James Traies (1785 - 1876 Exeter to Kensington)

Family:
Father - Samuel Traies (1759 - 1840)
Mother - Jane Townsend (1754 - 1840)

Wives:
Hannah unknown
Martha Looker (1794 - 1842)
Jane Berry (1792 - 1856)
Mary Jones (1795 - 1861)

Children:
Jane (born 1809)
Samuel (1810 - 1890)
Ann (born 1812)
James (1816 - 1855)
Henry (1819 - 1894)
Jane (born 1823)
Hannah (born 1826)
Emma (born 1827)
(Please note: I have not fully checked out all the above people yet hence many death dates are missing)

Census Information:
1841 census:
currently not found

1851 census:
James was living at 11 High Street, Kensington with current wife Jane and youngest girls Hannah and Emma. James was a Tin Plate Worker.

1861 census:
James was now living at 3 Johnson Street, Kensington with his last wife, Mary. No other family members were with them. James was a Tin Plate Worker

1871 census:
James was now living alone at 111 Buckingham Street, Kensington. He has no recorded occupation.

Death:
James died on 18 August 1878 at 55 Swinbrooke Road, Kensington due to Natural Decay. 

Marriages:
James appears to have married at least 4 times maybe 5 times. The details for his first marriage to Hannah are unknown but presumably were before his first child, Jane was born in St Pancras in 1809. There is a possible second marriage found but as yet not attributed to our James. That was to Ann Sutton in Hackney in 1818. If this marriage is for our James then Hannah died before 1818 but only the baptism records for the later children will be able to prove this. As yet they are unfound.

James apparently married Martha Looker in St John, Hackney in 1831. We believe this to be our James because her death certificate of 1842 describes her as wife of James Traies, Tin Plate Worker. She died in Greyhound Row in Kensington.

James then married Jane Berry in November of 1842 at Paddington. He was a widower and again a Tin Plate Worker. Curiously he described his father Samuel Traies as a gentleman which does not fit with his death certificate which had Tinker as occupation. It appears that Samuel worked in the Cloth industry that was a common occupation in Exeter at that time.

James’s last marriage was to Mary Jones in 1857 in Paddington. Again he was a Tin Plate Worker living in Moscow Road. This time his father’s occupation is Draper. 

For further information about James and to see the current research going on into this family please visit http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,237289.0.html

There is also a very useful website concentrating on the Traies part of a larger Trease tree started in Devon at http://www.trease.org.uk/traies/txt/txt17s_ec.htm

If you have anything else to add to the story of James Traies please contact me.

© Kerry Baldwin 21 June 2008