THE CUSS FAMILIES OF ASHTON KEYNES
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NICHOLAS CUSS & JOAN of Stanton Fitzwarren
d.1587 Will
Isabell
Joane m.Leonard Prydie 24.04.1575 Stanton Fitzwarren
Margaret xx.02.1553 m.John Horton 14.01.1580 Stanton Fitzwarren
Adam 28.09.1555 Stanton Fitzwarren m.Susan Squire 09.06.1581 Stanton Fitzwarren
Alice 31.10.1561 Stanton Fitzwarren
Richard 1563 Stanton Fitzwarren d.
ADAM CUSS & SUSAN SQUIRE m.09.06.1581 Stanton Fitzwarren
d.1604
Susanna 10.11.1582 m.Thomas Head 18.01.1602
Nicholas 21.02.1583 d.07.08.1585
Francis 1585 m.Margaret Richards 17.01.1610/1 Ashton Keynes
John 30.03.1586 d.1600
Thomas 18.12.1589 m.Elinor
Nicholas 1595 m.Margaret
NICHOLAS CVSE & MARGARETT
d.11.12.1638 AK d.04.06.1640
William 08.04.1615 AK m.1)Jayne Casye 09.05.1640 2)Joan Tayler 14.10.1656
FRANNCES CUSSE 1585 & MARGARET RICHARDS m.17.01.1610/1 Ashton Keynes
d.10.12.1658 d.28.12.1649
Nicholas 24.02.1615/6 m.Dorothy Millard 13.07.1646
Margarett 11.11.1619 m.Griffin Bradley 20.01.1658?
Richard ~1621 m.??Agnis 1632
WILLIAM CUSSE & 1)JAYNE CASYE m.09.05.1640 2)JOAN TAYLER m.14.10.1656
d.08.07.1659 d.29.07.1656 d.26.03.1667
Henry twin 26.03.1641 d.19.03.1640/1 previous birth?
Edmund twin 26.03.1641 d.1670
Winny 16.04.1642or3
Thomas 14.03.1649/50 m.Mary went to Cricklade
John 26.03.1653 m.Elizabeth went to Cricklade
William 19.05.1655 m.Katherine went to Cricklade
RIC CUSS & ??Agnis 1632 Swindon
Francis 04.08.1647
NICHOLAS CUSSE & DOROTHY MILLARD m.13.07.1646
d.23.01.1679/80 d.09.09.1694
John 27.03.1649/50
Ruth? 1652
Edmund 30.09.1653
Margreat 10.06.1655
?? & MARGREATT CUSSE
Mary xx.09.1679
William 25.03.1684/85 m.Mary Hancock 12.04.1710
Robert Kimsford 28.05.1693
WILLIAM CUSS & MARY HANCOCK m.12.04.1710
d.25.06.1740
William 27.12.1710 m.Mary Pinnell 01.02.1734/5
Mary 29.08.1712 d.22.09.1712
Thomas 21.11.1714 m.Mary Carter 23.09.1740
George? 1715
John 02.04.1716
Edward 10.11.1717 m.Betty Millard 03.08.1742
Robert 25.09.1719 d.04.12.1719
Robert 09.10.1720 d.25.10.1720
Charles 23.06.1723
Jacob 06.01.1725/26 d.09.01.1725/6
Mary? 1728
JOHN CUSSE & ANNE
John 01.02.1714 Leigh
WILLIAM CUSS & MARY PINNEL m.01.02.1734/5 IGI not found AK
Mary 12.10.1735 m.Henry Cooper 18.08.1760 Leigh?
Edward 11.09.1737 m.Sarah Kilmaster 10.02.1759
GEORGE CUSS & ANN CARLICK m.10.12.1738
d.24.03.1789
Mary 11.11.1739 d.10.01.1739/40
Jonathan 01.02.1740/1 d.27.02.1741/2?
Charles 28.01.1741/2 d.21.01.1797
Jonathan 26.05.1745 m.Betty Woodward 17.11.1766
George 30.11.1746 m.Elizabeth Telling 21.04.1772
Robert 20.11.1748 m.Elizabeth Bassington 09.10.1769
Mary 24.03.1750/1 d.24.02.1753
Mary 17.06.1753
THOMAS CUSS & MARY CARTER m.23.09.1740
d.28.01.1767 d.12.07.1772
Anne 13.12.1741 m.John Mason 20.03.1781
Thomas 12.02.1743/4
John 02.02.1745/6 d.08.11.1746
Alice 27.09.1747
John 11.11.1750 m.Sarah Rowley d.02.03.1824
Mary 07.03.1753 d.18.03.1753
William 24.03.1754 m.Sarah? d.10.01.1815
Mary 26.03.1758
Isaac 23.11.1760 m.Pricilla Weaver 20.06.1785 then Ann Brain 1802
EDWARD CUSS & BETTY MILLARD m.03.08.1742
d.13.06.1790 d.24.04.1755
Mary 27.02.1742/3
Ann 03.06.1744
William 21.12.1745
Henry 31.12.1749
EDWARD CUSS & SARAH KILMASTER m.10.02.1759
Honor 21.06.1752
Ciscely 06.04.1755 d.04.08.1755
Edward ?7.09.1759 m.Mary Edwards 14.10.1777
EDMOND CUSS & ?? of Maysey Hampter/Maisey Hampton GLS
Betty 20.03.1767 m.William Stratford 11.07.1799?
John 20.05.1770 m.Sarah Phelps widow 16.12.1804 d.25.04.1823
ROBERT CUSS & ELIZABETH BASSINGTON m.09.10.1769
John d.18.04.1771
JONATHON CUSS & BETTY WOODWARD m.17.11.1766 Somerford Keynes
d.20.06.1820 d.14.02.1826
William 22.09.1767 Somerford Keynes
Ann 10.05.1772 children bb d.1810
Jonathan 30.07.1780
Sarah 21.04.1783
James 14.05.1786
Susanna 06.09.1789
Jane 24.06.1792 d.21.10.1819, 27
GEORGE CUSS & ELIZABETH TELLING m.21.04.1772
d.11.05.1828
John 28.06.1772 d.25.04.1823
Ann 10.04.1774 d.05.07.1776
George 04.12.1776
Henry 29.05.1779 m.Hannah Barnes 15.10.1804
Elizabeth 20.01.1782 d.11.02.1782
Eliz (Betty) 24.08.1783 m.John Lea 12.10.1805
Judith 28.05.1786 m.Charles Turner 03.11.1807 Leigh
Charlotte 14.04.1789 m.George Blackford 17.12.1809 Oaksey
Joanna 21.02.1793
William 20.12.1795 m.Sarah Pool 14.10.1816
WILLIAM CUSS & SARAH COVE m.05.10.1783
d.18.02.1800
John 25.11.1773
Rebecca 07.11.1784
Mary 28.02.1787
Jane 31.05.1789 2 bb children never married 1851c
William 23.10.1791 m.Sarah Wilkins 15.10.1815
Thomas 28.08.1797 d.04.09.1797
Thomas 21.07.1799 never married 1851c
JOHN CUSS & SARAH ROWLEY m.24.03.1776
d.02.03.1824
Alices 27.08.1778 d.24.06.1786
Ann 27.02.1780 m.John Mason 13.10.1804
Elizabeth 10.03.1782 m.Thomas Telling 26.07.1801 d.22.03.1857
EDWARD CUSS & MARY EDWARDS m.14.10.1777
ISAAC CUSS & PRISCILLA WEAVER m.20.06.1785
d.22.12.1810 d.09.02.1800
Sarah 29.09.1785
William 10.04.1787 d.02.10.1788
Oliffe 26.10.1788 d.03.12.1789
Olive 2nd 02.06.1791
Elizabeth 09.05.1793 m.Henry Telling 05.03.1810
Jane 10.09.1797
?? CUSS & ???
Harry Cuss abt 1797 m.Sarah Keen 21.01.1817 (Possibly from Down Ampney)
?? & ANN CUSS
d.01.09.1810
William 17.05.1795 d.04.08.1795
John 01.05.1808 d.26.06.1808
?? & MARY CUSS
Ann 25.09.1796
ISAAC CUSS widow & ANN BRAIN spinster m.18.10.1802
d.22.12.1810
Henry BRAIN bb 28.06.1801 m.Sarah Kilmaster 29.05.1826
Mary 02.10.1803 m.John Curtis 20.08.1831
James 26.01.1806 d.28.08.1819
Thomas 02.10.1808
HENRY CUSS & HANNAH BARNES m.15.10.1804
d.Aft 1841 ?Sep 1849 d.Aft 1841
Elizabeth 17.02.1805 m.William Large 17.04.1828 d.30.01.1860 S.Cerney
Sarah 05.07.1807 d.16.12.1828
George 27.08.1809 m.Emma c.1836
Henry 17.05.1812 m.Mary Ann Ellison 27.09.1832
?? & JUDITH CUSS
Elizabeth 26.01.1806 m.Henry Cuss 05.02.1827
JOHN CUSS (1770) & SARAH PHELPS (w) m.16.12.1804 Butcher
d.23.04.1823, 53 d.24.06.1831, 58 (grave)
Henry 28.09.1806 m.1)Elizabeth Cuss 05.02.1827 2)Hannah Marie Luckett 1844
Rosanna 24.07.1808 m.William Scrivens 13.10.1829 Leigh
Elizabeth 08.04.1810 m.John Scrivens
John 27.10.1811 d.29.05.1813
George 1813? IGI
William 28.11.1819 d.11.02.1833
?? & ANN CUSS née BRAIN, widow
John 20.06.1813
Ann 17.03.1816 children bb
?? & JANE CUSS single
Sarah 02.04.1815 William Price cited
Mary 29.03.1818 ?m.William Musty 24.11.1844
Ann 28.01.1821
Elizabeth 12.03.1826
WILLIAM CUSS b.1791 & SARAH WILKINS m.15.10.1815
William 05.05.1816
John 24.05.1818 m.Elizabeth went to Siddington?
Jane 09.02.1821 child Thomas 1837
Thomas 23.05.1824
Isaac 25.03.1827 m.Jane?
Sarah Margaret 20.12.1829
George 10.12.1831 d.08.02.1833
Stephen 10.02.1833 m.Mary Ann Selby 20.12.1859 went to Wooton U Edge
Samuel Sutton 25.02.1838 m.Maria Hannah Crew 01.12.1861 went to Wooton U Edge
George 28.02.1841
WILLIAM CUSS b.1795 & SARAH POOL m.14.10.1816 see Census 1851 and marriages
d.10.08.1851, 56
Martha 26.06.1822 m.Richard Painter 09.12.1839
Ann 24.12.1826 m.John Glass 27.12.1849
All the above families listed as William and Sarah only guesswork and census for groups!
HARRY CUSS ~1797 & SARAH KEEN (parents consent) m.21.01.1817
d.bef.1838 deserted family 1818 d.1871
Maria 01.03.1818 m.1)John Godwin 22.08.1838
Sarah later married William Boulton 22.08.1838 and Henry Stevens 1846
?? & HANNAH CUSS
Henry 02.08.1818 d.13.08.1818
HENRY CUSS & ELIZABETH CUSS m.05.02.1827 2)H.Maria Luckett Dec 1844 Cheltenham Butcher Farmer Dealer
d.22.03.1882 Will d.Jun 1844
Emma 24.01.1828 bn.11.12 m.Charles Millard 10.02.1844
Mary 20.12.1829 bn.20.11 died age 11
Elizabeth Martha 10.02.1832 bn.06.02
John George 07.01.1834 bn.06.01 m.Mary Sadler 17.04.1867 Westminster went to Cricklade
William Henry 07.01.1834 bn.06.01 died age 10 mths 21.11.1834
Sarah Ann 13.03.1836 bn.06.01
Hannah 03.06.1838 bn.07.05
Frederick 01.03.1840 bn.07.02 m.1) Mary Smith Sep 1866 2)Caroline Poulton 1883 went to Cricklade 3)Mary Highnam 1901
Jonah 20.11.1842 m.Elizabeth Clark 1873 (in Swindon 1871)
Thomas 11.04.1844
?? & ANNE CUSS
Isaac 06.07.1829 m.Jane?
HENRY CUSS & MARY ANN ELLISON m.27.09.1832 Butcher
d.1866 d.1883
George 31.12.1832 m.Annie Dickenson 15.11.1863
Henry 20.09.1835 Minety
Ann 16.08.1837 Newington 1871 d.23.03.1927 unmarried
Sarah 26.05.1839 d.25.07.1931 unmarried
William 12.09.1841
Mary 23.02.1845 d.05.11.1854
John 10.04.1847 Newington 1871 m.Maria Elizabeth Hartwell 1874 London
Elizabeth 30.09.1851 d.25.12.1855
JOHN MASON & MARIA CUSS
(m.Elizabeth Carter m.14.11.1836) (m.John Godwin 22.08.1838 d.30.09.1848, 30 as Godding)
Henry Cuss 09.08.1835 m.Ann Telling 13.11.1858
??? & JANE CUSS
Thomas 31.03.1837
?? & ANN CUSS 1816
d.aft 1861
Henry 30.01.1839 d.16.03.1853, age 14
John 10.04.1841 d.01.04.1845
Eleanor 21?12.1844 d.26.09.1846
Mary Ann 14.05.1848
GEORGE CUSS & EMMA COLLIER m.09.12.1834 Preston, Gloustershire
William 1838 Stratton St Margaret went to Gt Bowden Leics
Edward 20.11.1839
Hannah 25.03.1842 d.12.12.1843
Emma 1845
George Edmund 02.04.1848
WILLIAM CUSS & HARRIOT LITTEN m.Jun q 1850 8 571
John Cuss 1851 Michinhampton
Rose Ann 12.11.1855 Fairford
Mary Ann 1861 Fairford
ISAAC CUSS & JANE GREENAWAY 24.12.1854
Elizabeth Franklin 18.12.1855 d.25.12.1855
Sarah Ann 14.03.1857
Ellen 30.09.1860
Mary 06.09.1863
HENRY CUSS 1835 & m.1)ANN TELLING m.13.11.1858 m.2)Mary Ann Hayes 15.08.1892 Labourer
d.28.07.1895 d.(1881-1891)
Eliza Ann 07.08.1859
Elizabeth J 02.07.1859 m.Frederick Weaver 30.10.1886
John ?04.07.1861 Fine Lidiard m.Lucy Bartlett 15.10.1883
Eli G 1864 Fine Lidiard m.Mary Emma Telling 30.10.1886
Annie Marie 16.07.1865 bn.23.05.1865 AK m.Jonah Weaver 24.09.1887
William Henry 31.08.1867 Leigh m.1)Lucy Hayward 20.04.1889 Leigh 2)Annie Gillett 07.12.1895 AK
Henry 01.08.1869 Stroud m.Eliza Puzey 1898 Faringdon
Charles 23.04.1871 Avening d.?
Mark 1871 Avening d.?
Mary Ann 1873 Avening
Sarah Ellen 15.12.1875 Avening m.Richard Kemble 20.08.1892 Rodbourne Cheney
James 14.09.1879 Coulton Kield m.Kathleen I B Soul 20.08.1918 Charlton Kings
Clara 23.12.1880 Ashton Keynes m.George Henry Dainton 30.01.1904 Cheltenham
STEPHEN CUSS & MARY ANN SELBY m.20.12.1859 went to Wooton Under Edge
Elizabeth Mary 24.11.1861
Hannah Sarah 1864 Northleach
John William Selby 1867 Wooton under Edge
Emily Ann 1870 Wooton under Edge
SAMUEL CUSS & MARIA HANNAH CREW m.01.12.1861 went to Wooton Under Edge Gardener
d.1912 Bath
Mary Jane 21.12.1862
Eliza 09.01.1865
John 11.11.1866
William 1869 Tinkley Gate Gls
Annie 1872 Wooton Under Edge
Sarah 1874 Somerset
Albert 1876 Somerset
George 1887 Somerset
Beartrice 1890 Twerton
Ernest 1890 Twerton
WILLIAM CUSS & ?? went to Gt Bowden Leics
George E Cuss 1865 m.Naomi Winsall 1890 Market Harborough
GEORGE CUSS & ANNIE DICKENSON (1840 Newington) m.15.11.1863 Camberwell Butcher
d.29.04.1892,60
Mary Ann 14.01.1868 Southwark
John 19.12.1871 Newington
Adeline 28.02.1874 Newington All c.07.10.1880 m.xxxx Dickenson
George 23.03.1876 Newington in AK
Annie 11.02.1879 Newington m.James Robert Ellis 24.11.1902
Sarah 11.09.1889
Robert 11.09.1889
JOHN GEORGE CUSS & MARY SADLER m.17.04.1867 Westminster Farmer/Horse Dealer
d.08.02.1928 d.28.03.1923
George Sadler 1869 Cricklade d.02.03.1932
William 1876 Cricklade
Francis 1879 Cricklade m.Frederica Louise d.31.10.1918
Victor 1881 Cricklade m.Norah Reed 1912
?? & ELLEN CUSS
Frederick Henry 16.09.1885
FREDERICK CUSS 1840 & m.2)CAROLINE POULTON m.1883 Cattle Dealer Cricklade
d.1916, 76 d.1896, 38
Agnes 1885 Cricklade
Arthur 1887 Cricklade
Annie 1889 Cricklade
Caroline 1890 Cricklade
ELI G. CUSS & MARY EMMA TELLING m.30.10.1886 went to Lydiard Millicent
William Henry 30.10.1887 m.Elizabeth H F Turner 1919
Ernest John 1890 m.Annie Liggins 30.04.1919
Elsie Mary 1892 Shaw
Beatrice Amelia 1894 Shaw m.Arthur Ernest Lovegrove 07.05.1916 Swindon
Arthur Edward 1897 Shaw m.Annie E Newman 1925 Swindon
Frederick George 1898 Shaw m.Ethel M Nicholls 1929 Swindon
Mary Ann 1901 d.
Lucy 1905 m.Reginald Harold Sealy 1924
Albert James 22.08.1909 m.Edith L Alder 1930
Violet May 1910 d.29.10.1911
JOHN CUSS & LUCY BARTLETT m.15.10.1883 GWR Factory Worker of Lydiard Millicent
William John 25.08.1887 Lydiard Tregose m.Winifred Beasant 27.12.1913
Arthur James 1890 Lydiard Tregose d.08.08.1915 Gallipoli
WILLIAM HENRY CUSS & m.1)LUCY HAYWARD m.20.04.1889 m.2)ANNIE GILLETT m.01.12.1895
d.1925, 57 d.1894, 24
Theodore William 23.05.1889 bp.21.07 he had six “wives” convicted of Bigamy 1920 Soldier
Albert John 05.06.1892 m.Edith M Fisher née Russell 1915
Dorothy Evelyn 15.10.1906 Fairford m.Frederick John Ball-Hornblow 12.09.1931 d.1999 Cheltenham
GEORGE E CUSS & NAOMI WINSALL m.1890 Market Harborough
Ida Frances 1892 Market Harborough
HENRY CUSS & ELIZA PUZEY m.1898 Faringdon
Agnes Florence Mary 1899 d.1925
David William 17.11.1901 Little Hinton
Charles Henry? 06.08.1903 Faringdon m.Pheobe F Weaver 1938
Lucy Elizabeth 14.11.1906 Calne m.Alfred N Thomas 1928
Frederick John 14.08.1909 Dilton m.Florence M Stroud 1939
FREDERICK CUSS 1840 & 3)MARY HIGHNAM m. 1901 Cattle Dealer
d.1916
Sydney 1903 Cricklade
Sybil 1904 Cricklade
Edith 1906 Cricklade
Ernest 1908 Cricklade
Herbert 1910 Cricklade
WILLIAM JOHN CUSS & WINIFRED BEASANT m.27.12.1913
Robin John 01.11.1914 Cricklade m.Gladys W Lloyds 1937 E Ashford d.1989
Twins 1916 Cricklade d.1916
Madge S L 1923 East Ashford m.Robert F E Billson 1945 Gosport
Mervyn J 1926 East Ashford m.Jesse Gorham 1967 Ashford
ALBERT JOHN CUSS & EDITH MARY FISHER Née RUSSELL m.1915 Northleach RD
d.1925, 34 d.1983
William Albert Daniel 23.03.1916
Lucy Edith 1918
Rene May 12.06.1926
THEODORE WILLIAM CUSS & 1)CLARE m.~1910 (ref: 1911 census London, Marylebone) Soldier
(no children)
THEODORE WILLIAM CUSS & 2)ANNIE MARJORIE DAVEY m.1913 Norwich Soldier
Evelyn A 1914 Norwich
Kathleen M 1916 Mile End
Dorothy L 1918 Willesden
THEODORE WILLIAM CUSS als HOWELL & 3)DORA EVELYN WALLIS m.13.11.1915 Fulham (m.Richard Twineham 1920) Soldier
Richard W Howell 06.10.1918 Lambeth d.1974
THEODORE (als THOMAS) W CUSS & 4)ROSETTA JANE ELBROW (w) née ROBERTS m.23.03.1918 Longcot, Berks (m.John Everett 1922)
Elsie M Elbrow 1920 Farringdon m.Thomas H Scrivens 1937 Cirencester
THEODORE WILLIAM CUSS & 5)EMMA LOUISA BAKER m.02.08.1919 Derby Soldier
Cecil A 1919 Grimsby
Jean Yvonne B 29.03.1920 Cirencester d.1999
THEODORE W CUSS als ?? & 6)_______ HALL m.?
NOTE: THEODORE WILLIAM CUSS was charged with Bigamy on 02 Aug 1919 he was sentenced to 18 months hard labour in 1920 and refused
leave to appeal.
He had also served several prison sentences for desertion, or at least absence without leave, from different Regiments which
he joined using various alias'. (Theodore William Howell, Thomas Howell, Thomas W Cuss, William Cuss, George Piper).
After serving his sentence for Bigamy he embarked on a career as a waiter and had multiple convictions for theft and burglary.
In 1930 he was sentenced to 18 months hard labour for burglary. No trace of him has been found after that date.
With thanks to Jonathan Whiteside, Jane Cripps, Laurence Twineham and Richard Hayward for additional information.
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