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20-05-11, 16:53
Name - Zachariah Wiltshire/Willsher
Date and place of birth - c1799 Essex
Names of parents: Unknown
Date and place of baptism - Not found
His baptism is not in the Thundersley Parish register or in surrounding Parishes.
There is one 'Wiltshire' couple baptising children at Thundersley in the right time frame but no proof that Zachariah is theirs.
Details of each of his or her marriages -
Elizabeth Hayhow/Hayho
6 September 1819
St Peters Thundersley Essex
Occupations - Labourer, Beer Seller
Addresses where they lived -
1822 - Thundersley Essex
1839 - Leviathan Convict Hulk Portsea Town, Hampshire
1841 - Leviathan Convict Hulk Portsea Town, Hampshire
1843 - Leviathan Convict Hulk Portsea Town, Hampshire (Pardoned)
1851 - Woodman Thundersley Essex
1855 - Thundersley Essex
1861 - Woodman Thundersley, Essex (The 'Woodman' was a Beer House)*
1871 - Heath Road Thundersley, Essex
Date, place and cause of death -
24 May 1871
Thundersley Essex
Bronchitis 14 days
Date and place of burial - Not found
Zachariah is not buried at Thundersley. There is strong family connections to the 'Peculiar People' but he is not listed in the MI records.
Memorial inscription - Unlikely, see above
Details of will / administration of their estate - None
* The 'Woodman' still exists although in a different building on the same site.
In 1979 a new (souless) pub was built in Thundersley and was named the 'Zach Willsher' after him.
Date and place of birth - c1799 Essex
Names of parents: Unknown
Date and place of baptism - Not found
His baptism is not in the Thundersley Parish register or in surrounding Parishes.
There is one 'Wiltshire' couple baptising children at Thundersley in the right time frame but no proof that Zachariah is theirs.
Details of each of his or her marriages -
Elizabeth Hayhow/Hayho
6 September 1819
St Peters Thundersley Essex
Occupations - Labourer, Beer Seller
Addresses where they lived -
1822 - Thundersley Essex
1839 - Leviathan Convict Hulk Portsea Town, Hampshire
1841 - Leviathan Convict Hulk Portsea Town, Hampshire
1843 - Leviathan Convict Hulk Portsea Town, Hampshire (Pardoned)
1851 - Woodman Thundersley Essex
1855 - Thundersley Essex
1861 - Woodman Thundersley, Essex (The 'Woodman' was a Beer House)*
1871 - Heath Road Thundersley, Essex
Date, place and cause of death -
24 May 1871
Thundersley Essex
Bronchitis 14 days
Date and place of burial - Not found
Zachariah is not buried at Thundersley. There is strong family connections to the 'Peculiar People' but he is not listed in the MI records.
Memorial inscription - Unlikely, see above
Details of will / administration of their estate - None
* The 'Woodman' still exists although in a different building on the same site.
In 1979 a new (souless) pub was built in Thundersley and was named the 'Zach Willsher' after him.