Hephzibah Velven/Velvin

c1809-1876

NB Velven in free BMD

Hephzibah, her parents, siblings, step family and early life:

Hephzibah was baptised on the 6^th January 1809 in Ramsbury Wiltshire the daughter of Thomas and Jane Lawrence (nee Pullin/Pullen) who were married in Lambourn Berkshire on the 17^th April 1798.

According to the 1841 census her father Thomas was born c1781 in Wiltshire. He was recorded as a Glover, Breeches Maker, Shopkeeper and Draper on baptism records for his children.

Her mother Jane was baptised on the 30^th January 1771 in Ramsbury  the daughter of Stephen and Jane Pullen. Other known children of Thomas and Jane baptised in Ramsbury were:

Eunice baptised 1^st August 1802

Silas baptised 25^th August 1804 (buried 17^th March 1805)

Keturah baptised 6^th January 1806

Eunice baptised 15^th May 1807

Cornelius baptised 23^rd July 1810 (buried 22^nd February 1825)

Silas baptised 24^th November 1811

Asenath baptised 18^th September 1814

Hephzibah’s mother Jane died aged 48 she was buried on the18th April 1819 in Ramsbury (surname recorded as Laurence)

Her father remarried on the 24^th July 1823 in Ramsbury his 2^nd wife was Jane Wilmot (baptised 31^st March 1799 in Ramsbury the daughter of William and Mary Wilmot)

They had the following children baptised in Ramsbury:

Gideon baptised 7^th March 1824

Lois baptised 19^th May 1826

Cornelius baptised 11^th November 1827 (buried 22^nd December 1830)

Jane baptised 8^th June 1829 (buried 26^th November 1833)

Cornelius baptised 23^rd May 1831

Frances Elizabeth baptised 26^th May 1833

Leonard Thomas baptised 5^th February 1837

Hephzibah:

Hephzibah married Charles Velvin on the 25^th December 1832 at St Mary the Virgin Speen Berkshire. Charles was from Highworth Wiltshire, he was born on the 28^th January and baptised 27^th August 1809 at Morgan’s Hill Bradford Wiltshire the son of James and Sophia Velvin and was a Sadler and Harness Maker.

The 1841 census records Charles (32) as Independent living in the High Street Ramsbury with Hephzibah (32).

Charles Velvin died aged 39 on the 27^thSeptember 1848, he was buried on the 1^st October in Highworth Wiltshire.

In 1851 Hephzibah (40) was recorded as a Sadler & Harness Maker employing 2 men she was still living in the High Street Ramsbury. Her niece Isabella Clarke (3) was living with her (Isabella was the daughter of her sister Eunice who died aged 43 in 1850)

By 1861 Hephzibah (52) was living alone in the High Street and was recorded in the census for this year, as a Sadler.

The 1871 census records Hephzibah (59) as a Nurse, Domestic Servant at Weston Farm Welford Berkshire

She died on the 17^th November 1876 she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 20^th November.

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