Birth: January-March 1840 Topcroft, Norfolk, UK
Father: Samuel Adams c1807-a1861
Mother: Elizabeth Froast 1811-1865
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: October-December 1866 Loddon, Norfolk, UK
Wife: Sarah Borrett 1845-1924
Death: January-March 1883 Halifax, Yorkshire, UK
George Adams 1867-1915
Ellen Elizabeth Adams 1868-1869
Walter John Adams 1869-1948
Bessie Adams [Helliwell] 1872-1924
There are three possible entries for the birth of George Adams in FreeBMD in Loddon which included Topcroft: two in January-March 1840 (13 205 and 13 265 - however the second one is not on the original), and January-March 1841 (13 199). I assume the first one is correct from the 1841 census which was held in June.
In the 1841 census as George Adams aged 1, born in Norfolk, and living with Samuel and Elizabeth (parents?), John and Mary (grandparents?), and Mary Ann (was this his first cousin?) by the Church, Topcroft, Norfolk.
In the 1851 census as George Adams aged 11, born in Topcroft, and living with his parents (Samuel and Elizabeth), and two sisters (Albina and Louisa) in Topcroft.
In the 1861 census as George Adams aged 21, born in Topcroft, unmarried, employed as an agricultural labourer and living with his parents (Saml and Elizabeth) and sister (Albina) at Church Green, Topcroft.
Marriage of George Adams and Sarah Borrett in FreeBMD in October-December 1866 in Loddon (4b 580). Sarah's brother James married George's sister Albina in 1869.
In the 1871 census as George Adams aged 31, born in Topcroft, Norfolk, employed as an agricultural labourer, and living with his wife (Sarah), and two sons (George and Walter J) in Church Green, Topcroft.
In the 1881 census as George Adams aged 41, born in Topcroft, employed as a railway signalman, and living with his wife (Sarah), two sons (George and Walter J) and daughter (Bessie) at 17 Brickfield, Ovenden, Yorkshire.
Entry in FreeBMD for the death of George Adams in January-March 1883 aged 43 in Halifax (9a 325).
Topcroft is some 12 miles south of Norwich, Ovenden 1 mile NW of Halifax.
George Adams was my first cousin three times removed.
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