Birth: July-September 1852 Shotesham, Norfolk, UK
Father: Amos Adams c1822-a1871
Mother: Elizabeth castell 1828-1861/6
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: April-June 1873 Loddon, Norfolk, UK
Wife: Christiana Forder 1854-a1901
Death: After 1901
Alice Mary A Adams 1874-a1901
Ellen Louisa Adams 1878-a1901
Thomas Alfred Adams 1881-1881
Birth of Alfred John Adams in FreeBMD in July-September 1852 in Henstead (4b 157) which included Shotesham.
In the 1861 census as Alfred J Adams, aged 7, born in Shotesham, and living with his parents (Ames and Elizabeth), and two bothers (Ames, and George) at Hellesdon, Norwich, Norfolk.
His mother died 1861-1866 and his father married Phoebe Ward in 1866.
In the 1871 census as Alfred John Adams aged 20, born in Shottesham, employed as a miller, and living with his father (Amos), stepmother (Phoebe) and bother (William) in Adelaide Street, Heigham, Norfolk. (Adelaide St is off the A1074 1 mile NW of Norwich).
Marriage of Alfred John Adams and Christiana Forder in FreeBMD in April-June 1873 in Loddon (4b 363).
In the 1881 census as Alfred John Adams, aged 28, born in Shottesham, employed a corn miller, and living with his wife (Christiana), son (Thomas Alfd), two daughters (Alice Mary A and Elley Louisa) and his brother (William) at 34 Northumberland St, Heigham, Norfolk.
In the 1891 census as Alfred J Adams aged 39, born in Shottesham, employed as a flour miller, and living with his wife (Christina), two daughters (Alice M A and Ellen L) and a general servant (Eliza A King aged 15 and born in Yelling, Cambridgeshire) at Mill House, Offord Cluny, Huntingdonshire.
In the 1901 census as Alfred J Adams aged 49, born in Norwich, employed as a grain merchant on his own account at home, and living with his wife (Christiana) and daughter (Ellen L) at Gunby, Lincolnshire.
Shotesham is 7 miles south of Norwich, Loddon is 11 miles SE of Norwich, Heigham is just north of Norwich, Offord Cluny is 8 miles south of Huntingdon (now in Cambridgeshire) on B1043, and Gunby is 14 miles north of Stamford.
Alfred John Adams was my first cousin twice removed.
Adams Gendex
Croucher Gendex
Home page