Birth: July-September 1849 Wapping, Northumberland, UK
Father: David Absalom 1800-1870
Mother: Susannah Lowther 1815-1892
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: January-March 1875 Tynemouth, Northumberland, UK
Wife: Ruth Ellison 1857-1939
Death: 1911 New Zealand
David Absalom 1877-1940
Margaret Ellison Absalom 1879-1910
George Absalom 1883-1942
Susannah Absalom 1884-1957
Ellison Absalom 1887-1960
William Absalom 1889-1964
Matthew Absalom 1891-1917
Ruth Absalom 1891-1891?
Frank Absalom 1894-1967
Entry in FreeBMD for the birth of Matthew Absalom in July-September 1849 in Tynemouth (25 442).
In the 1851 census as Matthew Absalom aged 1, born in Northumberland, and living with his parents (David and Susannah), four brothers (Christopher, David, John, and Thomas), and sister (Susannah) at Wapping, Longbenton, Northumberland.
In the 1861 census as Matthew Absoland (sic - in the index) aged 11, born in Benton, Northumberland, employed as a coalminer, and living with his parents (David Absolend and Susannah Absoland), five brothers (Christopher, David, James, Robertand William Lowther), and three sisters (Elizabeth, Margaret, and Susannah) at West Cramlington, Northumberland.
His father died in 1870.
In the 1871 census as Matthew Absalom, aged 21, born in Longbenton, unmarried, employed as a coal miner and living with his widowed mother (Susan), two brothers (Robert and William Zokes), and sister (Margaret) at West Cramlington Colliery, Northumberland.
Marriage of Matthew Absalom and Ruth Ellison in FreeBMD in January-March 1875 in Tynemouth (10b 387). His sister Margaret and Thomas Rixham are on the same page.
In the 1881 census as Matthew Absalom aged 31, born in Benton Square, employed as a coal miner, and living with his wife (Ruth), son (David) and daughter (Margt E) at 24 Cross Row, Cramlington, Northumberland.
Denis Heydecker has an entry in RootsWeb WorldConnect for Matthew Absalom born 1849 in Wapping, Northumberland, parents David absalom and Susanna(h) Lowther, his marriage to Ruth Ellison in 1875, nine children (exluding Mary) and his death in 1911. William and Grace Barras have similar information in Ancestry Public Member Trees but with ten children (however the Mary born 1881 I believe to be the daughter of his brother William Lowther) and the information that in February 1883 he arrived in Victoria Australia on the 'Liguria' with his family. This included his brother William. The Orient Line Ships List states that the Liguria was a Pacific Steam Navigation Company Ship Under Orient Line Management built in 1874, 4,666 tons and in 1880-1890 was in the Orient Line Australia service. The William and Grace Barras entries all refer to Australia, but I am convinced that this is incorrect because according to the death record for their son Matthew the family lived in Reefton, New Zealand.
The following message from Janice Day nee Absalom in Ancestry indicates he emigrated to New Zealand in 1882:
Matthew Absalom was the uncle of Susannah Emily Absalom, the wife of George Fullick, my third cousin twice removed.
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