Six generations of MATTHEWS

I've been looking at my MATTHEWS family line over the last couple of days, really filling in families from the census details. I've also been able to use someone else's research to go back as far as 1725.

Henry MATTHEWS b1725 m. Mary BREWER and they had a son, Edward.

Edward MATTHEWS b1758 in Stoke Gabriel, Devon. Edward married Ann SANRAY b. 1775. Edward died 12 Oct 1815 in Churston Ferrers, Devon. Edward and Ann had a son John.

John MATTHEWS b 3 Mar 1795 in Churston Ferrers, Devon married Mary BENNETS, who was also born in Churston Ferrers in 1790. John died in either 1853 or 1855 and Mary in 1857. They had 8 children, the oldest of which was also called John. John was an agricultural labourer on Churston Farms.

John MATTHEWS b 1821 in Churston Ferrers, Devon married Rosetta Churchward MARTIN who was born in Stoke Gabriel, Devon on 24 Sep 1821. They were married in Churston Ferrers Parish Church on 9 Apr 1844. John was a gardener and they moved to Tormoham, near Torquay - presumably because that's where the houses that could afford gardeners were. John and Rosetta had 9 children including William Henry.

William Henry MATTHEWS b 24 Mar 1849 in Torquay, Devon was a carpenter. He moved to Bristol, where he was living in the 1871 census. He married Annie WATSON b 1852 on 21 Jan 1872 in Clifton Register Office. They had 12 children over a 20 year period. The youngest was Robert.

Robert MATTHEWS was born in Mina Road, Bristol in 1890 and was a carpenter like his father. He married Lillian Stella LISTER b. 6 Aug 1897 at Bristol Register Office on 25 Nov 1916. Robert and Lillian had six children over a 22 year period, the eldest of which was my Nan, Olive. Nan told me that her family were from the Mina Road area of Bristol.