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The
BATMAN / BATTMAN / BATEMAN Families of Kingswood and Bitton, Bristol, England
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Distribution
of the family name in 1881
showing the Bristol area to be one of several areas where the name is most
common. In modern times, 2000-2005 data (below), this is still apparent.
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A Bristol / Kingswood Local One-Name Study of more than 1440
individuals of the name available on my Ancestry tree
Roots traced back to William BATMAN, a Husbandman of North Stoke,
a village east of Bristol. He left a Will dated 25 Mar 1586 which suggests he
may have been born c1482.
William is apparently
my 12xGGF.
[Understandably the
relationships in this period are somewhat difficult and unreliable, so any
additional insight to those presented would be appreciated.]
The following
outline is my immediate ancestral family (most recent couple of generations)
if relatives today would like to get in touch:
· George
BATEMAN (1837-1919) of Bristol & Elizabeth OSBORNE (1833-91) of Bristol are my 2xGGPs. They
married in 1859 in Bristol. They had at least 14 known children with the
following suspected descendant families:
o
Joseph BATEMAN
(1860), m. 1884 Keynsham = Ellen Ann JONES. Children at Keynsham &
Barton Regis:
§ Walter
Victor BATEMAN (1886), m. 1912 = Flossie A COPP.
Children in Bristol & Keynsham:
§ Olive
L BATEMAN (1913);
§ Frederick
H BATEMAN (1915);
§ Catherine
BATEMAN (1918);
§ Eric
J BATEMAN (1920);
§ Henry
BATEMAN (1887);
§ Alice
BATEMAN (1890);
§ Fred
BATEMAN (1892), m. 1911 = Matilda E I DONNELLY.
Children in Bristol:
§ David
W BATEMAN (1911)
§ Reginald
W BATEMAN (1913)
§ Dorothy
M BATEMAN (1916);
o
Mary Ann Julia BATEMAN (1861);
o
Alice BATEMAN
(1862);
o
Emily Ann BATEMAN
(1863), m. 1884 = Walter Robert LANE (my
GGPs);
o
Nellie BATEMAN
(1864);
o
Agnes Annie BATEMAN
(1866), m. 1885 = KING or SMITH;
o
Harriet Maria BATEMAN
(twin 1868);
o
Ellen Maria BATEMAN
(twin 1868), m. 1891 = John STONE;
o
Emily BATEMAN
(1869);
o
Florence BATEMAN
(1870);
o
Mary Ann BATEMAN
(1872-76);
o
Hester Ann BATEMAN
(1873), m. 1896 = TANNER or WREN;
o
Mary Ann BATEMAN
(1877) aka Polly BATEMAN;
o
Bertha Elizabeth BATEMAN
(1881), m. 1907 = William BYATT;
Map
showing the Bristol coalfield in red
Emigrant coalminers who moved from Mangotsfield to
Risca, Glamorgan now part of Gwent, South Wales. Descendants of Isaac s/o Abraham
BATEMAN and Hannah LUCAS who, during his marriage to Sarah BENNETT moved from
the Kingswood area to Machen and Risca. Their fifth child was born there in
1810. Several BATEMAN families were living in Bateman's Row in 1861, a street
most likely named after the mining family.
The outline above is
indicative only and not necessarily fully correct or complete.
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Noted Historical Family Connection:
The
Reverend Robert James
BATEMAN, my 5C4R went down with the "SS Titanic".
He is mentioned in the book and film "A Night to Remember" where he led
some passengers in prayers and conducted the band in playing Nearer My God To Thee (his
favourite hymn) as the ship went down. The Oscar award-winning film
"Titanic" directed by James CAMERON has a similar scene, although
the characters are not identified. He was washed overboard and drowned. See his reference also in Encyclopedia Titanica
The following is extracted from press reports:
JACKSONVILLE - Dr. Robert James Bateman
became a footnote to history
when the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. But
Bateman's death on April 15, 1912, is only a postscript in the life of an
Englishman who made a lasting impression on his adopted home of
Jacksonville and in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Baltimore, Maryland, where he
served as a minister, evangelist, and a champion of the disadvantaged.
Bateman was already a successful minister and evangelist when he made a
trip in the spring of 1912 to his native Staple Hill (Bristol), England. He
visited his mother's grave, studied a successful orphanage in Bristol, and
escorted his wife's sister, Ada E. Balls, on a visit to
Jacksonville.
They boarded the Titanic in Southampton, England. Just hours before the
accident, Bateman conducted a church service for the second-class
passengers, ending with his favorite song,
"Nearer my God to Thee," according to accounts by Mrs. Balls. It
was the same song survivors recall a band playing on the sinking vessel,
which was about the size of today's aircraft carriers.
"Brother forced me into the last boat, saying he would follow me
later. I believe I was the last person to leave the ship. Brother threw his
overcoat over my shoulders as the boat was being lowered away and as we
neared the water, he took his black necktie and threw it to me with the
words, 'Goodbye, God bless you!," she said.
At a memorial service held on April 21, 1912, Bateman was remembered for
his work at the Central City Mission in Jacksonville.
Bateman was ordained in the ministry when he was 21 and served as a pastor
in Wales, Ireland, England and the United States, according to an article
written by Jacksonville historian Edward A. Mueller and published in the
"Titanic Commutator," in 1987 by The Titanic Historical Society.
For a while, Bateman worked with his father as a stone mason in the United
States before returning to the ministry in Baltimore, where he served as
superintendent of the Florence Crittendon
Mission. He moved to Knoxville, Tenn., in the late 1890s, where he founded
the non-denominational Peoples Tabernacle. He also was known for his work
as an evangelist.
After moving to Jacksonville, Bateman started the Central City Mission.
Twelve days after the disaster, Bateman's body was plucked from the icy
Atlantic, the 174th recovered. He was identified by his gold watch and
chain, a Masonic charm pin, fountain pen, pipe lighter, and gold cuff
links.
Bateman was given a hero's funeral with 11 ministers, according to an
account in The Florida Times-Union.
He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in an unmarked grave. A nearby cenotaph
reads, "Dr. R.J. Bateman. Born Oct. 14, 1860. Died Apr. 15, 1912. He
lost his life in the wreck of the S.S. Titanic." ---
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KINGSWOOD & BITTON - GENERAL LOCAL HISTORY
The Kingswood miners were a rough and tough
lot. John WESLEY made a name for himself in the early days of Methodism. The following is extracted from Bristol and
Avon FHS Journal "Parish, Chapelry and Hamlet: The Bitton Area and
Its Records" by M. McGREGOR (Asst.
Archivist, BRO):
Parish of Bitton: mother church of St. Mary.
Within the parish: Chapelries of Hanham and Oldland, where baptisms and
burials could be performed (marriages to 1754 only). One register covered
both chapelries, entries being marked 'at Hanham' or 'at Oldland'. Later
elevated to status of independent parishes which led to individual records.
The old register was not split, but passed to Hanham. Hanham became a
separate parish in 1844.
Hamlets
of Hanham and Oldland had separate civil identity since 1601. Ecclesiastical
parishes not established for a further two hundred years. St Anne was not
formed until 1861. As a chapelry of Bitton its registers run from 1813, but
in combination with Hanham from 1572; civilly distinct since Tudor times.
Bishop Transcripts: to 1813 are held at
Bristol RO. Bitton and its chapelries are entered on the same sheet. Parish
lay in the rural deanery of Hawkesbury, which until 1826 formed part of Gloucester
Diocese. BT's sent to Gloucester. From 1836 Hawkesbury was in the Bristol
Archdeanery, and records were transferred to Bristol. Post-1813 BT's bound
into annual volumes with other Gloucs. parishes remain in Gloucester.
Holy Trinity, Kingswood consecrated in 1820.
Christ Church, Hanham consecrated 1841.
St Barnabas, Warmley 1855.
Ref: ELLACOMBE, Rev. H T "The History of the Parish of Bitton in the
County of Gloucester" Exeter, 1881.
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