Birth: January-March 1868 Odstone, Shackerstone, Leicestershire, UK
Father: William Belcher 1822-1903
Mother: Sarah Faulknall 1820-1896
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: April-June 1890 Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, UK
Wife: Eliza Sharpe 1870-1946
Death: July-September 1944 Shardlow, Derbyshire, UK
Mary Elizabeth Belcher 1890
Alice May Belcher [Payne] 1895-1982
Fancis Joseph Belcher 1897
James William Belcher 1905-1980
Another child died before 1911
Birth of Frank Belcher in FreeBMD in January-March 1868 in Market Bosworth (7a 75).
In the 1871 census as Frank Belcher aged 3, born in Adstone (sic - in the index, Odstone on the original), Leicestershire, and living with his parents (William and Sarah), three brothers (James, Oliver and William), and sister (Emma) in Odstone, Leicestershire.
In the 1881 census as Frank Belcher aged 13, born in Hadston (sic on the original), Leicestershire, a farm boy, and living with his parents (William and Sarah), and sister (Emma (Hannah crossed out)) at Packington Lodge, Willesley, Derbyshire.
Marriage of Frank Belcher and Eliza Sharp in FreeBMD in April-June 1890 in Ashby Z (7a 221).
His daughter was born in Ashby de la Zouch in 1890.
In the 1891 census as Frank Belcher aged 23, born in Odstone, Leicestershire, a farm labourer, and living with his wife (Eliza) and daughter (Mary E) in four rooms at the 1st Lodge (of Willesley Hall), Willesley, Derbyshire.
His daughter was born in Walshall in 1895 and son in Ashby de la Zouch in 1897.
In the 1901 census as Frank Belcher aged 31, born in Oddstone (sic - on the original), Leicestershire, a farm labourer,and living with his wife (Eliza), son (Francis J) and two daughters (Mary E and Alice M) at ? Farm, Moira Road, in Ashby Woulds, Leicestershire.
His son was born in Moira in 1905.
In the 1911 census as Frank Belcher aged 42, born in Castone (sic - in the index, Odstone on the original), Leicestershire, a farm labourer, and living with his wife (Eliza) and two sons (Joseph and William) in four rooms in Cockspur Road, Donisthorpe, Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire.
Death of Frank Belcher in FreeBMD in July-September 1944 aged 76 in Shardlow (7b 415).
There are two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Frank Belcher born in 1868 in Oddstone, Leicestershire. Another gives the birth in Adstone and adds his marriage to Eliza Sharp in Ashby De La Zouch, Derbyshire in 1890. Another gives his parents as William and Sarah Belcher. Another adds his mother's maiden name as Faulknall and his four children.
Odstone was a hamlet in the parish of Shackerstone, Leicestershire.
Frank Belcher was the father of James William Belcher, husband of Rachel Maud Brown, partner of Andrew Thomas Bloomfield, Felicity's half second cousin three times removed.
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