Thomas Dodkins

Thomas Dodkins
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1840 – 1905 65 years

Born 29 January 1840 in Barkway, HertfordshireDied 27 May 1905 in East London, Eastern Cape, aged 65

Railway porter at Huntspill, Somerset, aged 30, at the 1871 census

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Parents

MB Mary Elizabeth Boulden 1810–1857 mother

Spouse

? Unknown spouse m. 1864

Children

ED Edith May Dodkins 1886–1957

Places 9 locations

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1840s
Born 29 January 1840

Barkway, Hertfordshire, England

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Christened 23 February 1840 infant

Barkway, Hertfordshire, England

Baptised at Barkway St Mary Magdalene, entry 132, son of John Dodkins, shepherd, and Elizabeth Mary Dodkins, of Barkway. The register records his birth date as 29 January 1840, which is why his recorded birth moves from ABT 1840 to that day.

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1850s
Residence 1851 aged 11

Barkway, Hertfordshire, England

Aged about 10, in his father's household at Barkway at the 1851 census: John Dodkin, head, born Braughing; Mary his wife, born Great Chishill; his brother John; and his sister Zilpah, indexed as 'Litha'

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Death of mother Mary Elizabeth Boulden 1857 aged 17

Barkway, Hertfordshire, Englandaged 47
1860s
Residence 1861 aged 21

Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England

A lodger at Bethnal Green, Middlesex, at the 1861 census, aged about 21. Fanny Stacey, whom he married three years later, was a servant at Melcombe Place, St Marylebone, in the same census - the likeliest explanation for two people from one Hertfordshire village marrying in Somerset.

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Married spouse not recorded 15 October 1864 aged 24

Glastonbury, Somerset, England

Married at Glastonbury, Somerset

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1870s
Occupation 1871 aged 31

Huntspill, Somerset, England

Railway porter at Huntspill, Somerset, aged 30, at the 1871 census

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Residence 1871 aged 31

Huntspill, Somerset, England

Head of household at Clyce, Huntspill, Somerset, at the 1871 census (RG10 piece 2389, enumeration district 1, folio 17, page 27, schedule 131), with his wife Fanny Eliza, 28, born Newsells, Hertfordshire, their daughter Kate Annie, 4, born Highbridge, and their son Thomas, 4 months, born Huntspill

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1880s
Birth of daughter Edith May Dodkins 4 January 1886 aged 45

East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa
1900s
Died 27 May 1905 aged 65

East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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Buried 28 May 1905 aged 65

East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Buried the day after his death; entry in the Church of the Province of South Africa register for East London, Cape Province. Born at Barkway, Hertfordshire, England.

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