*Arc tbc* --james mecham & letitia butler - brick wall

[loltel]

welcome to my brick wall, which i have been behind since forever.

I am looking for baptism records for JAMES GADSON MEACHAM & LETITIA BUTLER born circa 1785

I have their marriage record in 1805, st leonards church, shoreditch, they were bachelor and spinster both of the parish and both signed in their own hand, as did the witnesses WILLIAM BUTLER & THOMAS MECHAM - could they be fathers, i have searched endlessly for records with these as fathers and possible brother links, but nothing - any ideas welcome.

[Northern Lass]

Hi Loltel welcome to the forum

this is interesting...

JAMES GADSDON
Male
Birth: 11 AUG 1781

Christening: 02 SEP 1781 Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London, England
Father: HENRY GADSDON Family
Mother: ELISABETH

Extracted birth

[peterd]

poss siblings all henry and elizabeth might be two ?

ELIZABETH GADSDON
Christening: 22 JUN 1755 Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London,

ELISABETH GADSDON -
Christening: 03 OCT 1779 Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London,

MARTHA GADSDON
Christening: 25 FEB 1749 Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London,

WILLIAM GADSDON
Christening: 29 JUN 1760 Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London,

DAVID GADSDON
Christening: 22 JUL 1753 Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London,

JAMES GADSDON
Christening: 02 SEP 1781 Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London,

[peterd]

witness


THOMAS GADON MECHEM Birth: 23 APR 1808
Christening: 05 JUN 1808 Spitalfields Christ Church, Stepney, London,

Father: JAMES MECHEM
Mother: LETITIA


poss siblings

THOMAS GADON MECHEM
Christening: 05 JUN 1808 Spitalfields Christ Church, Stepney, London, England

JAMES MECHEM
Christening: 22 APR 1810 Spitalfields Christ Church, Stepney, London, England

LETITIA MECHEM
Christening: 08 DEC 1811 Spitalfields Christ Church, Stepney, London, England

HANNAH MECHEM
Christening: 14 SEP 1806 Spitalfields Christ Church, Stepney, London, England

parents James and Letitia

[loltel]

thanks peterd

these are all the children of james and letitia

i.e thomas has the middle name gasdon, and is followed by his 1st son also having it, the 1st son of the 1st son carries the middle name.

[loltel]

Hi Loltel welcome to the forum

this is interesting...

JAMES GADSDON
Male
Birth: 11 AUG 1781

Christening: 02 SEP 1781 Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London, England
Father: HENRY GADSDON Family
Mother: ELISABETH

Extracted birth

thank you for the welcome

i have tried this route but got so lost trying to tie in the mecham name, i have all the children of james and letitia, and the 1st son of the 1st son right up to early 1900 carries the gadson as a middle name.
i have spent years trying to find them both.

[Northern Lass]

Could it possibly be that that couple Henry Gadson and Elizabeth.....Henry dies and Elizabeth remarries a Meacham
and so her son becomes James Gadson Meacham
he appears to be the last one bapt in 1781

[loltel]

thanks again

I'm going round the mulberry bush again, all day searching and nothing cant even trace the rest of the family gadson.

so disheartened now.

[Northern Lass]

Is this still a Brick Wall?
Or have you solved it?

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