18??-??), born in High Halden, alive in 1872.

3.2 JANE BURCH (1820?-18??), born in High Halden. She died before 1872.

3.3 SARAH BURCH (1825-??), born in High Halden. She married Thomas Pearson. She died on 23 January 1853. A son, Alfred, died on 25 September 1845, aged three months, and two other sons, Walter and Alfred (sic) survived.

3.4 ANN BURCH (18??-??), born in High Halden, alive in 1872.

3.5 EMILY BURCH (1830?-??), born in High Halden. She died on 26 January 1862, aged 31.

3.6 WILLIAM BURCH (1836?-??), born in High Halden.

Two children died in infancy: William, aged 3 weeks, and Rachel, aged 7 weeks.

4 ANN BURCH (178?-17??), born at High Halden, who died in infancy.

5 CHARLOTTE BURCH (1792-??), born at High Halden on 15 December 1792.

6 ANN BURCH (1795-1875), born at High Halden on 27 June 1795.

7 JEREMIAH BURCH (1798-1877), born at High Halden on 28 December 1798.

8 ELIZABETH BURCH (1802-??), born at High Halden on 27 March 1802. She is said to have gone to America and married a Mr Peckham.

THOMAS BURCH (1785-1863?) was living in Wye, Kent in 1818 with his wife Mary. He was the son of James Burch of High Halden and his wife Sarah, née Drury, born at High Halden on 18 May 1785. Thomas and Mary were members of the Bethel Calvinistic Baptist Church which had been founded at Brabourne in 1818. He and Mary were living in Bridge Street, Wye, at the time of the 1841 Census. By 1851, however, Thomas was widowed, and still at Bridge Street, a farmer of 25 acres. (The Thomas Lever Burch who died at Canterbury in the second quarter of 1863 is probably another Thomas, from Suffolk).

Thomas and Mary had nine children, seven of whose births were all registered at the chapel on 17 February 1837:

1 THOMAS BURCH (1817-18??), born on 8 March 1817. In 1881 he was at 8 Harold Street, Roath, Glamorgan. He described himself as an agent. His wife, Jane, was 17 years younger than him.

2 WILLIAM BURCH (1818-1896?), born on 19 February 1818 (see below).

3 CHARLES JOHN BURCH (1821-18??), born at Wye on 5 March 1821. He married Ann Bygrave at Biggleswade in the second quarter of 1849. In 1851 he was a schoolmaster at Elm Cottage, Hampstead, with his wife, Fanny, and baby son, Charles. In 1881 he was a commercial traveller, at 69 Grosvenor St., Broughton in Salford, Lancashire. He was widowed, and living with his daughter, Flora.

3.1 CHARLES JACKSON BURCH (1850-??), born in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, and aged five months at the date of the 1851 census. He married Mary Elizabeth Chandler, from Ash, Kent, in Canterbury in the last quarter of 1876. In 1881 they were living at 9 Old Dover Road, Canterbury. In 1901 he was at Belper, Derbyshire. Charles and Mary Burch had a daughter:

3.1.1 DORA BURCH (1880-??), born in Canterbury in the second quarter of 1880.

3.2 FLORA BURCH (1866-??), born in Canterbury in the first quarter of 1866.

4 CAROLINE BURCH (1822-18??), born on 28 August 1822

5 ANN BURCH (1824-18??), born on 14 August 1824. She was living at home in 1851.

6 JOHN BURCH (1826-18??), born at Wye on 15 August 1826. He was a farmer, and living at home in 1851. In 1861 he was at Deal. He and Elizabeth had issue:

6.1 EMILY ANN BURCH (1856-??), born at Margate in the third quarter of 1856 and aged 4 in 1861.

6.2 JOHN BURCH (1857-??), born at Margate in the fourth quarter of 1857 and aged 3 in 1861.

7 JAMES BURCH (1828-19??), born on 22 October 1828. He married Emma Adela Coney at Dover in the third quarter of 1854. Emma had been born in Lambeth. In 1881 he was clerk to the gas and water company and lived at 23 Oaten Hill, in St Mary Bredin parish, Canterbury with his wife and seven children, all born in Canterbury. He and Emma were still living in Canterbury in 1901. Emma died at Canterbury in the second quarter of 1909.

7.1 ADELA E BURCH (1855?-19??), aged 25 in 1881, when she was superintendant registrar. She was living at home in 1901.

7.2 FLORENCE ELLEN BURCH (1857-19??), born in Canterbury in the third querter of 1857, and aged 23 in 1881. She was living at home in 1901.

7.3 JAMES ERNEST BURCH (1859-19??), born in Canterbury in the second quarter of 1859, and living at home in 1901. He was a solicitor.

7.4 BLANCHE ADA BURCH (1861-??), born in the third quarter of 1861, and aged 19 in 1881.

7.5 BERTHA A BURCH (1863?-??), aged 17 in 1881. She is probably the Bertha Augusta Burch who married at Canterbury in the second quarter of 1895.

7.6 GERTRUDE A BURCH (1865?-19??), aged 15 in 1881. She was living at home in 1901.

7.7 HENRY E BURCH (1866-??), born in Canterbury in the third quarter of 1866, aged 14 in 1881.

7.8 ARTHUR RODNEY BURCH (1871-??), born in the final quarter of 1871 and aged 9 in 1881. In 1901, he was at Hillingdon, Middlesex. and working as a gas engineer.

8 ELIZABETH BURCH (1830?-18??), born in Wye and living at home in 1851.

9 MARY BURCH (1834?-18??), born in Wye and living at home in 1851.

WILLIAM BURCH (1818-1896?) was born on 19 February 1818 in Wye, Kent. He married Sarah Goodchild at Canterbury in the first quarter of 1843.

She was the same age as he was, and had been born in Canterbury.

In 1851, he was at Oversland Farm, Boughton under Blean, near Faversham, farming 45 acres, and employing three labourers and two boys (one of whom lived in).

In 1861 and 1862 he was at another farm at Boughton, to which he had moved around 1855. He farmed 100 acres, and employed nine men and two boys. In 1871 the family was at the 374-acre Rhode Court Farm, Selling, where William employed 31 men and ten boys.

It seems that Sarah died, probably in the third quarter of 1871. A year later, William remarried, to Mary Ann Willson, who was a year older than him. His new wife had been born in Canterbury.

In 1881, he and Mary had retired, and they were living with their daughter at Melbourne House, 11 West Cliffe, Whitstable. In 1891, the house was called Moss Leigh. Kate had moved out, and Arthur was staying with them on Census Night. William died before 1898, probably in the Blean registration district at the end of 1896. Mary Ann probably died in the second quarter of 1898.

William and Sarah Burch had five children:

1 JOHN THOMAS BURCH (1848-19??), born in Canterbury on 11 May 1848. He was living at home in 1861. He remained in Boughton and was unemployed at the time of the 1881 census. He married Agnes Essex, from Leigh in Worcestershire, in the second quarter of 1871. She had been born at the end of 1844. In 1901, the family was at Hernhill. John was a farm steward there. They had seven children:

1.1 AGNES FLORENCE BURCH (1873-19??), born in Hernhill in the first quarter of 1873. She married in Faversham in the first quarter of 1909.

1.2 MARGARET GERTRUDE BURCH (1874-??), born in Hernhill in the third quarter of 1874.

1.3 WILLIAM ESSEX BURCH (1876-??), born in Hernhill in the third quarter of 1876.

1.4 JOHN FREDERICK BURCH (1878-1904), born in Hernhill and aged 2 in 1881. He was aged 22 in 1901, assisting his father on the farm. He died, aged 25, in the Faversham registration district, in the first quarter of 1904.

1.5 ERNEST JAMES BURCH (1880-19??), born in Hernhill and aged 5 months in 1881. In 1901, he was an ironmonger's clerk in Hernhill. He married Kate Outridge in 1915. They had a son:

1.5.1 FREDERICK ESSEX BURCH (1916-??). He married Margaret Knock, and lived in Faversham. They had two children:

1.5.1.1 SIMON ESSEX BURCH (b. 1947).

1.5.1.2 LINDA KAREN BURCH (b. 1950), who married a Forster.

1.5.2 CYRIL JOHN BURCH (19??-??).

1.5.3 KEITH EDWARD BURCH (19??-??).

1.6 LIZZIE BURCH (1882-19??), born in Hernhill and aged 18 in 1901, when she was a day-governess.

1.7 HILDA MARY BURCH (1886-1890), born in the Faversham registration district in the second quarter of 1886. She died around her fourth birthday.

2 ARTHUR BURCH (1850-19??), born in Canterbury in April 1850. He married Mary Elizabeth Dobell at Canterbury at the end of 1872. She had been born in Gloucester at the beginning of 1848. Shortly after his marriage he moved to Hernhill, near Faversham. Here he farmed at Waterham, a 190-acre farm, employing eleven men and two boys. Some time between 1882 and 1885, he moved to Eardiston, in Worcestershire. In 1891 he was described as a butcher, and was visiting his father in Whitstable. He was widowed in the third quarter of 1896. In 1901, he was a farm manager, living at Dean Park, Burford St Mary, near Ludlow in Shropshire. He had at least nine children:

2.1 EDWARD WILLIAM BURCH (1873-??), born in Selling in the third quarter of 1873.

2.2 ARTHUR BURCH (1874-19??), born in Boughton in the third quarter of 1874, aged 26 in 1901, when he was a jeweller and goldsmith, working on his own account. He may have had a twin sister, Margaret Gertrude.

2.3 KATIE ELIZA BURCH (1876-19??), born in Hernhill in the first quarter of 1876, aged 25 in 1901. She kept house for her father after her mother's death.

2.4 HELEN AGNES BURCH (1877-19??), born in Hernhill in the second quarter of 1877, aged 23 in 1901. She was a dressmaker, working on her own account.

2.5 FREDERICK MAHON BURCH (1880-??), born in Hernhill in the second quarter of 1880.

2.6 PERCY JOHN BURCH (1881-19??), born in Hernhill in the last quarter of 1881, aged 19 in 1901. He was farm bailiff.

2.7 ADA FLORENCE BURCH (1885-19??), born in Eardiston in the second quarter of 1885, aged 16 in 1901, when she was employed as a draper.

2.8 GERTRUDE ESTER BURCH (1887-19??), born in Eardiston in the second quarter of 1887, and aged 14 in 1901.

2.9 MAY OLIVE BURCH (1887-19??), Gertrude's twin sister.

3 SARAH ANN BURCH (1854-18??), born at Boughton under Blean in the fourth quarter of 1854. She was aged 6 in 1861. She married Edward Wiltshier (sic) in Faversham in the third quarter of 1877. They emigrated to Natal in South Africa. Later, Sarah was widowed and returned to England, where she kept a lodging house at 2 Bath Place, Worthing. Sarah and Edward had two children:

3.1 REGINALD M WILTSHIRE (1880?-??), born in Natal and aged 10 in 1891.

3.2 KATE M WILTSHIRE (1882?-??), born in Natal and aged 8 in 1891.

4 FREDERICK WILLIAM BURCH (1857-18??), registered as William Frederick, born at Boughton under Blean in the fourth quarter of 1857 and aged 3 in 1861.

5 KATE ELIZA BURCH (1862-1938), born at Boughton under Blean, Kent on 4 March 1862. She was living with her father and stepmother in Whitstable in 1881. In 1891, she was staying with her sister, Sarah Wiltshire at 2 Bath Place, Worthing. In 1898, after her father's death, she was at The Firs, Victoria Road, Charlton.

On 3 August 1898, she married a widower, Thomas Edward Pettman, at Thanet Register Office. (Thomas' sister, Fanny Musgrove, had also been living in Charlton.) He was 57, she was 36. The couple lived in Ramsgate, and had two children, to accompany Thomas' daughter from his previous marriage.

Kate was widowed in 1910, but lived on at Goodwin Lodge, 45 Thanet Road, Ramsgate, moving to London during the War. In 1911, she was at

Kate moved to 3 Elms Park Terrace, Ramsgate, where she supplemented her income after Thomas' death by taking in summer boarders. (The house had eleven rooms.) On Census Day 1911, she had her three sisters-in-law, Harriet Lang, Elizabeth Pettman and Anna Goodchild staying with her. She died on 2 March 1938, aged 76.

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