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Edward Pywell and Mary Saddington


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I found the following on Genealogy.com, it supports this probability with the line of descendancy through Joseph Pywell and Edward Pywell


“Francis Pywell was the son of Edmund Pywell and Ann Derbyshire who were married at St Margaret's Leicester, LEI in 1841. His sister Ann Sophia Pywell also emigrated to Victoria, Australia, and died in 1875 six years after marrying Heinrich Schacht.

Edmund and Ann had six children: Francis (1842-1913), Ann Sophia (1844-1875), Sarah Jane (1846), Susanna (1849), Amelia (1853) and Edmund (1856), all born in Leicester.

The mother Ann died in 1861 at Rugby, Warwickshire, and the father remarried Lois or Lucy, with whom he had two further children Mary L (1866) and Emily Elizabeth (1869). Edmund died in 1887 at Rugby.

Edmund was baptised on 16 June 1816 at Great Glen, Leicestershire. His line of ancestry is as follows:

Edmund Pywell (1816-1887) m. Ann Derbyshire
Edward Pywell (1777- ??) m. 1796 Ann Hodgkin (1778-1841)
Joseph Pywell (1725-1799) m. 1765 Ann Hutchings
Edward Pywell (died 1743) m. Mary unknown (d. 1744)

This Edward Pywell was from Great Bowden, Leicestershire, and had a brother William who died there in 1725. Edward moved to Great Glen where he died in 1743, and had several generations of descendants there. I cannot trace William and Edward any further at this stage.”



Edward Pywell


Mary Saddington

Until the change to the Gregorian Calendar in 1752, new year’s day fell on 25 March. This means that at the time Mary died it was 1744, but by today’s calendar it would be 1745!


Children



Although Great Bowden now adjoins Market Harborough, at that time it was an entirely separate village.

In 1670 just before Edward was born, the village consisted of 96 houses assessed for hearth tax*, and 40 houses exempt due to poverty.

The nearby village of Little Bowden, now totally subsumed by Market Harborough, was at that time in Northamptonshire, before the boundaries were changed in the 19th century.


It seems Edward later moved to Great Glen, a smaller village (23 households in 1670) about 10 miles closer to Leicester.


It’s likely that he was a farmer - certainly a number of his descendants were farmers or graziers in that area throughout the 1700s and 1800s, before later generations largely moved to Leicester and elsewhere during the early to middle 19th century



*Between 1662 and 1689 each liable householder was to pay one shilling, twice a year, for each fire, hearth and stove in each dwelling or house.