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- John Flower (1816 – 1887) and Eliza Turner (1823 – 88)
John was born on 21st December 1816 in East Retford, Nottinghamshire, the only son of Samuel Frances Flower and Elizabeth (nee Sherratt). His mother died when he was a baby or toddler and he was brought up by his father’s second wife, Catherine (They married in 1820).
Just before his sixteenth birthday,on 6 November 1832, John was bound for five years by Articles of Clerkship, to a solicitor, Richard Hannam, of East Retford.
On the 9th of April 1840 he married Eliza Turner (born 27.7.1823 at Worksop in Nottinghamshire). Eliza was the daughter of Elizabeth Packer of Daventry, Northamptonshire and John Turner (1781 –?) of Worksop. John was 24 and Eliza 16 when they married.
By 1841, John was a solicitor and he and Eliza had moved to Tuxford, Nottinghamshire. A daughter, Elizabeth Catherine (named for John’s mother and stepmother) was born in Worksop in 1843 and a son, Samuel Frances (named for his father) was born in 1845 in Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland where the family had moved to prior to 1845. A second son John, followed in 1848.
The 1861 Census records John as an attorney, living in New Street, Kirkby Stephen, employing one clerk. Catherine was 18 and the boys, recorded as scholars, were 16 and 13. Eliza’s mother, Elizabeth Turner, aged 70, lived with them or was staying at the time of the census. They also had a house servant called Mary Guy.
By 1871, the family had moved to Broughton, Lancashire. John was recorded as an attorney solicitor, Catherine was a daily governess, Samuel Francis was a law stationer and John junior was a solicitor’s general clerk. They had a 24 year old domestic servant, Harriet Anne Hanson, living with them.
In 1881, the family appear in the Wales Census which shows a John, Eliza and Elizabeth Catherine Flower living in High Street, Llandingat, Llandovery, Carmarthenshire with a servant, Martha Jones aged 22. John’s occupation is a solicitor. The correct places of birth are listed but oddly the ages recorded are incorrect. John’s age is recorded as 56, Eliza’s as 50 and Elizabeth Catherine’s as 30. Their real ages would have been about 65, 60 and 38.
John died on the 2nd November 1887 in Chorlton, Lancashire, aged 80. Eliza died a year later in 1888 aged 75.
WendyParsonsFlower originally shared this on 20 Jun 2014
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1816 - 1877 (~ 60 years)
