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The
SANDERS Family of C17th-C20th Coventry & C19th/C20th
Aston, Birmingham (with
C20th/C21st Canadian & California branches)
Watchmakers
Bookmarks:
Introduction
Earliest
Generations (Mid C18th Coventry)
Generation
2 (Late C18th Coventry)
Generation
3 (Early to Mid C19th Coventry)
Generation
4 (From Mid C19th Coventry to Birmingham)
Generation
5 (Mid - Late C19th Aston Manor, Birmingham)
Generation
6 (Late C19th - C20th Aston Manor, Birmingham)
Generation
7 (C20th Birmingham)
A
possible further Birmingham SANDERS link
Introduction
The origin of the
family name of SANDERS is a classical one from the Greek
Alexander 'helper of men'. In the Middle Ages, probably due to
the French romance of Alexander, the name appeared in its French
form Alisandre. As early as 1248 in England from this was
formed the pet name Sandre, from which the modern surnames of
SANDARS, SANDERS, and SAUNDERS arise. As a consequence of dialect
and spelling, all references for all variant spellings need to be
checked. Spelling was not standardised until the mid C19th, but
remains one of the more common English surnames. The name Al
Iksander is still used in the Middle East.
This particular
family is believed to have early Coventry origins. Documents
(land grants) from the time of Henry VIII have several SANDERS
living in the area between Gosford Street and Holy Trinity in
that city.
For 2002 the UK's
National Statistics for some variants of the surname are as
follows:
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Name
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No. of
Individuals
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Ranking (from
~270,000 surnames)
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SAUNDERS
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51138
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111
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SANDERS
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22558
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313
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SANDER
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554
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10,485=
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SAUNDER
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77
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39,021=
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SANDRES
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5
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230,412=
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Total
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74,332
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A factor of 0.93
is usually applied to estimate the number of living individuals
(i.e. over 69,000), and a factor of 3.5 used to estimate how many
have lived with that name since UK church records began in the
C16th (i.e. nearly 242,000). That's a lot of records!
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Distribution of the family
name in 1881
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In 2000-2005,
the modern distribution retains the Midlands as a focal area
for the family name. In the UK as whole the name frequency is
390 per million. The highest concentration of SANDERS is the
US, with over 5000 per million in Vermont.
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My Maternal SANDERS Family: C18th/C19th Coventry & Aston,
Birmingham Watchmakers -
A line of watchmakers in the
Coventry area which moved mid C19th to Birmingham. Numerous
descendants believed to still be in the Birmingham area.
Descendants also in Canada and the United States. Updated
November 2009.
Earliest
Generations (Coventry):
The earliest noted of the family
name in Coventry is the 1468 Mayor, William SAUNDERS,
establishing that the family name was in the city at least from
the C15th. A confirmed link to Generation 2, below, is pending,
however the earliest generations could be as follows:
Possible head of tree is William
SANDERS of Coventry (1666) who married Catherine by
1694. Their son William SANDERS (1694) married Elizabeth
WISE (d/o Richard WISE) in 1714. William &
Elizabeth's children were:
William SANDERS (1716) &
Katherine/Catherine (m. by 1735) whose known children
include:
Nicholas
SANDERS (1735);
John
SANDERS (1737);
Mary SANDERS
(1739).
Nicholas SANDERS
(1735-1806) married Ann
GUTTERIDGE (1734, d/o of
William & Mary GUTTERIDGE)
on 24.2.1759 (buried 16.4.1794 St Michael). They are my probable
6xGGPs if William, below, is their son. Their known children are:
Generation
2 (Coventry):
William
SANDERS (c1769;
poss. n. 1764, d. 1831) married Elleoner
LITCHFIELD on
4.1.1787 at St John's, Coventry [My 5xGGPs]. Children:
A possible son was also buried
1793 at Holy Trinity (?John). Excluding the possibility of common
names for the time, William & Elleoner's children do have a
naming pattern that may connect them to the earlier generation.
Evidence suggests that Elleoner may be the widow of Isaac
LITCHFIELD
and was formerly CRESSELL.
Generation
3 (Coventry):
Their son, William
SANDERS (1787-1844)
married Elizabeth CRISP
in 1808, Leicester. [My 4xGGPs]. In 1851
Elizabeth was running the "Wheatsheaf Inn" in West
Orchard, Coventry. William was a watchmaker from 1816. They had 9
children:
Elizabeth
SANDERS (c1810);
Isaac
Litchfield SANDERS
(c1811; d. 1813);
Mary
Ann SANDERS (1813);
John
SANDERS
(c1816; d. 1819);
Isaac
Litchfield SANDERS
(1818);
Frances
SANDERS (1821;
a dressmaker, m. 1842 = Thomas
TINSLEY);
John
SANDERS (c1824;
d. ?1842);
James
Crisp SANDERS
(c1826; d. 1907);
Edwin SANDERS
(c1828).
A possible pre-nuptial child of
William & Elizabeth, William SANDERS (1807) m. Mary
FREEMAN in 1829. There is no proven connection to the main
family. Their children were:
Isaac Litchfield
SANDERS (1818:
d. 1885); m. Mary Ann CLARKE (d.
1874) in April 1841. Their Coventry family in the Gosford St. &
Greyfriars St., area of Coventry included 11 children, few who
seemed to have survived childhood:
John
SANDERS (c. on their 1841 wedding
day);
Mary
Ann Elizabeth SANDERS (1842; d.
1909 unmarried);
William
Weigham SANDERS (c1846);
Louisa
SANDERS
(c1850; d. 1850);
George
SANDERS (c1852;
d. 1854);
twins
Selina SANDERS
(1853; d. 1854) &
Elizabeth Charlotte SANDERS
(1853; d. 1855);
Joseph
SANDERS (1855;
d. 1863/69);
Eliza
SANDERS (1856;
d. 1882);
Ann
Maria SANDERS
(1859; m. 1878 = James
OSBORNE);
Louisa
SANDERS (1860;
may have d. 1863, or survived to marry in 1878 to James
WILLITS or James
HARPER).
In 1881 Isaac Litchfield SANDERS
was at 53 Gosford Road with daughter Anna Maria OSBORNE &
husband.
Generation
4 (Coventry & Birmingham):
Next descendant James
Crisp SANDERS (c1826) married
Eliza BIDMEAD
in 1845 at Holy Trinity, Coventry [My 3xGGPs].
Children:
William
SANDERS (1845;
d. 1848);
Joseph
SANDERS
(1848);
James
Henry SANDERS
(c1850); m. Emma
WARREN in 1870 Aston, Birmingham -
see family below;
Walter
SANDERS (1851);
Arthur
SANDERS (1853;
given as Walter on 1861 census, a watchmaker who perhaps
emigrated to the US according to family stories (perhaps after
1880); m. Emily INGRAM
in 1874; 3 children in Aston, Birmingham:
Elizabeth
SANDERS
(c1856);
Laura
SANDERS (c1858);
Frances
SANDERS (1862);
m. Frederick HUXLEY;
Robert
Isaac SANDERS (1864),
a watchmaker finisher;
Martha
SANDERS (c1867);
m. Charles BARRS;
This family were registered in
Lord Street, Coventry in 1861, moving to Birmingham shortly after
Frances' birth (c1863). Eliza died in Aston in 1872. In 1873
widower James Crisp SANDERS married twice widowed Betsy
JEFFERIES (formerly PARSONS nee WASHBROOK) of
Kineton, a Coventry watchmaker in Coventry. Stepdaughter was
Margaretta PARSONS (c1862). The family had registered
businesses in Clarendon Street, Birmingham in the late 1870's and
early 1880's. Betsy died in 1898 Aston aged 68. James died in
1907 Coventry aged 81.
James SANDERS s/o William of
Coventry, Watch Springer & Liner enrolled in 1839 as
apprentice to Master William Henry HILL, Nathaniel HILL &
Thomas HILL, Watchmakers. In Birmingham his place of business
was Clarendon Street.
Historical Note:
The 1850's was boom time for the watch industry in Coventry
(which was first reported in the town in 1680), with new houses
built in the Lord Street end of the town, to the west of Spon
Street, the beginning of what is now Earlsdon. These houses were
for the more 'middle class' of the watch industry and presumably
the more skilled. The air was cleaner on the edge of the city.
These houses, occupied in the second half of the 1850's, account
for why, in the 1861 census, all the houses in Lord Street were
occupied by the watch making fraternity; dominated by parts
manufacture, such as springs, balances, casings of finishers,
i.e. no complete operation. In the 1860's the slump in watch
making in Coventry began due to severe competition from
Birmingham, Switzerland and USA, and that may be the reason why
the SANDERS family moved to Birmingham around this time.
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Lord Street
houses today
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James Henry SANDERS
(1850, d. 1903) m. Emma WARREN in 1870 Birmingham.
Their family include:
James
Henry SANDERS (1872) m. Rosina
FIELD in 1899; child:
Walter
George SANDERS (1875), may have m.
Maud ROBERTSON in
1907; children include:
Laura
Elizabeth SANDERS (1877), may have
m. Walter ALDRIDGE in
1900 B'ham;
William
John SANDERS (1880) m. Sarah
Ann ASHMORE in 1900; children:
Frances
SANDERS (1881);
Elizabeth
SANDERS (1883);
Arthur
SANDERS (1887);
Alfred SANDERS
(1890).
Generation
5 (Aston Manor, Birmingham):
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Joseph
SANDERS & Emma SESTON
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Next descendant watchmaker
Joseph SANDERS
(1848-1907) married Emma
SESTON on
22.11.1867 St Phillips Handsworth, Birmingham [My 2xGGPs]. The
family of watchmakers and bicycle maker were based in the Aston
Brook area, particularly Potters Hill & Parliament Street
(1870's to 1901). Emma possibly died 1895. Children:
Henry
Joseph SANDERS (1869),
m. Emily Jane LONG in
1890. See family below;
Arthur
Frederick SANDERS (1871),
m. Selina BICKNELL in
1893. See family below;
William
Walter SANDERS (1873-99);
Alfred
Ernest SANDERS (1875),
m. Harriet BOTTOMLEY).
Children:
Reginald
Stewart SANDERS (1903) =
Elizabeth. Child: Beryl May
SANDERS (1929);
Joan
SANDERS (1905) = Frederick
LANGSLOW;
Dorothy
Beryl SANDERS (1907) = Francis
BEDFORD;
Irene
Elsie SANDERS (1916) = Ernest
WAKEFIELD;
Joseph
Charles SANDERS (1877),
m. Annetta LONG in
1900). No known children;
Lilian
SANDERS (1879),
m. Frank Ernest MEANLEY
in 1902;
Howard
Cyril SANDERS (1882-1963),
m. Florence FINCH in
1910 & Laura E A SMITH
in 1962. One child with Florence:
George
Herbert SANDERS (1884), m. Annie
SIMPSON in 1906. Children:
George
William SANDERS aka Mick
SANDERS (1907) m. Ida
OVERY in 1929. Children:
Barbara
Jeanne SANDERS (1930) = Frank
PULLEY;
Kerry
George SANDERS (1939) = Patricia
ROE. Children:
Roger
John SANDERS (1943), m. Eileen.
In LA, CA, USA. Children:
Dianne
Georgina SANDERS (1947), m.
Peter RICHES;
Constance
Clara SANDERS (1908), m. Leslie
TOWNSEND;
Frederick
Herbert (1910-99) aka Fred
SANDERS, m. Lily
Louise BROWN in 1934. Emigrated
to Canada. Descendants still in New Brunswick. Children:
George
Herbert SANDERS (1934), m. Jean
Yvonne LEBLANC in 1955;
Children:
Douglas
George SANDERS (1955), m.
Beverley Ann in
1989;
Jean
Ann SANDERS (1957), m. Stephen
John CASE in 1984;
Constance
Elma SANDERS (1935), m. Paul
George FULLERTON in 1956;
Douglas
William SANDERS (1940) - twin,
m. Joan Helen HOPPER
in 1967;
Nancy
Elaine SANDERS (1940) - twin, m.
(1) James WEBB in
1959, (2) Albert HOLLAND
in 1968, (3) Francis
GILLESPIE in 1987, (4) Richard
TIBBETT in 2006;
Frederick
John SANDERS (1947) - twin, m.
Susan Rose DUGDALE in
1967;
Lillian
Louise SANDERS (1947) - twin, m.
Percy William KIERSTEAD
in 1973;
Bertram
Frank SANDERS (1888),
m. Nellie F MOUNTFORD in
1915. No known children.
Albert Edward
SANDERS (1894-96);
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George
Herbert SANDERS (1884), above, based
on this confirmed WWI photo.
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"The
SANDERS Brothers" (est.
c1930-1940's, in their fifties & sixties) Partial
identification from present day descendants (from left to
right, back to front): Howard Cyril
SANDERS (1882 - noting some
similarity to George H. SANDERS, above), Unknown
#1, Unknown
#2, Alfred
Ernest SANDERS (1875).
Unknown
#1: Appears to be the youngest of the
group by some margin, so speculatively may be Bertram
Frank SANDERS (1888). Unknown
#2: Appears to closer in age to
Alfred, so speculatively Joseph
Charles SANDERS (1877). Assumptions
- the four brothers who remained in the B'ham area, excluding
Arthur Frederick SANDERS,
known not to be in this photo.
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Henry Joseph
SANDERS (1869),
watchmaker m. Emily Jane
LONG in 1890
B'ham. They were at Parliament Street in 1901 but later emigrated
to Canada & then Southern California. Children:
Elsie
Lillian SANDERS (1893)
= NEESS;
Leslie
Walter SANDERS (1894),
m. Marjorie YOUNG.
Vancouver, Canada. No children;
Errol
Lewis SANDERS
(1897-1978), m. Lillian
TRAIN in 1928 Long Beach. Child:
Harry Hamlet R
SANDERS (1900-01);
Errol was an employee of, and
part-time actor with RKO Studios, Hollywood. c1946 he remarried
to Laura Frances LEE (no issue). Errol's descendants are
in California. For photos of Errol "Sandy" SANDERS see
the tree on Ancestry.com
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From the
left: Sir Robert Holland (director), Cary Grant, Errol
Lewis SANDERS, George Stevens, & Douglas
Fairbanks; (Gunga Din 1939)
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The Man with
the Message: Errol Lewis SANDERS &
the actress Mary Pickford
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Generation
6 (Aston Manor, Birmingham):
Next descendant Arthur
Frederick SANDERS (1871-1935)
married Selina BICKNELL
in 1893 [My GGPs]. They were also living in
Parliament Street, Aston Brook, in period 1893-1901. In 1991,
they were at 33 Clarendon Street, Aston. Children:
Selina
SANDERS (1895),
m. Edward LAWLEY in
1923;
Arthur
Joseph SANDERS
(1898-1966), m. Hannah
EWINS formerly BOULTON
in 1919. Children:
Maud
SANDERS (1899),
m. HARPER;
Frederick
William SANDERS
(1900-1902);
Edith
SANDERS (1902),
m. Harry GREENING;
Leonard
Albert SANDERS (1904).
See family below;
Elizabeth E.
SANDERS (1905);
m. COOK.
The ROTHERO / PARTRIDGE
Family Connection
In 1901 & 1911 the SANDERS
family of Arthur & Selina had resident William
Henry ROTHERO (1884) noted as a
"cousin", presumably of Selina
BICKNELL,
as her side of the family is less well known. He married Millie
BURGESS in 1912 Aston
(ROTHERO=BURGESS. Possible children include: Agnes
L. ROTHERO (1915, Aston), Millicent
S. ROTHERO (1981,
King's Norton), Lilian F.
ROTHERO (1921,
King's Norton), Margaret M.
ROTHERO (1922,
King's Norton) & Derek R.
ROTHERO (1933,
B'ham).
He is probably the son of William
Henry ROTHERO, recorded as marrying
in 1883 King's Norton Agnes
PARTRIDGE. Agnes is recorded as
having died aged 23 at the same time of her son's recorded birth.
In Q4 1861 the birth of a girl of the same is registered there.
In 1881 Irving St, B'ham, a 19 year-old Agnes was living with her
parent John & Elizabeth
PARTRIDGE. The young William
Henry ROTHERO was living with his
grandparents in 1891 (as PARTRIDGE).
William Henry ROTHERO
(senior) probably remarried in 1886 B'ham (to
either Jane BLACKBURN or
Rose MILTON -
no deaths found as ROTHERO) and may have remarried a third time
in 1899 Aston (to Rosina HOUGHAM or
Elizabeth ROBERTS).
Relationship remains unknown as
there are no known SANDERS / BICKNELL
= ROTHERO / PARTRIDGE marriages. I'd be
pleased to hear from any descendant Birmingham ROTHEROs or
PARTRIDGEs if they know of the connection.
Generation
7 (Aston, Birmingham):
Next descendant Leonard
Albert SANDERS
(1904-59) married Edith
MACDONALD.
[My maternal GPs]. Children:
SANDERS
Data & Trees / SANDERS
(Coventry Apprentices)
The
CreativeGraces family tree can be found here on Ancestry:
http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/pt/pedigree.aspx?tid=9072976
This
is the most up to date information.
Files are
made available on the understanding that any additions,
corrections and new links will be reported back to help future
research. - Very many thanks to all my SANDERS Internet
Cousins !! -
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
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"Clockmakers
& Watchmakers of Warwickshire, Worcestershire &
Staffordshire" (unknown
author and published after 1900) lists the following SANDERS:
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SANDERS of Warwick
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c1730
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Unknown maker of a 30-hour
longcase clock reported.
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Albert (also as SAUNDERS)
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C
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Alexander Row, New Town
Row 140 New Town Row 139 New Town Row 168 Summer
Lane 239 Wheeler Street
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1868-71 1872-4 1875- 1882 1892-
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See family below.
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George (also as SAUNDERS)
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C&W
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Market Place, Atherstone,
WAR
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1828, 1830-54
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Born 1792 in Coventry. Oak
8-day longcase clock and verge watch known. Not yet linked to
either family.
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Henry
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270 Summer Lane 272
Summer Lane 50 High Street, Aston
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1882-92 1894- 1900-
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Probably s/o Albert,
above. See family below.
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James (2)
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Harnall Place, Coventry 21
Clarendon Street, Aston 51 Market Hall, Birmingham
239 Wheeler Street,
Aston* 172 Wheeler Street*
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1850 1872-84 1883-96
1894-8 1899-
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Sharing the Wheeler St.,
address confirms s/o of Albert above (*), however earlier
dates refer to the James in my family.
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James (as SAUNDERS)
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13 Witton Lane, Aston 9
Witton Lane
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1886-94 1897-
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s/o of Albert, above.
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Joseph
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W
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10 Parliament Street,
Aston 23 Parliament Street
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1881 1900-
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My relative - see family
above.
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"Watchmakers &
Clockmakers of World" (Vols. 1 & 2) by Brian LOOMES,
has: James SANDERS, Birmingham - 1880 (vol.
2); Albert SAUNDERS, Birmingham - 1868-80 (vol. 2);
A possible further
Birmingham SANDERS link:
I have also noted the ancestry
of my maternal aunt's husband's first wife, who was also SANDERS,
since my Paternal SANDERS line is
also connected to the Birmingham gun trade. Both families had
clockmaking & watchmaking businesses in the Aston area of the
city. The outline of the family is as follows:
Generation
1:
George
SANDERS (c1773),
Gun
Barrel Maker &
Jane his
wife were married by about 1801. George was in business around
Whittall Street in the period 1827-31, and may be related to
Joseph Alexander
SANDERS (c1790),
my paternal 3xGGF. Family data is deduced from the testament of
Jane
SANDERS.
Children:
Unknown
son (c1802;
who married and had a daughter Jane
SANDERS (c1820));
Horatio
Nelson SANDERS (c1807);
Unknown
daughter (who
married BAGSHAW
and had a daughter c1830);
An
unknown child whose
grandchild is Edwin
EVERITT (c1847);
Jane
(c1810);
Generation
2:
Horatio
Nelson SANDERS (Gun
Stock Varnisher of 29 Whittall Street, Birmingham) = Elizabeth
JUDGES (c1835).
Children:
After the death of
Elizabeth, Horatio married Louisa Mary Ann JUDGE by 1849
and had further children, with both sons families in Herries
Street, Queen's Park, London in 1901:
Horatio
SANDERS (1850; m.
Elizabeth ALLBROOK in
1880. Children:
Edith
SANDERS (c1880);
Beatrice
SANDERS;
Nelson
SANDERS (1852, m.
Mildred VENN in
1876. Children:
Generation
3:
Their son Albert
SANDERS (1840,
Master Watch/Clockmaker of Newtown Row from 1869-1901, n. 1840) =
Mary Ann Collins
GORK (m. 1865);
Children:
Generation
4:
Their son James
SANDERS (1869,
Master Watchmaker of Wheeler Street in 1901) = Amy
Elizabeth COMERY (m.
1892); their son Claude
Raymond SANDERS (Clockmaker,
n. 1901) was the father of Freda
SANDERS, the
first wife to the husband of my maternal aunt Edith
Joan SANDERS, d/o
of Leonard
Albert SANDERS
of my maternal
line, above (m. 1959).
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