Person:William Hutchings (14)

William Hutching's origins have yet to be established. He claimed in the 1841 census to have been born in Somerset and his burial record suggests he was born in about 1780. His first confirmed sighting is on 10th April 1804 when he was married at Winsham in Somerset to Ann North. Between 1805 and 1812 they had four children baptised a short way east of Winsham at Crewkerne: daughters named Elizabeth and Mary then sons named Edmund Wilkins and James Hoare. The boys' middle names may be clues to earlier members of the family. In Crewkerne parish the family did not live in the town itself but in the hamlet of Woolminstone.

William's elder son Edmund was married in January 1833. William and Ann's first granddaughter, Edmund's daughter Mary, was baptised in the April. On the same day Mary was baptised William's elder daughter Elizabeth was married in the same church.

In July 1836 William's wife Ann died, aged 62.

William's other two children married in the late 1830s. The 1841 census finds William working as an agricultural labourer and living with his son Edmund and his family at Woolminstone. His son James and his family were living next door but one. His daughter Mary was living with her husband in Crewkerne town, whilst his daughter Elizabeth was living a short way from Woolminstone at Partington, a hamlet in the parish of Winsham.

In the early 1840s both William's daughters died as young women.

William died in 1849. He was said to be 69 years old. He had outlived his wife and both daughters but had lived to see fifteen grandchildren, although some had died young.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 England. 1841 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 940; Book 1; Folio 20; Page 9, 6 Jun 1841.

   Address: Woolminstone, Crewkerne, Somerset
   William Hutchings, male, 60 [1776-81], Ag Lab, born in county
   Edmund Hutchings, male, 30 [1806-11], Ag Lab, born in county
   Mary Ann Hutchings, female, 25 [1811-16], born in county
   Ann Hutchings, female, 7 [1833/4], born in county
   William Hutchings, male, 3 [1837/8], born in county

2.   Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. William HUTCHINGS, December Quarter 1849, Chard Registration District, Volume 10, page 312, aged 69 [1779/80]

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Burials register, in Church of England. Parish Church of Crewkerne. Crewkerne Parish Registers, 1558-1901. (Taunton: Somerset Heritage Service).

   BURIALS in the Parish of Crewkerne in the County of Somerset in the Year 1849
   No.	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   1472	William Hutchings	Crewkerne	Dec[embe]r 14	69 [1779/80]	Charles Penny, Off[iciatin]g Minister