Osman Game

Elizabeth Simmonds search for the Game and Adams family (qv) included a particular quest to try to trace the singularly-named "Osman Game". You'd think, wouldn't you, that such a name would be easy meat for even an average internet search engine?

But dear old Google and Yahoo have really struggled, as has Ancestry and all the other proprietory genealogical programmes.

This is what Elizabeth has found, and the little that I have been able to add:

In 1881, Ezra Game - Silk Weaver - and his family were at 65 Melford Road, Sudbury.
Apart from Mary Ann, the family consisted of Virginia C. E. (4), Mabel H. (3) and Esma D. (1) The first two children had been born in Glemsford, but Esma in Sudbury.

A birth: March 1/4, 1882, Sudbury district - the names are given as "Osmond Otho" Game.

By 1891, the family was back in Glemsford, on Hunts Hill, but had probably moved back sometime before, as son Osman, 9, is shown as born in Glemsford.

In 1901, Osman Game was living in Braintree with his uncle Charles Game and Aunt Ruth. Charles was an Engineer in the Silk Factory, Osman was a "Jacquard ?Maker? Card Cutter" - part of the silk manufacturing process.

Apart from the Census, the only vague reference I have found is in the online registers of marriages.

In the March 1/4 of 1918, an Osman Game married someone called Marie M Pallett-Bricknells (or Bricknelle), in Godstone in Surrey. The name being so "individual", we assume this is our Game.

Elizabeth has been told that he had been a school master, but where and when and is this true –who knows. He was in the Dorset Regiment during WW1, in fact he came home from South America to enlist - what was he doing in South America? He married when he was a 2nd Lt. in the Dorset Regiment.

So: if anyone else can help, we'd be really grateful.

SC

Game and Adams Families

In an earlier entry, Elizabeth Simmonds was asking for any information about the background to the Game and Adams families, in particular Virginia Game who was married to Alfred Poole Adams, and the family, in general, of Ezra Game. The name of Osman Game was of particular interest.

I am pleased to be able to report some success with this search.

We can now track the Game family back to the 1841 Census, when Charles and Ann Game and their family were living on Fair Green. Charles was a Silk Weaver. Also in the same household was an 80 year old James Game (probably Charles's father) - so with a click of the mouse button we have a possible trace back to 1761-ish.
Throughout the 19th Century, this Game family and its branches seem to have moved between Glemsford, Colchester and Sudbury, but always with a link to the Silk industry.

A specific answer to Elizabeth's question emerged: in the June ¼ of 1896, Virginia Clementine Elizabeth Game (daughter of Ezra) married Alfred Poole Adams.
In 1901, they lived at 1 St Leonards Rd, Colchester, with their children, Virginia E., Esma D. and Mabel H. (4, 2 and 3 months). The latter two had been born in Colchester, while the young Virginia was born in Glemsford. Alfred was a "Journeyman Carpenter".

I couldn't find the Adams family for certain in 1841, but in 1851 Thomas (60) and Hannah (59) Adams were living on Chequers Lane, with their children Susannah (18) and Thomas (16), and their grandson Alfred (6). Thomas was a "Master Carpenter, employing two men". Hannah was a "Bread baker". Both were Glemford-born. Susannah was a "hand loom weaver" and Thomas (jr) "carpenter's son".

Immediately next door lived George and Sophia Adams, with Ellen, Lavinia, Andrew and Emma - 8, 5, 3 and 1. George was a "Journeyman Carpenter". I wonder if Alfred was George and Sophia's son, shipped next door to create space!

After 1851, the Adams family is relatively easy to trace, and remained, for the most part, in Glemsford with strong links to Carpentry.

This is very much a digest of what Elizabeth knew and what I have been able to add, but if anyone else has an interest in these family groups, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Meanwhile, if anyone knows anything about one Osman Game, we shall be particularly interested!

SC

Bonny Family

I have recently been searching census records for my sister-in-law who is researching my husband's family.

Their great grandmother Ellen was the daughter of Thomas Clark(e) of Bures Hamlet (born in Bures Hamlet) who married Sarah, born in Glemsford around 1840.
The most likely candidate in the 1841 and 1851 censuses is Sarah Bonny, whose parents were both silk weavers in 1841 and whose mother was still a silk weaver in 1851 while her father had become a coal porter. In 1851 Sarah, aged 11, was employed as a silk winder.
It is possible that Thomas Clarke her husband may have been an offshoot of the Glemsford Clarkes, though born elsewhere, since he married a Glemsford girl.

Has anyone else come across the Bonny family. I will be looking on the site for the history of silk weaving in Glemsford.

Diana Crane
Contactable through me, as usual