Birth: 1788 Old Buckenham, Norfolk, UK
Father: John Adams 1764-1849
Mother: Mary Beals (Beales) 1759-1844
Christening: 2 March 1788 Old Buckenham, Norfolk, UK
Marriage: 5 December 1820 Wreningham, Norfolk, UK
Wife: Ann Kerridge c1790-1853
Death: July-September 1866 Henstead, Norfolk, UK
Mary Ann Adams [Sexton] c1819-1902
Amos Adams c1822-1880
Enoch Adams c1826-1862
Maria Adams c1828-a1841
Emily Adams [Alderton] c1832-1905
Hagar Adams [Dickerson] 1835-1909
Christening of John Adams in a submitted entry in the IGI on 2 March 1788 in Old Buckenham, Norfolk, parents John and Mary Adams.
Marriage of John Adams and Ann Kerridge in the IGI on 5 December 1820 at Wreningham, Norfolk.
All the children were born in Shotesham, but the only christening I can find is for Hager which was in New Buckenham at the Wesleyan (Chapel).
In the 1841 census as John Adams aged 50 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), born in Norfolk, employed as an agricultural labourer, and living with Ann (wife?), Amos, Emily, Enoch, Hagar, Maria and Mary (children?) at St Mary and St Martin Shottesham, Norfolk.
In the 1851 census as John Adams aged 63, born in Hempnall, Norfolk, employed as an agricultural labourer, and living with his wife (Ann), son (Enoch), and three daughters (Emily, Hagar and Mary Ann) at 2 Filands Cottages, Shotesham St Mary.
His wife died in 1853.
In the 1861 census as John Adams aged 71, born in Shotesham, Norfolk, widowed, employed as a labourer, and an inmate at Trinity Hospital, Greenwich St Alphege, Kent.
Death of John Adams in FreeBMD in July-September 1866 aged 78 in Henstead (4b 111).
Old Buckenham is some 18 miles SW of Norwich on B1077. Wrenningham is 10 miles NE of Old Buckenham. Shotesham is 8 miles south of Norwich. Hempnall is 3 miles south of Shotesham. New Buckenham is some 13 miles SW of Shotesham.
John Adams was my second great granduncle.
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