Whittington families » Martha CHAMPION (TOWN) (1794-1862)

Personal data Martha CHAMPION (TOWN) 

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Household of Martha CHAMPION (TOWN)

She is married to James (Jun) TOWN.

They got married on August 30, 1817 at Berrick Salome, Oxfordshire, England, she was 23 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Alfred William TOWN  1818-1903 
  2. Sophia TOWN (CROSS)  1821-1897 
  3. John TOWN  < 1824-????
  4. Eliza TOWN (BALMER)  < 1827-1915 
  5. Frederick TOWN  < 1828-1903
  6. Eli TOWN  1830-1867


Notes about Martha CHAMPION (TOWN)

Listed in the 1851 census as a widow aged 58 living at the Cottage in Roke. Also visiting the house that day was Thomas Stickley aged 43 single, a shoemaker.In the 1861 census she is listed as Marthaa pauper aged 68 living at Benson with her son John an agricultural labourer.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Martha CHAMPION (TOWN)

Martha CHAMPION (TOWN)
1794-1862

1817

James (Jun) TOWN
1789-1862

Alfred William TOWN
1818-1903
Sophia TOWN (CROSS)
1821-1897
John TOWN
< 1824-????
Eliza TOWN (BALMER)
< 1827-1915
Frederick TOWN
< 1828-1903
Eli TOWN
1830-1867

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    Martha Champion
    Gender: Female
    Christening: Oct 14 1792 - Benson, Oxfordshire, England
    Marriage: Spouse: James Town - Aug 30 1817 - Berrick Salome, Oxfordshire, England
    Death: Nov 6 1862 - Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, England
    Burial: Nov 11 1862 - Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, England
    Parents: John Champion, Barbara Sherwood
    Husband: James Town
    Children: John Town, Frederick Town, Eliza Town, Alfred Town, Eli Town
    Siblings: George Champion, James Champion, Jonas Champion, Henry Champion

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Historical events

Christening day October 14, 1792

  • The temperature on October 14, 1792 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: bui winderig. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1792: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 25 » The London Corresponding Society is founded.
    • April 25 » "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
    • April 28 » France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
    • May 17 » The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement.
    • August 16 » Maximilien de Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
    • September 20 » French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.

Day of marriage August 30, 1817

  • The temperature on August 30, 1817 was about 16.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1817: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 19 » An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
    • February 8 » Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
    • April 15 » Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
    • May 15 » Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
    • November 3 » The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal.
    • December 10 » Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.

Day of death November 6, 1862

  • The temperature on November 6, 1862 was about 12.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1862: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 19 » American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs: The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
    • February 6 » American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
    • April 7 » American Civil War: The Union's Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi near Shiloh, Tennessee.
    • April 20 » Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
    • May 20 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84million acres of public land to settlers.
    • May 31 » American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston and G.W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.

Day of burial November 11, 1862

  • The temperature on November 11, 1862 was about 5.0 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1862: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 16 » Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
    • May 15 » President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
    • May 31 » American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston and G.W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
    • July 23 » American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
    • August 9 » American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain: At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
    • December 31 » American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.


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