I am researching my ancestors who married into a family called Targett from Wiltshire. This information has mostly been gleaned from internet research, so please treat it with suspicion. It is not backed up with paper evidence from birth/marriage/death records.
William Targett (1655) married Elizabeth in 1681. Their son was John Targett,born in 1689 . John married Anne (Crine?) in 1715 and moved to Tisbury, Wiltshire, and a year after this, they had their first child, a boy, whom they called after his father - John Targett (1716). John the younger married Mary in 1765, and they moved to Woodminton , Wiltshire.
John Targett, their son, was born in 1781 and was a tenant farmer. He living in Woodminton, near Bower Chalke in Wiltshire.
Woodminton in 1773
John married Elizabeth Bon (1773) in September 1802. John had three sons, Thomas, George and Elisha, born in 1807, 1808 and 1820. They also had three daughters, Elizabeth, Mary and Ann.
No address is shown on the 1841 census, as the village is so small - no bigger than seven houses.The sons both lived at home at this time. Thomas had become a sawyer, and Elijah was an agricultural labourer.
Elisha went on to marry Mary Sheppard, and they had four children Betsy (1844), Mary (1847), Anne (1850) and Elisha (1849). The family stayed in Bower Chalke.
Thomas married Caroilne, who is shown on the marriage certificate as being 'Caroline formerly Comerton late Fly'. Caroline was born in Hawley or Hartley, Dorset, and they married in 1841.
In the 1851 census, Thomas is shown as living in Castle Lane in Woodminton with Ann, Henry and George.
George (born in 1840) went on to marry Elizabeth Johnson from Hoxton, daughter of William Johnson (baker) and Selina Johnson nee Saunders. The couple had two daughters, Anne M.E. (1867), Emily Selina (1871) and Ellen (1880). They lived in Hackney, where George became a letter carrier in March 1860. There is an excellent history of the area here
In 1881 they moved to Castle Street in Stoke Newington with baby Ellen Maud (known as May) who had been born the year before and Anne (1867). Emily Selina (named for her grandmother) was born in 1871.
Emily Selina Targett later married Frederick Degenhardt, whose story can be seen here.
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