George Henry Buck (Week 10 - MFMF)

[Merry]

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
George Henry Buck

Date and place of birth
30th Sept 1818 at Weymouth, Dorset

Names of parents
Bernard Bishop Buck and Sophia née Cox

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
1st Nov 1818 at All Saints, Wyke Regis, Dorset

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
26th Oct 1858 at Croydon Register Office, Croydon, Surrey to Mary Smith

Occupation(s) - if any
Tea dealer, grocer, commercial traveller, gentleman (!)

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on.
I don't have the 1841 for George as there are at least three to choose from!
1851: staying at The Fleur de Lis Hotel, High St, Canterbury, Kent
1861: Neithrop Villa, Neithrop, Nr Banbury, Oxon
About 1865 - 1880 Ivy House, Adderbury, Oxon

Date, place and cause of death
6th June 1880 at Ivy House, Adderbury, Oxon of general muscular atrophy, three years.

Date and place of burial / cremation.
Buried at the Friends' Meeting House burying ground, Adderbury, Oxon

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
Probate granted to his widow 27th June 1880

Memorial inscription - if any

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/GeorgeHenryBuckMaryBuckneSmithMI.jpg

[kiterunner]

Ah, it's my dream to find one of those gravestones with dates of birth on!

[Merry]

Typically I already knew his dob from a book of birthdays kept by his daughter-in-law!

I really must get myself sorted out here - I just went to have a look for the Birthday Book - it wasn't where it should be (so where's that gone??!) - but in it's place was an envelope which contains a lock of his hair and that of his wife (I'm not sure which is which - one white and the other dark brown - I guess his is the dark brown - slightly creepy! lol) - I'd seen this envelope several times before, but now there is another tiny envelope inside it, which wasn't there the other times I'd looked, which contains the hair of his mother-in-law - my 3xg-grandmother, Mary Smith née Tyler, who died of consumption in 1841. The first strawberry blonde in the family!!