John Skevington

[Ascotiel]

I wonder if anyone could help me find any more info about John Skevington the Loughborough Chartist b1801 d4.1.1851 both Loughborough .

I’m particularly looking for any marriage , employment details , 1841 census details and if anyone could find where he was buried that would be amazing ( his place of burial no longer exists I think having exhausted on foot research )

Thank you so much

[Mabel Bagshawe]

WOuld this be him on 1841? (remembering ages were rounded down)

Swan St (possibly), Loughborough [the pen is a bit thick and smudgy]

John Skevington    35 - straw bonnet maker [not born in county]
Emma Skevington    35
Sarah Skevington    14
John Skevington    9 Mo

HO107; 595; 31; 1;

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Have fund a baptism for Sarah, and another child Joseph (b 1829) both at Dead Lane Primative Methodist chapel Loughborough

Added: they are both baptised again on the same day in 1837 at All Saints Loughborough

[diddymiller]

I live loughborough. Yes it is swan street.
 Part of my secondary school was where the dead lane chapel was. So called because the dead were carried along
There towards the loughborough parish church.


Diddy

[diddymiller]

Parish church - All Saints.


Diddy

[crisane]

As The Charter Sunday 19 May  1839 says he was a native of Nottingham this baptism could be his
John Skevington
Baptised 29 Nov 1801
Baptism Place - Basford,Nottingham,England
Father - John Skevington
Mother - Mary
FHL Film Number: 503474, 504081

So the 1841 census found by Mabel Bagshaw could be him as it says not born in county.

[crisane]

I have just looked at numerous public trees on ancestry all of which have the above John Skevington's death 1802 in Basford but no sources shown for any of the information.
This John's parents are given as John Skevington 1762 - 1847 and Mary Welthall 1778 - 1849.

[Ascotiel]

Thank you so much . It will definitely be his family at the Primitive Methodists as he was a preacher there at one point

[diddymiller]

Dead lane also called because there was believed to be a communal burial pit there in 1558 for plague victims.


Diddy