Category Archives: Oxborough

In 1898, James and Hannah’s daughter, Alice, was engaged to John Thomas Fowell. Alice must have called off the wedding because she found out about John’s criminal past. James Samuel […]

Hannah’s father was Caiaphas Hall. He died in 1885 at the age of 36 years old. Mary Ann then married William Betts. He appears on the 1891 England census. Yet, […]

The 1939 England and Wales Register shows that James was unmarried at the age of 31 years old. I could find no marriage record after this date. That would indicate […]

James’ second wife, Doreen, married a man named George Jevons in 1979 in West Lancashire, Lancashire, England. She died one year later. Do you know which George Jevons she married? […]

Beware of text-only documents!  John and Elizabeth’s daughter, also named Elizabeth, died in 1826.  She did not marry Clement Dennington, as I had first thought.  You can read more about […]

What happened to Phoebe and Thomas Barber? Could Alfred Adams be the father of Hannah Barber’s three youngest children? Maybe a descendant of this family can answer these questions. John […]

Harriet Phoebe Oxborough died in 1893 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk County, England. It is rumored that her husband, Stephen Joseph Land, took their four children to the fair and deserted […]

John never married. I did discover that he lived with the same woman for over 20 years. Her name was Rosannah Turner Lemond. She went by the shortened name of […]

There is a Find A Grave memorial that shows John was buried in the Lowestoft Cemetery. From this website, I discovered that John must have been an inmate or patient […]

In 1899, Elizabeth Colclough’s step-mother, Agnes, married William Gorse in Ashton Under Lyne, Lancashire County, England. William was born around 1874 and worked as a platelayer for a railroad. Do […]