Batten/Rigden
battek
I am in the process of doing my family line and have come to a wall.
Can someone please advise me where to get information about the above families.
They are my great grand parents and the earliest record I can find is their marriage in Lambeth England.
What I am trying to find out is, their respective parentage and anything else such as siblings.
If anyone can give me a lead as to how to go about gettig this information it would be greatly appreciated
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SilverVixen on 2012-04-06 13:04:01When did they get married? you might be able to trace family through census which go from 1841 to 1911 every 10 years.
SilverVixen on 2012-04-07 04:48:02James William Batten married Jane Gardener Rigden 1872
in the UK 1881 census we have a Jane & James living in St George in the East, London with their daughter Fanny. James was born c 1853in Devon he is a Labourer. Jane was born c1859 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire and Fanny was born c1878 in Nottingham. Going with this information I have James Batten born in Devon in the 1861 census living with family as follows:
James c 1831 Plymouth, Devon a Coast Guard Royal Navy
Elizabeth c1832 Plymouth, Devon
James c 1854 Plymouth
William c 1858 Dartmouth, Devon
Elizabeth c 1851 Conway, Caernarvonshire, Wales
battek on 2012-08-27 06:33:56thank you VERY much for the information.It is a great help and hopefully will point me in the right direction.So far in my research I have not got anyone above James and Jane but have come 5 generations down to my Grandchildren.
donnell on 2016-01-29 21:37:02Dear Battek: I think the info from Silver vixen on a James and Jane Batten in 1881 census may be wrong and a red herring. According to the passenger list of the Loch Cree, James and jane Batten came to NZ in 1879 with their 3 daughters: Ida, Helen Gertrude and Isabel jane.......I don't think they had a daughter called Fanny and they would have left by the 1881 census and James Wm was a Surveyor by trade not a labourer. There is another James Wm Batten but he married an Emma Rebecca TODD and also emigrated to NZ in 1879 - I wonder if they were cousins as both James Wm Batten's had daughters called Ida Mary, one b 1870 and one b 1875 in England.
For some reason both James Wm Batten AND Jane Rigden Gardner are very hard to trace b4 their marriage as you have said.
donnell on 2016-01-29 21:50:47Try the 1861 census for North Lane, Westgate, Kent: Jane G Rigden age 1 with her Father Stephen Rigden, Coal Merchant and mother Sarah plus siblings.
donnell on 2016-01-29 21:51:51Sorry 1851 census as above.