Birth: 1830 Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
Father: John Heavers c1793-1857
Mother: Sarah Liffen (Leffen) 1795-1833
Christening: 20 May 1830 St Margaret, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
Marriage: 16 June 1855 St Margaret, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
Wife: Betsy (Betsey) Buller [Cossey, Hamilton] 1825-1909
Death: January 1879 Oulton, Suffolk, UK
Burial: 17 January 1879 Oulton, Suffolk, UK
None known
Two entries in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for John Heavers baptised on 20 May 1830 in Suffolk in one and in 1830 in Lowestoft, Suffolk in the other, parents John Heavers and Sarah Liffen.
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980 for John Heavers christened on 20 May 1830 in Lowestoft, Suffolk, parents John Heavers and Sarah Liffen.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915 for John Heavers baptised on 20 May 1830 at Lowestoft, St Margaret, Suffolk, parents John Heavers and Sarah Lippen (sic - in the index). "Page 257 Baptisms folemnized in the paifth of Lowestoft in the County of Suffolk in the Year 1830 [...] May 20th No. 2054 John son of John Heavers, a Bricklayer, and Sarah Liffen of Lowestoft".
His mother died in Lowestoft in 1833.
In the 1841 census as John Havers (sic - on the original) aged 8, born in Suffolk, and living with John Havers (father?), and Homer Havers (brother?) in St Side Pound Street, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
I cannot locate him in the 1851 census but he was not living with his father - maybe at sea.
Marriage of John Heavers and Betsey or Betsy Cossey in FreeBMD in April-June 1855 in Mutford (4a 909).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973 for John Heavers aged 26, father John Heavers, and Betsey Cossey, father Richard Bullen on 16 June 1855 in Lowestoft, Suffolk.
In the 1861 census as John Heavers aged 32, born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, married, and a mate a cruiser engaged in the coal trade moored at the Long Keay in Newport Harbour Belgium with a master and two ordinary seamen. His wife was living in Lowestoft.
In the 1871 census as John Heavers aged 40, born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, a bridgeman, and living with his wife (Betsy) in Boarded Cottage, Mill Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Death of John Heavers in FreeBMD in January-March 1879 aged 47 in Mutford (4a 572).
Entry in Ancestry All England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 for John Heavers buried on 17 January 1879 in Oulton, Suffolk.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1990 for John Heavers buried on 17 January 1879 aged 47 in Oulton, Suffolk. "Page 86 Burials in the Parifh of Oulton in the County of Suffolk in the Year 1878 [...] 1879 [...] John Heavers No. 685 of Oulton on Jany 17th aged 47".
Entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for John Heavers born in Lowestoft, Suffolk in 1830, parents John Heavers and Sarah Liffen, his baptism on 20 May 1930 in Lowestoft, Suffolk, his marriage to Betsey Cossey on 16 June 1855 in Lowestoft, Suffolk, and his death in Mutford, Suffolk in January 1879.
Entry in Richard and Judith Green Family Tree for John Beavers (sic) baptised on 20 May 1830 at Lowestoft St Margarets, parents John Heavers and Sarah Liffen.
John Heavers was the uncle of John Thomas Heavers, husband of Clara Elizabeth Cowles, my grandaunt.
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