Birth: 11 March 1847 Leziate, Norfolk, UK
Father: Charles Adams c1802-1870
Mother: Frances Aldgate 1804-1865
Christening: 11 January 1848 All Saints, Ashwicken, Norfolk, UK
Marriage: 2 June 1870 St Andrew, Timberland, Lincolnshire, UK
Wife: Fanny (Fanney) Wright 1850-1925
Death: January-March 1918 Rotherham, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Lucy Adams [Cutts] 1871-1949
Laura Adams [Cox] 1873-1953
Rachael (Rachel) Adams [Read] 1875-1946
Frances Holgate Adams [Haywood] 1877-1962
Jessie Adams [Windle] 1879-1949
Lydia Adams 1883-1900
Walter Wright Adams 1887-1958
Two more children died before 1911.
Birth of George Adams in FreeBMD in January-March 1847 in Freebridge (13 148).
Two entries in FreeReg for the baptism of George Adams on 11 January 1848 at All Saints, Ashwicken, Norfolk, parents Charles, a labourer, and Frances Adams of Leziate.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for George Adams baptised 11 June (sic) 1848 in Ashwicken Cum Leziate, parents Charles and Frances Adams. "Page [blank] Baptisms solemnised in the Parish of Ashwicken with Leziate in the County of Norfolk in the Year 1847. [...] 1848 Jan 11th No. 337 George [parents] Charles [a] Lanbrer (sic) & Frances Adams [of] Leziate". Note that the original is hardly legible but the next entry is clearly dated 1848 Febr 6th No. 338.
In the 1851 census as George Adams aged 4, born in Leziate, Norfolk, and living with his parents (Charles and Frances), two brothers (Robert and Thomas), two sisters (Sarah and Susan), and grandfather (Mark Aldgate) in Leziate, Norfolk.
In the 1861 census as George Adams aged 14, born in Leziate, Norfolk, single, a brickmaker, and living with his parents (George and Frances), brother (Francis) and nephew (William) at Brow of Hill, Leziate, Norfolk.
Marriage of George Adams and Fanny Wright in FreeBMD in April-June 1870 in Sleaford (7A 800).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for George Adams aged 23, father Charles Adams, and Fanney Wright in 1870 in Timberland, Lincoln.
Entry in FreeReg for the marriage of George Adams aged 23, a bachelor and brick maker of Timberland, father Charles Adams a labourer, and Fanny Wright aged 20, a spinster of Timberland, father Thomas Wright a labourer, on 2 June 1870 at St Andrew, Timberland, Lincolnshire, witnessed by George Elkington and Jane Oxby.
In the 1871 census as George Adams aged 24, born in Lynn, Norfolk, a brick maker, and living with his wife (Fanny) in Timberland Fen, Timberland, Lincolnshire.
His daughter was born on 15 May 1871 in Timberland and registered in April-June 1871 in Sleaford.
His daughter were born in Parkgate and registered in July-September 1873 in Rotherham.
His daughter was born 19 February 1875 in Parkgate and registered in January-March 1875 in Rotherham.
His two daughters were registered in October-December 1877, and July-September 1879 in Rotherham.
In the 1881 census as George Adams aged 34, born in Braugh Hill, Norfolk, a brick maker, and living with his wife (Fanny), and five daughters (Fanny, Jessie, Laura, Lucy and Rachel) at 54 Greasbrough Street, Kimberworth, Yorkshire.
His daughter was registered in October-December 1883, and his son was born 25 November 1887 and registered in January-March 1888 in Rotherham.
There are twenty seven entries in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for George Adams, address 23 Arthur Street, Rotherham in 1887 ad 1889, and 24 Arthur Street, Rotherham from 1890 to 1915.
In the 1891 census as George Adams aged 44, born in Norfolk, a brick maker, and living with his wife (Fanny), son (Webster), five daughters (Fanny, Jessie, Lucy, Lydia and Rachel), and a boarder (Williams Adams aged 32, born in Norfolk, and a brickyard's labourer) at 24 Arthur Street, Kimberworth, Yorkshire.
George Adams was a witness at the marriage of his daughter Lucy and George Cutts on 4 December 1893 at St John, Masbrough, Rotherham.
In the 1901 census as George Adams aged 54, born in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, a bricklayer and grocer and living with his wife (Fanny), and son (Walter) in a private house and grocer's shop at 24 Arthur Street, North West Rotherham, Yorkshire.
In the 1911 census as George Adams aged 65, born in Lynn, Norfolk, a grocer working on his own account at home, and living with his wife (Fanny), son (Walter), neice (Lucy Hammand aged 23 and born in Welbourne, Lincolnshire) and granddaughter (Elsie M Cutts - daughter of Lucy) at 24 Arthur Street, Rotherham.
Death of George Adams in FreeBMD in January-March 1918 aged 70 in Rotherham (9C 926).
There are eighty seven entries in Ancestry Family Trees for George Adams some of which add his date of birth as 11 March 1847.
George Adams was the father of Rachael (Rachel) Adams, wife of Charles Edward Read, Felicity's second cousin three times removed.
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