Arch Stephen Boyes/Boyce

c1835-1865

Arch Stephen was baptised on the 25^th December 1835, at St Mary the Virgin, Marlborough, Wiltshire, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Boyce (nee Hickman) who were married on the 24^th December 1821, at St Mary the Virgin, Devizes, Wiltshire. (both were single, surname recorded as Boyes)

Arch’s father Thomas was a Cabinet Maker. He was born c1795 in Marlborough, Wiltshire. Thomas died aged 64 in 1858, he was buried on the 28^th October, at St Mary the Virgin, Marlborough.

His mother Elizabeth was born on the 10^th February1798, in Devizes, Wiltshire, she was baptised on the 2^nd May 1798, at St Mary the Virgin, Devizes, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Hickman. Elizabeth died aged 60 in 1858, she was buried on the 21^st March, at St Mary the Virgin, Marlborough.

Charles Boyes, born 11^th November 1822, baptised 24^th December 1822, at St Mary the Virgin, Devizes

Thomas George, Boys, born 12^th November 1824, baptised 24^th December 1824, at St Mary the Virgin, Devizes (died aged 4 months, buried 5^th March 1825, at St John the Baptist (surname recorded as Boyes)

Thomas Boyes, born 29^th May 1826, baptised 26^th June 1826, at St Mary the Virgin, Devizes

Sarah Boyes, baptised 19^th January 1829, at St Mary the Virgin, Devizes

Ellen Boyes, born 14^th May 1831, baptised 15^th August 1831, at St Mary the Virgin, Devizes

George Boyes, baptised 14^th July 1833, at St Mary the Virgin, Marlborough

Elizabeth Boyce, baptised 3^rd June 1838, at St Mary the Virgin, Marlborough

The 1841 census records Arch (5) living in Fore Marsh, Marlborough, with his father Thomas (43), his mother (42), his brothers, Charles (18), Thomas (15), George (8) and his sisters Sarah (12), Ellen (10) and Elizabeth (3). (Surname recoded as Bayse on ancestry)

In 1851 Arch Boyes (15) was recorded as an Errand Boy, living in Figgins Lane (off the High Street) in the parish of St Peter’s Marlborough, with his father Thomas (56), his mother Elizabeth (52), his brother George (17), a Labourer, his brother-in-law, Henry May (20) a Cordwainer, his married sister Ellen May (19), a Dressmaker and his nephew, Stephen May (6 months)

The 1861 census records Arch as Stephen Boyce (24), an Ostler, lodging in a Street (possibly Winton Street), off Barlow’s Lane, Andover.

Arch married in 1863

Marriage details:

Place: Andover, Hampshire

Date: 10^th March 1863

Groom: Arch Stephens Boyes, full age, bachelor, occupation, Ostler, abode, Andover

Bride: Sarah Jane Turton Ruddock, full age, spinster, occupation Servant, abode, Andover

Fathers: Thomas Boyes, a Cabinet Maker and William Turton Ruddock, a Labourer

Witnesses: James Turton Ruddock and Emma Fl????

Arch Stephen Boyce died aged 29 in 1865. He was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 28^th March

Sarah Jane gave birth to a daughter, Sarah Boyce, born on the 9^th April 1865, baptised (as Sarah Boyes) on the 24^th April 1865 in Andover. Sarah died soon after she was born.

Sarah Jane remarried on the 31^st May 1868, in Hampshire. Her 2^nd husband was Charles Anthony Weston. They had at least six children. She was widowed in 1901 and died aged 81 in 1922, in Andover.

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