Matilda Taplin

1828-1903

Matilda was born on the 3^rd November 1828, in Bicester, Oxfordshire. She was baptised on the 15^th March 1829, in Bicester, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Eliza Paxton (nee Potter) who were married on the 9^th October 1824, in Ambrosden, Oxfordshire. (Both were minors and Thomas was from Bicester)

Thomas and Mary also had the following children:

Charlotte, baptised 17^th July 1825, in Ambrosden (dad a Yeoman)

Emily, born c1826

Thomas, baptised 3^rd June 1827, in Bicester

Lucy Zilpha, baptised 19^th December 1830, in Bicester

William George, born 14^th July 1832, baptised 21^st July 1833, in Kingsclere (dad a farmer)

The 1841 census records Thomas (35), a Farmer, Mary (35), Charlotte (15), Emily (15), Thomas (14), Matilda (12), Lucy (10) and William (8), living in Sidmonton, Hampshire.

Matilda married in 1851

Marriage details:
Place: Ecchinswell, Hampshire

Date: 1^st January 1851

Groom: Thomas Taplin, full age, bachelor, occupation, Yeoman, abode, Kingsclere

Bride: Matilda Paxton, full age, spinster, abode, Sidmonton

Fathers: John Taplin, a Gentleman and Thomas Paxton, a Yeoman

Witnesses: Jonas Paxton, Thomas Paxton, Helen Paxton, William Paxton, Lucy Zilpha Paxton, Fanny Booth and Thomas Taplin

(Thomas was baptised on the 1^st December 1825, in Worting, Hampshire, the son of John (a Farmer) and Sarah Taplin (nee Tubb) who were married on the 17^th November 1814, at Sherborne St John, Hampshire. (Sarah was a minor and John was from Worting)

Thomas and Matilda had the following children:

Maria Elsie Matilda 1851 (aka Elsie Matilda Maria)

Mary 1852

Ellen 1854

Emily Mary c1856

Thomas 1860

Amy Lucy 1861

Frederick William c1865

Twins: Edith and Lottie 1867 (Lottie died 1867)

The 1851 census records Thomas (25), a Farmer of 1700 acres, employing 25 men, living at Fox Grove Farm, Kingsclere with Matilda (22)

The 1861 census records Thomas (36), a Farmer of 1000 acres, employing 18 men and 10 boys, Matilda (32), Emily (5), Thomas (10 months) and Thomas’s brother Frederic (28), a Farmer, farming in Chute, Wiltshire.

In 1871 Thomas (46), Matilda (42), Elsie (19), Frederick (6), Edith (3), a cook, a nurse and a domestic servant were recorded living in Upper Chute, Wiltshire. Thomas was farming 900 acres, employing 12 labourers and 2 shepherds.

Matilda was widowed in 1879, Thomas died on the 27^th April, in Andover, Hampshire. Probate records record his Personal Estate as £2083 15s

The 1881 census records Matilda (52), a Farmer of 850 acres, employing 12 men and 8 boys, at Manor Farm, Chute, Wiltshire. Her children, Thomas (20), Elsie (29), Emily (25), Amy (19), Edith (13) and a general servant were also recorded living with her.

In 1891 Matilda (62) and her son Thomas (30) were recorded living on their own means, in Gloucester Road, Newbury, Berkshire.

Thomas married Isabel Cruce in 1893.

The 1901 census records, Matilda (72), Thomas (40), Isabel (38) and their children, Edith Isabelle (5) and Donald Leslie (4), living in Stroud Green, Greenham, Berkshire. Matilda and Thomas were again recorded living on their own means.

Matilda died aged 74, on the 26^th January 1903. She was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 30^th January.

Her son Thomas died aged 46 on the 19^th April 1907. He was laid to rest with Matilda, on the 24^th April.

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