Birth: 1843 Arford, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Father: George Burrows (Burrow) 1808-1890
Mother: Sarah Page 1806-1898
Christening: 12 March 1843 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Marriage: 24 September 1864 Bramshott, Hampshire, UK
Wife: Ann Wheeler 1837-1907
Marriage: 26 April 1908 St Anne, Wandsworth, London, UK
Wife: Emily Grover [Smith] 1860-1952
Death: 20 September 1933 Wandsworth, London, UK
Elizabeth Maria Burrows [Croucher] 1876-1966
Birth of Richard Burrows in FreeBMD in January-March 1843 in Farnham (4 152).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Richard Burrow on 12 March 1843 in Headley, Hampshire, parents Richard and Sarah Burrow.
Entry in Headley Baptisms for Richard Burrow on 12 March 1843, parents George, a labourer, and Sarah Burrow of Arford.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1912 for Richard Hanon (sic - in the index, Burrow on the original) on 12 March 1843 at Headley, All Saints, parents George and Sarah Hanon. "Baptisms folemnized in the Parifh of Headley in the County of Southampton in the Year 1843 [...] March 12 No. 1237 Richard Son of George, a Labourer, and Sarah Burrow of Arford".
In the 1851 census as Richard Burrow aged 8, born in Headley, Hampshire, and living with his parents (George and Sarah), five brothers (Charles, David, George, Henry and William) and three sisters (Elizabeth, Jane and Mary Ann) in Headley, Hampshire.
In the 1861 census as Richard Burrows aged 16, born in Lippook (sic - in the index, Liphook on the original), Hampshire, and a servant living with Sarah Austin (aged 55, born in Hampton, Middlesex, widowed and a green grocer), her son (Frederick aged 10 and born in Kingston, Surrey) and daughter (Kate aged 12 and born in Hampton, Middlesex) in Brighton Road, Kingston on Thames, Surrey.
Marriage of Richard Burrows and Ann Wheeler in FreeBMD in July-September 1861 in Farnbro (2a 139).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Richard Burrows, father George Burrows and Ann Wheeler on 24 September 1864 in Bramshot, Hampshire.
His daughter was christened in Headley on 7 October 1866, parents Richard, a labourer, and Ann Burrows of Lindford.
In the 1871 census as Richard Barrows (sic - in the index, Burrows on the original) aged 28, born in Headley, Hampshire, an agricultural labourer, and living with his wife (Annie), two sons (John and Thomas) and two daughters (Ellen and Harriet) in Lindford, Headley, Hampshire.
In the 1881 census as Richard Burows (sic - on the original) aged 38, born in Headley, Hampshire, an agg laborer, and living with his wife (Ann), four sons (George, Godfrey, John and Owen), and three daughters (Elizabeth, Ellen and Harriett) in Lindford, Headley, Hampshire.
There are four entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1945 for Richard Burrows address 63 Russell Road, South Wimbledon in 1887 and 1888, 4 South Place, Wimbledon in 1889 and 1890.
In the 1891 census as Richard Bussard (sic - in the index, illegible on the original) aged 47, born in Hankshire, Wimbledon (sic - in the index, Headley, Hampshire on the original), a labourer on the railway, and living with his wife husband (Ann), four sons (Geoffrey, Godfrey, John, and Owen), and two daughters (Elizabeth and Ellen) in four rooms at 5 South Place Cottages, Wimbledon, Surrey.
There are twelve entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1945 for Richard Burrows address 5 South Place, Wimbledon in 1891, and White Cottage, The Common, Wimbledon from 1892 to 1904.
In the 1901 census as Richard Burrows aged 56, born in Headley, Hampshire, a common keeper, and living with his wife (Ann), two sons (George and Owen) and granddaughter (Gracie) in White Cottage, North Wimbledon, Surrey.
His wife died in Kingston upon Thames in 1907.
Marriage of Richard Burrows and Emily Smith in FreeBMD in April-June 1908 in Wandsworth (1d 1090).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for Richard Burrow aged 66, father George Burrow, and Emily Smith aged 48, father Charles Smith on 26 April 1908 at St Anne, Wandsworth. "Page 104 1908 Marriage solemnized at St Anne's Church in the parish of Wandsworth in the County of London. No.207 April 26th 1908 Richard Burrows aged 66, a Widower and Common Keeper of Iron Mill Place, father George Burrows (deceased), a Gentleman, and Emily Smith aged 48, a Widow of 35 Iron Mill Place, father Charles Grover (deceased), a Coach builder. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [... he made his mark ...] in the Presence of us T G Smith and G M Burrows".
In the 1911 census as Richard Burrows aged 68, born in Ham, Hampshire, a carman (sic - in the index, common on the original) rider, and living with his wife (Emily) and (step)son (Eric Ernest Smith) at in six rooms at 9 Medfield Street, Roehampton, Surrey.
There are eleven entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Richard Burrows address 9 Melfield Street SW15, Putney, Wandsworth from 1918 to 1929, other occupants Emily Burrows (wife?), Eric Ernest Smith (stepson?) in 1918 to 1923, George Nelson Smith (stepson?) in 1918 to 1920 and Emily Smith in 1929.
Death of Richard Burrow in FreeBMD in January-March 1933 aged 90 in Wandsworth (1d 922).
Entry in The Pastoral Notebooks of Wallis Hay Laverty, rector of Headley 1872–1928
There are thirty six entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Burrows with various combinations of the above adding his death on 20 September 1933 in Wandsworth, London.
Richard Burrows was the great grandfather of Frederick George Deadman, husband of Ruth Croucher, my aunt, and of Sylvia Irene Deadman, wife of Leonard Croucher, my uncle, and father of Harriett (Harriet) Burrows (Burrow), wife of George Glazier, grandnephew of James Glaysher, husband of Frances Fullick, my second great grandaunt.
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