My links start with Annie Drew (my Great, Grandmother) who was born 28th April 1862 in Beam Street, Nantwich, Cheshire. In 1884, she married Richard Heaton at the Register Office in Chorlton, Lancashire (see detail below)
When Married | Name and Surname | Age | Condition | Rank or Profession | Residence | Fathers Name and Surname | Rank or Profession of Father | |
November 29th 1884 | Richard Heaton | 32 years | Batchelor | Commercial Traveller | Green Hill, Prestwich | Richard Heaton | Commercial Traveller | |
Annie Drew | 22 years | Spinster | Farmside, Fallowfield | Henry Drew | Joiner |
Witnesses : George Webb, Sarah Ann Webb
More details on my Heaton links are available here
Annie Heaton nee Drew (above) died on the 28th March 1948, at 163 Welch Row, Nantwich, aged 85 (cause Cardiac Failure & Hypertension).
When Married | Name and Surname | Age | Condition | Rank or Profession | Residence | Fathers Name and Surname | Rank or Profession of Father | |
September 12th 1861 | Henry Drew | Full | Batchelor | Joiner | Nantwich | Henry Drew | Joiner | |
Eliza Bowyer | Full | Widow | Nantwich | Samuel Dutton | Joiner |
Witnesses : Edwin Dutton, Emma Blackburn (x)
More details on my Dutton links are available here
The family of Henry Drew can be found in the England and Wales Census for 1871 at Dog Lane [?], Thomas Row, Nantwich, Cheshire (RG10 3713 Folio 18 Page 28)
Name and Surname | Relation to Head | Condition | Male | Fem | Rank, Profession, | Where Born | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
of Family | Age | Age | or Occupation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Henry Drew | Head | Mar | 43 | House Joiner | Gloucestershire, Cheltenham |
Eliza Drew | Wife | Mar | 42 | Stay & Dressmaker | Cheshire, Nantwich |
| Annie Drew | Daur | 8 | Scholar | Cheshire, Nantwich |
| Edwin S Drew | Son | 4 | " " | Cheshire, Nantwich |
| Harry Drew | Son | 1 | Cheshire, Nantwich |
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By the 1881 Census, Annie has left home, and the family has moved to 28, Mill Street, Nantwich (RG11 3548 Fol 63 Page 25). Though there is some "discrepency" in Henry's age.
Name and Surname | Relation to Head | Condition | Male | Fem | Rank, Profession, | Where Born | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
of Family | Age | Age | or Occupation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Henry Drew | Head | Mar | 56 | House Joiner | Glos Cheltenham |
Elizabeth Drew | Wife | Mar | 53 | Dress & Staymaker | Cheshire, Nantwich |
| Edwin Drew | Son | 14 | Unemployed | Cheshire, Nantwich |
| Harry Drew | Son | 11 | Scholar | Cheshire, Nantwich |
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Annie's brother Edwin Drew married twice, first to Sarah Hankey (see below)at the Parish Church of Wybunbury, Cheshire.
When Married | Name and Surname | Age | Condition | Rank or Profession | Residence | Fathers Name and Surname | Rank or Profession of Father | |
November 26th 1890 | Edwin Samuel Drew | Full | Batchelor | Groom | Stapeley | Henry Drew | Joiner | |
Sarah Hankey | Full | Spinster | Hatherton | Joseph Hankey | Labourer |
Witnesses : Geo. Hankey, Eliza Hankey
And after the death of Sarah, re-married within two years, to Elizabeth Harris (see below) at St.Mary's, Parish of Nantwich, Cheshire.
When Married | Name and Surname | Age | Condition | Rank or Profession | Residence | Fathers Name and Surname | Rank or Profession of Father | |
November 26th 1890 | Edwin Samuel Drew | 26 | Widower | Groom | Stapeley House Wybunbury | Henry Drew | Joiner | |
Elizabeth Drew | 23 | Spinster | 22 High town | Richard Harris | Labourer |
Witnesses : Richard Harris, Annie Harris
Edwin and Elizabeth (above) can be found in the 1901 Census for Nantwich, St.Mary St. Nicholas, at 46 Welsh Row (RG13/3362 Pg16)
Name and Surname | Relation to Head | Condition | Male | Fem | Profession | Where Born | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
of Family | Age | Age | Occupation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Edwin Drew | Head | M | 33 | Groom | Cheshire, Nantwich |
Elizabeth Drew | Wife | M | 32 | Salop, Hungry Hatton |
| Edwin Drew | Son | 8 | Cheshire Nantwich |
| Ella Drew | Daur | 7 | " " |
| William Drew | Son | 4 | " " |
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Henry Drew (Annie's father) died at 1 Cross Wood Street, Nantwich, of Senile decay, on the 4th of February 1907, followed two years later, on the 21st of January 1909, at 2 Heathside, The Bowny [?], Nantwich, by his wife (Annie's mother) Eliza Drew nee Dutton, of Heart failure.
I believe Henry and family appear on the 1851 at Hygeia Street, Everton, Liverpool, Lancashire (H0107 2190 Folio 270 Page 5)
Name and Surname | Relation to Head | Condition | Male | Fem | Rank, Profession, | Where Born | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
of Family | Age | Age | or Occupation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Henry Drew | Head | Mar | 59 | Joiner | Devon, Kingsbridge |
Mary A Drew | Wife | Mar | 58 | Gloucester |
| Mary Drew | Daur | 29 | Shoe Binder | " " |
| Henry Drew | Son | 26 | Joiner | Gloucestershire |
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Henry Drew (above) died at Hygeia Street on the 6th April 1860, of Chronic Bronchitis, aged 68. And Mary Ann Drew (above) died two months later, also at Hygeia Street, of an Inflammation of the Lungs (presumably caught from her husband Henry) who is described as Henry Bragg Drew. The informant to Mary Ann's death, was Mary Drew, presumably Mary the daughter of Henry and Mary Ann, (above).
Finally, stepping back to the England and Wales Census for 1841, I believe it possible that the family above, headed by Henry Drew, might be (as later census's might indicate) living at Cheltenham. The family below is living at Grove House in the Parish of St.Mary. Cheltenham (HO 107/353/11 1)- its certainly not an ideal fit (especially the occupation of surveyor) and more work needs to be done
Name | Male | Female | Profession | Born in | Foreign |
Age | Age | same County | Parts |
| Henry Drew | 45 | Surveyor | N |
| Henry Drew | 18 | Carpenter | Y |
| Mary Ann Drew | 46 | Y |
| Mary Drew | 19 | Y |
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There is a possible baptism at Kingsbridge, Devon, 18th March 1792 for Henry Drew son of Richard and Elizabeth Drew - which needs further investigation.
Until then this is all the information I have for my Drew ancestry.