James MILLS

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1841, Winton, Barton Upon Irwell, Lancashire; : 3
• Census: 1851, Worsley Road, Winton, Barton On Irwell; James Mills and Joseph Mills & families
• Census: 1861, 6, Fitzroy Terrace, Plumstead, Kent; James recorded as an Engine Fitter. Living in lodgings. Also lodging in the same house is a Joseph Warburton, nephew of the head of the household and born in Worsley (close by Winton where James was born). It is likely then that personal connections were behind James' move away from home.
• Address: 1905, 202, Victoria Road, Old Charlton.

Notes:

Census:
Recorded as a Power Loom Silk Weaver

Died:
Diabetes Mellitus & Senile Decay

Informant was his wife Sarah, present at the death.
She gave his age as being 82 years old. This must have been a mistake as he was actually 80.

Buried:
Recorded in the Burial Registers of St. Margaret's Church, Plumstead

His age at burial makes his birth date 1836 yet all other documents point to 1838.

London Metropolitan Archives - Microfilm No. XO99 161 - frame 00433

James married Sarah (Kate?) IRELAND on 1 Mar 1863 in Upper Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, London. Sarah (daughter of James MICKLEBURGH and Frances Sarah IRELAND) was born on 12 Jan 1842 in Lowestoft, Suffolk; was christened on 3 Nov 1850 in Lowestoft, Suffolk; died on 26 Apr 1920 in 110, Ancona Road, Plumstead; was buried on 30 Apr 1920. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The 1911 Census records that James and Sarah had 9 children born alive.
Apart from Thomas William there must have been three other children who probably died in infancy.

Married:
Witnessed by William Reynolds & Christina Gosling

St. Pancras parish was split up into 33 eclesiastical parishes. It was in one of these, St. John the Evangelist, that James and Sarah were married. The parish church was situated in Upper Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square.
The church has been demolished.
The London Metropolitan Archives holds the marriage registers.
Reference P90/JNA2/15. Film X78/102

FreeFormatDate:1904 until 1918

Description: (Kelly's Directory)

He was noted at this address until 1916 in Kelly's Directory.
The Greenwich History Centre doesn't have copies between 1917 & 1919.
He doesn't appear in the 1920 Directory.

In the London Post Office Directory the house is listed as being occupied by James Jesse Mills until 1920.

Description: at the time of their marriage

FreeFormatDate:At the time of Edward's birth

FreeFormatDate:at the birth of their daughter Ellen

ASHFORD
Probably the greatest influence on the growth of the town was the arrival of the railway in 1842 and the decision by the South Eastern Railway Company to build the Railway Works in the town in 1846. Between 1841 and 1861 the town more than doubled in population from 3,000 to 7,000.
The railway workers developed their own community in an area originally called Alfred Town by the Railway Company. The community, which soon became known locally as The New Town and finally Newtown, had its own schools, pub, bathhouse, shops and Mechanics' Institute, which doubled up as a library and social and educational club for the workers.
The Railway Works dominated the town and nearly 1,000 locomotives were built or re-built there before the Works was closed in 1981. The Wheel Shop closed in March 1993.

FreeFormatDate:at the births of their daughter Louisa and son Thomas William

FreeFormatDate:at the birth of their son James Jesse

FreeFormatDate:at the birth of their daughter Sarah Ann

Description: James was present at the death of his son Thomas in Newcastle on Tyne

He was noted at this address in the Kelly's Directory of 1893

1. Edward MILLS was born on 12 Oct 1863 in Winton, Barton Upon Irwell, Lancs.; was christened on 25 Oct 1863 in Pendleton, (Nr Salford) Lancashire; died on 8 Feb 1945 in 210 Annandale Street, Annandale, Sydney NSW; was buried on 9 Feb 1945 in Church of England Cemetery, Rookwood, Sydney NSW.
2. Ellen MILLS was born on 31 Mar 1866 in 38, Upper Denmark Road, Ashford, Kent; was christened on 3 Feb 1867 in Willesborough, Kent; died on 30 Aug 1951 in St. Nicholas Hospital, Plumstead; was buried on 5 Sep 1951 in Plumstead Cemetery.
3. James William MILLS was born on 7 Jul 1868 in Willesborough, Kent; died on 9 Jan 1871.
4. Louisa MILLS was born on 2 Sep 1870 in Mead Terrace, Willesborough; was christened on 6 Nov 1870 in Willesborough, Kent; died on 19 Feb 1937 in 110, Ancona Road, Plumstead; was buried on 24 Feb 1937 in Plumstead Cemetery.
5. Thomas William MILLS, R.E was born on 5 Mar 1874 in 3 Mead Terrace, Willesborough, Kent; was christened on 5 Apr 1874 in Willesborough, Kent; died on 25 May 1901 in Barrack No. 2, Newcastle upon Tyne; was buried on 29 May 1901 in Preston Cemetery, North Tyneside.
6. Colonel James Jesse MILLS, O.B.E. - C.B.E. was born on 20 Jan 1878 in 15, Newtown, Ashford, Kent; was christened on 29 Jun 1879 in Kent; died on 8 Feb 1963 in 2 Ethel Road, Broadstairs, CT10 2BE; was buried in Broadstairs.
7. Sarah Ann MILLS was born on 19 Mar 1881 in 95, Newtown, Willesborough, Kent; was christened on 11 Jul 1883 in Kent; died on 20 Dec 1955 in Home of Peace, Petersham, NSW.
8. George Henry MILLS was born on 19 Sep 1883 in 96, Robert Street, Plumstead; died on 4 Feb 1889 in 98, Robert Street, Plumstead.

Notes:

Christened:
Baptism: 6 Dec 1807 St Mary the Virgin, Eccles, Lancashire, England
James Mills - Son of Matthew Mills & Sarah
Abode: Winton
Occupation: Husbandman
Source: LDS Film 1545488 (and MFPR 167 at MCL)

Died:
Sep Q 1869 8c 327 Barton

James married Ann HUGHES before 1835 in ?. Ann was born about 1802 in Wellington, Shropshire; died in 1856 in Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Was she related to the Hughes family that Emma Mills married into?

Died:
FreeFormatDate:Mar Q Barton 8c 320

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Husbandman (a tenant farmer raising animals rather than arable farming.) Status below Yeoman

Notes:

Occupations.
From 1810 to 1816 he is recorded as a labourer.
From 1816 onward he is recorded as sawyer


Buried:
! in the margin indicates cholera victim

Matthew married Sarah LOMAX on 2 Apr 1804 in St. Mary, Prestwich. Sarah (daughter of Nathan LOMAX) was born in 1784 in Barton; was christened on 26 Dec 1784 in St. Mary the Virgin, Eccles; died in 1827 in Winton, Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire; was buried on 22 May 1827 in St. Mary the Virgin, Eccles. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Possible parents Nathan Lomax (Weaver)and Ann of Barton.

Thomas married Sarah ANDREW on 31 Mar 1782 in St. Mary, Prestwich cum Oldham. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]