Birth: Circa 1774
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Sarah ? c1769-1848
Death: December 1949 6 Wiltshire Place, Cowley Road, Brixton, Surrey, UK
Burial: 29 December 1849 Norwood Cemetery, Norwood Road, Lambeth, Surrey, UK
Joshua Challis c1811-1891
In the 1841 census as William Challis aged 60 (rounded down to a multiple of 60), not born in Surrey, employment illegible, and living with Sarah (wife? also aged 60 and not born in Surrey) at Gloucester Place, Lambeth, Surrey.
Death of Sarah Challis in FreeBMD in July-September 1848 in Lambeth (4 178).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 for Sarah Challis buried on 19 August 1848 aged 79 in Norwood Cemetery, Norwood Road, Lambeth in a reused grave . "Page 407 Burials in the Year 1848 in the South Metropolitan Cemetery under St. 6 & 7 William IV, Cap. 129. [...] Sarah Challis No. 3250 2 Cowley Place, Coowley Road, Russell Road on 1848 Augt 19 Aged 79.
Death of William Challis in FreeBMD in October-December 1849 in Lambeth (4 204).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 for William Challis buried on 29 December 1849 aged 75 in Norwood Cemetery, Norwood Road, Lambeth in a reused grave. "Page 519 Burials in the Year 1849 in the South Metropolitan Cemetery under St. 6 & 7 William IV, Cap. 129. [...] William Challis No. 4148 6 Wiltshire Place, Cowley Road, Brixton on 1849 Decr 29 Aged 75.
In the entries for the marriages of Joshua Challis on 17 October 1870 and 1 June 1879 it states his father was William Challis, deceased and a foreman in London Docks.
William Challis was the great grandfather of Frederick William Challis, husband of Marion Annie Davis, my first cousin once removed.
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