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LIFE GOES
ON: AN INTRODUCTION
MY
GRANDPARENTS - I - MY GREAT-GRANDPARENTS - I - MY
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS - I - MY
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
THE SIXTEEN
FAMILIES
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CHRONOLOGY - I - DRAMATIS PERSONAE - I - WHERE PEOPLE CAME FROM - I - CALENDAR
MAP OF ELY - I - MAP OF MEDWAY
MAP OF
CAMBRIDGE AND DISTRICT
THE
WORKHOUSE
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LIFE GOES
ON
Robert Reynolds
born Great Sampford,
Essex, 1841
Died Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, 1916
on the Reynolds family tree
part of the Reynolds family story
married to Mary
Ann Carter
father of Thomas
Reynolds
son of
James Reynolds
and Abigail Darnel
Robert
Reynolds (1842-1916).
My Mother's Mother's Father's father. My
Great-Great-Grandfather.
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1841: Robert
born in the first quarter of the year at Great
Sampford, Essex. He was baptised at St
Michael's church on18th July.
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1841
census: Robert was three months old
at the time of the 1841 census. The
census gives the family's address as Cottage,
Great Sampford, Essex.
His
father James was 32 years old. He was
working as an agricultural
labourer. His mother Abigail was
27 years old.
Robert
was the third of three children at home
at the time of the 1841 census. Mary Anne
was 5, Eliza was 2, Robert was 3 months.
Robert
was born at Great Sampford
in Essex, as were his father and the
other children. His mother was born at
Radwinter in Essex. The transcript for
their entry is here.
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1851
census: Robert was ten years old at
the time of the 1851 census. The census
gives the family's address as The
Grange, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
His father James
was forty-two years old He was working as
an agricultural labourer.
His mother Abigail was 37 years old.
Robert
was the third of six children at home at
the time of the 1851 census. Mary Anne
was 15, Eliza was 12, Robert was 10, Emma
was 7, James was 4 and Sarah was 1. Mary
Anne, Eliza and Robert are recorded as straw
plaiters.
Robert
was born at Great Sampford
in Essex, as were his father and the
other children. His mother was born at
Radwinter in Essex. The transcript for
their entry is here.
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1861 census: Robert was twenty years old at the
time of the 1861 census. He was working as an agricultural
labourer. The census gives the address
as The Grange, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
His father James was
fifty-four years old, and is also recorded as an
agricultural labourer. His mother Abagail
(Abigail) was 49 years old.
Robert was the
oldest of six children at home at the time of the
1861 census. Robert was 20, James was 14, Sarah
was 11, Louisa was 9, William was 6 and Lydia was
3. Abigail and James are also recorded as
agricultural labourers.
Robert was
born at Great Sampford in Essex,
as were his father and the other children. His
mother was born at Radwinter in Essex. The
transcript for their entry is here.
 
1864: On 24th September, Robert
married Mary Ann Carter at St John's church,
Duxford.
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1871 census: Robert was thirty
years old at the time of the 1861 census. He was
married. He was working as an agricultural
labourer. The census gives his address
as Ickleton, Cambridgeshire.
His wife
Maryann was 29 years old.
Robert had four children at home at
the time of the 1871 census. Alfred was 6, John
was 4, Emily was 3 and Ann was 11 months.
Robert was born at Sandford
in Essex, actually Great
Sampford. His wife was born at Shudy Camps in
Cambridgeshire. Alfred was born at Duxford in
Cambridgeshire, while the other children were
born at Ickleton. The transcript for their entry is here.
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1881
census: Robert was forty years old
at the time of the 1881 census. He is
shown as an agricultural
labourer. The family address is
given as Cottage, Duxford,
Cambridgeshire.
His
wife, Mary Ann Reynolds, was aged 39.
Robert
had eight children at the time of the
1881 census. Alfred, an agricultural
labourer, was 16, John, an agricultural
labourer, was 14, Emily was 13, Annie was
10, Eliza was 8, Edmund was 6, and Ellen
was 4 and Thomas was 2.
Robert
is recorded as having been born at Old
Sanford in Essex, actually Great
Sampford, and his wife at Shudy Camps in
Cambridgeshire (actually only a mile or
so from Great Sampford). Of the children,
Alfred, Ellen and Thomas were born in
Duxford. Eliza and Edmund were born in
Great Chesterford in Essex, and John,
Emily and Annie were born at Ickleton in
Cambridgeshire. The transcript for their
entry is here.
Interestingly,
two cottages away are two more Reynolds,
James Reynolds and Abigail Reynolds,
almost certainly the parents of Robert
Reynolds. James Reynolds was 72 years old
at the time of the 1882 census. He is
shown as an agricultural labourer.
His wife Abigail was 67 years old. James
was born at Old Sanford in Essex, and
Abigail was born at Radwinter in Essex.
The transcript for their entry is here.
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1891 census: Robert was fifty
years old at the time of the 1891 census. He was
an agricultural labourer living
at Duxford Heath, Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
His wife, Mary
Ann Reynolds, was 49.
Robert had
four children living at home at the time of the
1891 census. Edmund, a shepherd boy, was 15,
Ellen S was 14, Thomas F was 12 and Robert G was
9. Also living with them was their nephew Ernest
W Carter, aged 5, born in Thriplow,
Cambridgeshire.
Robert is
recorded as having been born at Old
Sandford in Essex, actually Great
Sampford, and Mary Ann, his wife, at Shudy Camps
in Cambridgeshire. The children were born in
Duxford except for Edmund, who was born at Great
Chesterford in Essex. The transcript for their
entry is here.
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1901
census: Robert
was fifty-nine years old at the
time of the 1901 census. He was
living at High Street,
Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire.
The street still exists today.
Robert is shown as a
stockman on a farm.
His wife Mary Ann was 58.
They had two
children living at home on the
night of the 1901 census. Thomas,
aged 22 and Robert, aged 19, who
were both agricultural labourers.
Also living with them was their
grandson Ernest Joseph Elzey,
aged 3, born in North Bow in
London.
The Reynolds
household had three lodgers on
the night of the census. They
were George and Albert Sheet,
apparently father and son, and
William Jackson. All three were
agricultural labourers.
Robert is recorded
as having been born at Old
Sanford in Essex,
actuallly Great Sampford, and his
wife at Shudy Camps in
Cambridgeshire. The transcript
for their entry is here.
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1911
census: Robert was seventy years old
at the time of the 1901 census. He was
living at High Street, Dry
Drayton, Cambridgeshire. The
street still exists today.
Robert
is shown as a stockman on a farm.
His wife Mary Ann was 69. They had been
married for 47 years.
They
had no children living at home on the
night of the 1901 census.
Robert
is recorded as having been born at Old
Sanford in Essex, actually Great
Sampford, and his wife at Shudy Camps in
Cambridgeshire. The transcript for their
entry is here.
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