John Close (FFFMF)

[Rosie Knees]

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
John Murr Close

Date and place of birth
1825 Lincolnshire

Names of parents
Henry Close and Sarah Murr

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
17/02/1825 St Botolph lincoln

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
married Mary Ann Fennick (Fenwick) 18/10/1847 Bucknall , Lincs

Occupation(s) - if any
Bricklayer

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!).
1841 bricklayer's lab, St Martin Lincs
1851 Lincoln St Martin, Lincoln
1861 St Michael, Lincoln
1871 St Martin, Lincoln
1881 Lincoln


Date, place and cause of death
1887 died Lincoln.

Date and place of burial.
U/K

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
U/K

Memorial inscription - if any
U/K

[kiterunner]

This one looks familiar!

You do already have him on later censuses, don't you? (Before we all go charging off looking for him!) I think we more or less established before that Sarah Barton who he is with on the 1841 and 1851 censuses is his mother and Edward Barton is his stepfather?

[kiterunner]

Ooh, there's a baptism on FamilySearch Record Search pilot site for a John Murr Close, 27 Feb 1825, St Botoloph, Lincoln, father Henry Close, and there is another version of it on there with only the year but giving the parents as Henry and Sarah. Then there is a burial for Henry Close 13 Mar 1828 Lincoln age 28, which fits in nicely with Sarah Close's marriage to Edward Barton in 1833.

Henry Close married Sarah Murr 16 Sep 1822 St Botolph Lincoln, also on the pilot site.


On the baptism of Robert Henry Close 10 Jul 1869 St Martin's, Lincoln, it gives the parents' names as John Mar Close and Mary Ann. Probably Mar is a mistranscription of Mur. Edit - looking again, there are several other versions of this record on the pilot site and the rest say Mur! (Robert Henry died the same quarter that his birth was registered, which is why he isn't on the 1871 census).

[kiterunner]

Death registration - John Murr Close, Oct-Dec 1887 age 64 Lincoln 7a 316.

[Rosie Knees]

sorry Kate, some of what you've said looks verrrrry familiar! I've just taken details from my FTM and may have more in my paper files. I think a big effort was put into looking at the Close family for me late last year but 'stuff' was going on and I didn't get round to updating my FTM.

I will search through my hard copy stuff and see what I've got.

*dons dust mask*

[Rosie Knees]

things are coming back to me. I think I've got details of John's marriage to Mary Ann but it's badly mistrans on freeBMD.....

thinking thinking

[Rosie Knees]

finally the penny has dropped! A huge amount of info was found by the generations game team on FTF and I've found the thread from August last year.

I've got the gedcom so I'll update post number 1.