Frances Mallors Coltman 1821- 1848 . My great-great–great-aunt
On 24 Dec 1844 William Abbott (1812-1894) married 23 year old Frances Mallors Coltman in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. She was the youngest
daughter of William Coltman 1775 and his wife Frances Mallors.
Frances Coltman was born on Jun 8 1821 in High
Wycombe and was baptised there on Jul 6 1821 at All
Saints. Her only daughter, Frances Matilda, was born
in early 1848 in Birchfield, Handsworth,
Staffordshire, baptised in High Wycombe on 12 May
1848 and died on 17 Oct 1924 at 224, Wellington
Road, Birchfields, Handsworth, Staffordshire.
Frances née Coltman died in childbirth, it is assumed,
aged 26, on March 19 1848 in Birchfield.
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William’s father, Thomas, was mentioned in
Wrightsons Directory of Birmingham 1818 as a brass
founder and lamp manufacturer in Park Street,
Birmingham, Warwickshire. William’s brothers also
worked in this occupation, with two of them, John and
Joseph, moving to Oxford Street in London by 1861 to
make brass lamps. Birmingham Directories indicate
that many Abbotts worked here, and show that
William’s father in law Richard Truman also worked
as a brass founder. William’s mother was shown as a
proprietor of houses, indicating that they were an
affluent family.
1841 Thomas Abbot HO 107/980/3 page 10 district 29 Rock Lane, Handsworth, Birmingham, Warwickshire
William shared a house with the future husband of his sister, Matilda, in 1841.
1841 William Abbott HO 107/1145/3 page 24, district 54. Shut Lane, Birmingham, Warwickshire, near to today’s Moor station.
1851 HO 107/2024 p 24 205 Mary Ann Abbott with William and Frances Matilda and Charles Brockwell
Wellington Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, Warwickshire. Mary Ann’s husband had died in 1848, leaving a Will.
1861 RG 9/2020 p 5, 62 Mary Ann Abbott with William and Frances Matilda and Charles Brockwell at
New Birchfield House, Wellington Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, Warwickshire.
1871 RG10/2973 Mary Ann Abbott with William and Frances Matilda and Charles Brockwell at Wellington Road, Handsworth,
Birmingham, Warwickshire
1881 RD 11/2836 William Abbott with Frances Matilda and Charles Brockwell’s family Wellington Road, Handsworth,
Birmingham, Warwickshire.
Matilda’s husband Charles died at no 224 in 1890, William died there on 28 Aug 1894 and the house was eventually passed, upon Frances’s death in 1924, to
Matilda Abbott’s daughter, Mary Ann Abbott Brockwell who died there in 9 Sep 1939.
In 1911 Edgar
Evans was living at
no 212, Wellington
Road, near to his
cousin once
removed, Frances
Matilda Abbott,
who was my cousin 3 x removed.
1891 RG 12/2263 p. 12 William Abbott with Frances Matilda and his sister Matilda Brockwell at 224, Wellington Road,
Handsworth, Birmingham, Warwickshire
1901 RG 13/2712 Frances Abbott with her Aunt Matilda at 224, Wellington Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, Warwickshire
1911 Frances Matilda Abbott was living at 224, Wellington Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, Warwickshire.
An interesting discovery of Roman remains in the Handsworth District was made in 1959 when a large quantity of kiln debris was found at 224, Wellington Road.
Possibly the house was being pulled down then as it cannot be found on google maps.
Abbott family in Handsworth, Birmingham as described in Directories
1850 Post Office Directory of Birmingham, Staffordshire and Worcestershire
1858 Alphabetical Directory of the Town and Borough of Birmingham
1858 Trade List of Birmingham
1858 Trade list of Birmingham
1858 General and Commercial Directory of Birmingham
1867 Birmingham Directory
Map of Birmingham showing the places mentioned.
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