Birth: 1724/5 Tivetshall, Norfolk, UK
Father: Thomas Adams b1708-a1726
Mother: Eliz ?
Christening: 2 March 1724/5 St Mary and St Margaret, Tivetshall, Norfolk, UK
Marriage: 7 February 1762 Morningthorpe, Norfolk, UK
Wife: Elizabeth Gower 1736-a1802
Death: January 1801 Attleborough, Norfolk, UK
Burial: 30 January 1801 Attleborough, Norfolk, UK
John Adams 1764-1849
Anne Adams 1766-1784
Dinah Adams 1769
Martha Adams 1771
Thomas Adams 1772
Susan Adams 1774
Robert Adams 1776
Elizabeth Adams 1778
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 for John Adams baptised 20 March 1724 in Tivetshall St Mary and St Margaret, parents Tho and Eliz Adams. "1724 [...] John Son of Tho: & Eliz: Adams Baptiz; March 2nd 1724". The date appears to be 20 but the next entry is 10th March and then 1725 starts (on 25 March). This was in the Julian Calendar, 1725 in the Gregorian.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for the marriage of John Adams and Elizth Gower on 7 February 1762 in Morningthorpe. "A list of Marriages, Births, & Deaths in the Parish of Morning Thorpe from the last Visitation at Newbuckenham in April 1761 to the present Visitation. Marriages [...] 1762 Febr. 7 John Adams & Elizth: Gower both of this parish single persons were married by Banns.
His children were baptised in Fritton.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Bishop's Transcripts, 1579-1935 for John Adams buried 30 January 1801 aged 77 in Attleborough, Norfolk.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-18125 for John Adams buried 30 January 1801 aged 77 in Attleborough, Norfolk. "Burials in 1801 [...] John Adams aged 77 a Labourer Jany: the 30th".
Tivetshall is 16 miles south of Norfolk on A140, Morningthorpe is 6 miles NW of Tivetshall, Fritton is just NE of Morningthorpe, and Attleborough is 14 miles west of Morningthorpe on A11.
John Adams was my fourth great grandfather.
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