Life History

Other facts

Notes

• 1841 census: age 4, living with his parents at East Bridgford.
  1851 census: age 14, living with his parents at East Bridgford, occupation "at home".
  1861 census: Butcher age 28 (error), living in East Bridgford (in the house next door to his father James), with his wife and daughter.
  1871 census: Butcher age 34 born East Bridgford, widower with children aged 8 and 6 and a Servant, living in East Bridgford in the house next door to his father's.
  1881 census: Butcher age 44, widower, living with son and 2 daughters in East Bridgford.
  Inherited (jointly with his brother James) all of his father's possessions under the terms of James Mason's will dated 24 May 1883 (proved 28 Mar 1884): this included his father's "cottages or tenements and premises situate at East Bridgford".
  Age 50 at the date of his second marriage to Emma Jane Pickford, a 39 year-old widow.
  1891 census: Butcher and Farmer age 52, living in East Bridgford with his second wife, her 16 year-old son and two young children from his second marriage, plus a domestic servant.  The house next door is occupied by his son John.  According to the
  1891 census he was deaf, but the 1901 census does not confirm this.
  1901 census: Farmer & Butcher (Employer) age 64 born East Bridgford, living in East Bridgford with his wife and 2 children.
  Age 65 at death according to headstone in churchyard; buried with his first wife (who had died 34 years earlier).
  Butcher of East Bridgford according to National Probate Calendar, probate of his will granted to his widow Emma Jane Mason at Nottm 8 Aug 1902, effects valued at £543\15\10d.

Sources

• 1. 1851 census (JGW has copy).
• 2. IGI.
• 3. National Probate Calendar.
• 4. 1881 census.
• 5. Notts FHS Memorial Inscriptions.
• 6. Notts FHS surname index (Mason marriages).
• 7. 1891 census.