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How was Ann described on her death cert? (Wife, or widow)

"Wife of James Cross, labourer."

The informant was her daughter Jane.

Just to say……..FMP have no suggestions for forward ‘links’ for him based on1881

Have you checked the AMJ 1847 birth in Buckingham of a Male Cross?

I’m guessing that you have, as you will have used the GRO……………

That one's mmn is Rawlings.

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Apologies. My posts are results you will have seen and excluded etc etc and is information you will have most likely found for yourself. Given the amount of research you submit for others I felt compelled to try to help you as best I could.

Based on James' approx. YOB, and age in the 1881 Census, I found these Death results which are inconclusive.
I haven't researched any of them any further.
I accept none of them are in King's Norton or Worcestershire, where Ann died.


James Cross 69 1817 Oct-Nov-Dec Lambeth, London, United Kingdom
Dec 1886 Lambeth, United Kingdom 1d 308

James Cross 70 1817 Oct-Nov-Dec Ely, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Dec 1887 Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom 3b 350

James Cross 73 1815 Apr-May-Jun Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Jun 1888 Dorset, United Kingdom 5a 225

James Cross 72 1818 Jan-Feb-Mar Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire
Mar 1890 Staffordshire, United Kingdom 6b 302

James Cross 73 1817 Oct-Nov-Dec Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom
Dec 1890 Kent, United Kingdom 2a 422

I have also looked at :both FindAGrave and BillionGraves- No exact match
:King's Norton Death entries only -Negative result for James
: FMP Newspaper listings- Briefly - No exact match found

Genuki result- Re Robert

The original copies of the Akeley parish registers have been deposited in the Buckinghamshire Record Office in Aylesbury, and they hold the following years:

Event Dates covered
Christenings 1682 - 1979
Marriages 1688 - 1978
Banns 1789 - 1979
Burials 1682 - 1954

https://www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/

£12.00 each

Many thanks for your efforts, ErikaH and Jink20.

I'm looking at James's death and Robert's birth as minor brick walls, about which I'm not worried enough to spend money at present, but I'll certainly consider all your suggestions, Jink.

Without having followed it up in any way so far, the Lambeth death might be a possibility, as James's son William (known by his middle name George) lived in various parts of London from somewhere between 1871 and 1881 onwards, employed in Black Rod's office at the House of Lords..

Other than that, I'll consider this thread closed.

James was a nephew of one of my gr-gr-gr-grandfathers..

I'm sure Robert would have been born in Akeley, as all his siblings were.

Robert’s birthplace is certainly given as Akeley on the census records I have seen - although FMP transcribes his forename as Roland on one of them. The image is not sufficiently clear for me to be able to submit a correction

Found James's death!

CROSS, JAMES 69
GRO Reference: 1886 M Quarter in WOKINGHAM Volume 02C Page 297


Digital cert says died 4/2/1886 at Twyford Whistley.
Agricultural labourer.
Died of "bronchitis, asphyxia".
Informant: son Robert Cross, of Twyford Whistley.

James's son Robert lived in Twyford with wife Ann and family, in 1881 census and later.