Edward MILLS

Other Events and Attributes:

• Address: Addresses for Edward shown on James Jesse Mills service record:- Somerset Villa, High Road, Mottingham, Kent. Kingswood, Polding St, Fairfield, Sydney 33, Hannam St, Arncliffe, Sydney.
• Census: 1871, 3, Mead Terrace, Willesborough, Kent; Living with his parents James & Sarah.
• Census: 1881, 95, Newtown, Willesborough, Kent; Living with his parents James and Sarah. Recorded as an Eng. Turner's Apprentice.
• Military Service Entered: 20 Dec 1888, Woolwich; Corps of Ordnance Artificers.For 12 years. Machinery Artificer Section, Army Ordnance Corps. Royal Artillery. 13th July 1898 to complete 21 years. Discharged 19th Dec 1909
• Stationed: 1901, Malta
• Military: 1909; Discharged with Pension
• Military Service Entered: 28 Sep 1914, Woolwich; As Armourer, Q.M.Sjt. in the Army Ordnance Corps. Home Service. Demobilised 30 Jul 1919
• Emigration: 2 Dec 1920, Sydney, Australia; There is no evidence that Jessie went with him. Arrived in Sydney 27th January 1921

Notes:

Birth:
1863 Dec Quarter in BARTON UPON IRWELL Volume 08C Page 444

Died:
Description: myocarditis and senility

Recorded as a Widower

Buried:
No headstone.

Edward married Jessie (Davidson) STEVENSON on 28 Dec 1889 (Certificate) in Bible Christian Church, Plumstead. Jessie (daughter of James STEVENSON and Jessie DAVIDSON) was born in 1867 in Plumstead; died on 12 Sep 1934 in 22, Lewisham Hill, Lewisham; was buried on 18 Sep 1934 in Plumstead Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Dec Q 1889 1d 1824 Woolwich

Witnessed by James Mills & James Stevenson

Wikipaedia article on Bible Christian Church:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Christian_Church

Description: Don't know whether his wife was still alive

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Description: With a step son - John Meadows

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Description: There was another family (of four) living at the same address (Savage)

1. Jessie Isabel MILLS was born on 24 Feb 1897 in 1, Bembridge View, Highland Road, Southsea, Hants.; died on 19 Aug 1962 in 28, High Street, Sutton.
2. Florence May MILLS was born on 04 May 1898 in 18, Bembridge View, Highland Road, Southsea, Hants; died on 20 Oct 1981 in Winterton House, Hale Road, Wendover, Bucks; was buried in Cremated.
3. Isabel Olive MILLS was born on 09 Sep 1899 in Woolwich; died on 24 Jun 1900 in Malta.
4. Horace Edward MILLS was born on 27 Mar 1901 in Malta; died on 06 Jun 1901 in Malta.

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1851, Mariner's Lane, Lowestoft; With her Grandmother Frances (Fanny)
• Census: 1861, 7, Cirencester Place, Fitzroy Square, Marylebone

Notes:

Christened:
Bishop's transcripts 1685 - 1875
Church of England
Archdeaconry of Suffolk.
This record is in the IGi v5.0

Birth:
The only time that the middle name Kate appears in the records is on her marriage certificate

Census:
Description: Dress & Mantle Maker

Died:
Administration granted - London - 1st September 1920 to Edward Mills - Fitter.
Effects - £63 7s 6d

Buried:
Recorded in the Burial Registers of St Margarets.

London Metropolitan Archives - Microfilm No. XO99 161 - frame 00441

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

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:

• Census: 1841, Bell Lane, Lowestoft, Suffolk; Baker ? (Apprentice?)
• Occupation: 1841; Sea Captain (apocryphal ?)

Notes:

Christened:
This is the closest official record of his birth.
Name: James Mickleburgh
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 12 Jan 1818
Christening Place: LOWESTOFT,SUFFOLK,ENGLAND
Father's Name: Edward Mickleburgh
Mother's Name: Ann

LDS Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C13163-2
System Origin: England-ODM
GS Film number: 918501
Reference ID:

Occupation:
The occupation of "Sea Captain - deceased" appears on his illegitimate daughter Sarah Ireland's marriage certificate to James Mills in 1863.
She recorded her father's name as James Ireland and his occupation as Sea Captain which was apocryphal to hide the fact that her mother never married him. He would always have been away at sea ...
Sarah's birth certificate revealed the true name of her father - James Mickleburgh. It's doubtful that she ever saw her own birth certificate.

Died:
Possible death as he doesn't appear in the 1851 Census

Name: James Mickleburgh
Registration Year: 1848
Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar
Registration district: Hoxne
Suffolk
Volume: 13
Page: 361

James + Frances Sarah IRELAND. Frances (daughter of James IRELAND and Frances LAKE) was born in 1822 in Lowestoft; was christened on 4 Mar 1822 in St. Margaret's Church, Lowestoft; died in 1849 in Lowestoft; was buried on 23 Apr 1849 in St. Margaret's Church, Lowestoft. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1841, High, St. Lowestoft

Notes:

Christened:
Parents recorded as James Ireland & Frances Lake

Birth:
The 1841 census is the only one she is recorded in, with an age that indicates she was born around 1826.

Died:
Jun Q 1849 13 356 Mutford

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.

Notes:

Christened:
Norfolk Bishop's Transcripts record him as Edward Rix Mickleburgh, six weeks old, Bastard son of Elizabeth.
Rix probably the surname of the father.

Died:
Death quarter 1
Death year 1864
District MUTFORD
County Suffolk
Volume 4A
Page 548

Edward married Ann BELL on 28 Aug 1809 in St Peter & St Paul, Swaffham, Norfolk. Ann was born about 1785 in Yarmouth, Norfolk; died in 1854. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
1851 Census indicates birth circa 1789

Died:
Death quarter 2
Death year 1854
District MUTFORD
County Suffolk
Volume 4A
Page 427

Notes:

Married:
England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NXN5-FP5 : accessed 8 December 2014), Edward Mickleburgh and Ann Bell, 28 Aug 1809; citing Swaffham, Norfolk, England, reference 16 63; FHL microfilm 1,471,577.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1822, Lowestoft; Revenue Boatman
• Occupation: 1824, Lowestoft; Preventive Boatman
• Occupation: 1828, Lowestoft; Preventive Service Man

Notes:

Died:
A James Ireland died Sep Q 1838 13 108 Henstead
Henstead itself is only four miles from Lowestoft.

James married Frances LAKE on 21 Jan 1818 in St Nicholas' Church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Frances (daughter of Nicholas LAKE and Frances HARVEY) was born in 1796 in Worstead, Norfolk; was christened on 15 Jul 1796 in North Walsham; died in 1852 in Lowestoft; was buried on 10 Feb 1852 in St. Margaret's Church, Lowestoft. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1841, High St. Lowestoft; Recorded as a Green Grocer
• Census: 1851, Mariner's Lane, Lowestoft; Recorded as a Charwoman. She would have been Sarah's Grandmother, not mother.

Notes:

Christened:
Name: Frances Lake
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 15 Jul 1796
Baptism Date: 15 Jul 1796
Baptism Place: North Walsham,Norfolk,England
Father: Nicholas Lake
Mother: Frances
FHL Film Number: 894722, 894723

Died:
Mar Q 1852 4a 450 Mutford