Ancestors of Cley

A couple of months ago, in a look at the 1841 Blakeney Census, I wondered about the connection(s) between the households of Henry Degauan and Thomas Newbegin:

Page	Place	Name	Sex	Age	Profession	Born in Norfolk?	Head of Household	Comments
21	High St	Henry Degauan (sp?)	M	27	Fisherman	Y	(Self)	(Surname hard to read; unsure of spelling.)
		Maria	F	22		Y	Henry Degauan
		Horatia	M	3		Y	Henry Degauan
		Alford	M	1		Y	Henry Degauan
		Nevison Newbegin	M	17	Shoe App	Y	Henry Degauan	See below
22	High St	Thos Newbegin	M	56	Baker	Y	(Self)	See below
		Ann	F	52		Y	Thos Newbegin	Formerly Stirges
		Horatia	M	30	Tailor	Y	Thos Newbegin	See below
		Maria Cooper	F	10		Y	Thos Newbegin	End of family mark (/) after Horatia's name.

Page	Name	Age	Comments
21	Nevison Newbegin	17	There is an end of dwelling mark (//) on the line with Alford Degauan's name, but no digit in "Inhabited" column next to Nevison's name to indicate a new dwelling, so it's a bit unclear whether Nevison was in the Degauan household or on his own. Nevison's name is on the last line on page 21. Page 22 begins with Thos Newbegin's household. Nevison witnessed Horatio Newbegin's marriage to Catherine Peeps.
22	Thos Newbegin	56	The Degauan(?) & Newbigin households were adjacent to each other. Note the similarities in names. Were Nevison & Maria the daughter & son of Thos & Ann Newbegin?
	Ann Newbegin	52	Formerly Stirges[10]
	Horatia Newbegin	30	Married Catherine Jary Peeps, daughter of Lane & Ann Jary (enum. p. 3) in 1843. Name spelled "Horatio" in marriage registry.

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We've since received more microfilms from the NRO. I haven't finished going through all the registers, but so far I've found baptism records for ten children of Thomas & Ann:

Daughter: Margaret Stirges NEWBEGIN
Born: 20 Feb 1811 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [11]
Baptised: 22 Feb 1811 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [11]

Daughter: Maria NEWBEGIN
Baptised: 11 Feb 1813 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [1o, 11]

Son: Thomas NEWBEGIN
Baptised: 16 Oct 1814 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [10]

Son: Francis NEWBEGIN
Baptised: 09 May 1816 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [10]

Daughter: Maria NEWBEGIN
Baptised: 09 Aug 1817 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [10]

Daughter: Hannah Matilda NEWBEGIN
Baptised: 11 Apr 1819 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [10]

Son: Horatio NEWBEGIN
Baptised: 13 Nov 1820 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [10]
Spouse: Catherine JARY Peeps (1811 - ) [12]

Son: Nevison Stirgess NEWBEGIN
Baptised: 26 Apr 1822 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [10]

Son: Zachariah NEWBEGIN
Baptised: 24 Dec 1823 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [10]
Died: aft Mar 1851 [13]
Spouse: Maryann (Unknown) (abt 1826 - ) [13]

Daughter: Roda Matilda NEWBEGIN
Baptised: 11 Oct 1825 at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England [10]

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Having found these baptism records, I think it's likely that Maria, wife of Henry Degauan, was the Maria baptised in 1817, daughter of Thomas & Ann Newbegin, and that Nevison Newbegin was her brother. I'll keep looking for Maria & Henry's marriage record (and I'm hoping the surname will be easier to read.)

Sources

Note: Not all of the sources below were used in this post, but I copied the list over from the census article so the numbers would match between the two. There are additional sources at the bottom of this list (numbers 11-13) that weren't used in the census article.

• [1] Stiffkey Register Index. NRO. PD492. HMN6-364: F-L
• [2] Blakeney Parish Registers Marriages 1813-1837. NRO. PD619. MF692/4
• [3] Blakeney Parish Registers Baptisms & Burials 1807 - 1812. NRO. PD619. MF691/29
• [4] Morston Parish Registers. NRO PD478. 1700-1812: Registration of Baptisms 1700-1811; Registration of Marriages 1701-1754; Burials 1700-1812. (Microfiche)
• [5] Blakeney Parish Registers: Baptisms 1813-1840 PD619 MF691/30
• [6] Marriage certificate: Thomas Dew & Jemima Jary. GRO. 1858 Mar Erpingham. Vol 4b, Page 85, Entry no. 127.
• [7] NRO. Probate 1800-1857. Archdeaconry of Norwich Court, 1813; Probate of William Cozens. Microfilm.
• [8] Norfolk Marriages. Hamlin, Philip. Norfolk Family History Society. 2002. CD-ROM.
• [9] Morston Parish Registers Baptisms 1813-1900. NRO. PD478. MF1000/11
• [10] Cley-Next-the-Sea Parish Registers: Baptisms 1813-1841. NRO. PD270 MF694/22
• [11] Cley-Next-the-Sea Parish Registers: Baptisms & Burials 1779-1814. NRO. PD270 MF694/21
• [12] Blakeney Parishes Register Marriages 1837-1900. NRO. PD619 MF692/5
• [13] 1851 England Census

Related Posts

1. A look at the 1841 Blakeney Census
2. Not the child we expected to see in the census
3. Children of Edmund and Jane (Cozens) Dew
4. Descendants of John Baines & Sarah Murrell
5. Probate: William Cozens 1813

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