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Name – James Butcher
Date and place of birth – 20 June 1807, Thatcham, Berkshire
Names of parents – James Butcher and Sarah (Spicer, nee Munday)
Date and place of baptism – 11 Oct 1807, Thatcham, Berks
Details of each of his or her marriages – to Betsey Wickham, 9 Sept 1827, St Mary Newington, Surrey
Occupation(s) – Tailor up to and including 1841, Retailer of Beer/publican 1851 onwards.
Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!).
Pre census – York Place, Lambeth and Mount Row, Lambeth
1841 – Mount Row, Lambeth, Surrey
1851 – Waterloo Rd, Surrey
1861 – Same address as 1851 but now called “The Great Britain” (and he had a license for a billiard table!)
1871 – “The Britannia” Tooley St, Southwark, Surrey
1881 – Chatham St, Southwark, Surrey (living with his daughter and her family)
1885 – Worcester Park, Surrey
Date, place and cause of death – (probably) 26 Dec 1885, Wimbledon Surrey, senile decay and bronchitis. The reason for the doubt is that the informant on the death cert and the sole beneficiary in the will is an unrelated male friend (J. Olley) whom he would appear to have been visiting at the time death. The occ on the cert is Licensed Victualler ( retired) which fits as does the age.
Date and place of burial – 31 Dec 1885, Gap Rd Cemetery, Wimbledon.
Details of will / administration of their estate - £28.10s left to John Olley. See above.
Memorial inscription – unmarked grave.