Henry Judge is my 5x Great Grandfather. I found out about him when I was going thou some papers that my 2x Great Aunt left me after she died in 1993. I had managed to reseach my family as far back as my 3x Great Grandfather Henry Judge, (I know it gets very confusion with my Judge ancestors), and I had got stuck. Amongst the papers was the marriage certificate of Henry Judge and Mary Frances Oates, which infromed me that his father was a Thomas Judge, whose occupation was that of a baker, because the marriage took place in 1853, I looked at the 1851 Census and found Thomas Judge living with his wife Elizabeth and their four children; Henry, Jane, William and Charles in Samford Street, St Marylebone, Middlesex. It gave his age as 56 and his place of birth as Harrow, Middlesex.
I then went over to the London Metropolotain Achive Centre and looked at the Parish Records for St. Mary Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex and found (after some searching) the baptism entry for a Thomas Judge on 21st February 1796, stating that he was the son of Henry & Dorothy Judge of Harrow.
I then went to the Public Record Office, which used to be based in Chancery Lane, City of London, and found a copy of Pallot's Marriage Index for England: 1780 - 1837 and in there was the entry for a Henry Judge to a Dorothy Pratty held at St George's Hannover Square, Westminster, Middlesex.
I then went over to Westminster Libary and found the Parish Records for St George's Hannover Square and found in the Marriage Register for 1793 the following entry; Henry Judge and Dorothy Pratty, both of this Parish were married in this Church by Banns this twentyfirst Day of May in the year 1793 by me Thos Ash Curate This marriage was solmnized between us }The Mark x of Henry Judge
}Dorothy Pratty
In the presence of {Caleb Greville
{Martha Sunita
It seems from looking at other marriage entries that Caleb Greville was a proffesional witness for the marriages at the time.
On http://www.ancestry.co.uk/ I have uploaded a family tree relating to the Judge Family and having made a connection to an individual who happended to be reasearching the same Henry Judge, they informed me that in 1805 a "Bond in £600 to accept arbitration in disputes. Henry Judge of Harrow, baker to John Read of Wembley, mealman. Signed and sealed by Henry Judge." This record was found at the National Archives, Kew, London.
So it seems that my earliest ancestor that I can confirm is my 5x Great Grandfather Henry Judge, who was born in c.1766 possibly in Harrow or Westminster, Middlesex, he was married on 21st May 1793 to Dorothy Pratty at St George's Hannover Square, Middlesex. They then moved to Harrow where they went on to have seven children; Elizabeth born 1794, Thomas born 1795, Eleanor born 1797, Mary Ann born 1799, Henry born 1802, Jane born 1806 and Charlotte born 1809 all in Harrow and they were all baptised at St Marys Harrow on the Hill, Harrow, Middlesex.
He was employed as a baker, but was not affliated to the Worshipful Company of Bakers, because he was not born or lived within the City of London, so he must of trained at a local bakers either in Harrow or Westminster. He got in dispute with a mealman, a person who dealt with grain. So somebody who was surpling the grain to make his bread.
He moved to Islington, Middlesex sometime in the early 19th century and died c.8th February 1821 whilest living at Wells's Row, Islington, Middlesex, which now might be Wells Terrace, Islington, London. He was buried on 15th February 1821 at St Mary's Church, Islington. The burial entry records that he was 55 years of age, living at Wells's Row and the presiding priest was a Revd W. Denham.
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