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The
BATMAN / BATTMAN / BATEMAN Families
of Kingswood and Bitton,
near Bristol, England
Origins
of Family Name: "Servant
of Bartholomew"
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Distribution of the family
name in 1881
showing the Bristol area to be one of several
areas where the name is most common.
In modern times,
2000-2005 data (below), this is still apparent.
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A
Bristol / Kingswood Local One Name Study in three parts:
Part
1: The Early Years (C15th - Late C17th):
Roots
traced back to William
BATMAN, a
Husbandman of North Stoke, a village east of Bristol. He left a
Will dated 25.3.1586 which suggests he may have been born
c1482.
William
is apparently my 12xGGF.
[Understandably
the relationships in this period are somewhat difficult and
unreliable, so any additional insight to those presented would be
appreciated.]
Part
2: The Later Years (Late C17th - C20th):
Dozens
of confirmed linked lines and hundreds of relatives connected to
the researchers listed below. This includes hundreds of other
related families for the Bitton/Kingswood area, some of which are
also listed in the Genealogical Index.
The following
outline is my immediate ancestral family (most recent couple of
generations) if relatives today would like to get in touch:
George
BATEMAN (1837-1919)
of Bristol & Elizabeth
OSBORNE
(1833-91) of Bristol are my 2xGGPs. They married in 1859 in
Bristol. They had at least 14 known children with the following
suspected descendant families:
Joseph
BATEMAN (1860), m. 1884 Keynsham =
Ellen Ann JONES.
Children at Keynsham & Barton Regis:
Walter
Victor BATEMAN (1886), m. 1912 =
Flossie A. COPP.
Children in Bristol & Keynsham:
Henry
BATEMAN (1887);
Alice
BATEMAN (1890);
Fred
BATEMAN (1892), m. 1911 = Matilda
E I DONNELLY. Children in Bristol:
Mary
Ann Julia BATEMAN (1861);
Alice
BATEMAN (1862);
Emily
Ann BATEMAN (1863),
m. 1884 = Walter
Robert LANE
(my GGPs);
Nellie
BATEMAN (1864);
Agnes
Annie BATEMAN (1866),
m. 1885 = KING
or SMITH;
Harriet
Maria BATEMAN (twin
1868);
Ellen
Maria BATEMAN (twin
1868), m. 1891 = John
STONE;
Emily
BATEMAN (1869);
Florence
BATEMAN (1870);
Mary
Ann BATEMAN (1872-76);
Hester
Ann BATEMAN (1873),
m. 1896 = TANNER
or WREN;
Mary
Ann BATEMAN (1877)
aka Polly
BATEMAN;
Bertha
Elizabeth BATEMAN (1881),
m. 1907 = William
BYATT;
Map
showing the Bristol coalfield in red
Part
3: The Risca Clan, Wales:
Emigrant
coalminers who moved from Mangotsfield to Risca, Glamorgan now
part of Gwent, South Wales. Descendants
of Isaac s/o Abraham BATEMAN and Hannah LUCAS
who, during his marriage to Sarah
BENNETT
moved from the Kingswood area to Machen and Risca. Their fifth
child was born there in 1810. Several BATEMAN families were
living in Bateman's Row in 1861, a street most likely named after
the mining family.
Perhaps the 1990's Welsh rugby union player
Alan BATEMAN
is a descendant of these families?
Reference
listing for other BATEMAN families in Gloucestershire.
Download
BATEMAN ONS Part 1 /
Download BATEMAN ONS Part 2
/ BATEMAN
(Glos) / BATEMAN
(Risca)
These files
are made available on the understanding that any additions,
corrections and new links will be reported back to help future
research. Thanks.
The
outline above is indicative only and not necessarily fully
correct or complete.
The CreativeGraces family tree can be
found here on
Ancestry:
http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/pt/pedigree.aspx?tid=9072976
This
is where you can find the most up-to-date information.
You
will need approval for Guest access.
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Noted
Historical Family Connection: The
Reverend
Robert James BATEMAN,
my 7th cousin and a relative of all the Family
1 above,
went down with the "SS
Titanic".
He is mentioned in the book and film "A
Night to Remember"
where he led some passengers in prayers and conducted the
band in playing Nearer
My God To Thee (his
favourite hymn) as the ship went down. The Oscar
award-winning film "Titanic" directed by James
CAMERON has a similar scene, although the characters are not
identified. He was washed overboard and drowned. See
his reference also in Encyclopedia
Titanica
The following is extracted
from press reports:
JACKSONVILLE - Dr.
Robert James Bateman became a
footnote to history when the Titanic sank in the North
Atlantic after striking an iceberg. But Bateman's death on
April 15, 1912, is only a postscript in the life of an
Englishman who made a lasting impression on his adopted home
of Jacksonville and in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Baltimore,
Maryland, where he served as a minister, evangelist, and a
champion of the disadvantaged.
Bateman was already a
successful minister and evangelist when he made a trip in the
spring of 1912 to his native Staple Hill (Bristol), England.
He visited his mother's grave, studied a successful orphanage
in Bristol, and escorted his wife's sister, Ada
E. Balls, on a visit to
Jacksonville.
They boarded the Titanic in Southampton,
England. Just hours before the accident, Bateman conducted a
church service for the second-class passengers, ending with
his favorite song, "Nearer my God to Thee,"
according to accounts by Mrs. Balls. It was the same song
survivors recall a band playing on the sinking vessel, which
was about the size of today's aircraft carriers.
"Brother
forced me into the last boat, saying he would follow me
later. I believe I was the last person to leave the ship.
Brother threw his overcoat over my shoulders as the boat was
being lowered away and as we neared the water, he took his
black necktie and threw it to me with the words, 'Goodbye,
God bless you!," she said.
At a memorial service
held on April 21, 1912, Bateman was remembered for his work
at the Central City Mission in Jacksonville.
Bateman
was ordained in the ministry when he was 21 and served as a
pastor in Wales, Ireland, England and the United States,
according to an article written by Jacksonville historian
Edward A. Mueller and published in the "Titanic
Commutator," in 1987 by The Titanic Historical
Society.
For a while, Bateman worked with his father
as a stone mason in the United States before returning to the
ministry in Baltimore, where he served as superintendent of
the Florence Crittendon Mission. He moved to Knoxville,
Tenn., in the late 1890s, where he founded the
non-denominational Peoples Tabernacle. He also was known for
his work as an evangelist.
After moving to
Jacksonville, Bateman started the Central City
Mission.
Twelve days after the disaster, Bateman's
body was plucked from the icy Atlantic, the 174th recovered.
He was identified by his gold watch and chain, a Masonic
charm pin, fountain pen, pipe lighter, and gold cuff
links.
Bateman was given a hero's funeral with 11
ministers, according to an account in The Florida
Times-Union.
He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in an
unmarked grave. A nearby cenotaph reads, "Dr. R.J.
Bateman. Born Oct. 14, 1860. Died Apr. 15, 1912. He lost his
life in the wreck of the S.S. Titanic." ---
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KINGSWOOD
& BITTON - GENERAL LOCAL HISTORY
The Kingswood
miners were a rough and tough lot. John WESLEY made a name for
himself in the early days of Methodism. The
following is extracted from Bristol and Avon FHS Journal "Parish,
Chapelry and Hamlet: The Bitton Area and Its Records"
by M. McGREGOR (Asst. Archivist, BRO):
Parish of Bitton:
mother church of St. Mary. Within the parish: Chapelries of
Hanham and Oldland, where baptisms and burials could be performed
(marriages to 1754 only). One register covered both chapelries,
entries being marked 'at Hanham' or 'at Oldland'. Later elevated
to status of independent parishes which led to individual
records. The old register was not split, but passed to Hanham.
Hanham became a separate parish in 1844. Hamlets
of Hanham and Oldland had separate civil identity since 1601.
Ecclesiastical parishes not established for a further two hundred
years. St Anne was not formed until 1861. As a chapelry of Bitton
its registers run from 1813, but in combination with Hanham from
1572; civilly distinct since Tudor times.
Bishop
Transcripts: to 1813 are held at Bristol RO. Bitton and its
chapelries are entered on the same sheet. Parish lay in the rural
deanery of Hawkesbury, which until 1826 formed part of Gloucester
Diocese. BT's sent to Gloucester. From 1836 Hawkesbury was in the
Bristol Archdeanery, and records were transferred to Bristol.
Post-1813 BT's bound into annual volumes with other Gloucs.
parishes remain in Gloucester.
Holy Trinity,
Kingswood consecrated in 1820.
Christ Church, Hanham
consecrated 1841.
St Barnabas, Warmley 1855.
Ref:
ELLACOMBE, Rev. H T "The History of the Parish of Bitton
in the County of Gloucester" Exeter, 1881.
Other
Background Reading:
- "History of
Kingswood Forest" Rev. BRIANE, writing of the old
families of Bitton mentions their unusually large and giant-like
proportions and the old saying 'He was one of BATMAN's gurt uns'.
- "Annals of
Kingswood" & "Killed in a Coalpit"
by D. P. LINDEGAARD, and the "Kingswood Index"
as held by the same researcher.
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