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Name Edmund PONTIFEX
Birth 19 Jul 1791
Death 1 Aug 1870
Occupation Merchant
Father William PONTIFEX (1766-1851)
Mother Mary BAILEY (1767-1837)
Spouses:
1 Sarah MARSHALL
Birth 31 Jul 1800, England
Death 27 Jul 1830, England
Father Robert Bryant MARSHALL Esq. (1758-1841)
Mother Sarah EDSELL (1765-1819)
Marriage 8 Jun 1820, England
Children: Sarah (1822-1884)
Helen (1823-1846)
Edmund Alfred (1828-1909)
Edmund (1826-1826)
2 Elizabeth GOODMAN
Birth 1816, England
Death 1888, Bath, Somerset, England
Children: Alfred (1842-1930)
Helen Adelaide (1847-)
William Charles (1851-1946)
Arthur Dorsett (1853-1909)
Dudley David (1855-1934)
Septimus Edmund Charles (1856-1936)
Emily Mary (1859-1875)
Notes for Edmund PONTIFEX
Lived 1 Calthorpe St. Bloomsbury, London in 1820, Lavender Hill, Battersea after 1827, Shoe Lane in 1830 and after death of wife Sarah; Bramhope Lodge charlton Kent (1840). Retired from Shoe Lane firm in 1853, settled in Bath with his second wife and young family. He had promised his eldest son one-third of his capital on the son's marriage on 30 Aug 1855 in which year he recorded the family in the Fairfield house, Newbridge bill. College of Arms. The promise was neither kept nor was any settlement made; it is believed the two never met after the marriage.
In the 1841 census, Edmund and daughters, Sarah and Helen are living in Charlton nex Woolwich, Kent, England. In the 1851 census, Edmund and his son Edmund and daughter Sarah are living in Plumstead, Charlton, England. Edmund has four servants in his household. He is employed as a merchant and manufacturer of metals and chemicals.
Edmund is listed in the 1859 Bristol Post Office Directory and Gazetteer.
Found living in Weston, Somerset, in the 1861 census with wife Elizabeth.
Notes for Sarah (Spouse 1)

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