Wade & Webb Family History

James Marritt?–?

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Documents (1)
  4. Open questions
  5. Searches made
  6. Notes

Birth

Not recorded.

Marriages

  1. Date unknown spouse unknown

Death and burial

  1. Date unknown Death: place not recorded

Family

Parents
Not recorded
Spouse
Spouse unknown
Children
William Marritt 1826–?

Line of descent Wade line

  1. James Marritt
  2. William Marritt, son
  3. Ellen Mathilda Marritt, daughter
  4. Frank Edward Wade, son
  5. William Albert Webb Wade, son

2nd great-grandfather of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

James Marritt is known from a single record: the marriage register of the parish church of Hendon, Middlesex, England, in which his son William, a bachelor and a shepherd living at Hendon, married Eliza Keel, a spinster of the same parish, on 25 December 1857.1 The register names the groom's father as "James Marrott" and gives his rank or profession as labourer; the clergyman wrote the family name as Marrott, and the groom signed it the same way.1 The FamilySearch tree, which spells the name Marritt, records James as the father of William Marritt, born in 1826 at Ravensden, Bedfordshire, and gives no date or place for James's own birth, marriage or death, or the name of his wife.2 Inference The register does not say whether James was still living in 1857; registers of the period often named a father without noting that he had died, so the entry is not proof that he was alive.1

William Marritt and Eliza Keel had at least seven children, born between about 1857 and 1875: Elizabeth Jane, Frederick, Frank, Catherine Alice, Ada Eliza, Edith Alice and Ellen Mathilda.3 The family lived at Loughton, Essex, by 1871, and several of the daughters later settled in Brooklyn, New York.4 No newspaper search has been made for James himself, since with no year of birth or death in the tree there is nothing to bound one.5

Documents

  1. 25 December 1857 Marriage of William Marritt and Eliza Keel, Hendon, 1857 Hendon parish register (Church of England), Middlesex · image

Open questions

  • Possible leads (2026-11-09, Internet Archive): a James Marritt enrolled as a volunteer in a Bedfordshire muster roll on 29 May 1824 (Bedfordshire muster rolls 1539-1831), and a James Marritt of Great Gransden (Cambridgeshire, on the Bedfordshire border) who married Ann Giddings on 20 January 1785. If James is William Marritt's father (William born at Ravensden, Bedfordshire, 1826), the 1824 volunteer is the better candidate; the Ravensden parish register (baptism of William, 1826) would name the father.

Searches made

  1. 2026-11-08Bulk review of Matt's OneDrive genealogy folder (Phase 3): all documents transcribed and compared with the tree1 document(s) name this person; see Documents above. Conflicts and new facts are in each document record and in research/sources/document-review-2026-11-08.md
  2. 2026-11-08Newspaper search plannot run: the tree has no birth or death year to bound a search
  3. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "James Marritt"19 pages; first: [The War Cry, 1918, p. ](https://archive.org/details/war-cry-1918_05_11M?q=%22James%20Marritt%22); [Newmarket Era, n.d., p. ](https://archive.org/details/NewmarketEra_641?q=%22James%20Marritt%22); [Newmarket Era, n.d., p. ](https://archive.org/details/NewmarketEra_532?q=%22James%20Marritt%22)
  4. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "James Marritt" (19 pages)All 19 reviewed: James Marritt of Great Gransden, Cambridgeshire, married Ann Giddings 20 Jan 1785 (Cambridgeshire parish registers, marriages); a James Marritt in a Bedfordshire volunteer muster roll, enrolled 29 May 1824; a 1666 London hearth tax and St Botolph Bishopsgate entries; Salvation Army (1918), Ontario, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia namesakes; James Marritt Ives and James Marritt Hait. None can be identified as him without his dates; the Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire entries are possible leads only (William Marritt was born at Ravensden, Bedfordshire, 1826).
  5. 2026-11-09Internet Archive hits assessed: 1 searchNo match; two possible leads (Bedfordshire muster roll 1824, Great Gransden marriage 1785).
  6. 2026-11-09DPLA: "James Marritt"no matches
  7. 2026-11-09DPLA assessment: 1 searchNo match: no hits.

Notes

  1. Marriage of William Marritt and Eliza Keel, Hendon, 1857, Hendon parish register (Church of England), Middlesex: No. 169, December 25th, William Marrott, full age, Bachelor, Shepherd, Hendon, father James Marrott, Labourer; Eliza Keel, full age, Spinster, Hendon; signed William Marrott Marritt Keel Marriage Record: Marritt Keel Marriage, image attached to the tree back to the text
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile P912-SYS: James Marritt, no events but death (deceased); son William Marritt FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GHY8-937 (their page): born 1826, Ravensden, Bedfordshire; father James Marritt back to the text
  3. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GHY8-937 (their page): children Elizabeth Jane (1858), Frederick R (1860), Frank (1866), Catherine Alice (1870), Ada Eliza (1873), Edith Alice and Ellen Mathilda (1875) 1942-06-02-elizabeth-marritt-death-certificate: Elizabeth J. Marritt, born Aug. 28, 1857 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GMST-6LB (their page): born 8 Jul 1875 back to the text
  4. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GHY8-937 (their page): residence 1871, Loughton, Essex 1881-census-eliza-marritt-household: Eliza Marritt household, Easton Cottage, Loughton 1942-06-03-obituary-for-elizabeth-j-marritt: 332 Greene Avenue, sisters Mrs. Edith A. Frost and Mrs Ada M. Darrow back to the text
  5. Research log, searches made: newspaper search plan not run: the tree has no birth or death year to bound a search FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GHY8-937 (their page): born 1826, Ravensden, Bedfordshire back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to James Marritt (1)
  1. Marritt Keel Marriage