Birth: 3 September 1820 Balham Hill, Clapham, Surrey, UK
Father: Job Hobbs c1795-1878
Mother: Maria Evans c1792-1851
Christening: 1 October 1820 Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, UK
Marriage: 27 December 1847 St Pancras Parish Chapel, St Pancras, Middlesex, UK
Wife: Hannah Nash c1818-1892
Death: September 1890 St Pancras Workhouse, London, UK
Burial: 9 September 1890 St Pancras Parish Chapel, St Pancras, Camden, London, UK
Emily M Hobbs 1848
Esther Hobbs c1848
James Ebenezer Hobbs 1848-1913
Job Hobbs 1850
Martha Hobbs 1852
Mary Hobbs 1852
Emma Ellen Hobbs1854
William George Hobbs1856
Arthur Walter Hobbs 1858
Hannah Elizabeth Hobbs 1861
Samuel Charles Hobbs 1862
Alice Hobbs [Stubbs] 1864-1951
Ada Hobbs 1872
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for James Hobbs born on 3 September 1820, baptised on 1 October 1820 at Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, parents Job Hobbs and Maria Evans.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 for James Hobbs baptised on 1 October 1820 at Streatham St Leonard, parents Job Hobbs and Maria Evans. "Page 148 Baptisms folemnized in the Parifh of Clapham in the County of Surrey in the Year 1820 [...] Born Sept 3rd Oct 1st No. 1181 James 2nd son of job, a servant and Maria late Evans, Hobbs of Balham Hill".
The family moved from Clapham to Streatham from the baptism records.
I cannot find an entry in the 1841 census.
Marriage of James Hobbs and Hannah Nash in FreeBMD in October-December 1847 in Pancras (1 340).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for James Hobbs and Hannah Nash on 27 December 1847 at Old Church, Saint Pancras, London.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for James Hobbs, father Job Hobbs, and Hannah Nash, father Robert Nash, married on 27 December 1847 at Parish Chapel, St Pancras. "Page 169 [...] 1847 Marriage solemnized at St Pancras Church in the Parish of St Pancras in the County of Middlesex. No. 338 Decr 27 James Hobbs of full age, a Bachelor and Cabinet Maker of St Pancras, father Job Hobbs, a Publican, and Hannah Nash of full age, a Spinster of St Pancras, father Robert Nash, a Coachmaker's Clerk. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church By Licence."
In the 1851 census as James Hobbs aged 29, born in Clapham, Surrey, a cabinet maker, and living with his wife (Hannah), two sons (James and Job) and two daughters (Emily and Esther) at 13 White Conduit Street, Clerkenwell, Middlesex. Three other families lived at the same address and Job Hobbs and family lived at No. 14.
In the 1861 census as James Hobbs aged 40, born in Surrey, a cabinet maker, and living with his wife (Hannah), three sons (Arthur, James and William) and five daughters (Emma, Hannah, Hester, Martha and Mary) at 13 White Conduit Street, Clerkenwell, Middlesex. Another family lived at the same address and Job Hobbs and family lived at No. 14.
In the 1871 census as James Hobbs aged 50, born in Clapham, Surrey, a cabinet maker and living with his wife (Hannah), five sons (Arthur W, James E, Job, Samuel C and William G) and five daughters (Alice, Emily M, Emma E, Esther and Martha) at 13 White Conduit Street, Clerkenwell, London. Another family lived at the same address.
In the 1881 census as James Hobbs aged 58, born in Surrey, a cabinet maker, and living with his wife (Hannah), two sons (Arthur and Samuel), two daughters (Ada and Alice), and a lodger (John Stubbs - Alice's future husband) at 13 White Conduit Street, Clerkenwell, London. Two other families lived at the same address.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Workhouse Admission and Discharge Records, 1659-1930 for James Hobbs admitted on 21 August 1890 aged 71 at St Pancras, Camden for Ch Rhumatism ?.
Death of James Hobbs in FreeBMD in July-September 1890 aged 71 in Pancras (1b 109).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 for James Hobbs buried on 9 September 1890 at St Pancras Parish Chapel, Camden. "1890 Sept 9 James Hobbs aged 71 H I Workhouse O.S.P".
Stephen Webb has an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for James Hobbs born in Clapham, Surrey in 1822, his wife Hannah Nash and son James Ebenezer. Mel and David Simmonds have a similar entry and a son William George Hobbs. Helen Garlick has an entry giving his birth in 1821, and ten children.
James Hobbs was the father of Alice Hobbs, wife of John Warren Stubbs, Felicity's first cousin three times removed.
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