Birth: Circa 1739
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 12 April 1760 St John the Baptist, Bressingham, Norfolk, UK
Wife: Elizabeth Bunt (Hunt) c1740-1811
Death: February 1823 Bressingham, Norfolk, UK
Burial: 5 February 1823 St John the Baptist, Bressingham, Norfolk, UK
James Read 1764
Thomas Read 1767
Elizabeth Read 1770-1799
James Read 1772-1837
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973 for the marriage of John Road (sic) and Elizabeth Bunt on 11 April 1761 at Bressingham, Norfolk.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938 for the marriage (sic - banns) of John Read and Elizabeth Bunt on 11 April 1760 in Bressingham. "The Year 1760:1:) Page 6 [...] No. 24 Banns of Marriage between John Read of this Parish Single Man and Elizabeth Bunt of the same Single Woman were publifhed on the three Sundays underwrittten: That is to say, On Sunday, the 28 March [...] On Sunday, the 4th April [...] On Sunday, the 11th April."
Entry in FreeReg for the marriage of John Reade, single and Elizabeth Hunt, single, on 12 April 1762 at St John the Baptists, Bressingham, Norfolk, both making their marks.
His four children were baptised in Bressingham on 8 April 1764, 13 December 1767, 3 January 1790 and 12 December 1772.
His wife was buried on 19 February 1811 in Bressingham.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Bishop's Transcripts, 1579-1935 for John Read buried 5 February 1823 in Norwich (sic), Norfolk.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 for John Read buried 5 February 1823 in Bressingham, Norfolk.
Entry in FreeReg for John Read buried 5 February 1823 aged 84 in St John the Baptist, Bressingham, Norfolk.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for John Read buried 5 February 1823 aged 84 in Bressingham. "Page [blank] Burials in the Parish of Brefsingham in the County of Norfolk in theYear 1823 [...] John Read No. 115 [of] Brefsingham [on] Feby 5 [aged] 86 years".
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1995 for John Read buried 5 February 1823 aged 84 in Bressingham. "Page 15 Burials in the Parish of Brefsingham in the County of Norfolk in theYear 1823 [...] John Read No. 115 [of] Brefsingham [on] Feby 5 [aged] 86 years".
Bressingham is 24 miles SW of Norwich on A1066.
John Read was Felicity's fifth great grandfather.
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