Birth: 26 May 1786 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK
Father: Samuel Steel 1760-a1792
Mother: Lydia Evans 1767-a1792
Christening: 21 June 1786 Church Gate Street Presbyterian, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK
Marriage: 30 July 1811 Suffolk, UK
Wife: Elizabeth Mayhew 1783-1861
Death: 1 January 1865 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK
Buried: St Mary, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK
John Evans Steel 1812-1833
Elizanbeth Mayhew Steel [Haddock, Rollinson] 1816-1867
Samuel Steel 1817-1908
William Steel 1818-1881
George Steel 1819-1899
Ellen Steel [Cowles] 1824-1911
Frederick Steel 1825-1894
Louisa Ann Steel 1827-1901
Entry in Ancestry All England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for John Steel born 26 May 1786, baptised 21 June 1786 at Church Gate Street Presbyterian, Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk, parents Saml Steel and Lydia Evans.
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970 and in England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1936 for John Steel born 26 May 1786, baptised 21 June 1786 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, parents Saml Steel and Lydia Evans. "No. 5 John Steel Son of Saml. Steel & Lydia his Wife (late Evans) in the parish of St Mary Bury St Edmds in ye County of Suffk. born May 26 1786 Baptized June 21st in the same year".
His sister and brother were baptised at Church Gate Street Presbyterian, Bury Saint Edmunds in 1789 and 1792.
Entry in Ancestry Suffolk, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records, 1538-1850 for Jn Steele and Elizh on 30 July 1811 by license.
In the 1841 census as John Steele (sic - on the original) aged 55 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), born in Suffolk, a grocer, and living with Elizabeth (wife?), Charles, George and William (sons?) and Elizabeth, Ellen and Louisa (daughters?) in the Butter Market, St James, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
In the 1851 census as John Steel aged 64, born in Bury, Suffolk, a grocer, married but not living with his wife, and living with his two daughters (Ellen and Louisa Ann), widowed daughter (Elizabety Mayhew Heddak), grandson (George John Haddock), granddaughter (Ellen Elizabeth Haddock), another grocer (John Adams aged 23, born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire and single) and a servant (Eliza Ann Burt aged 21, born in Woolpit, Suffolk and single) at 29 Butter Market, Saint James, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. His wife was visiting her son Samuel and family in New Market, Beccles.
In the 1861 census as John Steel aged 74, born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, a grocer, and living with his wife (Elizabeth), daughter (Louisa A), two servants (Charles F Whiskin aged 29, born in Black Friers, Middlesex, single and a shop assistant, and Ennie Searle aged 22, born in Borley, Essex, single and a housemaid), and a nurse (Fanny Flack aged 43, born in Horningshcath, Suffolk and the wife of an agricultural labourer) at 13 Butter Market, Bury St Edmunds St James, Suffolk.
His wife died in Bury St Edmunds in October-December 1861.
Death of John Steel in FreeBMD in January-March 1865 in Bury St. E (4a 345).
Entry in Gravestone Photos for John Steel in St Mary, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. - the image is illegible but John Steel is the first name, Elizabeth his wife, John Evans and George Steel his sons and a William Steel (no relationship given but probably his son), but no dates.
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 for John Steel died 1 January 1865 in Suffolk, probate 25 April 1865 in Bury St Edmunds. "Steel John Effects under £2,000. 25 April. Letters of Administration of the Personal estate and effects of John Steel late of Bury St. Edmunds in the County of Suffolk Grocer a Widower deceased who died 1 January 1865 at Bury St. Edmunds aforesaid were granted at Bury St. Edmunds to Samuel Steel of Beccles in the County aforesaid Chemist the Son and one of the Next of Kin of the said Deceased he having been first sworn".
There are twenty two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for John Steel.
John Steel was the father of Ellen Steel, wife of William Cowles, my third cousin twice removed.
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