Birth: 19 May 1863 2 Eldad Place, St Andrews, Plymouth, Devon, UK
Father: John Scriggens 1804-1884
Mother: Elizabeth Horn [Tuttle] 1833-1918
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 6 November 1883 Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
Wife: Susannah Laura Amelia Baldry 1866-1939
Death: 14 November 1898 Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK
John Robert E Scriggins 1884-1886
James Charles Thomas Scriggins 1885-1948
Elizabeth Mary Jane Scriggins [Vale] 1886-1964
John Robert S Scriggins 1887-1955
Susannah Maria Scriggins [Cooke] 1889-1986
Kathleen Scriggins [cable] 1892-1971
Agnes Maud Scriggins [Harvey] 1893-1984
Alfred Edward Scriggins 1894-1895
Alfred Edward Scriggins 1895-1896
Alfred Edward Scriggins 1897-1987
Birth of John Robert Severn Scriggins in FreeBMD in April-June 1863 in Plymouth (5b 276). "Registration District Plymouth 1883 Birth in the Sub-district of St Andrew in the County of Devon No 310 Nineteenth May 1863 2 Eldad Place John Robert Severn, a boy, father John Scriggins, a Private R.M., mother Elizabeth Scriggins formerly Horn who was the informant and made her mark on twentyeighth May 1863".
In the 1871 census as John Robert Levern Sereggings Tuttle (sic - in the index) aged 8, and with his married mother Elizabeth Tuttle, lodging with Robert Summons (aged 31, born in Bristol, and a potter kiln hand), his wife (Elizabeth aged 31 and born in Gloucestershire), son (Herbert John aged 3 and born in Newport, Monmouthshire), daughter (Mary Anne aged 1 and born in Newport, Monmouthshire), and four other lodgers (Thomas Summons aged 37, born in Bristol, married and a potter, Thomas Bryan aged 21, born in Newport, Monmouthshire and a fitter, Elizabeth Bryan aged 21 and born in Cwmhane, Monmouthshire and their son ? Bryant aged 1 and born in Newport, Monmouthshire whose birth was not registered) at 5 Clarence Street, St Woollos, Monmouthshire. This entry implies that his mother was living with James Tuttle, but as she did not marry hiim until 1900, her husband not dying until 1884.
In the 1881 census as John Tuttle aged 19, born in Dartmouth, Devon, and a boy onboard the North Star, a Dandy (a sailing vessel with two masts) of 42 tons trawl fishing 60 miles ESE of Lowestoft, four others in the crew.
Marriage of John Robert S Scriggins and Susannah Baldry in FreeBMD in October-December 1883 in Mutford (4a 1751).
In the 1891 census as John Seriggins (sic - in the index, Scriggins on the original) aged 27, born in Plymouth, Devon, a mariner, and living with his wife (Susanna), two sons (James and John), two daughters (Elizabeth and Susanna), and two lodgers (James Tuttle aged 52, born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, a mariner, and his wife Elizabeth aged 52 and born in Yealmpton, Devon - this was his stepfather and mother though not married yet) in four rooms at Cypus Cottages, Oulton, Suffolk.
Death of John Robert S Scriggins in FreeBMD in October-December 1898 aged 35 in Woodbridge (4a 548).
There are fourteen entries in Ancestry Public Member Tree for John Robert Severn Scriggins born at 2 Eldad Place, Plymouth, Devon on 19 May 1863, parents John Scriggins and Elizabeth Horn, his marriage to Susannah Laura Amelia Baldry in Lowestoft, Suffolk on 6 November 1883, ten children, and his death in Woodbridge, Suffolk on 14 November 1898.
John Robert Severn Scriggins was the father of Susannah Maria Scriggins, wife of Herbert John Cooke, son of Mary Ann Taylor, wife of Edward Cowles, my second cousin once removed.
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