| I am researching the Bull family and distaff branch families, including the Chivers, Cross, Phipers, and Papworth families of Cottenham and Elsworth in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, the Jarvis, Dredge and Ross families of the Tower Hamlets, Middlesex, now East London, the Aviolet, Day, Goldsmith and Glover families of London, the Saunders and Clapham families of Ely and Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire, and the Wright, Warren, Jolly, Allard, Prime and Widlock/Whitlock families, among others, originating in various parts of Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Hertforshire, Suffolk and Essex. The earliest ancestor of the Bull family to appear in Cottenham, Cambridgeshire was William, b.1755 in Papworth Everard, Cambs d.1818 in Cottenham, a farmer, who married Mary Kimpton, née Phipers, in 1787. In 1788, William purchased land in Cottenham known as Bernards. I owe a great debt to a distant cousin, Francis Garrett, a specialist in Cottenham history, in my research on my Cottenham ancestry. With the assistance of another distant cousin, Angela Ward, I have traced the ancestors of William Bull back to the towns of Elsworth, Papworth Everard and Papworth St Agnes in Cambridgeshire and to Yelling in Huntingdonshire, and to the Papworth family. William Bull of Cottenham was the son of Joseph Bull and Sarah Papworth, who were born in Elsworth, but resided first in Papworth Everard where their children were born and later in Rampton, a village near Cottenham. Thanks to Angela’s research, I have documented the Bull line back to William's grandfather William Bull, who was born about 1640, and who died in 1707 in Elsworth, but as yet (February 2007) have been unable to unearth his origins. The Papworth line is documented back to Thomas Papworth, who died in 1547 in Elsworth. William and Mary Bull of Cottenham had three children, including Joseph, who was born in 1788. Joseph Bull married Elizabeth Cross in 1813 and had four children: William, born in 1813, Jeremiah, my great grandfather, born in 1815, Joseph in 1818, and Mary in 1825. My grandfather, Ezra John Bull, youngest son of Jeremiah, resided in Buckhurst Hill, Essex (now London) and was married to Charlotte Emily Jarvis whose mother was Emily Sarah Aviolet. The Aviolet family were descendents of French Huguenots. The earliest known ancestor of this line is Anthony Aviolet, born in 1737, whose wife was Elizabeth. Their oldest son Anthony, an undertaker in Clerkenwell, London, was born in 1770 and married Susanna Goldsmith. One of Anthony and Susanna's eight children was Ebenezer John Aviolet, who married Eliza Day. My great-grandmother Emily Sarah Aviolet was one of Ebenezer and Eliza's three daughters. I have attempted to trace the Aviolet family back to their emigration from France, but so far have been unable to move further back than the birth of Anthony (b.1737) and Elizabeth's children in the parish registers of St Andrew Holborn, London, between 1766 and 1781. Charlotte Emily’s husband Charles John Jarvis was descended from two generations of cheesemongers established in St George-in-the-East, Stepney, East London. Also among my ancestors in Stepney were the Dredge and Ross families who were coopers in Great Alie Street, Whitechapel. My father William Chivers Bull emigrated to Canada as a young man, marrying my mother Doris Saunders in Rimbey, Alberta in 1939. The Saunders family had resided in Prickwillow, a small hamlet outside Ely in Cambridgeshire, since migrating there from nearby Suffolk in the mid-1800s. My grandparents Harold Saunders and Elizabeth Clapham, whose family resided in Ely, migrated to Montana, USA where they married. They later moved on to Canada with their two children William and Doris in the early 1900s. Elizabeth’s father William Clapham’s family came from Cambridge, her mother Susan Prime’s family from Thriplow, Cambridgeshire. |
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