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G12A. Samuel COLCHESTER was christened on 29 Sep 1776 in Creeting All Saints, Suffolk.
He seems to have farmed all his life in Creeting. He or another Samuel, inhabitant of Barking, signed a terrier of Barking church in 1813.
In the 1841 census was living in Creeting St Peter with his wife Anna.
In 1844 he (or another Samuel) is recorded as the tenant of Town Grove. Later that year he died of heart disease aged 68. The death was registered by Mary Read, a straw hat maker, who lived a few door away from Samuel. Neighbours registered deaths, especially if they had helped with the nursing. The Ipswich Journal reports his "death on 12 September at Needham Market in his 68th year of Mr Samuel Colchester, formerly a farmer at Creeting". He was buried in Creeting St Peter. His growing crops, pony gig, tumbrel, harness, furniture were sold at auction at 11am on 16/8/1845 at Creeting.
He was married to Ann Maria DIGGENS on 4 Apr 1816 in Ardleigh Essex[1]. She was born in 1799 in Cotton, Suffolk[1861 census], the daughter of William Diggens, farmer[20]. After Samuel's death, she remarried Robert Bloom at Stowupland in 1851[1,6,28]. He farmed 42 acres, employing 2 labourers on the Haughley Road at Old Newton Suffolk, [1861 census].
Children of Samuel COLCHESTER and Ann Maria DIGGENS were:
+G12B i. Samuel COLCHESTER.
G12. Samuel COLCHESTER was christened on 29 Sep 1776 in Creeting All Saints, Suffolk.8 He died in 1844 in Creeting St Peter.2
He or another Samuel, inhabitant of Barking, signed a terrier of Barking church in 1813. He was a cabinet maker in Needham Market or Creeting St Peter. Reading between the lines, he then managed to get Mary Soundy into the family way when he was aged 64 - perhaps she was his house keeper - so he had to marry her. Notice of the marriage appeared in the Ipswich Journal on 12/9/1840. After the marriage he moved into the shop, probably 68 High St, previously owned by his wife's first husband, Edward Soundy and carried on the grocery business.2
Four years later he was recorded as the tenant of Town Grove in 1844. Later that year he died of heart disease aged 68. The death was registered by Mary Read, and not Mary
Soundy. A Mary Read lived a few door away from Samuel. It could have been her, neighbours sometimes did register deaths, especially if they had helped with the nursing. Maybe his wife Mary was too distressed to do it or had she left him, as she married again within three years? The Ipswich Journal reports his "death on 12 September at Needham Market in his 68th year of Mr Samuel Colchester, formerly a farmer at Creeting". His growing crops, pony gig, tumbrel, harness, furniture were sold at auction at 11am on 16/8/1845 at Creeting.2
He was married to Mary Maria Alderson SOUNDY on 9 Sep 1840 in Creeting St Peter.6 She was the widow of Edward
Soundy, a grocer, whom she had married in 1827 and he had died in 1837. She was the daughter of Robert Lind, a surgeon.2 Three years after the end of this marriage she married again in Sleaford (presumably in Hampshire or Lincolnshire),28 but we have not yet identified whom she married. Children of Samuel COLCHESTER and Mary Maria Alderson SOUNDY were:
+H1
i. Samuel Hare COLCHESTER. See H1.