John Roberts and Ann Stickland
Believed Unrelated
Les Rowley 2024
Parents John Roberts (No
parents found) Richard Stickland and Grace
Flag.(80%)
Richard Fudge (b 1742 Affpuddle, m Ann
Stickland 1771 Winfrith Newburgh Dorset, d 1882
Dorchester)
Ann Stickland (b 1754 Winfrith Newburgh, d
Affpuddle 1789)
Richard Fudge (b 1774 Affpuddle Dorset, d 1775 Affpuddle)
Grace Fudge (b 1780
Affpuddle, d 1782 Affpuddle)
Edith Fudge (d 1781 Affpuddle)
Edith Fudge (b 1783 Affpuddle)
Grace Fudge (b abt 1786
Affpuddle Dorset, m George Ford,
d 1847 Upwey Dorset)
John Roberts (m Ann Fudge 1788 Affpuddle, d 1789 Affpuddle)
Ann Fudge (nee Stickland) (b 1754 Winfrith Newburgh, d 1789
Affpuddle)
Ann Roberts (b 1789
Affpuddle, d Affpuddle 1789)
Lavinia
Ford (b 1828 Upwey, m Stephen
Vine 1855 Beechworth Vic, d 1904)
Hannah Vine (b 1866 Spring Creek,
m Richard Reid Roach 1890
Flemington Vic, d 1915 Kew Vic)
Liela Muriel Roach (b
1893 North Sydney, m Ernest
Harold Mitchell 1914 Kew, d 1972 Wodonga)
Grace Fudge Chronology
Richard Fudge and then the family lived in
Affpuddle, a small village in Dorset about sevem miles ENE of
Dorchester
While Richard is
not a direct ancestor in family tree terms. his story is
relevant to the fortunes of the family through to 1789
Affpuddle has a modern population of about 400
1742 Richard Fudge born
Affpuddle Link
1754 Probably our Anne Stickland baptised
6 Oct Winfrith Newburgh Dorset
1765 Bastardy Examination where Ann Clark
names Richard
Fudge as father of her unborn child
Link
(12 June)
Searched Ancestry and FamilySearch and found nothing about Ann
1765 Bastardy Bond Hearing for Richard, in which a surety of 50 pounds seems to be
set Link
(15 June}
1771 Ann Strickland marries Richard Fudge
Link
1780 Earler sister Grace, born 1780, died 1782 (She has caused some
confusion (clearly nominated as daughter Richard and Ann)
1782,January Richard to continue in
custody Link
for Want of Surety. This looks as if Richard is in debtors
prison for not paying his Bastardy Bons?
1782 Peace sworn against Richard by his wife
Link
(16 Jul)
This reads as if Ann is saying "I don't want him back"
1782 Richard Fudge dies as a
prisoner in Dorchester prison
Link
(11 Nov)
1782 Coroner's Report
Link
1786 Grace Fudge/Roberts born if we believe census
and burial data
1788 Ann Fudge (nee Strickland) marries John Roberts (Ann
described as
Widow)
(23 Feb)
1788 Grace Roberts is baptised. daughter of
Jno Roberts and Ann Fudge
(23
Mar)
It looks as if Crace is
John Roberts' son but she reverted to the surname Fudge some
time later
Possibly the Fudge family looked
after her when she was orphaned as a three year old
1788 John Roberts buried
( 21 Nov)
1789 Grace's sister Ann
born
(4
Jan)
1789 Grace's sister Ann
buried
(12 Jan )
1789 Grace's mother Ann buried
(25 Jan)
The
deaths late 1788 early 1789 may be explained by the weather.
This was a very severe winter.
The
Thames froze over, and it would have been colder in inland
Dorset. See
article
1807 Grace marries George Ford in Upwey using the
surname Fudge (Upwey is 12 miles SW of Affpuddle)
The Ford family
lived in Upwey, a small village now absorbed in Weymouth, where
they had eleven children
1841 George
and Grace are still together with four of their children in Upwey,
with George woking as an agricultural labourer
1847 Grace
died in in Upwey aged about 61
One of her daughters (Lavinia) came to
Australia and married Stephen Vine in Beechworth in 1855. These
were gold rush days
Stephen and
Lavinia Vine from at least 1874 to 1888 held the license of
the Butcher's Arms Hotel, Beechworth
Lavinia is my great great grandmother (Les
Rowley)
Molly Richards suggests in a letter that the Fudges were Whalers
Research Notes
The OPC site for Affpudle has online
transcriptions - yeilds the same two children as the LDS
There is an Ann Stickland christening: 24 May
1745 Puddletown, Dorset, only three miles west of Affpuddle, parents
Robert or Robin and Mary Stickland.
However the standout is Anne Stickland
christening: 06 Oct 1754 Winfrith Newburgh. While she would be
marrying at age 17, her parents are Richard and Grace - the names of
the two children in LDS
I reckon the Richard and Grace Ann(e) is an
80% chance.
For what it is worth, there is an Ann Stickland
marrying 26 Oct 1767 in Tincleton. Tincleton is two
miles from Puddletown and six miles from Winfrith Newburgh
Some Richard Fudge events that don't quite
fit, ie peobably not our Richard
1767, Marriage Richard
Fudge Corscombe to Mary Fudge Link
(30
Nov)
John Clark is a witness to the Banns (note Ann Clark
above)
1768, 4 Apr Poor law removal order Richard Fudge
Corscombe Link
(Corscombe is about 20 miles W of Affpuddle)
Hard to read but looks like it includes Mary
1774 Lydlinch Removal order Richard
Fudge Link
includes wife Mary
and Savannah and Elizabeth his children
Yes it is Mary on the
order. Two wives or two Richards?? Lydlinch is 12 miles NNW of
Affpuddle
John
Roberts Research (LR)
No joy in
finding where he came from Possible births in Sturminster-Newton
(12 m NW of Affpuddle) and Shaftesbury (20 m N of Affpuddle).
Another in Sydling-St Nicholas (10 m W of Affpuddle) looks like
he died somewhere else?
Anne
Stickland and Richard Fudge Research (Ann and Bob Preece, LR)
1754 Anne
Stickland baptised 6 Oct Winfrith Newburgh Dorset
1770 27 Oct Marriage Anne Stickland
to Richard Fudge Winfrith Newburgh - 10 miles east of Upwey and
6 miles south of Affpuddle
1774 18 Nov Son Richard baptised (OPC
database)
1775 Burial
Affpuddlle son Richard Fudge 17 December
(OPC database)
1780 12 Jun Daughter Grace baptised (OPC database)
1781 Burial Affpuddlle Edith Fudge 27 September (OPC database)
1782 17 Feb Grace Fudge buried Affpuddle
1782 16 July
Richard Fudge in Court, ordered to stay in custody "The peace
having been sworn against the defendant by his wife"
1782 11 Nov Death Richard Fudge Dorchester Prison
1783 Birth Affpuddlle Edith Fudge 11 May
(Ancestry) - Parents
Ann and Richard
1786 Daughter Grace born this year
if we believe 1841 census
1788 23 Feb Marriage in Affpuddle as Ann Fudge
(widow) to John Roberts (index record only)
1788 Baptism
23 Mar Affpuddle Grace, daughter of Ann Fudge and John
Roberts
1788 Burial Affpuddle 21 Nov John Roberts (OPC Database)
1789 Baptism Ann Roberts Affpuddle 4 Jan, mother
Ann father illegible (OPC Database)
1789
Burial Ann Roberts Affpuddle 12 Jan
- daughter
1789 Burial Ann Roberts Affpuddle 25 Jan
- mother
Documents
1754 Baptism Anne Stickland Winfrith
Newburg Ancestry
1770 Marriage Ann Stickland and Richard
FudgeWinfrith Newburgh
1780 Grace Fudge Baptism Affpuddle Ancestry
1782 16 July Richard Fudge in Court, as prisoner
1782 11 Nov Death Richard Fudge Dorchester Prison
1788 Baptism 23 Mar Affpuddle Grace Fudge-Roberts
Acknowledgements
An email from Ann and Bob Preece kicked me
back into action on this page. He supplied lots of good stuff. I
have verified it, and put it up on the page. There is still more
good stuff to process
Thanks to Jenny Grainger for the wedding certificate that
kickstarted the Fudges and Chris Jeffery for the excellent Winfrith
Newburgh OPC site.
The Affpuddle site is also very good, though the OPC post is
currently vacant
If you have additions or
corrections to this page, please contact
us Bones in the Belfry home page
Page last updated - 1 Oct 2007 12 Mar 2015 2 Jul 2020