![]() ![]() On their childrens’ baptism records the family are recorded as living in the Ouseburn area of east Newcastle – save their youngest child Thomas Mark Sadler, who was baptised in County Durham while the Sadlers were living in the village of Brafferton. 22 September 1833, Aycliffe, County Durham Mary, baptised 3 December 1815, Newcastle All Saints ( N.A.S.).More research needed.) 3īack in the north east, Mary Harper and Cornelius Sadler had seven children: 2, 4 (*There is a record of a marriage of a Cornelius Sadler to an Elizabeth Bryant at St Nicholas’ Church, Bristol, in December 1810, but at the moment I have nothing to tell me whether this is a second marriage of Cornelius senior, a very early first marriage for Cornelius junior-he would have been only 16 years old at the time-or that of an unrelated person with the same, surprisingly common, name. So far I have found no records that might help to explain what had brought him to a city hundreds of miles away from his birthplace, nor any definite further trace of his father, Cornelius Sadler senior, in Bristol* or elsewhere. ![]() Later records confirm that this is ‘my’ Cornelius Sadler, born in south Bristol in 1794. at the time of their marriage they both lived in the parish of Newcastle All Saints, which included the eastern part of the city of Newcastle as well as the township of Byker on the other side of the Ouseburn Valley). Cornelius and his bride are both described as “ of this parish” ( i.e. On 13 March 1815, one Cornelius Sadler married Mary Harper at All Saints’ Church, Newcastle upon Tyne. While the original, damaged Temple parish registers ( held at Bristol Archives) are not in a fit state for production, luckily the Diocese of Bristol’s transcripts of the records for the years including the baptism of my four-greats grandfather have been microfilmed. The parish registers stored within the church were damaged by fire and by the water used to quell the flames, and the church itself was left an empty shell which is now a Grade II* listed monument. Temple Church was reduced to a ruin by the Luftwaffe on the night of 24 November 1940, when it took a direct hit from an incendiary bomb during the Bristol Blitz. © Copyright Matt Gibson and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. ‘The Leaning Tower of Bristol’, its west tower has leaned 2.7° away from the vertical ever since its initial construction on soft clay in the 15th century. The ruins of Temple Church, Redcliffe, Bristol. ![]()
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