Biography

Name
Ockwell, Robert John
Date of birth
1871
Location
Somerford Keynes
Notes
Collected by Alfred Williams as John Ockwell.

Birth / baptism
No trace.
Somerford Keynes, Gloucestershire, 19 February, 1871 ‘Robert John’ [AB]
Somerford Keynes, Wiltshire, c. 1871 [Census 1901]

Marriage
Wiltshire, Swindon, 1905, Oct Nov Dec, Vol. 5a, p 55;
1905, Annie Ockwell. (Their only daughter, Marjorie, who was born in 1906 and who lived in the family cottage until her death in 1998, said that the ceremony had taken place at Cirencester Register Office rather than in the parish church, and that her mother’s maiden name was Ockwell [AB]

Death / burial
Gloucestershire, Cirencester, 1944, Vol. 6a, p 465, age 74;
18 April, 1944 [AB]

Williams / others notes
Literate. He [Johns father Thomas] has been dead for some years now, Bunch of nuts [AB]