Birth: October-December 1840 Newcastle, Northumberland, UK
Father: David Absalom 1800-1870
Mother: Susannah Lowther 1815-1892
Marriage: October-December 1862 Tynemouth District,Northumberland, UK
Wife: Jane Gregory 1842-a1901
Death: April-June 1909 Tynemouth District, Northumberland, UK
Ann Absalom [Corby] 1865-1910
Elizabeth Absalom [Robinson] 1867-a1901
Maria Absalom [Raffle] 1869-a1901
Henry Gregory Absalom 1873-1938
John James Absalom 1876-a1904
Christopher Absalom 1879-1946
David Garfield Absalom 1881-1942
Entry in Registration of Births for David Absolom (sic) in October-December 1840 in Newcastle on Tyne district (xxv ???- illegible on original).
In the 1841 census as David Absalom, aged 6 months, born in Northumberland, and living with David (father?), Susan (mother?), and Christopher, James and John (brothers?) at Smith's Ropery, All Saints, Byker, Norhumberland.
In the 1851 census as David Absalom aged 10, born in Northumberland, and living with his parents (David and Susannah), four brothers (Christopher, John, Matthew and Thomas), and sister (Susannah) at Wapping, Longbenton, Northumberland.
In the 1861 census as David Absoland (sic - in the index, correct on the original) aged 20, born in Cramlington, unmarried, employed as a coalminer, and living with his parents (David Absolend and Susannah Absoland), five brothers (Christopher, James, Matthew, Robert, and William Lowther), and three sisters (Elizabeth, Margaret, and Susannah) at West Cramington.
Marriage of David Absalom and Jane Gregory in FreeBMD in October-December 1862 in Tynemouth (10b 326).
In the 1871 census as David Absalom aged 30, born in Newcastle, Northumberland, employed as a coal miner and assurance agent, and living with his wife (Jane) and three daughters (Ann, Elizabeth and Maria) at West Cramlington Collery, Northumberland.
In the 1881 census as David Absalom aged 40, born in Newcastle, employed as a coal miner, and living with his wife (Jane) and three daughters (Ann, Elizabeth and Maria) at West Cramlington Collery, Northumberland.
In the 1891 census as David Absalom aged 50, born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, employed as a coalminer, and living with his wife (Jane), four sons (Chris, David G, Henry G and John J), three daughters (Ann, Elizabeth Robinson (although it is Absalom in the index) and Maria) and Elizabeth's daughter (Jane A Robinson) in a 4 room house in Schoolrow, Cramlington.
In the 1901 census as David Absalom aged 60, born in Newcastle, employed as a coal miner (disabled) and living with his wife (Jane), two sons (Christopher and David Garfield) and a servant Beatrice Ann Robinson (aged 17 and born in South Shields) at 29 Lane Row, Cramlington, Northumberland.
Death of David Absalom in FreeBMD in April-June 1909 in Tynemouth District (10b 196) aged 68.
From Denis Heydecker in Ancestry David Absalom was born in 1840 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, married to Jane Gregory, seven children (David Garfield, Christopher, John James, Henry Gregory, Ann, Maria, and Elisabeth), employed as a miner and Methodist Preacher and died in 1909.
David Absalom was the uncle of Susannah Emily Absalom, the wife of George Fullick, my third cousin twice removed.
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