Birth: October 1866 Grays, Essex, UK
Father: John Mead 1836-1920
Mother: Sarah Ann Beale 1839-1917
Christening: 17 October 1866 at St Paul, Canonbury, Islington, Middlesex, UK
Marriage: 25 December 1889 St Peter and St Paul, Grays Thurrock, Essex, UK
Wife: Alice Mary Palmer 1867-1932
Death: January-March 1942 Braintree, Essex, UK
John William Mead 1891-1892
Horace Albert Mead 1893-1953
Bertie John Mead 1895-1948
Leslie Alan Mead 1897-1974
Victor Leonard Mead 1901-1960
Winifred Lucy Mead [Hawkes] 1904-1981
Birth of William J Mead in FreeBMD in October-December 1866 in Orsett (4a 145).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1917 for William John Mead on 17 October 1866 at Canonbury St Paul, Islington, parents John and Susan Ann Mead. "Page 68 Baptisms solemnized in the Dist of St Paul Islington in the County of Middlesex in the year 18[blank] 1866 [...] Oct 17th No. 542 William John, parents John, a Docker, and Susan Ann Mead of Balls Pond Road.".
In the 1871 census as John Mead aged 3, born in Grays, Essex, and living with his parents (John and Sarah Ann), two brothers (Alfred and Harry) and sister (Annie) in the High Street, Grays, Essex.
In the 1881 census as Wm John Mead aged 13, born in Grays, Essex, and living with his parents (John and Sarah Ann), five brothers (Albert Edward, Alfred John, Ernest, Geo Arthur and Henry) and sister (Minnie) at 26 Chapel Row, Grays Thurrock, Essex.
Marriage of William John Mead and Alice Mary Palmer in FreeBMD in October-December 1889 in Orsett (4a 508).
Entry in Ancestry Essex, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1935 for William John Mead, father John Mead, and Alice Mary Palmer on 25 December 1889 at Grays Thurrock, St Peter and St Paul.
Two entries in the 1891 census as John Mead aged 24, born in Grays, Essex, married, and master of the Alfred, a 45 ton sailing vessel of Rochester at St Botolph, Northfleet, Kent, together with a mate (Samuel Gall aged 23, born in Dagenham, Essex and single) and aged 24, a lighterman and living with his wife (Alice) and son (William) at 12 Prospect Row, Grays, Thurrock Essex.
His first two sons were born in Orsett in 1901 and 1903, and last three in Northfleet from 1895 to 1901
In the 1901 census as William Mead aged 35, born in Grays, Essex, a bargeman, and living with his wife (Alice), four sons (Bertice, Horace, Leslie and Victor), neice (Ettie Mead), and two boarders (George Banks aged 21, born in Northfleet, Kent, and a general labourer, and his wife Ada aged 20 and born in Gravesend, Kent) at 87 Shepherds Street, Northfleet, Kent.
There are entries in Ancestry Medway, Kent, England, Poor Law Union Records, 1836-1937 for Alice Mead and her four sons Bertie, Horace, Leslie and Victor Mead admitted 26 August 1902 to Strood Union, Strood, Kent all of Northfleet and family of Wm Jno Mead a Lighterman, and discharged on different dates - the family by request on 19 June 1903 to Northfleet, but Leslie on 24 February 1903 but readdmitted 16 May 1903 and discharged 19 June 1903, and Victor discharged 17 September 1902, readmitted 23 September 1902 and discharged 13 October 1902 - nearest relative sister Ettie Hinton, 55 Elm Road, Grays, Essex.
His daughter was born in West Ham in 1904 and baptised in Greenwich in 1908 when he was a lighterman living at 13 Ordinance Close, Blackwall.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for William John Mead address 22 Azof Street, Greenwich in 1910.
In the 1911 census a as William Mead aged 44, born in Grays, Essex, lightering, and living with his wife (Alice), four sons (Bertie, Horace, Leslie and Victor) and daughter (Winifred) in five rooms at 26 Collerston Road, East Greenwich SE, London.
There are fouteen entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for William John Mead address 26 Collerston Road, Greenwich from 1918 to 1932, other occupants Alice Mary Mead (wife?), Leslie Allan Mead (son?) from 1920 to 1925, Victor Leonard Mead (son?) from 1929 to 1931, and another family at various times.
His wife died in Greenwich in 1932.
Death of William J Mead in FreeBMD in January-March 1942 aged 74 in Braintree (4a 1631).
William John Mead was the father of Leslie Alan Mead, husband of Emily Louisa Mitchell, wife of Augustus Joseph Herbert, father of Joan B Herbert, wife of John Flower Large, my second cousin.
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