Birth: 1821 Tipton, Staffordshire, UK
Father: Thomas Lester 1788-1880
Mother: Mary ? c1789-1864
Christening: 12 November 1821 in Tipton, Staffordshire, UK
Marriage: 27 May 1844 Rushall, Staffordshire, UK
Wife: Harriet Ann Glover 1820-1903
Death: April-May 1910 Greenwich, London, UK
Buried: 13 May 1910Ladywell & Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, Greater London, UK
John Lester 1845-1912
Mary Lester [Luff] 1847-1928
Edward Lester 1849
Thomas Lester 1851
William Henry Lester 1853
George Frederick Lester 1856
Harriet Ann Lester 1859-1920
Adopted son
Tom Arthur Winter c1861-1948
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for John Lester baptised on 12 November 1821 in Tipton, Stafford, parents Thomas and Mary Lester.
In the 1841 census as John Lester aged 20 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), born in Staffordshire, a fitter-up, and living with Thomas and Mary (parents?), Michael (brother?) and David, Thomas and William (nephews?) and Elizabeth (neice?) in Toll End, Tipton, Staffordshire, UK.
Marriage of John Lester and Harriet Glover in FreeBMD in April-June 1844 in Walsall (17 251).
Two entries in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for John Lester, father Thomas Lester, and Harriet Glover in 1844 in Rushall, Stafford and for John Lester and Harriet Glover on 27 May 1844 in Rushall, Stafford.
His son was born in Tipton, Staffordshire in 1845, and daughter and son in Birmingham in 1847 and 1849.
In the 1851 census as John Lester aged 39 in the index, 29 on the original, born in Yapton, Staffordshire, an engine fitter, and living with his wife (Harriett), two sons (Edward and John) and daughter (Mary) in Reynolds Street, Harborne, Staffordshire.
His son was born in Smethwick in 1851, another son in Oldbury in 1853, and son and daughter in Sydenham in 1856 and 1859.
In the 1861 census as John Lester aged 39, born in Yapton, Staffordshire, an engineer at Palace [I assume Crystal Palace], and living with his wife (Harriet), five sons (Edward, George, John, Thomas, and William H), two daughters (Harriet and Mary), a boarder (Tom A Winter aged 7 months and born in Sydenham, Kent), and a visitor (Esther Stanley aged 33, born in Alcester, Warwickshire and a cook in a gentlemans home) at 8 Hanover Street, Sydenham, Lewisham, Kent.
In the 1871 census as John Lester aged 49, born in Tipton, Staffordshire, an engineer and fitter, and living with his wife (Harriet), three sons (Edward, Thomas and William H), and an adopted son (Tom A Winter) at 8 Hanover Street, Sydenham, Lewisham, Kent.
In the 1881 census as John A Lester aged 59, born in Tipton, Staffordshire, an engineer, and living with his wife (Harriet A), daughter (Harriet A), (adopted)son (Arthur), a visitor (Eliza Beck aged 30, born in Norwich, Norfolk, single and an unemployed housekeeper), and a boarder (John Smith aged 64, born in Greenwich, Kent, widowed and a retired grocer) at 11 Amersham Grove, Deptford St Paul, London.
In the 1891 census as John Lester aged 69, born in Tipton, Staffordshire, a steam engine fitter, and living with his wife (Harriet) in three rooms at 11 Amersham Grove, Deptford St Paul, London. Another family shared the same address.
In the 1901 census as John Lester aged 79, born in Lepton (sic - in the index, Tipton on the original), Staffordshire, a retired engineer (fitter), and living with his wife (Harriett A), in two rooms at 11 Amersham Grove, Deptford St Paul, London. Another family shared the same address.
His wife died in Greenwich in 1903.
Death of John Lester in FreeBMD in April-June 1910 aged 88 in Greenwich (1d 445).
Entry in Ancestry Web: UK, Burial and Cremation Index, 1576-2014 for John Lester buried on 13 May 1910 in Lewisham, London.
Entry in North West Kent Family History Society Ladywell & Brockley Cemetery Memorial Inscriptions for John Lester 8450 " Harriett Ann Lester 1903 83 Mother, John Lester 1910 87 Father, Harriett Ann LEester 1920 60 Daughter, May Lily Atkins 1928 16m Granddaughter, Frank Trew 1940 78 Husband, Eliza Harriett Trew 1964 76 Wife".
There are four entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for John Lester born in Tipton, Staffordshire in 1822, his marriage to Harriet Ann Glover in Rushall, Staffordshire on 27 May 1844, (one gives his wife as Ann Glover), his seven/eight children and his death in Greenwich London England in 1910 and burial in Ladywell and Brockley Cemetery Ref 8450. Another entry gives his birth in 1821 and his parents as Thomas and Mary Lester.
John Lester was the father of John Lester, husband of Ann Luff, and of Mary Lester, wife of James Luff, both my half first cousins twice removed.
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