George Castle

c. 1840–1885

Derrick's great-great-grandfather. An agricultural labourer who was widowed within a year and took his baby son to his dead wife's parents.

Family

George Castlec. 1840–1885generation 4

Child

inferred a record read here

Each person is marked by where that line came from, in words as well as colour.

On the individual lines:

Documented The 1871 census names him as son-in-law and father; his death is an index entry matched by name, age and district.

Born c.1840, Baldock · died Q4 1885, Hitchin, aged 46 (an index entry matched by name, age and district)

When	What		Status
c.1840	Born at Baldock	The 1871 census gives age 30 and Baldock.	Documented
Q3 1862	Marries a Giddins	Registered at Hitchin. The index puts a Castle and a Giddins on the same page; the 1871 census relationship is what ties them.	Read with care
Q4 1862	A son	George William, registered at Hitchin, within three months of the wedding.	Documented
Q3 1863	Widowed	Martha dies, nine to twelve months after the birth. It was not childbirth.	Documented
1871	Son-in-law at Norton End	Aged 30, an agricultural labourer, in the house of James and Elizabeth Giddins, with his son George aged 8 (RG10 piece 1365, folio 27).	Documented
Q4 1885	Dies at Hitchin	Aged 46, registered at Hitchin, vol 3a p249: the only George Castle death at Hitchin between 1884 and 1886, and the age fits a man born about 1839 to 1840. A tree had said 'died when his son was 23', which agrees. Matched by name, age and district; the certificate has not been read.	Read with care

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His own parents are not known.
His death certificate has not been read, so the entry above is matched and not proved.