James Giddins
b. c. 1815
Derrick's great-great-grandfather. An agricultural labourer at Norton End who raised a grandson who was not his to raise.
Family
James Giddinsb. c. 1815generation 4
marriedElizabeth Giddinsb. c. 1815a record read here4 children
Martha Giddings1841–1863a record read here
George Giddinsb. 1847a record read here
John Giddinsb. 1849a record read here
Emma Giddinsb. 1855a record read here
Each person is marked by where that line came from, in words as well as colour.
What the record says
Documented He is in the 1861 and 1871 censuses at the same address.
Born c.1815, Baldock
| When | What | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1861 | At 9 Cottages, Norton End | Aged 46, an agricultural labourer born at Baldock, with Elizabeth and the children George 14, John 12 and Emma 6 (RG9 piece 816, folio 69). | Documented |
| 1871 | At Norton End, a decade on | Aged 57, with his wife, his widowed son-in-law George Castle and a grandson of 8 (RG10 piece 1365, folio 27). | Documented |
| 7 Feb 1859 | A sentence withdrawn | This archive wrote that his daughter Emma was born on 7 February 1859. That is Emma Hawkins of Aldenham, a different woman in a different parish; the Emma in this house is Emma Giddins, born about 1855. | Corrected |
Where this comes from
Each line of the table above names the record it rests on in its third column, and the grade at the top says how well the whole is evidenced. What is not established is said under its own heading below. How the grades and the labels on the chart are decided, and every source this archive holds.
What is not established
- His parents and his marriage have not been looked for in a register. A James Giddings aged 68 was registered at Hitchin in Q1 1883 (vol 3a p257), which fits a man born about 1815, and an Elizabeth Giddings aged 68 in Q2 1883 (vol 3a p250) fits his wife. They are the only James and Elizabeth of that age under any spelling at Hitchin from Q2 1871 to 1895. No record ties them to Norton End, so his death is a candidate and not established.