Birth: 5 May 1837 St James Westminster, Middlesex, UK
Father: John Rotherham c1790-1852
Mother: Sarah Thomas c1797-1872
Christening: 17 September 1837 St James Westminster, Middlesex, UK
Marriage: 10 November 1862 St James Westminster, Middlesex, UK
Wife: Sarah Christy Walker 1839-1921
Death: 13 April 1910 Sick Ward, Marylebone Workhouse, Marylebone, London, UK
John Rotherham 1864-1866
Sarah Christy Rotherham [Salter] 1866-a1894
Robert Philip William Rotherham 1868-1941
Florence Janet Augusta Rotherham 1874-1952
Philip James Edward Rotherham 1879-a1905
Thomas Andrew Herbert Rotherham 1880-a1903
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for John Rotherham born on 5 May 1837, and christened on 17 September 1837 at Saint James, Westminster, London, parents John and Sarah Robinson.
In the 1841 census as John Rotherham aged 4, born in Middlesex, and living with John and Sarah (parents?), Thos (brother?) and Sarah (sister?) at 10 Silver Street, Golden Square, Westminster St James, Middlesex.
In the 1851 census as John Rotherham aged 13, born in Middlesex, and living with his parents (John and Sarah), and two brothers (Phillip and Thomas) at 10 Silver Street, Golden Square, Westminster St James, Middlesex.
His father died in St James, Westminster in 1852.
In the 1861 census as John Rotherham aged 24, born in London, no stated employment, and living with his widowed mother (Sarah), and two lodgers (May Jackson aged 57, born in Kent, and a nurse, and Ann Wallace aged 53, born in Norfolk, and a laundress, both widowed) at 21 Marshall Street, Golden Square, Westminster St James, Middlesex. Some twenty other people (individuals and families) lived at the same address.
Marriage of John Rotherham and Sarah Christy Walker in FreeBMD in October-December 1862 in St James (1a 699).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for John Rotherham, father John Rotherham, and Sarah Christy Walker on 10 November 1862 at Saint James, Westminster, London.
His three children were born in St James Westminster in 1864 to 1868.
In the 1871 census as John Rotherham aged 33, born in Westminster, Middlesex, a tailor, and living with his wife (Sarah C), son (Robert P W) and daughter (Sarah C) at 41 Broad Street, St James, Westminster, London.
His daughter was born in Bethnal Green in 1874.
There are four entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for John Rotherham address 6 Richard Street, All Saints, Poplar, Tower Hamlets in 1875 and 1876, 112 Grove Road, St Matthew, Bethnal Green, Hackney in in 1878, and 12 Nicholas Street, St Leonard, Shoreditch, Hackney in 1878 and 1879.
His daughter was born in Bethnal Green in 1879 and son in Westminster in 1880.
In the 1881 census as John Rotherham aged 43, born in Westminster St James, Middlesex, a tailor (cutter) and living with his wife ( Sarah C), three sons (Phillip J L, Robert P M and Thomas A H), and two daughters (Florence J A and Sarah C) at 90 Chippenham Road, Paddington, London - this address was shared with three other families.
In the 1891 census as Jno (sic - on the original) Rotherham aged 53, born in St Thomas London, and living with his with (Sarah C), two sons (Philip J E and Thos A H) and daughter (Florence J E) in two rooms at 6 Thorpedale Road, St Mary, Islington, London. Another family lived at the same address.
There are seven entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for John Rotherham, address 6 Thorpedale Road, Holloway, Islington from 1891 to 1901.
In the 1901 census as John Rotherham aged 63, born in Westminster, London, employed as a tailor cutter, and living with his wife (Sarah) and son (Robert P W) at 270 Thorold Road, Ilford, Essex.
There are two entries in Ancestry London, England, Workhouse Admission and Discharge Records, 1659-1930 for John Robinson admitted to the Westminster Union Workhouse on 13 November 1902, born in 1837, aged and infirm, and on an infirm diet, discharged on 29 December 1902 - Wife and 2 sons 270 Thorold Rd Ilford.
Death of John Rotherham in FreeBMD in April-June 1910 aged 72 in Marylebone (1a 300).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 for John Rotherham having been admitted to the Saint MaryleboneWorkhouse on 18 May 1904, and died in the sick ward on 13 April 1910 aged 72, and was buried by friends.
There are two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for John Rotherham born in Maryleborn (sic) in 1837, one giving his parents as Thomas and Sarah, and the other as John and Sarah, and another for John Rotherham born in Westminster, Middlesex in 1838 and his children.
John Rotherham was the father of Robert Philip William Rotherham, husband of Amy Amelia New, my half second cousin once removed.
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