Birth: January-March 1851 Brompton, Gillingham, Kent, UK
Father: James Eckford Keir c1821-1879
Mother: Hannah Knowles c1828-1901
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: July-September 1872 Sheppey, Kent, UK
Wife: Jane Elizabeth Dutton 1847-1913
Death: January-March 1909 Hammersmith, London, UK
Mabel Hannah Keir 1877-1906
James Roy D Keir 1879-a1904
Thomas Henry Keir 1882-a1901
Birth of James Joseph Keir in FreeBMD in January-March 1851 in Medway (5 430).
In the 1851 census as James T Keir aged 2 months, born in Snowpton (sic - in the index), Kent, and living with his parents (James and Hannah) in River Row, Chatham, Kent
I cannot find entries in the 1861 or 1871 censuses.
Marriage of James Joseph Keir and Jane Elizabeth Dutton in FreeBMD in July-September 1872 in Sheppey (2a 1154).
Mabel was born in Hammersmith but James was born in Spitalfields.
In the 1881 census as James J Kear (sic - in the index, correct on the original) aged 30, born in Gillingham, Kent, a School Master Undergraduate, and living with his wife (Jane E), son (James R) and daughter (Mabel H) at 72 Brackenbury Road, Harmmersmith (sic), London.
In the 1891 census as James J Keir aged 9, born in Gillingham, Kent, employed as a schoolmaster and on L S Board, and living with his wife (Jane E), two sons (James R and Thomas H) and daughter (Mabel H) at at 107 Brackenbury Road, Hammersmith St John, London (off A402 Goldhawk Road).
In the 1901 census as James Keir aged 50, born in Old Brampton, Kent, single, employed as an elementary schoolmaster, and living with his wife (Jane), two sons (James and Thomas), daughter (Mabel), neice (Eleanor Page aged 12 and born in Germany), and a servant (Mabel Root aged 16 and born in Sheerness, Kent) at 107 Brackenbury Road, Hammersmith St John, London.
Death of James Joseph Keir in FreeBMD in January-March 1909 in Fulham (1a 211).
James Joseph Keir was the husband of Jane Elizabeth Dutton, first cousin three times removed removed of Cyril Larby, my second cousin once removed.
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