Faulder Family Genealogy Faulder Family Genealogy

Current work on the “to do list” or “in progress”. Last updated 31 December 2024.

Specific People

1. Joseph Sewell Faulder (1844-1903), my Great Grandfather
   • The reasons for migrating from Cumberland to Huddersfield.
     • He (and probably his future business partner, John Stothart) appeared in the 1881 Census in Huddersfield.
     • The firm of Stothart & Faulder, Woollen Merchants appears to have existed in Huddersfield from 1874 to 1903 (When JSF died). 
   • JSF and his wife are missing from the 1891 Census (but the children are with their Grandmother (Story) in Cumberland).
     • Stothart & Faulder Nautilus Serge starts to be advertised in New Zealand around this time – were JSF and his wife travelling in April 1891?
   • When JSF died he was at Moorhouse Hall in Warwick Bridge back in Cumberland. Why and what is the connection?
2. Harold Faulder (1885-1918), my Grandfather
   • Why was he listed in the Providence, Rhode Island Census in 1915, when he was already back in England? Did he make a quick return journey?
   • Where was he in early April 1918 in between being posted from the 4th Entrenching Battalion and arriving at the 1/4th York and Lancasters.  Indications are he was on the staff of a General Armitage, but where and doing what?
   • Check exact Order of Battle for 25/26 April 1918. What were the Artillery orders?
   • Reconciliation of Recoveries and Burial of “Unknowns” near Vierstraat – in progress
3. George Lendrum (1831-1896), my father’s maternal Grandfather
   • Why did he migrate from Aberdeenshire to Huddersfield?
4. James Clark (b ~1824 Great Bowden Leicestershire) and his wife Elizabeth Ann (b ~1832 Moulton Northamptonshire), my mother’s adoptive maternal grandparents, be traced back to Parish Records?
5. William Blizzard Williamson’s activities between 1841 (Census in Kingston upon Thames) and arrival in Worcester around 1856. He looks, from newspapers, to have been an itinerant Trade Union organiser. Where was his family in 1851? WBW was the paternal grandfather of my mother’s adoptive mother. – in progress
6. Various questions arising from discovering the genetic ancestors of an adopted child.

Family Reconstruction

1. Faulder
   • Disentangling the various strands of Faulders in Cumberland in the later 18th / early 19th century.  In particular can I discover if the two Robert Faulders (i 1746-1799, ii 1770-?) who (sequentially) married (i 1794, ii 1803) Catherine Blaylock (1773-1809) are related?
   • Tracking the Faulders back from the mid 18th Century; in particular is the Covenenters origin provable?  There are a large number of Faulder families in Annan, Dumfries in the 19th Century.
   • Cumberland Reconciliation (Civil Registration Period):
     • Faulder family in Cockermouth Registration District – in progress
     • Faulder family in Carlisle Registration District
     • Faulder family in Wigton Registration District
     • Faulder family in Border and Longtown Registration Districts
     • Faulder family in Penrith Registration District
   • Is there a link with the Faulders in Hertfordshire?
   • Faulder as a second forename – in progress
2. Willett
   • Were the Willetts Huguenots and if so can we trace back further than Everard Willett b1804 in Colchester?
   • Reconciliation of Willetts in Essex – in progress
   • Willett family in Abingdon & Berkshire Registration District – in progress
3. Williamson
   • The background of the Williamsons in Ireland.  The family group William Blizzard Williamson (1812?-1878) and his wife, Elizabeth (1815?-1892) and his first son, William Blizzard (1840-1895) were born in Ireland according to English Census records. They first appearing in the 1841 English Census – so they were not famine migrants.  The indications are that they were from Cork, but whether that is where they were born or lived or “where they came from” in terms of port of embarkation is not clear.  The History of Metal Box (WJ Reader) hints that they may have been Plymouth Brethren.  Family “myth” indicates that they suffered religious persecution and may even have been physically assaulted.
   • Reconciliation of Williamsons in New Jersey & New York States, The 1861 English Census also lists a Thomas Williamson, “nephew” of William Blizzard Senior born in New Jersey in 1845 – in progress
   • Family sources also indicate that George Henry, William Blizzard (snr)’s second son (1845-1918) may have fought in the American Civil War (1861–1865) – possibly alongside Thomas.