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The LANE Family of C18th/19th Taunton, Somerset & C19th/C20th Bristol & Plymouth

Origin of surname: Possibly Old Gaelic or Cornish, 'Llane', meaning a plain or barren sandy level lands.

Geographical Synopsis:

The family has known origins in Taunton & Wellington, Somerset in the late C18th/early C19th. Some descendants probably remained in the Taunton area. My branch migrated first to the north coastal Somerset towns of Watchet (by 1860) and Dunster (by 1861), back to Taunton (1870/71) and then the Bristol districts of Totterdown (1871) and Bedminster (1874 until the 1900's) and Easton in 1901. Other Taunton family members also migrated to Bristol, and due to the family sizes it is likely a large numbers of relatives and their descendants still live in the Bristol area (Bedminster). One branch is known to have gone to Plymouth, Devon.

At some stage before 1904 my branch of the family was in Walsall (STS), before Nuneaton (WAR) in 1910, and then Birmingham by the 1930's. There is a cousin family STONE.

Until the C20th, the main trade of the LANE family was iron foundry or iron (later brass) moulding.

Note on family names:

The LANE family in the Victorian period often have the order of their first and second names reversed in census returns compared to their official birth registry, which can cause confusion when searching for them, for e.g. the 1881 census. Where found, both are given, but it appears in life they were mostly known by their second names within the family.

Current head of this family tree is my 3xGGF Robert LANE (n. c1812), Ironfounder, and 3xGGM Elizabeth LOCK (n. c1809, spinster) who m. 21.7.1831 at the C15th Church of St Mary Magdalene, Taunton. They appeared to have had at least four children according to the 1851 census (at White Hall, Taunton). They were in Stockland, DEV in 1861 and back in Taunton, employing 5 men in 1871. Known children are:

• Walter William LANE/William Walter LANE (c1835 Taunton) my 2xGGF;

• Mary LANE (c1838 Taunton);

• John LANE (c1843 Taunton) - see descendants below;

• Charles LANE (c1845 Taunton)

• Emma LANE (c1851 Stockland, DEV);

John and family were later in Bristol following the trade of his brother (see separate tree below). The future of Charles is currently unknown.

Robert LANE may be the child of Robert & Hannah LANE c. 3.3.1813 at Taunton, or John & Mary LANE born 12.6.1811 & c. 30.6.1811 at the Octagon Chapel, Taunton.

William Walter aka Walter William LANE , my 2xGGF, Iron Founder/Moulder, married Emma COTTRELL on 31.12.1855 at St Mary Magdalene, Taunton PC (Mary LANE as witness - probably his sister). Both were of Church Square, Taunton. Their known children are:

• Emma Josephine LANE (1856, Appley  SOM), m. 1879 = Thomas George CHAPMAN at Bedminster. The CHAPMAN family were in Bedminster in 1901;

• Eva Lavinia LANE (1860 Watchet SOM), m. 1881 = Thomas Charles THATCHER at Bedminster. The THATCHER family were in Bristol St. George in 1891 & 1901;

• Mary Elizabeth LANE (1861 Dunster, SOM), m. 1889 = Frank GOLDSWORTHY at Bedminster. The GOLDSWORTHY family were in Bedminster in 1891 & 1901;

• Walter Robert LANE (1863 Dunster), my GGF - see family below;

• Francis Herbert LANE** (1865 Dunster). In 1891 he was at the Anglesea Barracks, Portsea, Hants.;

• Henry Frederick LANE (1867 Dunster), m. 1892 = Amelia Emma BIRD at Barton Regis. In 1901 the family (with Amelia referenced as America E.) were in the Ashley area of Bristol with their two sons:

  • George Frederick LANE (1893 Barton Regis) - no further history;

  • Reginald James LANE (1895 Barton Regis), m. 1922 = Alice V. CARVETH in Bristol - no further history;

• Oliver Cromwell LANE (1868 Dunster), d. unmarried in 1893 aged 24;

• Alice LANE (c1869/70 Dunster or Taunton). No firm record of birth can be identified, but she appears on the 1871 census aged 2 as Alice O. LANE. She is missing from the 1881 census, so presumed dead (no definitive death record found);

• William Ernest LANE (1871-71 Taunton);

• Beatrice LANE (1872 Totterdown, Bristol), d. 1893 aged 21;

• Reginald LANE** (1874 Bedminster, Bristol). At home in 1891 but not found on 1901 census;

In 1901 census Walter William & Emma LANE were in Easton, Bristol at 31 Church Road. Walter was a  home-based employer of an iron foundry.
** There are unsubstantiated stories that two "brothers" may have enlisted and been killed in the Boer War of 1899-1902. The 1891 census showed that Francis Herbert had enlisted, and youngest son Reginald seems to be the likely other candidate.

My GGF Walter Robert LANE married Emily BATEMAN in Barton Regis, Bristol in 1884. The family moved from Bristol after 1891. In 1901 they were already at 90 Rutter Street, Walsall, with two surviving children of their 17 year marriage; Fred (1889; possibly m. Flora Ada MILES in 1905 Shepton Mallet) and Adelaide (9), both born Bristol.

My grandmother Elsinora Alicia Patricia LANE was born in Rutter Street, Walsall in the West Midlands in 1904 and married William Sanders GRACE. They had only one child, my father. Based on family pictures and length of marriage, it assumed there are a number of children who died in childhood.

Known related family names in C20th Bristol and Birmingham include the STONE family. One son, Wilfred STONE, lived in Nottingham and assumed to be the product of the marriage of one LANE daughter, presumably Adelaide.

From an old family photograph it appears my grandmother may have been the fifth surviving child of at least six children. The eldest, a son named Fred possibly married Ada. Their daughter Betty LANE was the niece and bridesmaid at my grandmother's wedding in 1927 and later married Geoff CLARKE having daughters Bryony (= BROOKER) & Lucinda.

The second child was a son, the third a daughter, the fourth uncertain, and the youngest a daughter. A William Walter LANE is registered as having been born and died in 1900 in Walsall, but no newer surviving children in the 1901 census. In 1910 the family were living at Victoria Street (Nuneaton, Warwickshire), later Regent Road (Handsworth, Birmingham) and by 1940 at Holmsfield Road, Birmingham.

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The Family of John LANE & Fanny GOULD of Taunton:
[Taunton until c1870, then Bristol & Plymouth]

John LANE (c1843 Taunton), Iron Moulder, & wife Fanny GOULD (c1844 of Wellington, Somerset) married at Wareham in 1862. Known children and descendants include:

• William Robert LANE (c1864 Taunton), m. 1883 Bristol = Eliza Jane WHITROW. Children:

  • William George LANE (1884 Barton Regis);

  • Thomas Edward LANE (1885 Barton Regis);

  • Alice LANE (c1888);
    The family were in Bedminster in 1891 but then disappear from all records. Possibly emigrated.

• Walter Charles LANE (c1866 Taunton), m. 1900 Barton Regis = Daisy HATHWAY. The couple were at Filton in 1901 with no children;

• Elizabeth Fanny LANE (c1868 Taunton, possibly indexed as Emily Elizabeth in 1869), may be the Fanny Elizabeth LANE who m. 1890 Penzance = George Maurice J SELLERS. The couple were in Penzance in 1901;

• Florence Helena LANE (1870 Taunton; as F. Elena on census), m. 1892 Plymouth = William Henry CLEMENTS. The couple were resident in Widecombe in the Moor, DEV in 1901;

• Rosa Louisa LANE (c1871 Bedminster), m. 1894 Bedminster to either Henry JENNINGS or Walter John FILER. No full names in 1901 but may be Walter & Rosa FILER & family at Uplands, Stroud, GLS (her POB incorrect);

• Henry John LANE (c1873 Bedminster);

• Albert Edward P LANE (c1875 Bedminster), m. 1898 Plymouth = Ellen Ann W FOLEY. Albert widowed in 1900 & with Albert with Arthur in 1901. He remarried in 1901 Liskeard = Elizabeth HONEYWILL. Children include (pre 1910 unknown):

  • Winifred B LANE (1915 Plymouth);

  • Violet M LANE (1920 Plymouth);

• Arthur James P. LANE (c1877 Barton Regis), m. 1898 Plymouth = Louisa HEALY. The 1901 census in Plymouth had Arthur & Louisa LANE present with their ages (but no ages for - Albert LANE, Ernest LANE (possibly Ernest Victor LANE (1899 Plymouth), Fanny LANE, Florence LANE, Frederick LANE, Harold LANE, Harry LANE, Nellie LANE, Rose LANE, Walter LANE & William LANE - presumed to be widow Fanny LANE, her children (perhaps some late), some of the young couple and maybe children of Albert if Ellen died in childbirth);

• Lilly Nelly LANE (c1880 Barton Regis);.
  The family were on the Bristol census of St. Philip & St. Jacob in 1881. For the 1890s, the family were in the Plymouth area of Devon.

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