| Home Surname List Name Index Sources | Seventh Generation32. John Lindsey was born about 1813 in Strubby, Lincolnshire.42 He was baptized on 7 Nov 1813 in Strubby, Lincolnshire.56 He appeared in the census on 6 Jun 1841 in Alford, Lincolnshire. (Three "John Lindsey"s appear in Lincolnshire in the 1841 census, The one in Alford is identified as a blacksmith, age 31. This implies a birth date of 1809 or 1810. The others are a married 33 year old farmer in Pinchbeck, and a 15 year old in Pinchbeck. The age, occupation and location make it most likely that the Alford individual is this John Lindsey.) On 6 Jun 1841 he was a Blacksmith in Alford, Lincolnshire.57 He appeared in the census on 30 Mar 1851 in Strubby, Lincolnshire.58 (The census shows John's age as 37, his wife Mary as 36. Household includes children Charles (5), George (2), Frederick (1m); Thomas Dunham (8) shown as son-in-law and Mary Atkin, servant) In 1861 he was a Blacksmith (and owned 8 ac land). He appeared in the census in 1861 in Strubby, Lincolnshire.42 (The 1861 Census shows family John (head), Mary (wife), George, Frederick, Ellen Susan, Elizabeth Maria and Thomas Dunham (stepson)) He appeared in the census on 2 Apr 1871 in Sleaford Road, Heckington, Nr Sleaford, Lincs.59 On 2 Apr 1871 he was a farmer (owner and occupier of 52 acres) in Sleaford Road, Heckington, Nr Sleaford, Lincs.59 He appeared in the census on 5 Apr 1891 in Heckington, Nr Sleaford, Lincs.60 He died before 1901. (He appears in the 1891 census but not in 1901) John Lindsey and Mary Dobson
were married on 8 May 1845 in Louth St James, Lincolnshire, England.61,62 (His stepson,
Thomas Dunham, was identified in 1851 as John's son-in-law, but in 1861 as his
stepson. Although, at one time, the terms were synonymous, it is likely that
Thomas was Mary's child by a previous marriage, as the marriage register transcript
shows her as a widow.)
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