Re: Walter John Portwood, Grantham England
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Re: Walter John Portwood, Grantham England
Elizabeth Portwood 5/10/05
Hi Elizabeth,
My wife’s mother’s maiden name was Portwood and some years ago we traced her Portwood ancestors, starting with the IGI records, and examining the Parish Registers and Bishop’s Transcripts, we were able to trace her ancestry back to a John Portwood (whose christening record we never found) who married a Goodeth Foster on the 6th October 1588.We were fortunate in living very close to all the places my wife’s Portwood ancestors seem to have come from and only 15 miles from Lincoln where we were able to view the records.As you’ll probably know, Portwood is a very rare name, and we collected all the Portwood records we could find, including many who we were never able to fit into my wife’s family tree.Anyway, to cut a long story short, if Walter John Portwood is your great grandfather, you, I think, are a 4th cousin, once removed, to my wife Margaret.
Walter J Portwood was born around 1891 and, according to the 1901 Census, in Woolsthorpe Lincolnshire, which is near Grantham.According to the Census record his parents were William and Jane E Portwood and he, in 1901, had a brother John W Portwood born around 1899/1900.There's a marriage index record for William Portwood in the March quarter of 1890 in the district of Grantham volume 7a page 568; there's a Jane Emma Bullimore on the same page so we assume this is the wife.There's a birth index record for a Jane Emma Bullimore born in the June quarter of 1873 in the district of Grantham volume 7a page 453.I have also found Jane Bullimore in the 1881 Census.
William Portwood can be found in the 1871 and 1861 Censuses, with his parents William and Elizabeth Portwood.This older William is buried in Barkston Churchyard with a Tombstone and inscription: "In Loving memory of William Portwood born Jul 25th 1829. Fell asleep Jan 10th 1892.Thine for ever, oh how blessed they who find in thee their rest".We believe that the elder William’s wife was Elizabeth Lunn because we think we found a second marriage for her.There’s a Barkston parish register record on the 3rd Mar 1895 of the marriage between John Parnham (58 year old widower labourer living in Barkston with a father of William Parnham Carpenter) and Elizabeth Portwood (60 year old widow living at Barkston with a father Thomas Lunn Labourer); witnesses were Frederick William Thraves and Margaret Smith.You can find William Portwood senior on the 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891 census records.
From the Barkston parish register records, William Portwood was christened on the 26th July 1829, son of John and Rebecca Portwood and you can find them in the 1861 Census.There’s an IGI record of the marriage between John Portwood and Rebecca Kirk on the 18 May 1820 at Folkingham Lincolnshire.There’s also an IGI record of the christening of Rebecca Kirk on 10 June 1792 atFolkingham, Lincolnshire with parents Willm and Margret Kirk.
John Portwood is my wife’s great, great grandfather through Thomas Portwood a brother of the older William Portwood.
It would take more time than I can spare this weekend to detail all of John Portwood’s ancestors so this will have to wait for another day.I have electronic copies of the census images if you would like me to forward these to you but I guess you could find these for yourself at www.ancestry.co.uk, if you haven’t already.
Best regards,
Dave and Margaret
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