Parish Register for Marriage of John Leach Bennett and Maria Cragg, St Wulframs, Ovingdean, Sussex, England, 18 October 1820.

Marriage Certificate

Judith Goodman (Ed), 2008, Coal and Calico, Merton Historical Society, 60.

"The occasion of this letter was the Birth of my Father John Leach Bennett at Wandsworth on 5th February 1798. He was christened "John Leach" at Wandsworth 4th day of March 1798." (Family Bible) He was the father of Frederick Bennett

Judith Goodman (Ed), 2008, Coal & Calico, Merton Historical Society, 30.

"My father married Mary Cragg, the daughter of Mr John Cragg, a brother-in-law and partner of Charles Smith of Merton Abbey, on 18th October, 1820. He was then in partnership with his father as "Bennett & Son". (by Frederick Bennett, son of John Leach Bennett)

(Pg 180).."Mr Bennett carried on the business alone till about 1820 when he took his only son, & child, Mr John Leach Bennett into partnership with him. Mr Bennett retired about 1825, and about 1832 his son funding that the calico printing business could no longer be carried on profitably in the south of England, resigned his lease in fabour of Mr Littler a silk printer."

1841 England and Wales census, Dunsford Lane, Wimbledon, London, UK, head of household: John Bennett.

1841 UK Census

Place: Dunsford Lane, Wimbledon, London, UK

Address:

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Enumeration Date: 6 June 1841

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1851 England and Wales census, Haydon Lane, Wimbledon, London, UK, head of household: John L Bennett.

1851 UK Census

Place: Wimbledon, London, England

Address: Haydam Lane

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Enumeration Date: 30 March 1851

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UK City and County. Cit. Date: 1851.

City and County Directory 1851. Wimbledon, Surrey, England. - Gentry - John Leach Bennett Esq.

1861 England and Wales census, Haydon Lane, Wimbledon, London, England, head of household: John L Bennett.

1861 UK Census

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1871 England and Wales census, Haydon Lane, Wimbledon, London, England, head of household: John Leach Bennett.

1871 UK Census

Place: Wimbledon, Surrey, England

Address: Haydon Lane

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England and Wales Death Registration Index, John Leach Bennett, circa December 1873.

John Leach Bennett - Dec 1873 - Kingston Surrey - 2a 145. Age 75

Monumental Inscription. St Mary's churchyard, Wimbledon,UK. Cit. Date: 5 November 1873.

Here rest the mortal remains of THOMAS BENNETT who died 28 August 1827 aged 52 years years and of SARAH JANE, his widow who died 30 June 1851, aged 78 years. Also of their son JOHN LEACH BENNETT who died 5th Nov 1873 aged 75 years and of MARIA his wife who died 2nd May 1841 aged 42 years and of LOUISA his widow who died 25 May 1877, aged 73 years.

Will. Cit. Date: 26 November 1873.

26th November 1873 JOHN LEACH BENNETT. The Will with a Codicil of John Leach Bennett late of Merton in the Parish of Wimbledon in the County of Surrey Esq who died 5th November 1873 at Merton was proved a the Principal Registry by the Reverend Frederick Bennett of Maddington in the County of Wilts Clerk the Son William Marshall of Gastons House St. Peters Bedford in the County of Bedford and Lionel George Robinson of 8 Sackville Street Piccadilly in the County of Middlesex Esquire the Executors. Effects under £30,000

Parish Register for Baptism of Maria Cragg and dau of John and Ursula Cragg, St Luke, Old Street, Finsbury, London, England, 14 November 1798.

Maria Cragg, born 11th September 1798, Baptised 14 November 1798, at St Luke, Old Street, Finsbury, daughter of John Cragg and Ursula

Monumental Inscription.

Parish Register for Burial of Maria Bennett and Age 42, St Mary, Wimbledon, London, England, 8 May 1841.

Parish Register for Marriage of Frederick Bennett, clerk, B.A. and Ellen Maton, St Marys, Maddington, Wiltshire, England, 30 September 1845.

Marriage Certificate

Parish Register for Baptism of Frederick Bennett and Son of John Leach and Maria Bennett, Wimbledon, London, England, 25 April 1822.

1851 England and Wales census, Manor House, Maddington, Wiltshire, England, head of household: Leonard Pitt Maton.

1851 UK Census

Place: Maddington, Wiltshire, England

Address: Manor House

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Enumeration Date: 30 March 1851

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1861 England and Wales census, Parsonage, Maddington, Wiltshire, England, head of household: Frederick Bennett.

1861 UK Census

Place: Maddington, Wiltshire

Address: Parsonage

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Enumeration Date: 7 April 1861

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1891 England and Wales census, The Vicarage, Maddington, Wiltshire, England, head of household: Frederick Bennett.

1891 UK Census

Place: The Vicarage, Maddington, Wiltshire, England

Address:

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Enumeration Date: 5 April 1891

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1901 England and Wales census, 6 Beacon, Littleham, Devon, head of household: Ethel D Bennett.

1901 UK Census

Place: Littleham, Devon, England

Address: 6 Beacon

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Enumeration Date: 31 March 1901

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Monumental Inscription. St Margaret & St Andrew Churchyard, Littleham, East Devon, UK. Cit. Date: 1 July 1903.

FREDERICK BENNETT M.A.

Vicar of Maddington and Shrewton 1861-1895

Died at Exmouth 1822-1 July 1903 aged 81 years

Also his wife Ellen who was ..,,,,,,

November 18th 1909 aged 87 years.

(According to the book "Coal and Calico" p.127, his address was 6 The Beacon, Exmouth)

Will. Cit. Date: 22 February 1904.

PROBATE. Reverend Frederick Bennett, of 6 The Beacon, Exmouth, county of Devon. Died 1 July 1903, at 6 The Beacon aforesaid, testate, certificate endorsed by Commissary Clerk of Edinburgh, 22 February 1904 on probate of the wi8ll granted at London, on 11 August 1903, to Ethel Dorothea Bennett, the daughter, Charles Frederick Hutton, and William Stackhouse Holden, the Executors. Value of Estate £14,464. 15s. 7d.

Judith Goodman (Ed), 2008, Coal and Calico, Merton Historical Society, 171.

OBITUARY. 'IN MEMORIAM , FREDERICK BENNETT'. "On the 1st inst the death, at Exmouth, of the Rev. Frederick Bennett brought to his rest one of whose vigour and wisdom had for many years been prominent in the Salisbury diocese. The son of Mr John Leach Bennett, of Merton, he was born in 1822, and spent the fifty years of his ministerial life in the same diocese. Although he as for almost the whole of that half century in one parish, he showed how such a continuity need imply neither stagnation in his pastoral charge, nor limitation of his views and energies. He took his degree at Wadham College, Oxford, in 1843, and was ordained two years later. His first curacy, Maddington, Wilts, was afterards his benefice, with which the Bishop joined later the adjoining parish of Shrewton. The two together form one large village, containing then more than a thousand people. He was a pioneer of Church work and principle, bringing with him from Oxford a zeal which the remote villages in the middle of Salisbury Plain had not experienced. Religion, intelligence, and morals were in a neglected state. Dissent was strong. There was an endowned Baptist chapel, as well as a Wesleyan meeting-house. There were no parochial schools, and the churches, were both in disrepair. He built, at his own expense, a chapel for Maddington, and by great exertions, restored and enlarged the church at Shrewton. He at once opened schools fof a temporary character, and afterwards erected handsome school buildings in the centre of the village. He started and always maintained, daily services and weekly Communion. He regularly took part in the religious instruction of the day schools, and also in the night schools, which he carried on during the winter months. His parochial visitation was most systematic. He kept a list of all the houses in the parish with ruled columns for the twelve months in the year, so that he might note how often in a month each was visited. Such details may seem to be commonplace now. But the Church of the present day does not know how much it owes to those who began some sixty years ago to work their parishes on such lines as these. Not a few parishes have been lifted up by having as their clergy those who had been his curates at Shrewton.

For twenty years he was an ideal organizing secretary for the S.P.G., and produced a great effect in the Archdeaconry of Wilts by his missionary zeal. In 1868, Bishop Hamilton gave him a prebendal stall in the cathedral, and two years later he was made a Rural Dean by Bishop Moberly. In this latter office he was most vigorous and successful, having great influence with is brethren.

When his health failed seriously ten years ago, he determined to give up his work; but the village in which he lived so long has still a touching consciousness that his impress upon it was permanent. He had a remarkable circle of friends, and in his new home at Exmouth, as well as in the diocese of Salisbury and many other places, the removal of this example of unpretentious but high principled energy leaves a sense of serious loss."

England and Wales Death Registration Index, Emily Maton, June 1858.

Emily Maton June 1858 Amesbury, Wiltshire 54a 112

Parish Register for Baptism of Emily Bennett and dau of John Leach and Maria Bennett, Parish Church, Wimbledon, London, UK, 8 March 1824.

England and Wales Death Registration Index, Emily Maton, June 1858.

Emily Maton June 1858 Amesbury, Wiltshire 5a 112

Parish Register for Burial of Emily Maton, aged 34, Collingbourne Ducas, Wiltshire, UK, 22 June 1858.

Parish Register for Baptism of Elizabeth Maria Bennett and dau of John Leach, calico printer of Wimbledon, and Maria Bennett, St Marys, Merton, Wimbledon, Surrey, UK, 18 March 1826.

1851 England and Wales census, Belvedere Road, Lambeth, Surrey, head of household: Thomas Langton.

1851 UK Census

Place: Lambeth, Surrey, England

Address: Belvedere Road,

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Enumeration Date:

Other Info: 30 March 1851

1861 England and Wales census, Larkhall Lane, Clapham, Surrey, UK, head of household: Thomas Langton.

1861 UK Census

Place: Larkhall Lane, Clapham, Surrey, UK

Address:

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Enumeration Date: 7 April 1861

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1871 England and Wales census, 11 Cedars Road, Clapham, Surrey, UK, head of household: Thomas Langton.

1871 UK Census

Place: 11 Cedars Road, Clapham, Surrey, UK

Address:

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Enumeration Date: 2 April 1871

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1881 England and Wales census, 7 Altenburg Gardens, Battersea, London, UK, head of household: Thomas Langton.

1881 UK Census

Place: 7 Altenburg Gardens, Battersea, London, UK

Address:

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Enumeration Date: 3 April 1881

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1891 England and Wales census, 26 Sisters Avenue, Battersea, London, UK, head of household: Thomas Langton.

1891 UK Census

Place: 26 Sisters Avenue, Battersea, London, UK

Address:

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Enumeration Date: 5 April 1891

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Norwood Cemetery Register for Burial of Elizabeth Maria Langton, aged 71, of 35 Sisters Ave, Battersea, London, UK, 8 July 1897.

Will.

Elizabeth Maria Langton of 35 Sister's Avenue, Clapham Common, Surrey, wife of Thomas Langton, died 3 July 1897 Probate London 25 August to Thomas Bennett Langton, merchant and Percy StJohn Langton stock and share dealer. Effects £126. 2s. 2d.

Parish Register for Baptism of Louisa Jane Bennett and dau of John Leach, calico printer, of Wimbledon, and Maria Bennett, St Mary, Wimbledon, London, England, 6 March 1832.

1861 England and Wales census, 22 Dorset Gardens, Brighton, Sussex, UK, head of household: Mary Blaber.

1861 UK Census

Place: 22 Dorset Gardens, Brighton, Sussex, UK

Address:

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Enumeration Date: 7 April 1861

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1881 England and Wales census, 75 Merton Road, Wimbledon, Surrey, UK.

1881 UK Census

Place: 75 Merton Road, Wimbledon, Surrey, UK

Address:

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Enumeration Date: 3 Apri 1881

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1891 England and Wales census, 77 Merton Road, Wimbledon, Surrey, UK.

1891 UK Census

Place: 77 Marton Road, Wimbledon, Surrey, UK

Address:

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Enumeration Date: 5 April 1891

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1901 England and Wales census, 93 Merton Road, Wimbledon, Surrey, UK, head of household: Louisa J Bennett.

1901 UK Census

Place: 93 Merton Road, Wimbledon, Surrey, UK

Address:

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Enumeration Date: 31 March 1901

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Will. Cit. Date: 24 February 1909.

Bennett, Louisa Jane of The Garth, South Wimbledon, Surrey, spinster died 22 January 1909. Probate London 24 February to Frederic Stephen Maton esquire and the reverend Ernest Powys Sketchley, clerk Effects £218. 18s. 1d.