The BEER Family of Yarcombe, Stockland and Membury, Devon

This is the story of the family of Benjamin BEER of Yarcombe in Devon. It traces the family down to Jane BEER, who on 29 March 1892, departed from London on the ship JELUNGA bound for Queensland Australia. She was contracted to disembark at Bowen, Queensland. She is listed as a Domestic Servant, aged 25 and single. Jane arrived in Bowen on 20 May 1892. married Samuel BROWN on 17 June 1893 in Bowen, Queensland. They had two children (William and Selina) before Sam disappeared, never to be heard from again. (Sam's story is here.) Soon after, Jane joined up with Charles TAYLOR and they had eight children. (Jane's story is told here.)

The family of Benjamin BEER (1716-1778) and Ann STAMP

Benjamin was baptised in the church of St John Baptist in Yarcombe on 4 November 1716. Twenty-four years later he married Anne STAMP in the church at Stockland on 4 May 1746. Anne was baptised on 12 Feb 1720 at Upottery, a few miles across the valley from Stockland. Although there are other baptisms for an Anne STAMP in the region this one is the mostly as her next two siblings were baptised in Upottery before the family moved to Stockland where another four children were baptised.

Baptism for Benjamin BEER at Yarcombe, 4 November 1716

Baptism record for Anne STAMP at Upottery, 12 February 1720.

Marriage record for Benjamin BEER and Anne STAMP at Stockland, 4 May 1746.

The tree for Benjamin and Anne looks like this:

             |
         Henry BEERE
           ?-1653
             |                        |
        Henry BEER=======v=======Sarah PARRIS
         1643-1704     m:1684     1657-1725
                     (Chardstock)
                         |
          |--------------|
         Ruth          Henry========v====Grace BRUNSEN   William STAMP==v==Elizabeth GRINTER
      1684-1703      1689-1760   m:1712    1688-1758                  m:1719
                               (Yarcombe)                           (Upottery)
                                    |                                   |
                                    |                                   |
                                 Benjamin===v========================Ann STAMP
                                1716-1778 m:1746(Stockland)           1720-?
                                            |
               |-------------|--------------|---------------|--------|
            Elizabeth       Ann         Jacob BEER        Grace     John
              1748-         1752-       1754-1822         1762-     1762-
                                            |
                                      m:1782(Stockland)
                                         Mary COMBE
                                            |
     |---------|-------|--------|-----------|-----------|
 Elizabeth   James   Robert   William     Isaac       Jacob
   1783-     1785-   1787-     1794-      1797-?    1798-1860
               |                |           |           |
             m:1818           m:1817      m:1829      m:
         Mary BURRIDGE    Ann BURRIDGE Ruth TUCKER  Catherine COLLINS
                            1789-1877    1812-1892      |
                                |            |
 |------|--------|------|-------|            |--------|------|--------|-----------------|-------|------|
Ann  William  Martha  Mary   Philip        Caroline Thomas  John    Isaac            Matilda  Albert George
1821-  1826-  1826-  1829-  1830-1901       1831-   1834-   1837- 1840-1909           1843-   1848-  1850-
                                             |                        |------------|
                                            m:                     m1:1864      m2:1886
                                         George COX              Mary COLLINS Sarah PRICE
                                                                  1846-1884    1849-1911
                                                                      |            |
        |-----------|---------|--------------|-----------|------------|
       Jane        John     Matilda        Agnes      Isaac Albert  James
    1867-1929     1870      1872          1874          1876       1879
        |                  
        |---------------------------|     
      m1:1893                    m2:1909
    Samuel BROWN              Charles TAYLOR
        |                           |
        |---------|         |-------|-------|--------|--------|-------|-----------|-------|
     William   Selina    Charles  Jessie  James  Frederick  David    John       Jane    George
    1894-1918 1895-1973   1897- 1899-1925 1901-    1904-    1906-  1909-1909  1911-1911  1913-

 

Five children can be identified in the registers, all at Stockland but the gap between Jacob (1754) and Grace and John (twins born 1762) suggests there should have been other births, The family of their son Jacob was the line that Jane BEER descends from.

Isaac BEER 1840-1909

Isaac was born in 1840 in Yarcombe, Devon. In the 1841 census Isaac is 9 months old, and living with parents Isaac and Ruth BEER, at the Yarcombe Inn, Yarcombe. Only 10 years later he is a farm servant for James SPILLER at Broadly Farm, Yarcombe. In 1861 he is an Agricultural Labourer, living at Staple Fitzpaine, near Taunton, about 8 miles north of Yarcombe.

1841 Census

1851 Census

1861 Census

Yarcombe Inn, Devon

Yarcombe Inn, Devon.

Marriage to Mary Collins

Some time between 1861 and 1864 Isaac moved further north and across to Cardiff. He married Mary COLLINS in Cardiff in mid 1864 and by the time of the 1871 census they were living at Hayes Farm, Sully. Isaac was still working as an Ag. Labourer.  Sully is a few miles south of Cardiff. The census enumerator obviously had some problems with Isaac's accent, recording him as BEARD, and born in Yarkem.

 Isaac and Mary had six children:

In 1881 the family had moved to 32 Dock St, Cogan, Penarth, close to Cardiff:

1881 Census

In late 1884 Mary died (Dec 1884 Cardiff 11a/164).

Marriage to Sarah Ann PRICE

Issac soon married again, to Sarah Ann PRICE. The marriage was recorded at Bedminster (March quarter 1886, 5c/981). Bedminster is now a southern suburb of Bristol, and although Bristol is just across the Bristol Channel from Penarth where Isaac was living, it is not at all clear why the marriage took place there. Sarah Ann had been born in Gloucester in 1850. Sarah was aged 36 at the time of marriage and it appears likely that she had not been married previously.

In the 1891 census Isaac and Sarah Ann are living at 28 James St, Penarth, Wales. With them are sons John, Albert and James, as well as Ethel PRICE (Sarah's niece) and Ruth BEER, Isaac's mother. Isaac occupation appears to be Grocer:

In 1901 Isaac and family had moved around the corner to 19 Maughan St, Penarth. Ethel Price, Sarah's niece is still with them and now they have John Price (probably Sarah's brother) with them as well.

Isaac died in Cardiff in 1909.

There are several death records for Sarah Ann BEER. The most likely is the one for Mar 1911 at Gloucester, her place of birth (6a/232).

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Last updated: 10 January 2016