Birth: 1764 Fritton, Norfolk, UK
Father: John Adams 1724-1801
Mother: Elizabeth Gower 1735/6-1802
Christening: 2 January 1764 Hempnall, Norfolk, UK
Marriage: 13 October 1786 Old Buckenham, Norfolk, UK
Wife: Mary Beals (Beales) 1759-1844
Death: 1849 Topcroft, Norfolk, UK
Buried: 16 June 1849 Topcroft, Norfolk, UK
Joseph Adams c1786-1853
John Adams 1788-1866
Ann (Hannah) Adams 1789-1866
William Adams 1791-1868
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 for John Adams baptised 2 January 1764 in Fritton, Norfolk, parents John and Elizabeth Adams. "Baptisms 1764 Adams John Son of John & Elizabeth Adams was baptized Jany 2d".
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for John Adams and Mary Beales on 13 October 1786 in Old Buckenham Or Brecles, Norfolk.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1940 for John Adams and Mary Beales on 13 October 1786 in Old Buckenham. "The Year 1786 Page 63 [...] No. 94 John Adams of this Parish single man and Mary Beales of the Parish of Beccles were married in this Church by License this thirteenth Day of October in the Year One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Eighty Six [he signed his name, she made her mark]".
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for the marriage of John Adams and Mary Beales on 13 October 1789 (sic) in Old Buckenham. "Marriages 17 [illegible but previous page was baptism and burials in 1786 and next page is same 1787] John Adams and Mary Beales - Octr 13th"
His first son was were born in Flordon and last three in Old Buckenham from the census entries.
In the 1841 census as John Adams aged 75 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), born in Norfolk, employed as an agricultural labourer, and living with Mary (wife?), Samuel (son?), Elizabeth (daughter-in-law?), George (grandson?), Mary Ann (granddaughter?), by the church in Topcroft, Norfolk.
His wife was buried in Topcroft in 1844.
Death of John Adams in FreeBMD in April-June 1849 in Loddon &c (13 149).
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Bishop's Transcripts, 1579-1935 for John Adams buried 16 June 1849 in Topcroft.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for John Adams buried on 16 June 1849 aged 84 in Topcroft. "Page 26-27 Burials in the Parish of Topcroft in the County of Norfolk in the Year 1849 [...] John Adams No. 210 of Topcroft June 16th 1849 aged 84 years".
There are four entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for John Adams.
Fritton is 12 miles south of Norwich SW of Tasburgh. Flordon and Topcroft are about 5 miles apart either side of Tasburgh on A140 10 miles south of Norwich. Old Buckenham is some 10 miles west of Tasburgh on B1077 and 3 miles south of Attleborough.
John Adams was my third great grandfather.
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