John Adams

c1811-1872

John was a Blacksmith. He was baptised on the 17^th February 1811, at St Mary, Great Shefford, Berkshire, the son of William and Sarah Adams.

William and Sarah also had a son, George, baptised in 1815, in Great Shefford.

John married Sarah Marshall on the 20^th January 1839, in Thatcham, Berkshire. (Fathers: William Adams and John Marshall)

(Sarah gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Alice, born c1838)

John and Sarah had the following three daughters, born in Speen, Berkshire:

Jane, born 1839, Ann, born 1843, and Mary, born 1845

In 1841 John (30), Sarah (25), Alice (either 17 months or 1 yr 7 months) and Jane (7 months) were recorded living in Speen, Berkshire.

John was widowed in 1848. Sarah died aged 34, she was buried on the 11^th June, at St Mary the Virgin, Speen.

John (41) and his daughters, Alice (11), Jane (10), Anne (8) and Mary (5), were recorded living in Speen, Berkshire in 1851. (Surname recorded as Addams on ancestry)

By 1861 John (48), Jane (20) and Mary (15), were living in Stone’s Yard, Newbury. John’s married step-daughter Alice Williams (21) (born Alice Marshall) was also recorded in the household.

The 1871 census records John (60), a Journeyman Blacksmith, living at 1 Stone’s Yard, Newbury, with his son-in-law, Amos Piddington (31), a Journeyman Carpenter, his daughter Anne Piddington (27), his grandson William John Piddington (4), his granddaughter Ellen Piddington (1) and Lewis Adams (3). (John’s grandson, the illegitimate son of his daughter Mary, who married Francis William Taylor in 1872)

John died aged 61, on the 20^th December 1872. He was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 24^th December.

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