William Anable

LIFE GOES ON: AN INTRODUCTION

MY GRANDPARENTS - I - MY GREAT-GRANDPARENTS - I - MY GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS - I - MY GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS

THE SIXTEEN FAMILIES

KNOTT - I - BOWLES - I - WATERS - I - HARRALL - I - PAGE - I - WISEMAN - I - CROSS - I - CARTER

CORNWELL - I - HUCKLE - I - MORTLOCK - I - MANSFIELD - I - REYNOLDS - I - CARTER - I - ANABLE - I - STEARN

CHRONOLOGY - I - DRAMATIS PERSONAE - I - WHERE PEOPLE CAME FROM - I - CALENDAR

MAP OF ELY - I - MAP OF MEDWAY
MAP OF CAMBRIDGE AND DISTRICT

THE WORKHOUSE

WORLD WAR I - I - WORLD WAR II

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LIFE GOES ON

William Anable
born Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, 1823
died Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, 1893

on the Reynolds family tree
part of the Anable family story

married to Rachel Rogers

father of Samuel Anable

son of

William Anable (1823-1893). My Mother's Mother's Mother's Father's Father. My Great-Great-Great-Grandfather.

1823: William's baptism is recorded at Grantchester, Cambridgeshire.

1827: William's brother Henry is baptised in Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, and subsequently so are further brothers and sisters. This means that William arrived in Dry Drayton before he was more than four years old.

1845: WIlliam married Rachel Rogers on 26th October at St Peter and St Pauls' church, Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire. He was 20 years old. Both William and Rachel signed the register with a cross. William's father's occupation was given as bricklayer, her father's as blacksmith.

1851 census:

William was twenty-seven years old at the time of the 1851 census. The Anable family were living at 23 the Cottages, Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire.

William is shown as a bricklayer. His wife Rachel was 26 years old.

William had two children at the time of the 1851 census: Elizabeth was 5 and Samuel was 1. Also living in the house at the time of the census were two lodgers, John and Mary Rogers, aged 65 and 64 respectively. John's occupation is shown as blacksmith. Almost certainly, these are the parents of William's wife Rachel, whose maiden name was Rogers.

The census records that William was born at Grantchester in Cambridgeshire. His wife and children were born in Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire. The transcript for the entry is here.

1861 census:

William was thirty-seven years old at the time of the 1851 census. The Anable family were living at Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire.

William is shown as a bricklayer. He was 37 years old. His wife Rachel was 36 years old.

William had five children living at home at the time of the 1851 census: Elizabeth, his daughter, who appears on the 1851 census, is no longer at home. Living in the house at the time of the census were Samuel aged 11, William aged 9, Maria aged 7, Susan aged 5 and Rachel aged 9 months. Nine year old William's gravestone is still extant in Dry Drayton graveyard - he died at the age of 71 in 1922. The two lodgers, John and Mary Rodgers, Samuel's mother's parents, who appear on the 1851 census, are no longer living in the household.