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Nash Family of Sudbury

Highlights

✅ Mary Ann Nash was my second great-grandmother, on my father's father's side. Her family were longtime residents of Sudbury parish, Derbyshire, England.

✅ In 1851, Ann Nash married a newcomer to Sudbury—James Price of Mathon, Worcestershire.

✅ The Nash family had lived within a few miles of the Sudbury Manor House for generations. At its peak, the Lord Vernon was the sole owner of over 3500 acres of farmland. In 1851, there were 108 houses and 570 residents in Sudbury. There were twenty-three farmers and an assortment of tradesmen. [1] The Nashes occupied the lowest rung of the social ladder as agricultural laborers.

✅ Regarding Ann: in 1852, she lost her first child George within a couple of days of his birth. It was seven years before she and James had their second child, my great-grandfather William James Price.

✅ The Nashes had 48 grandchildren, including William James Price. We have many DNA connections among their descendants.

William Nash (my 3rd great grandfather)

William Nash was the eldest son of 10 Nash children, born to Thomas Nash (1782-1868) and Elizabeth Woolley Nash (1785-1855), both lifelong residents of Sudury, Derbyshire, England. He was born on 22 May 1803 and baptized in the Sudbury Parish Church (Church of England). On 29 Aug 1822 (age 19), he married Mary Harrison in the church at Norbury. She was also 19—and pregnant. Together they had 12 children, 6 boys and 6 girls. They raised their family in the hamlet of Dale Brook, surrounded by extended family. By 1861, they had moved to nearby Oaks Green. He worked all his life as an agricultural laborer. He died on 7 Mar 1865, at the age of 61.

Mary Harrison (my third great grandmother)

Was born in 1804 in nearby Longford, Derbyshire, England. Her first child was born within 3 months of the marriage. She died 5 Sept 1875 in Sudbury and was buried in the All Saints Churchyard.

1871: still living at Oaks Green, as a widow, with two sons Arthur and Edward.

Their Children

This listing is full of inconsistencies in presentation. For the most current information, see the public tree on Ancestry.

John Nash

B. Nov 1822 in Norbury, Derbyshire. Baptized 24 Nov 1822.

1851: Working as a farm laborer on the Channer farm at Sudbury Wood

1882: 30 June Derby Daily Telegraph reported that he was fined 10s 6 d for allowing three cows to stray onto the turnpike road at Sudbury. (Posted on Ancestry. I can't verify this this is our John.)

We lose track of him after this.

Henry Nash

B. 17 Dec 1826. Henry was short-lived, dying at age 17, in 1844 (buried 10 Jan 1845).

Ellenor (aka Ellen) Nash

b. abt 1829 in Sudbury. A few months after her younger sister Ann got married, at age 22, she married Robert Wallis, a railway porter and moved to Aston, Warwickshire. They apparently had no children. She died at age 57 in Warwickshire.

1851: working as a dressmaker

(Mary) Ann Nash Price [my 2nd great grandmother]

Born 11 Oct 1832 in Sudbury, Derbyshire, England. She married James Price at age 19, 20 Feb 1851, in Sudbury. Died: either 1904 or 1910, Derbyshire (district of Uttoxeter).

1851: newly married to James Price, visiting with Wooley family at Dale Brook, near her parents. Continued under James Price for 1861-1901 >>>

George Price
Born and Died: May, 1852. Baptized 28 May 1852 in Sudbury.

William James Price [my great grandfather]

Born: 31 Jan 1859 Derbyshire England (Sudbury subdistrict of Uttoxeter district)
Died: June 1934 St. Louis MO

Hannah Jane "Fanny" Nash

Birth 6 Jun 1835 in Sudbury, Derbyshire, England. Married 30 Jan 1862 to Samuel Harrison. They had 8 children. She died Oct 1908 in Burton on Trent

Robert William (1862-1908)*

Henry James (1865-?),

Samuel Barnett (1869-?),

Mary Jane (1870-?),

Frances E. (1872-?),

Frank (1874-?),

Emily Julia (1876-?),

John Ed. (1878-?).

1851: living with parents, working as a servant. 1861: living with parents, working as a laundress

DNA Connection: *Mac04, 3rd cousin 1x removed to our aunt MEG.

Jemima Nash Coltman

B. 22 Sep 1833 in Sudbury. Married 20 Apr 1857, to William Coltman. They had 7 children.

Died: 2 Apr 1917.

Clara (1858-1938)

Laura (1861-1912)

George H. (1864-1931)

Fanny (1867-1949)*

Frederick William (1869-1949)

Ruth (1872-1944)

Hannah (1874-1880)

DNA Connection: *Laura B, 3rd cousin 1x removed to our aunt MEG.

Joseph Nash

B. abt 1840; baptized 6 Sept 1841. Married: Elizabeth (b. abt 1841 in Sudbury, Derbyshire)

1851: living with parents; 1861: living with parents, working as a carpenter (?). 1871: Living with wife and family on Mackley in Civil Parish of Sudbury, working as a Labourer. 1881: Living on O Green, in civil parish of Sudbury, working as Estate Labourer [Ag Lab]. 1891: Living in town of West Broughton, ecclesiastical parish of St. Cuthbert, and civil parish of Doveridge; working as a farmer. 1901: Living at Leathersley, civil parish of Sudbury, working as a Farmer (classified as Employer, as opposed to worker or own account)

Mary E b. 1865

Fanny b. 1867

Clara b. 1869

William J. b. 1871

Henry b. 1873*

Fred b. 1875**

Lucy C b. 1877

Eleanor J b. 1880

Walter b. 1881

Herbert b. 1884

DNA connection: *Julie D, 3rd cousin 2x removed to our aunt MEG. **Angela S, 3rd cousin 1x removed to our aunt MEG

Lucy Nash Wilson

b. 1843

1861: Married to Joseph Wilson [family "living in the parlour" of Nash household]

Arthur John (b. 1860)*

Mary Jane (b. 1861)

DNA Connection: *Jacqueline D, 3rd cousin 1x removed to our aunt MEG

Arthur Nash

b. 1845. Married in 1873 to Sarah Jane Baxter (1847-1938)

1871: living at Oaks Green, with mother, working as a labourer

Arthur Robert Nash (1875-1907)

George Edgar Nash (1876-?)

Margaret Ellen Nash (1877-1966)

Percy Nash (1880-1934)

Wilfred Henry Nash (1882-1918)

Ada Wilson Nash (1884-?)

Joseph Charles Nash (1887-?)

Frank Victor Nash (1892-?) 

Charles Nash

b. 1847. 1861: living away from family, working as a servant. Married Charlotte Yeomans in 1874. Died Jan 1914. Moved to Birmingham.

William Nash (1871-?)  Different mother?

Henry Nash (1875-?)

Frederick Nash (1878-?)

Harriet E Nash (1880-?)

Arthur Nash (1886-?) 

DNA connection: Helen S. of Australia shares 97 cM of DNA with my aunt MEG. According to her Henry Nash became a merchant seaman and settled in Brisbane, Australia, where he married Mabel Springborg.

They had three sons: Joe, Les, and Fred. When I told her WJ Price led a family of carpenters, she wrote:

This interesting because my father Joe Nash was also a carpenter, an absolute perfectionist, he did beautiful work. Oh and the Nash men were dashing, muscle bound blokes. Henry & my dad Joe & his younger brother Les & older brother Fred were all handsome men. Henry married my g'mother Mabel Springborg & they were lighthouse keepers, the kids had idyllic young childhoods on various islands off the Queensland coast on the Great Barrier Reef, they were all brought up on and around the water, fishing, snorkelling & on boats. Les & Fred were both fishermen.

Clara Nash Cherry Wright

b. 1849. Married William Cherry in 1869 in Birmingham and had two children. After he died in 1874, she married Joseph Wright in Warwickshire and had four more children. Died in Birmingham in 1928.

Elizabeth Eleanor Cherry (1870-1873)

Amelia Annie Cherry (1873-

Robert Arthur Wright (1879-?)

Eleanor Youd (?) Wright (1881-1920)

Elsie Wilson Wright (1883-?) 

Edward James Nash

(b. 1851) Married: in 1876 in Aston, Warwickshire to Mary Ann Smith (b 1850 in Rocester, Staffordshire)

1871: living at Oaks Green, with mother, working as a labourer

Edward Thomas

Born 1877 in Draycott in the Clay; died 1895 in Lichfield, Staffordshire

Annie

Born 1879 in Draycott in the Clay

 

 

Notes

[1] Derbyshire History, Gazetteer, and Directory, 1857, pp. 239-41

 

19 Feb 2011, rev. 19 Apr 2024

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