Family of John BUXTON and Rosanna UNKNOWN

Husband: John BUXTON

  • Name:

  • John BUXTON

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • c. 1845

  • Billingford (nr East Dereham)

  • Census:

  • 1871 (age 25-26)

  • Billingford (nr East Dereham)1

  •  

  • Address: Bintry Road, Billingford

    26, agricultural labourer, living with wife Rosinna (29) and children Laura F M (10, scholar) and Benjamin (4, scholar)

  • Census:

  • 1881 (age 35-36)

  • Billingford (nr East Dereham)2

  •  

  • Address: Willow Meadow, Billingford

    36, agricultural labourer, living with wife Roseanna (39) and children Florence (20, domestic servant) and Benjamin (13, agricultural labourer)

Wife: Rosanna UNKNOWN

  • Name:

  • Rosanna UNKNOWN

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • c. 1842

  • Belaugh

  • Census:

  • 1871 (age 28-29)

  • Billingford (nr East Dereham)1

  •  

  • Address: Bintry Road, Billingford

    29, living with husband John (26, agricultural labourer) and children Laura F M (10, scholar) and Benjamin (4, scholar)

  • Census:

  • 1881 (age 38-39)

  • Billingford (nr East Dereham)2

  •  

  • Address: Willow Meadow, Billingford

    39, living with husband John (36, agricultural labourer) and children Florence (20, domestic servant) and Benjamin (13, agricultural labourer)

Child 1: Laura Florence M BUXTON

  • Name:

  • Laura Florence M BUXTON

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • c. 1861

  • Walsingham

  • Census:

  • 1871 (age 9-10)

  • Billingford (nr East Dereham)1

  •  

  • Address: Bintry Road, Billingford

    10, scholar, living with parents John (26, agricultural labourer) and Rosinna (29), and brother Benjamin (4, scholar)

  • Census:

  • 1881 (age 19-20)

  • Billingford (nr East Dereham)2

  •  

  • Address: Willow Meadow, Billingford

    20, domestic servant, living with parents John (36, agricultural labourer) and Roseanna (39), and brother Benjamin (13, agricultural labourer)

Child 2: Benjamin BUXTON

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Son: Benjamin BUXTON

  • Name:

  • Benjamin BUXTON

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Eleanor Jane HINES (1871-c. 1945)

  • Birth:

  • 17 May 1867

  • Billingford3,4

  • Baptism:

  • 5 Jul 1868 (age 1)

  • Billingford (nr East Dereham)4

  • Census:

  • 1871 (age 3-4)

  • Billingford (nr East Dereham)1

  •  

  • Address: Bintry Road, Billingford

    4, scholar, living with parents John (26, agricultural labourer) and Rosinna (29), and sister Laura F M (10, scholar)

  • Census:

  • 1881 (age 13-14)

  • Billingford (nr East Dereham)2

  •  

  • Address: Willow Meadow, Billingford

    13, agricultural labourer, living with parents John (36, agricultural labourer) and Roseanna (39), and sister Florence (20, domestic servant)

  • Attested (Military):

  • 6 Oct 1888 (age 21)

  • East Dereham

  •  

  • and joined the Norfolk Regiment on 11 October 1888, private, service no. 9306

  • Military period:

  • btw 6 Oct 1888 and 5 Feb 1889 (age 21)

  •  

  •  

  • served on home soil

  • Military period:

  • btw 6 Feb 1889 and 3 Nov 1896 (age 21-29)

  •  

  •  

  • served in the East Indies, and he contracted scurvy whilst in Dagshai (also known as Daagh-e-Shahi is one of the oldest cantonment towns in the Solan district of Himachal Pradesh, India)

  • Military discharge:

  • 7 Nov 1896 (age 29)

  •  

  •  

  • and became part of the Auxillary Reserve

  • Military recall:

  • 18 Dec 1899 (age 32)

  •  

  • Military period:

  • btw 4 Jan 1900 and 8 Aug 1900 (age 32-33)

  •  

  •  

  • served in South Africa

  • Demobbed (Military):

  • 5 Oct 1901 (age 34)

  •  

  • Census:

  • 1911 (age 43-44)

  • Billingford5

  •  

  • farm labourer, living with wife Eleanor Jane (39), and daughters Muriel Rose (8), Dorothea Annie Jane (4) and Mabel Ruby (2)

  • 1939 Register:

  • 1939 (age 71-72)

  • Billingford6

  •  

  • Address: Howletts Premises, Billingford

    retired agricultural labourer, b.17.05.1867

  • Death:

  • 16 Apr 1946 (age 78)

  • Billingford (nr East Dereham)7,8

  •  

  • Address: Bintree Road, Billingford

    cause of death: Ia carcinoma of lip, II chronic tuberculosis of lungs, daughter Muriel present when he died

  • Probate:

  • 10 Oct 1946

  • Norwich, Norfolk7

  •  

  • BUXTON Benjamin of Billingford Norfolk died 16 April 1946 Probate Norwich 16 October [1946] to Muriel Rosa Buxton spinster. Effects £470 7s. 1d.

Sources

1.

1871 Census. RG10 1845 23 10. Cit. Date: 1871.

2.

Ibid. RG11 1978 22 12. Cit. Date: 1881.

3.

Civil Registration - birth. 1867 Q2 Mitford 4B 276. Cit. Date: Q2 1867.

4.

Parish register - baptism. Billingford (nr East Dereham). Cit. Date: 5 July 1868.

5.

1911 Census. RG14 PN11510 RD232 SD3 ED2 SN57. Cit. Date: 1911.

6.

1939 Registration. RG101/6569H/005/32 : TRTB. Cit. Date: 1939.

7.

Probate Death Index. 1946 Page 984. Cit. Date: 10 October 1946.

8.

Civil Registration - death. 1946 Q2 East Dereham Norfolk 4B 242. Cit. Date: Q2 1946.

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