George POTTER [371]

  General Notes:

George was a farmer of Hemingstone, what happened to him and his wife that their daughter Ellen took over the farm before the 1871 census?


Marriage Licence Bond: George Potter and Betsey Fenn
FAA/23/49/365 · 4 Oct 1847 · Suffolk Record Office Ipswich Branch
Singleman and singlewoman and minor, both of Hemingstone. To be married at Hemingstone.
Simon Fenn, Guardian of Betsey Fenn.

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 7 Jun 1841, Hemingstone SFK. George is recorded as aged 20 M S ? born Suffolk

2. Census: England, 30 Mar 1851, Barham SFK. George is recorded as head of house married aged 30 a farmer of 100 acres employing 4 men born Washbrooke SFK. Also in the house was Charles Waller a nephew aged 9 a scholar at Woodbridge born Washbrooke SFK.

3. Census: England, 8 Apr 1861, Barham SFK. George is recorded as head of house married aged 41 a farmer of 104 acres employing 3 men and a boy born Washbrooke SFK

George married Elizabeth "Betsy" FENN [4916] [MRIN: 20], daughter of Richard FENN [4536] and Lucy PEPPER [4538], on 8 Oct 1847 in Hemingstone SFK By Lic. (Elizabeth "Betsy" FENN [4916] was born about 1825 in Suffolk and was baptised on 21 Jan 1827 in Hemingstone SFK.)