William Linford (Lenford) (1860-1941)

Dates

Birth: 3 July 1860 Bury End, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, UK
Father: Charles Linford 1818-1885
Mother: Sarah Wilkins 1818-1867

Christening: 26 August 1860 Amersham, Buckinghamshire, UK

Marriage: January-March 1912 Amersham, Buckinghamshire, UK
Wife: Ellen (Helen) Lane 1867-1940

Death: October-December 1941 Amersham, Buckinghamshire, UK

Children

None known

Notes

Birth of William Linford in FreeBMD in July-September 1860 in Amersham.

Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for William Linford on 26 August 1860 in Amersham, Buckingham, parents Charles and Sarah Linford.

In the 1861 census as William Lingford (sic - on the original) aged 9 months, born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, and living with his parents (Charles and Sarah), two brothers (Joseph and Thomas), three sisters (Ann, Ellen and Sarah) and widowed grandmother (Sarah Lingford) in Washington Row, Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

His mother died in Amersham in 1867.

In the 1881 census as William Linford aged 21, born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, single, an agricultural labourer, and living with his widowed father (William) in Burry End, Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

In the 1891 census as William Linford aged 31, born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, single, a general labourer, and lodging with Henry Tarester (aged 43, born in Natting Hill, London, and a general labourer), his wife (Ellen aged 34 and born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire) and two sons (Albert aged 14 and Henry aged 12, both born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire) in four rooms in Bury End, Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

In the 1901 census as William Linford aged 43, born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, single a general labourer, and a visitor with fourteen other visitors at 422 The Waterside, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, The Single Common Lodging House and Public House run by James Bustershaw aged 30, born in Horsham, Sussex and a Licensed Victualler), his wife (Annie Marg aged 27 and born in Brighton, Sussex) and two daughters (Annie Lucy aged 7 and born in Arundel, Sussex, and Emily Ethel aged 5 and born in Horsham, Sussex), and another family.

Marriage of William Lenford (sic - on the typed original) and Ellen Lane in FreeBMD in January-March 1912 in Amersham (3a 1026).

In the 1939 England and Wales Register as William Linford born 3 July 1859 (sic), married, maried, retired incapacitated and living with Ellen Linford (wife?) at 10 Fieldway, Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

His wife died in January-March 1940 in Amersham.

Death of William Linford in FreeBMD in October-December 1941 aged 81 in Amersham (3a 1782).

There are eight entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for William Linford.

Relationship

William was the husband of Ellen Lane, mother of Albert Charles Lane, husband of Hilda Lilian Free, my ninth cousin twice removed.

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