William Seldon (FFF)

[Langley Vale Sue]

Name - "official" name and what they were known as - William Seldon (Willie)

Date and place of birth - 29 October 1861, Crediton, Devon

Names of parents - John and Emma Seldon, nee Spear

Date and place of baptism - unknown

Details of each of his marriages -
1. Emma Spiller on 2 October 1884 at St John the Baptist church, Broadclyst, Devon (widowed 29 November 1887)
2. Eliza Ann Chambers on 16 December 1891 at St John the Baptist church, Broadclyst, Devon

Occupation(s) - Ag Lab (1881), Farm Labourer (1891), Railway Labourer (1901), Labourer at London & South Western Railway Creosote Works (1911)

Military service - none known

Addresses where they lived - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him on
1861 birth - Tapps Cottage, Knowle, Crediton, Devon.
1871 census - Tapps Cottage, Knowle, Crediton, Devon.
1881 census - Tapps Cottage, Knowle, Crediton, Devon.
1884 - 1887 approx - Little Loxbrook Cottage, Broadclyst, Devon.
1891 census - 4 Burrow, Broadclyst, Devon.
1901 census - Queens Square, Broadclyst, Devon.
1911 census - Broadclyst Station, Broadclyst, Devon.
Sometime between 1911 census & 1914 until his death - Hackworthy Cottage (otherwise known as Green Tree), Broadclyst, Devon.

Date, place and cause of death - 4 January 1951, Broadclyst, Devon. Cause unknown.

Date and place of burial / cremation - date unknown. Buried in the graveyard of St John the Baptist Church, Broadclyst, Devon with his 2nd wife Eliza. The 'Dead Man's Pennies' of both his sons are embedded in the gravestone.

Details of will / administration of their estate - unknown

Memorial inscription - unknown until I find my photo of his grave!