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Darwin Correspondence Project

William Jackson

1850–1930

Butler. Agricultural servant in Leaveland, Kent, 1871. Butler at Down House, 1875–82. Married Sophia Steer at Down, 1880. Coachman in Orpington, 1891; publican, North Cray, Kent, 1901; beer house keeper, Croydon, 1911. Retired to Addiscombe, Surrey.

Sources

BMD (Birth indexes)

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives, Public Record Office RG10/977/71/2), 1881 (RG11/855/92/20), 1891 (RG12/634/6/10), 1901 (RG13/694/141/16), 1911 (RG14/3333/8)

Downe marriage register 1838–1911 (kent-opc.org, accessed 17 December 2019)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 17 December 2019)

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 3 February 2015)

will proved at London, 17 March 1931

Bibliography

BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.

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