Birth: January-March 1854 Benton Square, Northumberland, UK
Father: David Absalom 1800-1870
Mother: Susannah Lowther 1815-1892
Marriage: October-December 1879 Tynemouth, Northumberland, UK
Wife: Mary Bruce 1860-1923
Death: 1903 New Zealand
Mary Absalom 1880-1962
Thomas Bruce Absalom 1882-1946
Entry in FreeBMD for the birth of William Lowther Absalom in January-March 1854 in Tynemouth (10b 133)
In the 1861 census as William Lowther Absoland (sic) aged 7, born in Cramlington, Northumberland, and living with his parents (David Absolend and Susannah Absoland), five brothers (Christopher, David, James, Matthew and Robert Absoland) and three sisters (Elizabeth, Margaret and Susannah Absoland) at West Cramlington.
His father died in 1870.
In the 1871 census as William Zokes (sic - in the index, Lowther on the original) Absalom, aged 17, born in Longbenton, unmarried, employed as a coal miner and living with his widowed mother, two brothers (Matthew and Robert), and sister (Margaret) at West Cramlington Colliery, Northumberland.
Marriage of William Lowther Absalom and Mary Bruce in FreeBMD in October-December 1879 in Tynemouth (10b 345).
In the 1881 census as Wm.L. Absalom aged 27, born in Benton Square, employed as a coal miner and living with his wife (Mary)and daughter (Mary) at 7 Cross Row, Cramlington.
I cannot find any later information and I assume from the birth of his grandson that the family emigrated to New Zealand 1882-1891 as both children were born in Tynemouth district. There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Tree giving the same information except that he emigrated with his family and his brother Matthew and family to Victoria, Australia on the Liguria in 1883 - the Orient Line Ships List states that the Liguria was a Pacific Steam Navigation Company Ships Under Orient Line Management built in 1874, 4,666 tons and in 1880-1890 was in the Orient Line Australia service. However the same source gives the death of his son Thomas Bruce as being in New Zealand.
Denis Heydecker has an entry in RootsWeb WorldConnect for the birth of William Lowther Absalom born in 1854 in Benton Square, Northumberland, parents David Absalom and Susanna(h) Lowther, his marriage to Mary Bruce in 1879, his children (Mary and Thomas) and his death in 1903.
William Lowther Absalom was the uncle of Susannah Emily Absalom, the wife of George Fullick, my third cousin twice removed.
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