On Sarah's marriage cert is a Hotel Keeper.  In 1871 and 1881 census is at Crown Inn, Ashley: in '71 as publican, '81 as Licensed Victualler. In 1851 and 1861 was Ostler in Newmarket.

TFPL in Dec 1988: The odd thing is that RCLPL (1) researched his wife's family extensively, almost completing a soixante, (2) he researched his grandmother Greenwood's family (3) he extensively researched all previous ancestors but (4) he did NOT research his mother's family.  Why not?  (We know his mother sent him away when or before she remarried, to his aunt's at the age of seven, [not true! - TFPL, Nov 2010: he lived with his mother and stepfather until his mother died] but I would still have expected his remarkably high genealogical curiosity to extend to his Bartholomew grandparents.)

Or rather we have no record of any Bartholomew researches...  He could have found something and then destroyed his papers????  Or, even, someone else destroyed the papers?

Though he did obtain a copy of the Times' notice of his mother's remarriage and find and make a note of his step-father's location in 1925.

Weird.

One day I'll follow up the Bartholomews...  (promises, promises!)

In the Berks and Oxon Advertiser obituary on April 13th 1888 for WRL P-L  Mr Bartholomew is listed as one of those in the first Mourning Coach on the way from Wallingford to Whitchurch for the burial.  So he died after 1888...  [Note of Jun 2001: On page 6 of this obit it says that Sarah was the "third daughter of William Bartholomew, Esq., of Ashley, Cambridgeshire", and on page 7 it says that in the Mourning Coach there was Mr Bartholomew.  But it does not say that the former Wm Bartholomew was the late Mr Bartholomew nor that the latter Mr Bartholomew was in fact the former's son, another William Bartholomew.  So the wrong deduction was not unnaturally made.  Wm Bartholomew, Sarah's father, in fact died on 29th August 1885.]

On the 1881 census for the Crown Inn, Newmarket Road, Ashley cum Silverley, Cambridgeshire are the Bartholomew family of husband, wife and daughter, plus a Domestic Servant of 16 years old.:

                 AGE    Occupation             Birthplace

William       63      Licensed Victualler   Scotland
Mary Ann      64      Wife          Chippenham, Cambridge, England
Eliza         20      Daughter      Newmarket, Cambridge, England

Thanks to Alan Puddick's purchase of the 1881 census on CDROM.

On the 1861 census, there were six children at No 2 Turf Terrace, All Saints Parish, Newmarket.  William was an ostler at the Star inn or public house at that time.

Wm was also an ostler at the births of his daughters Sarah Ann in 1851 and Eliza in 1860.

On the 1871 census he was the publican at the Crown Inn, Ashley.  Thomas and Eliza were still living at home, then.  (Where does Thomas come from: he wasn't in the 1861 census, unless Jonathan became Thomas???)

TFPL, 22.6.2001: His death was a mystery as he attended his son-in-law's, WRL P-L, funeral in 1888 but I could not find any death notice after that date.  Eventually this was resolved by realising that it might just have been his son, William, who was at the funeral and, indeed, he was found to have already died on 29th August 1885 (Ref Newmarket 3b 400); now for the burial note...

TFPL, 25 Jul 2001: Received his death certificate, No 400 of the registration district of Newmarket with death in the Grazeley sub-district of Cambridge & Suffolk:
Date & Place: twenty-ninth August 1885, Ashley, Cambridge
Name: William Bartholomew
Sex: male
Age: 67 years
Occupation: Victular [sic]
Cause of death: (rather illegible) Alheriana Calsceroris heammorhage issue kidneys and lungs certified by Wm Godwin Stokes F.R.C.S.
Informant: Eliza Foreman, daughter, present at the death. Ashley, Cambridge
Registration: Thirty first August 1885
Registrar: Wm Harvey
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Feb 2002: Found his birth:

"Wm Bartholomew and Mary Moore, Spouses, had a son born October 5th and baptised the 2nd Nov 1817 and his name is William.
"Witnesses at Baptism:
" Messrs John Begbie and Wm Welch."
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Aug, 2006, TFPL: Found him in the 1841 census aged 20 and an ostler, living at Kingston Yard, Newmarket with his wife Mary, also 20, and daughter Martha aged 1.
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In 1851, there were five children alive with a gap for a deceased on between the second and third, probably an earlier Elizabeth as shown in the BMD indices:

Surname Forename Age Relation  Occupation  Birth Place

Bartholomew William 33 Head Ostler Scotland
Bartholomew Mary Ann 34 Wife - Chippenham, Cambridgeshire
Bartholomew Martha 10 Daur Scholar Kentford, Suffolk
Bartholomew James 8 Son   Scholar  Newmarket, Cambridgeshire
Bartholomew Elizabeth 4 Daur - Newmarket, Cambridgeshire
Bartholomew William 2 Son - Newmarket, Cambridgeshire
Bartholomew Sarah Ann 2 MO  Daur - Newmarket, Cambridgeshire

Ref: HO107/1762/~F197

Address: Church Lane
Parish: All Saints
Registration District: Newmarket
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In 1861, the household was:

Surname  Forename  Age  Relation  Occupation  Birth Place

Bartholomew William 42 Head Ostler Scotland
Bartholomew Mary A 43 Wife Ostler  Chippenham, Cambridgeshire
Bartholomew Martha 21 Daughter Dress Maker  Kentford, Suffolk
Bartholomew Elizabeth 14 Daughter Scholar  New Market, Cambridgeshire
Bartholomew William 12 Son Scholar Newmarket, Cambridgeshire
Bartholomew Sarah A 10 Daughter Scholar  Newmarket, Cambridgeshire
Bartholomew Mary A 8 Daughter Scholar Newmarket, Cambridgeshire
Bartholomew Jonathan 4 Son Scholar Newmarket, Cambridgeshire
Bartholomew Eliza 6M Daughter Newmarket, Cambridgeshire

Ref: RG9/1031/F?

Address: 2 Turf Terrace
Parish: Newmarket All Saints
Registration District: Newmarket
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In 1871, the household was:

Surname  Forename  Age  Relation  Occupation  Birth Place

Bartholomew William   53 Head Publican  Not Known, Scotland
Bartholomew Mary Ann 54 Wife - Chippenham, Cambridgeshire
Bartholomew Thomas 14 Son - Newmarket, -
Bartholomew Eliza 10 Daughter - Newmarket, -

Ref: RG10/1599/F?

Address: Crown Inn
Parish:   Ashley
Registration District: Newmarket
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His will probate:

BARTHOLOMEW William
Personal Estate £1411 15s.
4 March [1886].  The Will with a Codicil of William Bartholomew late of the "Crown" Inn Ashley in the the County of Cambridge Inkeeper who died 29 August 1885 at Ashley was proved at the Principal Registry by
William Reginald Lybbe Powys-Lybbe of the Croft Wallingford in the County of Berks Esquire and Charles
Livermore of the Mill Fordham in the County of Canbridge Miller the Executors.
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All children in the 1861 census, when they lived at 2 Turf Terrace, All Saints parish, Newmarket, Cambs

Their marriage registration index:

Name: Mary Ann Seal
Partner: William Bartholomew
District: Newmarket
Registered: October - December 1839
Volume: 14
Page: 0195

The Marriage Locator site makes this reference to be Chippenham.
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Family Search has these details:

groom's name: William Bartholemew
bride's name: Mary Ann Seal
marriage date: 05 Oct 1839
marriage place: Suffolk County Bts, Suffolk, England
indexing project (batch) number: M13184-1
system origin: England-ODM
source film number: 918538
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FindMyPast has this transcription of the marriage register:

First name(s) WILLIAM
Last name BARTHOLOMEW
Birth year -
Marriage year 1839
Marriage day 5
Marriage month Oct
Spouse's first name(s) MARY ANN
Spouse's last name SEAL
Place CHIPPENHAM
Groom's first name(s) William (x)
Groom's last name BARTHOLOMEW
Groom's marital status bac
Groom's age of full age
Groom's occupation [blank]
Groom's residence of Kentford
Groom's father's first name(s) William
Groom's father's occupation lab
Bride's first name(s) Mary Ann (x)
Bride's last name SEAL
Bride's marital status sp
Bride's age of full age
Bride's occupation [blank]
Bride's residence otp
Bride's father's first name(s) Thomas
Bride's father's occupation lab
By licence or banns by banns
County Cambridgeshire
Country England
Record set Cambridgeshire Marriages
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