Sorry for the long delay in responding but lost touch and have only recently got back to looking and the family history.

Joseph Bidmead & Martha Elve Tolley are not the ones in Coventry in the 1820s.

They marred at Allhallows London Wall on 04 Sep 1815 and had

Martha Bidmead on 30 Sep 1816

Joseph Tolley Bidmead on 03 Apr 1818

Naomi Bidmead on 06 Mar 1820

Elizabeth Bidmead on 02 Sep 1822

Lydia Bidmead on 09 Nov 1825

all at Allhallows London Wall

Also I believe

Thomas Benjamin Bidmead on 23 May 1827

Mary Ellen Bidmead on 18 Jun 1831

both at CHRIST CHURCH GREYFRIARS NEWGATE,LONDON.


have no details of Joseph Bidmead death.

But Martha lived to 25 Sep 1867 and died in London City area.

I have no evidence but believe that my direct line of Ebenezer Bidmead DoB about 1785 is a brother or cousin of Joseph Bidmead.

Ebenezer Bidmead marred Elizabeth Butter Grant also at Allhallows London Wall on 01 Jan 1809.

the witnesses were ? Bidmead and Martha Tolley. (who later marred Joseph Bidmead)

I have no record of Joseph Bidmead birth or parents do you?

please to know the facts on this as I have never found any birth or the existence of Ebenezer Bidmead before this.

Ebenezer Bidmead was a MANCHESTER WAREHOUSEMAN (Cotton Trade)and Joseph Bidmead was a Silk Warehouseman

Both in the London docks

Ebenezer and Elizabeth were non conformists and both died in the 1820's and buried at Bunhill Fields, London.

leaving just

Ebenezer Bidmead DoB 09 Apr 1811 at Albion Buildings, St Bartholomew, Cripplegate, London

and Lydia Bidmead DoB 14 Apr 1813 at Bethnal Green, London.

Pleased to know if you can add to this information and look forrward to hear from you

John