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05-02-11, 04:58
Name - "official" name and what they were known as - latterly called himself Robert Kelly Rolfe - no idea why but suspect it was a pretension
Date and place of birth 7 Jan 1829 Newbury, Berkshire
Names of parents John and Hannah Rolfe, formerly Cox
Date and place of baptism - 8 Feb 1829 St Nicholas Newbury
Details of each of his or her marriages - 26th May 1851 St John Bethnal Green to Elizabeth Ann Horne (1829-1890) - 15 children - 7 of these died in infancy
Occupation(s) - a butcher, he was retired by 1882 and from 1877 is intermittently recorded as a gentleman
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!)
1829 Market Place, Newbury
1841 Cheap Street, Newbury
1851 -72 various addresses in Cambridge Road, Bethnal Green, London (*the whole family are missing from 1861 census except son Edwin who is staying with an uncle in Newbury*)
1881 55 Mare Street, Hackney, London
1891/1900 15 Bishops Road, South Hackney, London
Date, place and cause of death 31 Mar 1900 15 Bishops Road, Hackney
Date and place of burial. 5 Apr 1900 Abney Park Cemetery, Hackney
Details of will / administration of their estate - left a will leaving his estate bewteen 6 of the 7 children who survived him - it seems he'd already settled property on the other child. Daughter Emily also got a pianoforte. Doesn't appear on the NPC on Ancestry
Memorial inscription - don't yet know of one
Date and place of birth 7 Jan 1829 Newbury, Berkshire
Names of parents John and Hannah Rolfe, formerly Cox
Date and place of baptism - 8 Feb 1829 St Nicholas Newbury
Details of each of his or her marriages - 26th May 1851 St John Bethnal Green to Elizabeth Ann Horne (1829-1890) - 15 children - 7 of these died in infancy
Occupation(s) - a butcher, he was retired by 1882 and from 1877 is intermittently recorded as a gentleman
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!)
1829 Market Place, Newbury
1841 Cheap Street, Newbury
1851 -72 various addresses in Cambridge Road, Bethnal Green, London (*the whole family are missing from 1861 census except son Edwin who is staying with an uncle in Newbury*)
1881 55 Mare Street, Hackney, London
1891/1900 15 Bishops Road, South Hackney, London
Date, place and cause of death 31 Mar 1900 15 Bishops Road, Hackney
Date and place of burial. 5 Apr 1900 Abney Park Cemetery, Hackney
Details of will / administration of their estate - left a will leaving his estate bewteen 6 of the 7 children who survived him - it seems he'd already settled property on the other child. Daughter Emily also got a pianoforte. Doesn't appear on the NPC on Ancestry
Memorial inscription - don't yet know of one