Person:Samuel Stroud (5)

Samuel Stroud's origins have yet to be established. If the age given when he died is correct then he was born around 1736. His first confirmed sighting is on 13th November 1766, when he married Lydia Walby at St Saviour's Church in Southwark (which later became Southwark Cathedral). She was originally from Aston in Hertfordshire, although in 1764 she had been living with her father's cousin at Hatfield.

Samuel and Lydia went on to have two children baptised in London (at the church of St Sepulchre Holborn) in 1767 and 1770. In 1769 Samuel took on Lydia's younger brother John as an apprentice. At this time Samuel was described as a citizen and baker of London. Some time between 1770 and 1771 the family left London and moved to Hatfield, where they went on to have a further twelve children baptised between 1771 and 1788, although it would appear that at least three of their fourteen children died young. In 1776 Lydia's father died, and Samuel was named as his father-in-law's executor. At this time he was described as being a baker of Hatfield.

Samuel died in 1792, being buried at Hatfield on 11th January. He was said to be 55 years old. Lydia survived him by seven years.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. Parish Registers (Hertfordshire Archives, Hertford).

   Buried 1792 / January 11. Samuel Stroude aged 55 years [1736/7]