Four Trees - Our Great Grandfathers

[ann255]

Here are my four.

George Edward Perkins.
Born 17th December 1843 Frindsbury Kent.  Occupation ag. lab.
Died November 1920 and is buried at Frindsbury Kent

James Richards
Born 21st November 1856 Cliffe, Kent.  Occupation a shepherd.
Died 5th November 1898 at St Barts Hospital, Rochester, Kent from burns.

George Jennings
Born 1859  Orsett, Essex.  Occupation a lamp lighter for the Council
Died 2nd November 1914 at Grays, Essex

Daniel FoordBorn 26th March at Lenham, Kent.  Occupation a barge master.
Died 25th February 1910 at Gunpowder Wharf, Greenwich from a broken neck. Buried at Grays.

[coombs]

Richard Titshall born 31 August 1883 in Suffolk, died 12 May 1950, Essex.
William John Cornwell born 6 February 1901, Essex, died 30 December 1958, Essex.
George Musgrave born 18 March 1891, County Durham, died 25 November 1968, Durham.
George Stock born 15 December 1879, Leigh On Sea, Essex, died 13 April 1942, Essex.

Richard wed an Essex girl, William wed an Essex girl, George married a London girl and the other George married an Oxford girl.

[Top-of-the-hill]

  I only know of 3 great grandfathers, on account of illegitimacy, so can I list great grandmothers?

      Elizabeth Lang, born about 1841, possibly Scottish, but I can find no definite details. She and great grandfather went to New Zealand in 1864, and she died in Christchurch in 1925.

      Emma Ruth Staples, born in London in 1852, but the family were from Wiltshire, and went to New Zealand a few years later. Her father was a tailor. She died there in1901

       Elizabeth Coultham, born 5th Aug 1844, in Petham Kent. Died in Nonington 16 Mar 1909.

       Eliza Felton, born 1855 in Belchamp Walter, Essex. Died 1932 in Great Warley, Essex.

[ann255]

  I only know of 3 great grandfathers, on account of illegitimacy, so can I list great grandmothers?
 

Why don't you start a new topic, then we can all join in.

[Deb D]

I have a feeling there's a "Great Grandmothers" thread, somewhere here, already 

[janan]

Here is the Great Grandmothers' thread

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,143568.390.html

Jan

[Marmaduke 123]

My four great grandfathers:

James Bintcliffe born 24 Jan 1847 Barkisland, Halifax, died 13 Jan 1910 Broad Carr Elland. Started out as a cotton spinner, became a grocer, then a farmer and carrier.
Joseph Taylor born 22 Aug 1847 Kew Hill Longwood Huddersfield, died 3 May 1922 in Elland. He was a tailor like his father.
John Tempest born 29 April 1855 Ovenden Halifax, died 1923 in Bradford. He was a greengrocer, then became a stone quarryman.
Alfred Simpson born 19 Feb 1847 Skircoat Halifax, died 1897 in Halifax. He was a butcher.

My husband's four are a bit more interesting:

Charles Hopton born 1845 Pontypool Wales, died 9 Sep 1903 Blaenavon. He was a painter and decorator
Edwin Millinchip born 1841 Dudley Worcestershire died 28 Nov 1896 Newport Wales. He was an iron worker.
William Walker born 1794(!) Swindon Wiltshire died 1870 Reading Berkshire. He was a sadler and harness maker.
George Mickel born 1829 Reading Berkshire, died 1903 Reading. He was a brickmaker

[sallyyorks]

Weaver/loom engineer/soldier  and militant trade unionist from Bradford , Yorkshire.
Cotton spinner from Manchester/Chesire area.
Coal miner and trade unionist from Lancashire.
Soldier from Birmingham.

[pinefamily]

Stonechat, you got me thinking. 1900/1901?
Let me see....
one was in the Port Adelaide area running a pub, another was a captain of a ketch sailing up and down the South Australian coast and based in Portland (suburb of Adelaide), the third was a builder living in Victoria Park (another suburb), and the recently discovered fourth was somewhere in country SA (probably in or around Echunga) as a farm hand/stockman.

And I should have said that the one who was in Echunga was about to sign up for the Boer War.