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MORGAN link to the BIDMEAD Family
I am trying to locate a distant BIDMEAD or MORGAN relative, and/or researcher related to the BIDMEAD family in Wales (possibly Glamorgan area), who has reportedly researched and traced the family line back to link with the historical figure of Captain Sir Henry MORGAN, Buccaneer & Governor of Jamaica in the 1600's. The MORGAN family is believed to be traced back to 1089. The researcher may have been in correspondence with the BIDMEAD family in New Zealand in the 1980's.
The BIDMEAD family has so far only been traced back to the C18th (probably Gloucestershire) by this author. A connection between Gloucestershire and the two family names is now known from emigrants to Australia, however the link to Sir Henry remains unproven.
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Information from Liz WILLANSKI nee LOKAN, Australia - Richard Bidmead MORGAN, her 2xGGF.
Descendants of Richard MORGAN (Bachelor
of the Parish of St Michaels Gloucester) & Hester
BIDMEAD (m. by Licence at St Catherines Of the
Parish of St Mary De Lode 15.11.1804. Both parties signed.
Son Richard Bidmead MORGAN ("the first" n. Oct 1808 )
Gloucester St Michael and daughter Sarah (n.
c1814?, m. Felix JONES of Bristol and also went
to Australia).
Richard Bidmead MORGAN ("the first") = Charlotte WILLSON/WILSON (n. c1823) at St. Leonard, Shoreditch, London in 1848. Their children included 2 boys & maybe also a girl Eileen. Charles (Chas) MORGAN (n.1849) & Henry Bidmead MORGAN (GGF n. Nov. 1851 at 29 Little Windmill St., Golden Square, St. James, Westminster, London). This appears to be Richard's second marriage (see below).
Richard Bidmead MORGAN ("the first") & family arrived in Adelaide, South Australia on the ship "Shackamaxon" from Cardiff in 1853. Also with another Richard Bidmead MORGAN ("the second" n. c1831) & Lydia Hester MORGAN (n. c1834) assumed from a previous marriage occurring sometime between 1825 & 1831. [Lydia married Joseph EDWARDS at the Wesleyan Chapel, Kooringa 22.8.1856. They had five children. After Joseph's death Lydia married George DAVIS 16.1.1882 at her house in Wallaroo.]
Family hearsay: Richard MORGAN was born on the family estate of Lilydale, Glamorganshire, Wales and given his patrimony because he ran off with the inn keepers daughter. Liz's aunt (who also has BIDMEAD as a second name) said that it was important because there is a Sir Henry BIDMEAD in the family.
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Rebecca MARTIN - descendant of Richard Bidmead MORGAN's sister, Sarah (nee MORGAN) JONES (1814 - 1871).
Her grandfather was Harold Morgan BIDMEADE (1881 - 1949). The family were originally unaware that his father and grandfather were born JONES, and still have no clue as to why GGF Frederick JONES/BIDMEADE (sic) (n.1845) changed the family's surname to BIDMEADE. The name change coincided with the family's relocation to New Zealand from South Australia in the late 1870's, and all seven issue of Frederick and his wife Mary Ann were raised there as BIDMEADE.
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