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From: MICHAEL BAYLISS <>
Subject: [King] Hannah & Stephen MILES, Ashford Hill
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:05:45 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <20071111102610.7DBF21C0008B@mwinf6309.orange.nl>


This is for any Listers researching the MILES & MAY
names at Ashford Hill, and possibly for John LEWIS. I
should be interested to know whether anyone might be
able to confirm, or disprove, the hypothesis below.

I have been trying for some time to discover the
identity of the Hannah who married Stephen MILES, son
of Benjamin MILES & Mary BIRD and brother of my 2x
great-grandmother Elizabeth. They were married at
unknown date and place, probably just before 1830, and
presumably at Kingsclere. The only direct evidence
comes from the baptisms of four children where Stephen
MILES & Hannah are shown as the parents: these are
Ann (baptised 1830), Daniel (1832), Hannah (1836) &
Benjamin (1838); all the baptisms were at St Mary,
Kingsclere. Census evidence in 1841 indicates that
the family lived at Ashford Hill (as did the other
MILES family members) but Stephen evidently died
before then as Hannah is shown in the 1841 census as a
widow.

I believe the key to Hannah’s identity lies in the
1851 census, which records an Ann MILES (20) and a
Hannah MILES (15), both born at Kingsclere, living at
Ashford Hill with their grandfather Charles MAY, a
widowed carpenter aged 74 born at Brimpton. From the
birthdate and description, this must be the Charles
MAY born circa 1776 who married Ann MARINER. Charles
& Ann had a daughter Hannah MAY baptised on 16 October
1803 at St Mary, Kinsgclere. If, as seems highly
probable, the Ann and Hannah of the 1851 census are
the daughters of Stephen & Hannah MILES, and the
Charles MAY in question is who I believe he was, then
it looks like the latter Hannah must have been his
daughter.

An addtional clue is that Sarah Ann BRADLEY, a niece
of Stephen MILES, married Daniel MAY, son of Charles &
Ann MAY above. In the 1871 census, this Daniel has in
household at Humber’s Marsh a ‘nephew’, Daniel MILLES
[sic] aged 39 and born at Kingsclere Woodlands. I
infer that this must be Daniel the son of Stephen and
Hannah MILES, which then makes Daniel MAY Hannah's
brother and reinforces the hypothesis as to her
identity.

QED, I think. Do others agree?

Mike


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