Wade & Webb Family History

Frederick R Marritt1860–?

Loughton · Laughton

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

Birth

  1. 1860 Loughton, Essex, England, United Kingdom
  2. 5 Feb 1860 Christening: Essex, England, United Kingdom 1, 2

Marriages

Not recorded.

Death and burial

  1. Date unknown Death: place not recorded

Family

Parents
William Marritt 1826–?
Eliza Keel 1840–1925

Line of descent Wade line

  1. Frederick R Marritt
  2. Brother of Ellen Mathilda Marritt
  3. Frank Edward Wade, son
  4. William Albert Webb Wade, son

Granduncle of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Frederick Marritt, a son of William Marritt and Eliza Keel, was baptised in Essex, England, on 5 February 1860; the Essex parish register enters him as Frederick William Marrott and names his parents as William and Eliza Marrott.1 The FamilySearch tree names him Frederick R. Marritt and gives his birth as 1860 at Loughton, Essex, without a source for the place.2 Inference The baptism's middle name, William, and the tree's initial R. cannot both be right, and the register, made at the time, is the better evidence; the source of the "R." is not known.2 The census of England and Wales taken in 1861 lists him as Frederick Marritt in his father's household, which the tree places at Laughton, Sussex, a name easily confused with Loughton; in 1871 he was in the household of William Merritt, as the index spells it, at Loughton, Essex.3 He was not in his mother's household at Loughton in 1881.4 His mother and sisters later settled in Brooklyn, New York, but nothing in hand shows that Frederick emigrated, and searches of the Chronicling America newspaper collection for "Frederick Marritt" and "Frederick R Marritt" between 1875 and 1941 found nothing.5 Inference Six Marritts cited as heirs at law of his sister Elizabeth Jane Marritt in 1942 may include children of Frederick or of his brother Frank, but no record yet connects them with either man.6

Open questions

  • Did he emigrate? Born 1860 at Loughton, Essex; his mother and sisters came to Brooklyn in the 1880s but nothing places Frederick in America. English censuses 1871–1911 and passenger lists would settle it; until then American newspaper searches are unbounded and the Chronicling America results (2026-11-08) were empty or noise.

Searches made

  1. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: "Frederick Marritt", 1875–1941no matches
  2. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: "Frederick R Marritt", 1875–1941no matches
  3. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: "F R Marritt", 1875–1941857 pages; first: [Fulton County tribune (Wauseon, Ohio), 1916-02-04, p. 4](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87076552/1916-02-04/ed-1/?sp=4); [Evening times-Republican (Marshalltown, Iowa), 1919-05-14, p. 09](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85049554/1919-05-14/ed-1/?sp=9); [The Chapel Hill weekly (Chapel Hill, N.C.), 1938-02-18, p. 4](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn92073229/1938-02-18/ed-1/?sp=4)
  4. 2026-11-08Assessment: Chronicling America: "Frederick Marritt" and "Frederick R Marritt", 1875–1941No matches. Nothing in the tree places Frederick (b. 1860 Loughton, Essex) in the United States: his mother and four sisters emigrated in the 1880s, but his own residence is unknown. Open question whether he emigrated at all.
  5. 2026-11-08Assessment: Chronicling America: "F R Marritt", 1875–1941Uninformative: 857 pages, nationwide, with the initials dropped (effectively "Marritt", which also catches OCR noise). The first 10 snippets (Ohio, Iowa, North Carolina, Kansas, Montana, Wyoming, Washington, Alaska, South Carolina) show no Marritt at all; not reviewed further.

Sources

Every FamilySearch record attached to Frederick R Marritt.

  1. 5 Feb 1860Frederick William Marrott, "England, Essex, Parish Registers, 1538-1997"
  2. 1861Frederick Marritt, "England and Wales, Census, 1861"
  3. 1871Fredrick Merritt, "England and Wales, Census, 1871"

Notes

  1. "England, Essex, Parish Registers, 1538-1997", FamilySearch, Frederick William Marrott, 5 Feb 1860. Record: Frederick William Marrott, Essex parish registers, 5 Feb 1860 "England, Essex, Parish Registers, 1538-1997", FamilySearch, William Marrott in entry for Frederick William Marrott, 5 Feb 1860. Record: William Marrott in entry for Frederick William Marrott "England, Essex, Parish Registers, 1538-1997", FamilySearch, Eliza Marrott in entry for Frederick William Marrott, 5 Feb 1860. Record: Eliza Marrott in entry for Frederick William Marrott back to the text
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile P912-T4L: Frederick R Marritt, birth 1860, Loughton, Essex; christening 5 Feb 1860 "England, Essex, Parish Registers, 1538-1997", FamilySearch, Frederick William Marrott, 5 Feb 1860. Record: Frederick William Marrott back to the text
  3. "England and Wales, Census, 1861", FamilySearch, Frederick Marritt in entry for William Marritt, 1861. Record: Frederick Marritt in entry for William Marritt, 1861 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile P912-T4L: residence 1861, Laughton, Sussex; 1871, Loughton, Essex "England and Wales, Census, 1871", FamilySearch, Fredrick Merritt in entry for William Merritt, 1871. Record: Fredrick Merritt in entry for William Merritt, 1871 back to the text
  4. 1881-census-eliza-marritt-household: Eliza Marritt household: Catherine Alice, Ada Eliza, Edith Alice and Ellen Mathilda only back to the text
  5. 1891-11-07-wade-thompson-social-item: Mr. and Mrs. William Thompson ... Edith and Nellie Thompson, Brooklyn, 1891 1942-06-03-obituary-for-elizabeth-j-marritt: 332 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn Research log, searches made: Chronicling America, Frederick Marritt and Frederick R Marritt, 1875-1941: no matches; open question: did he emigrate? back to the text
  6. 1942-08-03-william-h-wade-notice-of-will: NELLIE MARRITT ROGERS, ARTHUR MARRITT, EDITH MARRITT SKERMAN, MABEL MARRITT STEWART, LESLIE MARRITT, JOHN MARRITT; notes: presumably children of her brothers Frederick and Frank back to the text