Birth: Circa 1818 Bramshott, Hampshire, UK
Father: John Wheeler 1790-1874
Mother: Mary Ann Grevat (Grieval) 1791-1879
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 5 December 1840 Bramshott, Hampshire, UK
Wife: Mary Mansell 1820-1897
Death: 24 July 1899 Bramshott, Hampshire, UK
James Wheeler 1841
Hannah Wheeler 1844
Richard Wheeler 1846
Henry Wheeler 1848
Harriet Wheeler 1851
George Wheeler 1853
Mary Wheeler [Collier] 1856-1912
William Wheeler 1858-1924
Alice Wheeler [Moore] 1861-1938
I cannot find an entry for his christening.
Marriage of James Wheeler and Mary Mansell in FreeBMD in October-December 1840 in Farnham (4 117) which included Bramshott until 1846.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for James Wheeler aged 23, father John Wheeler, and Mary Mansell on 5 December 1840 in Bramshot, Hampshire.
In the 1841 census as James Wheeler aged 20 (rounded down to a multiple of 5), born in Hampshire, an agricultural labourer, and living with Mary (wife?) in Bramshott, Hampshire (although the entry is crossed out with most of the others with a note stating villiage of Liphook - copied replaced in separate schedule.
In the 1851 census as James Wheeler aged 33, born in Bramshott, Hampshire, an agricultural labourer, and living with his wife (Mary), two sons (Richard and Henry) and daughter (Hannah) and two lodgers (William Denyer aged 20 and Thomas Denyar aged 14, both born in Fernhurst, Sussex, single and agricultural labourers) in Bramshott, Hampshire.
In the 1861 census as James Wheeler aged 43, born in Bramshott, Hampshire, a shepherd, and living with his wife (Mary), three sons (George, Richard and William) and three daughters (Alice, Harriett and Mary) in Bramshott, Hampshire.
In the 1871 census as James Wheeler aged 53, born in Bramshott, Hampshire, a shepherd, and living with his wife (Mary), three sons (George, Richard and William) and daughter (Alice) at Shorts Cottage, Bramshott, Hampshire.
In the 1881 census as James Weeler (sic - on the original) aged 63, born in Bramshott, Hampshire, a milkman, and living with his wife (Mary) and son (William) at Shorts Lodge, Headley Road, Bramshott, Hampshire. His married daughter Alice Moore and family lived at the same address.
In the 1891 census as James Wheeler aged 73, born in Bramshott, Hampshire, a milkman, and living with his wife (Mary) at 1 Shorts Lodge, Headley Road, Bramshott, Hampshire. His married daughter Alice Moore and family lived at the same address.
Death of James Wheeler in FreeBMD in July-September 1899 aged 82 in Petersfield (2c 119).
There are ten entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for James Wheeler born in Hampshire in 1818, parents John Wgheeler and Mary Ann Grevat, and his death in Bramshott, Hampshire on 24 July 1899.
James Wheeler was the great granduncle of Frederick George Deadman, husband of Ruth Croucher, my aunt, and of Sylvia Irene Deadman, wife of Leonard Croucher, my uncle. He was also the first cousin once removed of Frederick Wheeler, husband of Margaret Isabel Smith, my first cousin twice removed.
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