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The Boulter family

My Boulter connection is via my Gt. Gt. Grandmother - Elizabeth Boulter, a seamstress who was born in Wentworth, Cambridgeshire in 1854. She was the oldest child of ten known children of Robert Boulter and Mary Ann Moden of Wentworth.

The earliest known ancestors for this family are William and Ann Boulter whose children are noted in baptism registers in Wentworth.

Having looked at the 1881 census indexes for Cambridgeshire and studying the surname of Boulter it would appear that the name was in decline. There are only 10 Boutlers living in the county of Cambridgeshire in 1881. Seven of these are definite relatives (one of which appears as a servant in Ely) and the other three were living in another village called Chatteris and I have not been able to place them in the tree as yet.

Wentworth parish church, Cambridgeshire. © Andrew Martin
Wentworth parish church, Cambridgeshire.

It is believed that the Boulter name may be of Welsh origin. Contacts found in Wales point their Boulter relatives back to Bristol at that time. The Boulter family does not seem to inhabit any other nearby villages and seems to simply disappear. Where did the Boulter name come from and where has it gone?

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