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I'm looking for some stray children. The 1851 census
shows them living as borders with John & Catherine
BOSS in Mancetter, Warwick. The children were:
Jane DEXTER, age 9
Emma DEXTER, age 7
Ann DEXTER, age 6
Daniel DEXTER, age 4
I believe these children were the younger brothers and
sisters of my great grandfather, Thomas Haywood
DEXTER. Thomas (and the other children above)'s
parents were John DEXTER and Mary Ann (BEECROFT)
DEXTER. John Dexter was a hatter. Both were from
Warwick. They married in Mancetter in 1831. They may
have had a couple of children in 1832-34 - if they
did, the children died. In 1834/35 the couple moved to
London. The family briefly lived in Pimlico (where
Thomas Haywood DEXTER was born) but subsequently
settled in Bermondsey. They had several children. I
find the family in the 1841 census in London. In the
1851 census I find only the father, John DEXTER, and
the two eldest children, Thomas Haywood DEXTER and
Henry DEXTER. I find the younger children in Mancetter
(as listed above). I do not find the mother. I
SPECULATE that the mother died in the late 1840s, and
the younger children were sent to Mancetter to live
with friends/relatives, while the older children
stayed in London with their father.
I have been unable to find any family connection
between BOSS and DEXTER or BEECROFT. I don't know why
the children would be staying with the Bosses, or
whatever became of them. Perhaps John/Catherine BOSS,
being in their 60s, sent the children off to New
Zealand with their daughter, Jane (BOSS) ORCHARD. [My
maternal great grandfather was orphaned in Norway and
sent off to the US with family friends as a teenager
in the 1870s, which is how I came up with this
possible scenario.]
Does anyone have any evidence of stray DEXTER children
coming to NZ with family members? Would anyone have
information (or even good theories) as to why
these Dexter children were living with the Bosses in 1851?
--Dave Dexter
Wisconsin, USA
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