Birth: 29 September 1838 Campton, Bedfordshire, UK
Father: Samuel Coleman 1802/3-1864
Mother: Priscilla Kent 1806-1882
Marriage: 23 December 1865 in Little Horstead, Sussex, UK
Wife: Mary Maplesden 1842-1924
Death: 22 May 1902 Keymer, East Sussex, UK
William Coleman 1866-1908
George Coleman 1870-1958
Edward John Coleman 1874-1956
Charles Coleman 1875-1952
Mary Maplestone Coleman 1879-1969
In the 1841 census as Nester Pallman (sic - in the index, original illegible) aged 2, born in Bedfordshire, and living with Samuel and Priscilla (parents?), two brothers (John and William) and sister (Sarah) in Campton, Bedfordshire.
In the 1851 census as Asher Coleman aged 12, born in Campton, and living with his parents (Samuel and Priscilla), three brothers (Edgar, George and William), and four sisters (Ada, Eliza, Julia and Sarah) and a servant (Caoline Odell aged 16 and born in Clophill) in Campton, Bedfordshire.
In the 1861 census as Asher Coleman aged 22, born in Shefford, Bedfordshire, single, a boot and shoe maker, and lodging with George Cox aged 48, born in Little Horsted, Sussex and an agricultural labourer), his wife (Harriet aged 48 and born in Rotherfield, Sussex), his two sons (David aged 21 and Jack aged 16 both born in Ringmer, Sussex, single and agricultural labourers), and another lodger (Joseph Gurr aged 71, born in Isfield, Sussex, widowed and an agricultural labourer) in Isfield Road, Isfield, Sussex.
Marriage of Asher Coleman and Mary Maplesden in FreeBMD in October-December 1865 in Uckfield (2b 186).
In the 1871 census as Ashar (sic - on the original) Coleman aged 30, born in Campton, Befordshire, a boot and shoe maker, and living with his wife (Mary) and son (George) in Isfield Street Cottage, Isfield, Sussex.
In the 1881 census as Asher Coleman aged 40, born in Campton, Bedfordshire, a shoemaker, and living with his wife (Mary), four sons (Charles, Edward, George and William) and daughter (Mary) at 3 Cleavers Cottages, Keymer, Sussex.
Three entries in Ancestry UK, City and County Directories, 1766 - 1946 for Asher Cole a boot maker of 3 Cleaver's cottages, Junction Road, Burgess Hill, Sussex from 1899 to 1891.
I cannot locate him in the 1891 census.
In the 1901 census as Asher Coleman aged 60, born in Sheffield, Bedfordshire, a shoemaker working on his own account at home and living with his wife (Mary) in four rooms at 3 Cleavers Cottages, Junction Road, Keymer, Sussex.
Death of Asher Coleman in FreeBMD in April-June 1902 aged 63 in Cuckfield (2b 105)
There are thirty entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Asher Coleman born in Little Horstead, Sussex in 1866/7 in two, 13 October 1866 in the third, parents Asher Coleman.
An email states Asher Coleman was born on 29 September 1838 in Campton, Bedfordshire, he married on 23 December 1865 in Little Horstead, Sussex and he died on 22 May 1902 in Keymer, Burgess Hill, Sussex.
Asher Coleman was the second great grandfather of Linda H Blunden, wife of Philip Walter Randall, my second cousin.
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