Edmund Bull & Frances Lock

Isle of Wight

Edmund Bull’s Parents : Edward and Grace Bull

Edward Bull’a family stretches back generations specifically living in the Arreton region of the Isle of Wight. In a previous chapter of the Gray family the Arreton region is known as a rich agricultural farming area. So the Bull family had been generations of agricultural workers and farmers.

Edward and Grace Baker had ten children born between 1794 and 1816, with Edmund being the youngest child. They were:

1. Mary Bull 1794 – 1794
2. William Bull 1798 -1888
3. Anne (Anna) Bull 1891 – 1873
4. Mary Anne Bull 1803 – 1875
5. Edward William Bull 1808 – 1878
6. Caroline Bull 1912 – 1893
7. Elizabeth Bull 1812 (Baptism date)
8. Sarah Bull 1812 (Baptism date)
9. Barnabas Bull (1814 – 1835)
10. Edmund Bull (1816 – 1899)

The records for the occupation of Edward Bull are that he was a ‘yeoman’ who was man holding or owning and working the land for farming or gardening of a small landed estate or freehold ; a ‘farmer’. In this case his abode was ‘Bembridge Farm’ which indicates where they were living.

Edmund Bull’s mother Grace died on 9 March 1847 aged 74 years with the cause recorded as ‘Chronic Bronchitis 6 years’. She was living in Brading on the Isle of Wight with her daughter Present at her death was Jeremiah Woodrow her son in law of Lind St, Ryde, Isle of Wight. Grace Bull is registered as being buried on 13 March 1847 in the Parish of Newchurch, Isle of Wight.

Edmund Bull’s father died before he left the Isle of Wight and after his marriage in 1846 to Frances Lock. Edward Bull a ‘yeoman’ died on 14 November 1841 at Shanklin. The cause of death was ‘Decay of Nature’ or old age, he was 92 years of age. His youngest son Edmund Bull of Shanklin was present at his death. The place of burial is recorded on the Newchurch Parish register where Edward and Grace were married. Although unable to find a burial register record for Edward, they are likely to have been buried together.

Maurice Lock and Ann White – Parents of Ann Lock

The story of Ann Lock’s family is told in the previous chapter Maurice Lock & Ann White – Family

Edmund Bull

Edmund Bull was the youngest son of Edward Bull and Grace Baker. Edward was born on 24 October 1751 at Arreton on the Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England, the son of William Bull and Mary Ann Newens both of whom were also born on the Isle of Wight. Edmund’s mother Grace Baker was born on 9 August 1776 in Shalfleet, Isle of Wight.

Frances and Edmund Bull – Isle of Wight

Frances Lock, the sister of George’s wife Ann Gray nee Lock, married Edmund Bull, a ‘fisherman’, on the Isle of Wight on 6 December 1836.

The next record for Edmund and Frances Bull is the 1841 census where we find them still in Shanklin and Edmund still with the occupation of ‘fisherman’. They have two children Fanny 3 and Ann 2 years of age. Living with the family are Francis Saunders aged 25 years, Ernest Cage ‘Architect’ 30 years and Elizabeth Cage 20 years.

As the records show, Edmund’s father was also a farmer and it is this generational work that would have been passed down that made Edmund who was well qualified for agricultural, farming and gardening work in the new colony of New South Wales.

Frances and Edmund Bull had four children all born on the Isle of Wight:

1. Frances “Fanny” Bull b: 11 Feb 1838, Shanklin, Isle of Wight d: 5 Oct 1895, Carrington, NSW m: Thomas WIlkinson 1858 and Joel James H Tresidder 17 Jan 1861
2. Ann Bull b: 28 Apr 1839, Shanklin, Isle of Wight d: 27 Aug 1896, Blue Gum Flat, Wallsend m: 5 Apr 1859 James Manwaring Ayerst and 3 Sep 1865 William Bains
3. Edmund Ernest Bull b: 6 Nov 1842, Shanklin, Isle of Wight d: 21 Mar 1921, Stroud NSW m: 25 Sep 1860 Hannah Russell and 1898 Alice J (Sanderson) Swindon
4. Phebe Grace Bull b: Mar 1844, Hampshire, Isle of Wight d: 31 Jan 1845, on ship ‘Herald’ enroute to Australia

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