Somes/Soames Family

Parish Records

My main area of interest is Mary Somes who married Heinrich/Henry Brecht but she is not a direct ancestor.

In the course of researching the Somes family, I have picked out a few entries from numerous entries in Parish Records including some in the name Soames. Also see Conclusions.

1. Entries for the Brecht/Somes Family living in Fashion Street.

Christ Church Spitalfields

John Somes bp 5.10.1783 (21 days old)
(parents John Somes, Victualler of Fashion St & Elizabeth)

Henry & Mary (Somes) Brecht

Mary Brecht of Fashion Street buried 3.1.1819 (age 35)
per Find My Past

Henry & Mary (Somes) Brecht’s children

Maria Catran Brecht b 16.6.1812 bp 12.7.1812
(Parents Heinrich Brecht Colour Maker of Fashion St & Mary )

Maria Catharine Brecht buried 16.11.1814 (Age 2)

Charlotte Brecht of  Fashion St buried 15.1.1819 (age 9 years 7 months)
- died the same month as mother

Elisabeth Catharine Brecht of Fashion St buried 17.6.1821 (Age 5 Years 9 months)

Henry Brecht’s Other Children

Eleanor Brecht of Fashion St buried 24.10.1824 (age 17 months)

2. Other Entries

Islington, London

John Somes buried 17.12.1780

Christ Church, Spitalfields

Anne Somes
married 7.1.1732
Valentine Hewett

Old Church, St Pancras

Louisa Soames bp 23.4.1713
(parents William & Elizabeth Soames)

Louisa Soames 6.11.1816 bp 10.4.1816
(Parents William Aldwin Soames & Elizabeth)

St Andrew, Holborn

John Soames of Red Lyon Street buried 19.12.1728

Henry Soames bp 24.8.1760
(parents Henry & Frances Soames of Holborn Hill)

John Soames of Grays Inn Lane buried 7.12.1768

John Soames of Grays Inn Workhouse buried 16.4.1770

Nathaniel John Soames b 19.9.1825 bp 25.5.1828
(parents Nathaniel Soames, Coal Porter of New (?) Church Court, Strand & Ann Page)

St Benet, Pauls Wharf, City of London

John Somes b 25.3.1774 bp 17.4.1774
(Parents William & Mary Somes)

John Somes b 17.11.1777 bp 30.11.1777
(Patents William & Mary Somes)

St Botolph, Aldersgate

John Soames buried 12.9.1727
(son of Samuel Soames)

John Samuel Soms (son of Samuel Soms) buried 7.12.1736

John Somes bp 12.3.1737
(Parents Samuel & Catherine Somes)

John Soams buried 11.9.1744

St Botolph, Aldgate

Susanna Somes of Somerset Street buried 3.5.1780
(Daughter of John)

Mary Somes of Somerset Street buried 21.5.1780
(Daughter of John)

John Stanley Soames
married 3.5.1822
Elizabeth Downing Shrubsall

St Botolph, Bishopsgate

John Somes bp 12.11.1734
(Parents Francis & Elizabeth Somes)

St Dunstan's & All Saints, Stepney

Samuel Somes, Waterman of Wap. Water
married 2.12.1717
Ann Ellis, Widow

John Somes of Mile End Old Town
buried 19.3.1814 (Age 74)

St George, Hanover Square

John Soame (Married) buried 9.3.1764

John Somes
married 5.7.1779
Elizabeth Reynolds
Witnesses Ann Baker & Mary Reynolds

William Somes
married 26.5.1782
Elizabeth Stanley

John Somes bp 4.10.1719
(Parents Samuel & Anne Somes)

St George in the East

John Somes bp 18.11.1750 (14 days old)
(parents John Somes, Waterman of Virg, St & Mary)

William Somes
married 18.5.1757
Sibella Hunt

William Somes bp 2.4.1758
(parents John & Mary Somes)

Samuel Somes bp 15.8./1758 (12 days old)
(parents William Somes, Victualler of Vir. & Isabella)

William Somes b 1762 bp 9.1.1763 (28 days old)
(parents John Somes, Waterman of Virginia Street, Shadwell & Mary)

William Somes b 1763 bp 13.3.1763 (18 days old)
(parents William Somes, Waterman of Virginia Street, Shadwell & Isabella)

Elizabeth Somes bp 24.7.1768 (15 days old)
(Parents William Somes, Victualler of Virginia St & Isabella)

William Littybee Somes bp 26.11.1780 (24 days old)
(parents Samuel Somes, Lighterman of Virginia Street & Sarah)

John Stanley Somes Bp16/02/1783 (33 days old)
(Parents William Somes, Waterman of Virginia Street & Elizabeth)

Ann Somes bp 18.6.1784 (22 days old)
(Parents Samuel Somes, Waterman of Virginia Street & Sarah)

Mary Somes Bp 4/08/1784 (21 days old)
(Parents William Somes, Waterman of Lime Yard & Elizabeth )

William Somes bp 23/06/1786 (19 days old)
(Parents William Somes Waterman of Virginia Street & Elizabeth)

Richard Somes bp 27.3.1791 (28 days old)
(parents Samuel Somes, Waterman of Virginia Street & Sarah)

Elizabeth Stanley Somes Bp: 24/06/1792 (6 mos 2 days old)
(Parents William Somes, Waterman of Lime Yard, Virginia Street & Elizabeth)

Joseph Somes Born 31/1/1794 Bp 3/08/1794
(Parents William Somes, Waterman of Lime Yard & Elizabeth)

Sarah Somes Born: 29/12/1796 Bp 12/02/1797
(Parents William Somes, Waterman of Lime Yard & Elizabeth)

John Somes of Pennington St buried 16.4.1797 (age 78)

Rebecca Somes Born: 01/01/1799 Bp 27/03/1799
(parents William Somes, Waterman of Virginia Street & Elizabeth)

Francis Somes
married 25.11.1799
Mary Hunt

Francis Somes b 27.10.1800 bp 23.11.1800
(Parents Francis Somes Victualler of Whitehorse Lane & Mary)

Edwin Somes b 26.1.1807 bp 20.8.1807
Sibella Somes b 23.10.1809 bp 19.11.1809
(Parents Francis Soames Waterman of New Road & Mary)

St George, The Martyr, Southwark

John Soames
married 11.11.1758
Hannagh Hoare
(Witnesses John Peters, Elizabeth Hoare (mother of Hannah Hoare) and
Hannah Nelson)

St Giles, Camberwell

Francis Somes
married 17.11.1825
Hannah Hiron (see entry under St Leonards, Shoreditch below)

St Giles, Cripplegate

John Thomas Soames b 10.10.1749 bp 29.10.1749
(Son of Edward Soames, Chairmaker & Elizabeth)

St Gregory by St Paul, City of London

Frances Aldwin Soames b 21.8.1786 bp 14.9.1786
(parents Nathaniel Soames & Sarah)

Henry Soames b 15.1.1785 bp 16.2.1785
(parents Nathaniel Soames & Sarah)

St John, Horselydown, Southwark

John Somes
married 15.11.1802
Sarah Lovett

St Leonards, Shoreditch

John Soams from Crown Alley buried 9.7.1745 (age 7 months)

Original Entries (see Note below)

Frances Iron b 25 or 28.12.1790 bp 27.3.1796
(Parents George & Mary Iron of New Inn Yard)

Robert Iron b 20.1.1793 bp 27.3.1796
(Parents George & Mary Iron of New Inn Yard)

Susanna Iron bp 27.3.1796
(Parents George & Mary Iron of New Inn Yard)

Note

Throughout this entry in the register the name Iron had been amended to Hiron and Sussanna to Hannah. Filed with the Register was a sworn deposition by George Hiron:

"Middlesex To Wit

George Hiron of Nichol Street in the Parish of St Matthew, Bethnal Green in the County of Middlesex and late of Shoreditch in the same County maketh oath and saith that he was present at the Baptism of his Daughter Hannah Hiron who was baptised in 1796 at the Parish Church of St Leonard, Shoreditch and this Deponent saith that his Daughter is by mistake registered as Susanna Iron whereby her true Christian name is Hannah and surname Hiron which name she has always borne.

Public Office, Worship Street
Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex
this 28th day of October 1825
Signed Wm Bennett"

Conclusions

After the change to the Parish Record at St Leonards, Shoreditch, Hannah Hiron married next month on 17.11.1825 (see entry under St Giles, Camberwell)

St Luke Chelsea

Major Somes b 9.9.1804 bp 7.10.1784
(Parents Francis Somes, Victualler of Pennington St & Mary)

St Luke, Old Street, Finsbury

John Somes
Married 13.6.1748
Mary Trimball (Transcription only - see Note)

Note

There is another reference:

London & Surrey Bonds & Allegations 1597-1921

John Somes (age 26)
to marry
Mary Trumball (age 24)

both of St George Parish
at the Parish Church of St Lukes
alleged and sworn by John Somes 9.6.1748

St Martin, Ludgate

Nathaniel Soames bp 8.9.1791
(Parents Nathaniel Soames & Sarah)

St Mary at Lambeth

Sarah Somes bp 21.10.1781
(parents John Somes & Elizabeth)

St Mary, Harrow

Henry Soames (of Parish of St Olave, Old Jewry)
married 18.6.1782
Elizabeth Aldwin

St Mary, Islington

Charles Soames bp 24.10.1793
Harriot Soames bp 27.3.1797
(Parents Henry & Elizabeth Soames)

Elizabeth Soames b 16.6.1797 bp 20.7.1797
(parents Nathaniel & Sarah Soames)

Mary Somes
married 10.7.1808
Heinrich Brecht
Witnesses Jos Richardson & Elizabetrh Soames

Henry Aldwin Soames (of Parish of Stoke Newington)
married 25.4.1809
Ann Eley

Elizabeth Soames
married 4.7.1809
Joseph Richardson
(Witnesses: Heinrich Brecht & Jane Richardson)

Frances Aldwin Soames
married 22.5.1811
Rev. Richard Meade (Clerk, Rector of Horsenden, Bucks)
of Prices Risborough, Bucks
(Witness: Sarah Soames)

St Mary, Rotherhithe

Elizabeth Soames bp 24.4.1748
(Parents John & Elisabeth Soames)

St Mary, Whitechapel

John Somes bp 18.1.1718 in Drum Yard
(parents Christopher & Mary Somes)

John Somes (25)
married 3.5.1776
Jane Wooillhoid/Wooilehoid (25)

Sarah Somes bp 24.5.1778
(parents Jno Geo & Elizabeth Somes of Petticoat Lane)

St Matthew, Bethnal Green

Hannah Somes b 30.5.1828 bp 29.6.1828
(parents Francis Somes, Pawn Broker of Green St & Hannah)

Francis Somes b 6.5.1831 bp 1.6.1831
(parents Francis Somes, Pawn Broker of Green St & Hannah)

St Olave, Old Jewry, London

Nathaniel Soames
married 12.2.1784
Sarah Aldwin

Henry Aldwin Soames bp 16.1.1786
(parents Henry & Elizabeth Soames)

Mary Ann Soames bp 20.11.1788
(Parents Henry & Elizabeth Soames)

St Paul, Shadwell

William Somes bp 11.2.1728 (11 days old)
(parents Samuel Somes, Waterman of Wap. Walk & Ann)

John Soms of Foxes Lane (father John Soms) buried 24.4.1744

Richard Somes bp 15.8.1750 (25 days old)
(parents John Somes, Blacksmith of Love Lane & Elizabeth)

St Saviour, Southwark

John Somes (son of John Somes, Bricklayer) buried 26.9.1753

St Sepulchre, Holborn

John ?Oin Somes of Charterhouse Lane buried 7.6.1731 in (?) Chick

St Sepulchre, London

John Soames bp 29.9.1724
(Parents Samuel & Sarah Somes)

3. Conclusions

The Parish Records provide various options for the parents of Mary & Elizabeth Somes, who both married in St Mary's Islington in 1808 and 1809 respectively.

It is intriguing that one Somes family (John & Elizabeth Somes & Family) lived in Fashion Street, Spitalfields in 1783, a road in which Henry & Mary (Somes) Brecht lived after they got married in 1808 (though Henry lived there before that).

I spent some time trying to link the various entries in the name of Somes and Soames together including Watermen by the name of Somes:

Thames Watermen named Somes

Colin Bower
21 April 2022

Index to Somes Files