Birth: Circa 1873 Alborough, Suffolk, UK
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 11 February 1816 St Margaret, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
Wife: Sarah Liffen (Leffen) 1795-1833
Death: December 1857 Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK Burial: 28 December 1857 St Margaret, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
William Heavers 1817
Robert Heavers 1818
Mary Ann Heavers 1820-1820
Benjamin Heavers 1821
Sarah Ann Heavers 1824-1826
Thomas Brown Heavers 1826-1871/73
Sarah Ann Heavers 1828-1829
John Heavers 1830-1879
There are two entries in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for John Heavers and Sarah Liffen on 4 February 1816 and 11 Feb 1816, both in Lowestoft, Suffolk. There is also an entry for John Heavens and Sarah Leffen on 11 February 1816 at St. Margaret's, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1940 for John Heavers and Sarah Leffen on 4 February 1816 at Lowestoft, St Margaret, Suffolk. "(1816.) Page 95 No. 377 Banns of Marriage between John Heavers & Sarah Liffen both single persons &both of this parish were publifhed on the three Sundays underwritten: That is to say, on Sunday, the 21 Jan 1816 [...], on Sunday, the 28 Jan 1816 [...], on Sunday, the 4 Feb 1816 [...]".
His wife died in Lowestoft in 1833.
In the 1841 census as John Havers (sic - on the original) aged 50, born in Suffolk, a bricklayer, and living with Homer Havers and John Havers (sons?), and Sarah Cooper aged 66 and a housekeeper) in St Side, Pound St, Lowestoft, Suffolk (I suspect Pound Street, South Side,Lowestoft).
In the 1851 census as John Heavens (sic - in the index, Heavers on the original) aged 61, born in Albrough, Suffolk, widowed, a bricklayer, and lodging with Sarah Cooper (aged 75, born in Weneston, Suffolk and widowed), his daughter (Alenor Heavens) and (grand)daughter (Sarah Heavens) at 5 Mariner's Lane, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Death of John Heavers in FreeBMD in October-December 1857 in Mutford (4a 468).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 for John Widower Heavers (sic - in the index), married to Sarah, on 28 December 1857 at Lowestoft St. Margaret, Suffolk.
Entry in Ancestry All Norfolk, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1990 for John Heavers buried on 28 December 1857 in Lowestoft, St Margaret, Suffolk. "Page 218 Burials in the Parish of Lowestoft in the County of Suffolk in the Year 1857&58 [...] John Heavers, widower of Sarah, of Lowestoft on Decr 28 aged 64".
Entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for John Heavers married to Lowestoft, Suffolk, England on 11 February 1816 in Lowestoft, but gives her death in 1812 as well as adding her marriage to John Avery on 11 February 1816 in Lowestoft! Another entry adds his birth in 1795 in Northfield, Worcestershire, six children and death in Worcester, Worcestershire on 30 May 1844.
Richard and Judith Green have an entry for Sarah Liffen married to John Heavers, a bricklayer, on 11 February 1816 in Lowestoft, and two children Sarah Ann Beavers (sic) and John Beavers (sic).
John Heavers was the grandfather of John Thomas Heavers, husband of Clara Elizabeth Cowles, my grandaunt.
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