Susan Babbs Eesley
also known as Susan Babbs, maiden; 'Susannah' in some baptism records
b. ~1801, Charlecote, Warwickshire
Susan Babbs married John Eesley at Charlecote in May 1819 and almost certainly never left the Warwickshire–Oxfordshire borderland; the 1841 and 1851 censuses find her in Old Stratford with what was, by Victorian standards, a large surviving brood. Her maiden surname is sometimes written Babbs in marriage records and (mistakenly) as Bubb in the family memory — the Oxford library research notes settle the spelling as Babbs.
Two of her sons crossed the Atlantic into the milling trade: Albert Robert Eesley went to Scotland to work in the Goldie flour mill, and John F. Eesley went to America, eventually founding the Sunshine Flour Mill (J. F. Eesley Milling Co.) in Plainwell, Michigan.
Her parents and earlier life are not yet documented in this archive.
Appears in
- Eesley Family History (1985) — register
- Eesley Line Research Notes — Oxford Public Library — ancestor-sketch