Peter Hunnisett

Mark & Hester Adams of Marlborough

Mark Adams, a son of John and Mary was baptised in Swindon on 8^th March 1767.

Hester Swadden, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth was baptised in Ogbourne St Andrew, 2 miles north of Marlborough, on 26^th November 1769.

Mark Adams, of Marlborough, married Hester Swadden, of East Kennett about 5 miles west of Marlborough, in East Kennett on 21^st April 1794.

Mark and Hester Adams are known to have had six children of which the first five were baptised at the church of St Peter & St Paul in Marlborough, Wiltshire:

Of their children:

• Jane married William Greenaway, a blacksmith, in Marlborough on 22^nd February 1819 and they are known to have had six children:

  Thomas

  7 Aug 1820

  Stratton St Margaret

  George

  16 Mar 1823

  Marlborough

  David

  31 July 1825

  Marlborough

  Joseph

  13 Apr 1828

  Bishopstone

  Ambrose

  11 Mar 1832

  Marlborough

  Afred

  18 Jun 1836

  Marlborough

  At the 1841 census the family were living in Wellington Place, which is behind the Wellington Arms in Marlborough High Street and both William and his son Thomas were journeyman smiths. In 1851 Jane and William were still there with their youngest son, Alfred, but William was shown as a pauper. Jane and William probably both died in the 1860’s.

• Thomas, a machine maker, married twice and lived in Chiseldon, Wiltshire.

• James was also a machine maker and he married Sarah Mifflin in Stratton St Margaret, now a suburb of Swindon, on 13^th November 1826. They lived at Stratton Green and their children were:

  Alfred

  11 Feb 1827

  Stratton St Margaret

  Mahala

  27 Oct 1828

  Stratton St Margaret

  Adolphus

  11 Dec 1830

  Stratton St Margaret

  Emma

  18 Nov 1832

  Stratton St Margaret

  Mary Jane

  26 Sep 1834

  Stratton St Margaret

  Albert

  11 Sep 1836

  Zion Chapel, Highworth - b.18 June

  Ellen

  Q2 1838

  James William

  Q1 1840

  Elizabeth

  Q1 1842

  Rhoda

  Q2 1844

  Frederick

  ca. 1847

  James died in 1862.