James James

Other Events:

• Occupation: Labourer, sometimes Farm Labourer.

Notes:

I have not entered the results I found for the 1851 and 1861 censuses. I found two households which might be that of James's father.
In one James is 4 in 1851 and 14 in 1861 and his father John is a farmer. In the other James is 2 and 12 and his father John is a farmer in 1851 but in 1861 he is a mason.
Both households are in Dinas, Pembrokeshire.
I have also found those households in 1841, but have not transcribed the entries. In that year the second John describes himself as a Miller - miller then farmer then mason!
We would expect James to be 11 or 12 in 1861, which points at the second John as his father - the one who couldn't settle down.

James married Anne Bowen on 8 Sep 1870 in Cardigan, Cardiganshire, Wales. Anne (daughter of Owen Bowen and Anne) was born about 1849 in Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died before 1901. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

There was another possible marriage for James James and Ann Bowen at about the right time in the right place.
In 1873, at the Harmony Chapel of the Particular Baptists in Haverfordwest, Pembroke. He was 24, a Labourer in Coal Works, residing Penwithin, Manorowen, father Thomas James a Farm Labourer. She was 24, a housemaid, residing in Penrhyn, Llanwnda. father Henry Bowen a Farmer. They both signed ie could write.
Reasons for rejecting this were
(a) The first child was born in 1871 - but sometimes people married late.
(b) On Anne's daughter Sarah's birth certificate her mother made her mark ie could not write.
(c) James is everywhere else described as a labourer, sometimes as a farm labourer, not in a coal works.
(d) Newport is more likely than Haverfordwest.
(e) In the 1871 census,in Owen Bowen's household, his daughter Ann is there, married, name James, with a son Thomas. James James is also in the census, married but residing at the farm where he worked.

In the 1891 census all the family is said to have been born in Pembrokeshire but lived in Cardigan. In 1901 her mother Anne was dead, and whoever filled in the form said the children were born in Cardigan. However the two counties seem very flexible - on her birth certificate Sarah is said to have been born in Llantood, Pembrokeshire but registered in Cardigan.

1. Thomas James was born about 1871 in Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
2. Mary Anne James was born about 1874 in Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
3. John James was born about 1876 in Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
4. Margaret James was born in 1880 in Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
5. Martha James was born about 1882 in Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
6. Phoebe James was born about 1885 in Eglwyswrw, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
7. Sarah James was born on 05 Aug 1886 in Llantood, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
8. William James was born in 1888 in St Dogmells, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
9. Hannah James was born in 1892 in Cardigan, Cardiganshire, Wales.

Other Events:

• Occupation: Farmer 1871 at son's marriage