More information has emerged on the Gidleys of Shoreditch, descended from Robert Pyne Gidley and his wife Ann Norton. Actually, nearly all the males of the family seem to have married an Ann, which makes life confusing. I know that there are several researchers interested in this family. Eight children have come to light so far, the first two being christened in Topsham, Devon. Then there was a move in about 1793 to Bermondsey, on the south bank of the Thames and a centre of the tanning industry, where Robert Pyne Gidley would have plied his trade as a cordwainer. A slight doubt exists over Fraser Gordon Gidley, christened in 1801 in Bermondsey, where his father's trade is given as "Excise, Dock Head". Caroline Snyeder Gidley was the seventh child, and I believe is the Caroline who married John James Brewer in 1826 in St Pancras. A mystery surrounds William Boyne (sometimes Bowen) Gidley, the fifth child, born in 1798. He married Ann Prosser in 1822, and Robert Gidley and Caroline Gidley were witnesses. This Ann seems to have been about 14 years older than her husband, and on the 1841 and 1851 censuses is possibly a female servant (1841) and living with a sister-in-law (1851). There is no sign of William Boyne/Bowen until a death reference in 1866.
At some point the family seems to have moved north of the Thames. The oldest child Robert, born in 1788, married Ann Knight in 1815 in St Anne's, Soho. His parents witnessed the marriage. No children have been found so far, nor any trace of this younger Robert and Ann couple.
Present Gidley representatives of the family descend from the eighth child, Bartholomew Gidley, who married Sarah Cox and whose children were all born in Shoreditch. He carried on the family trade as a cordwainer.
Robert Pyne Gidley died in 1846 and his wife Ann in 1847. Robert Pyne's address was given as 11 Cowper St, City Road, at his burial in Golden Lane Cemetery.
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As a descendant of Bartholomew Gidley & Sarah Cox (my maternal grandmother, Maud Alice Gidley, was a great-granddaughter), I spent some time twenty years ago in the Greater London Record Office searching for Bartholomew’s baptism, in the parishes of Bermondsey and surrounding parishes, without success. Can anyone tell me if they have found it and, if not, can anyone tell me if there is any evidence (other than circumstantial) that Robert Pyne Gidley and Ann are his parents? Many thanks. Gerard Wankling, Jersey.
Gerard, I have kept all the correspondence I have ever had with Gidley descendants, and we were in touch in the 1980s, I think, when you sent me some useful information and were one of the people who sparked my interest in a One Name Study. I think Bartholomew Gidley of Shoreditch's baptism is the one at St Mary at Lambeth on July 6th 1806, son of Robert and Ann Gidley (it's on Ancestry). The year is dead right, and we know from a later burial that Robert Pyne Gidley died in London. If you e-mail me direct at my contact address on the Gidley Profile page on the Guild of One Name Studies website, I'll send you more details.
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