Robert married Anne UNKNOWN about 1862. Anne was born in 1839 in Sutton, Lancashire, England; died in Dec 1910 in St Helen's, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Harriet ELDRIDGE on 10 Jun 1820 in 1820 St James Westminster, London. Harriet was born in 1799 in Sunbury, Middlesex, England; died on 28 Jun 1859 in Feltham, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NOTE 1./
Angela Keany ; Melbourne, Australia: Date:7/13/2003 1:11:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time: From: <>

I've been gathering any information I can on Jacob(s) in that area trying to see how they might relate to mine. Although sometimes Jacobs is spelled without the "s" and vice versa, our family name is Jacob. In hunting down the ancestors I have found both Jacob and Jacobs as distinct families or even within one family or from document to document. I don't know whether they descend from the one family, with spelling variations along the way.

In 1841 Sunbury was quite a separate town to Hanworth and my ancestors lived in both towns and a couple of others.

Looking through my notes I find the following relating to George Jacobs' family, and for your information, have added to it the family I am researching. Not knowing John Jacobs' parents, it is hard to make a connection:

John Jacobs m Mary Crafts, widow c 1836 (1851 Census)

1841 Census Hanworth in Pantile Row (LDS film HO/107/718)
John Jacobs aged 40 Born In County
Mary Jacobs aged 38
Katherine Jacobs aged 4
Phoebe Jacobs aged 2
George Jacobs aged 6 weeks

1851 Census Hanworth (LDS film HO/107/1696)
John Jacobs Head m aged 51 Ag Lab born Hanworth
Mary Jacobs Wife m aged 47 born Hants Old Basing
George Jacobs son aged 9 born Hanworth
Henry Jacobs son aged 6 born Hanworth
Edward Jacobs son aged 3 born Hanworth
Elizabeth Craft stepdau aged 24 born Hampton
Joseph Craft Stepson aged 19 Ag Lab born Hanworth
Mary Foster Stepdau aged 27 born Hampton
William Foster Step grandson aged 6 weeks born Hounslow

My ancestor, of the same generation as the above John Jacobs who married Mary Crafts, was Edward Jacob born 1807 in Feltham close to Hanworth. His parents were William and Sarah (Sally) Jacob. This is as far back as I can go.
William and Sally's family were:
William Jacob m Sarah Pierpont, St Leonards , Shoreditch , London 27 Feb 1786 (IGI) (probable, needs to be verified)
Sally Elizabeth Pierpont fc 22 Oct 1769 St Sepulchre, London, parents George and Sarah Pierpont (IGI)
Sally Jacob bd Sunbury 3 July 1814 aged 46 years (OPR) born c.1768
William Jacob of Green St bd Sunbury 31 Mar 1842 aged 77 years (OPR) Born c.1765. Probably son of William Jacob and Mary Nutter of Westminster (above).
Have copy of his will – everything left to sons James and Robert, partners in his bricklaying business (PRO Prob 11 /1978)
1. William Jacob mc 18 Oct 1789 Feltham (OPR) m Sarah Puffet 1812 (OPR)
2. Sarah Jacob fc 1792 (GH) (witness to William’s marriage in 1812)
3. George Jacob mc 1794 (GH); ? m Caroline Boncey 1813
4. James Jacob mc 1796 (GH)
5. Robert Jacob mc 1799 (GH) m Harriet Eldridge 1820; bd Sunbury 29 Dec 1874 aged 75 (OPR)
6. Mary Ann fc 1800 (GH)
7. Edward Jacob mb 9 Jan 1907, ch 9 Feb 1807 Feltham (OPR cert) m 1.Mary Ann Kinggat 1829?; m 2. Eliza in 1847/8
8. James Jacob mc c. 1811 (1841 Census) ?m Ann c.1843

1841 Census Sunbury (LDS film HO/107/718)
William Jacob aged 75 Builder BIC
James Jacob aged 30 Bricklayer BIC

My Edward Jacob's family were:

Edward Jacob, bricklayer m 1. Mary Ann Kinggatt 24 Mar 1829 St James Westminster London (IGI) (probable) m 2. Eliza (Edward Jacob married March Q 1848 Staines District 3. 272) Mary Ann Jacob died March Quarter 1842 Croydon District 4 78 (possible) Eliza Jacob died March Quarter 1883 aged 74 Staines District 3a 2 Edward Jacob, son of William Jacob and Sarah née Pierpont born Feltham 9 Jan
>1807.
1. Mary Ann Jacob fc 21 Feb 1830 Sunbury (IGI); bd Sunbury 23 Mar 1831 aged 13 mths (OPR)
2. Jane Jacob fc 22 May 1831 Sunbury (IGI)
3. James John Jacob mc c. 1834 Ashford; m Adelaide Weston in 1857; bd Sunbury 9 May 1874 aged 40 (OPR)
4. Emma Jacob fc c. 1837 Ashford (1851 Census) 2nd marriage
5. Alfred Jacob mc c. 1849 Hanworth (1851 Census); m Maria c. 1876
6. Eliza S Jacob fc c. 1851 Hanworth (1851 Census)

1841 Census Hanworth (LDS film HO/107/718)
Edward Jacob aged 35 Bricklayer BIC
James Jacob aged 6 BIC

1851 Census Hanworth (LDS film HO/107/1696)
Edward Jacob head m aged 44 Bricklayer born Feltham
Eliza Jacob wife m aged 42 born Sunbury
Jane Jacob dau aged 20 born Sunbury
James Jacob son aged 17 born Ashford
Emma Jacob dau aged 14 born Ashford
Alfred Jacob son aged 2 born Hanworth
Eliza S Jacob dau aged 3 mths born Hanworth

1881 Census Hanworth (CD)
Edward Jacob head m M aged 74 bricklayer born Feltham
Eliza Jacob m F aged 72 born Sunbury

Just in case the following information is useful, I have included it and at the end, my list of abbreviations. Really , all this data tells me at the moment is that the Jacob(s) were around the area in the 1700s.

William Jacob, labourer, m Elizabeth Wood, Sunbury MDX 4 Oct 1725 (Phil & IGI)
1. Elizabeth Jacob fc 6 Mar 1725 Sunbury (IGI)
2. Mary Jacob fc 4 Feb 1727 Sunbury (IGI)

John Jacob m Hannah Upprichet, Hanworth MDX 1 Oct 1735 (Phil)

Elizabeth Jacob
1. Mary Jacob fc 24 Sep 1746 Sunbury (IGI)

John Jacob m Ruth Fay, Feltham MDX btwn 15 Nov 1760 & 1 May 1762 (Phil)

Ann Jacob m George Fay (of Feltham) in Hanworth MDX 24 Dec 1761 (Phil)

Elizabeth Jacobs m John Moody Hanworth MDX 9 Nov 1763 (Phil)

William Jacob m Mary Nutter St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, London 11 Aug 1763 (IGI)
1. William Jacob mc 11 Dec 1764 St Paul Covent Garden, Westminster, London (IGI) (mother’s name given only as Mary), possibly married to Sarah Pierpont 1786 Mary Jacob
1. Joseph Edge Jacob mc 17 Apr 1771 Sunbury (IGI)

Thomas Jacob m Eliz Goodman Hanworth MDX 16 Nov 1779 (Phil)

Jane Jacobs m William Goodman Hanworth MDX 25 Feb 1782 (Phil)

ABBREVIATIONS AND SOURCES

m = married
mc = male christened
fc = female christened
mb = male born
fb = female born
bd = buried
d = died
cert = certificate
IGI = International Genealogical Index found at www.familysearch.com
CD = CD Rom of 1881 Census of Great Britain
GH = Graham Hall’s data
Phil = Phillimore’s Parish Register Series Vol IV 1912 (LDS film 496702)
OPR = Old Parish Records from the following LDS films:
Sunbury Parish Records film 577574
Feltham Parish Records film 566922
Hanworth & Stanwell Parish Records film 496702
PRO = Public Records Office
BIC = born in county
Q = refers to the Quarter of the year in the St Catherine’s House index
MI = Monumental inscriptions (Hanworth – St George’s Churchyard)

I hope there is some new information there for you. Kind regards, Angela Keany , Melbourne, Australia

NOTE 2./ Historical Note: The Year Was 1789

The year was 1789 and in the U.S. a young government was beginning to take shape. In its first nationwide election, the popular Revolutionary War general, George Washington, became the country's first president and was sworn in at the first capitol of the United States, Federal Hall in New York City.

In France, a rebellion was underway and with the storming of the Bastille prison, the French Revolution began. In its reporting on the subject, The Times of London, England had the following to say of the conflict:

The spirit of liberty which so long lay in a state of death, oppressed by the hand of power, received its first spark of returning animation, by the incautious and impolitic assistance afforded to America. The French soldier on his return from that emancipated continent, told a glorious tale to his countrymen--"That the arms of France had given freedome to thirteen United States, and planted the standard of liberty on the battlements of New York and Philadelphia." The idea of such a noble deed became a general object of admiration, the [facets?] of a similar state were eagerly longed for by all ranks of people, and the vox populi had this force of argument--"If France gave freedom to America, why should she not unchain the arbitrary fetters which bind her own people.

Later that year, the Marquis de Lafayette, with the advice of Thomas Jefferson who was at the time the American ambassador to France, drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. It was adopted by France's National Assembly in August and ratified by Louis XVI in October.

There was unrest in other parts of the world as well. Sweden and Russia were at war, and briefly, Norway had joined the conflict, although a peace treaty was signed in July 1789.

In a smaller, but well-known conflict, the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty was also in the year 1789. On April 28, part of the crew of the Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian, mutinied and set Captain William Bligh and eighteen crewmembers adrift. Bligh managed to get the boat some 3,600 miles to Timor. Some of the mutineers were captured and prosecuted--three were hanged, while others, including Fletcher Christian ended up on Pitcairn Island, where some of their descendants live to this day.

In 1789, there was an epidemic of influenza in New England, New York, and Nova Scotia, which resulted in many deaths due to secondary cases of pneumonia. The new president was among those who fell ill. He caught a cold while visiting Boston, and later, was affected more seriously with influenza, which was dubbed Washington Influenza.

William married Sally Elizabeth PIERPONT on 27 Feb 1786 in Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London, England. Sally (daughter of George PIERPONT and Sarah UNKNOWN) was born on 22 Oct 1769 in St Sepulchre, London; died on 03 Jul 1814 in Sunbury, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]