Esau Bateup

  General Notes:

THE BATEUP FAMILY





GENERATION 1



Children of Samuel and Elizabeth BATEUP of Brede Sussex



1 Mary; christened 26 Apr 1801 Brede Sussex

2 Charlotte; christened 10 Nov 1804 Brede Sussex***

3 Maria; christened 18 Jan 1807 Brede Sussex

4 Jacob; christened 17 Apr 1809 Brede Sussex*

5 Esau; christened 17 Apr 1809 Brede Sussex

6 Thomas; christened 12 Apr 1812 Brede Sussex**



*Living in Winchelsea Sussex in the 1851 census

**A Thomas BATEUP and wife (32) plus daughter (under 7) sailed to New South Wales, Australia on the Juliana which was wrecked and then the Marayshire

***my ancestor



GENERATION 2



Charlotte BATEUP married Richard BRAGGE in Winchelsea Sussex on 14th August 1836

Richard a widower had previously been married to Mary Ann SAXBY.



The BRAGG family emigrated to New Zealand on board the "Gertrude" in 1841.



This is where my BATEUP line ends.







BACKGROUND ON BREDE

From: http://www.villagenet.co.uk/rotherlevels/villages/brede.html





Brede is a small village on the A28 midway between Hastings and Tenterden.

The village is first mentioned in a charter from the time of King Canute (1016 - 1035). The name is

probably derived from the Anglo-Saxon word "bred" meaning broad. The valley below was completely

filled with sea-water at the time and the valley was broad. It is believed that the valley was filled with sea

water up to Sedlescombe. It is possible that the name came from the "Brid" family who were masters of the

mint at Hastings. The mint was founded by King Aethelstan in 924.



In 1297 on the 9th August, the whole of the channel fleet was inspected by King Edward I about 1 mile to

the east of Brede Bridge.



The Manor of Brede was granted to the Abbey of Fecamp in Normandy, and until 1416, Brede was

controlled by the Abbey. The church was built by the Benidictine monks from the Abbey around 1180.

Very little of the early church remains, and the majority stems from the 12th century.



An interesting tale from the 16th Century is of Sir Goddard Oxenbridge, a giant of a man who was said to

eat a child every night for supper, and who could not be killed by metal, but only by wooden weapons. It is

believed that this story was spread by the smugglers in the area, to scare away the curious from Brede

Place, which was one of their bases. The story ends with a very drunken Sir Goddard being killed with a

wooden saw at Groaning Bridge, between the Church and Brede Place.



Brede was famous for its iron works, and manufactured cannon and shot until the early 1700's, when

gunpowder was manufactured. On 7th March 1808 Brede Gunpowder Mills was destroyed by a large

explosion, ending its production

Esau married Anne Eldridge in Dec 1837 in Rye, East Sussex England. (Anne Eldridge was born in 1815 and died in 1887 in Redfern, Sydney, NSW Australia.)