52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: #42 Robert Fields

This is my forty-second posting for the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge

Robert Fields was, as far as can be determined, the father of Jane Fields. He would be my great-great-great grandfather. In the 1851 census, Jane's place of birth is given as Marton Lordship (North Riding, Yorkshire). This place is also known as Marton cum Mosby. It is in Marton cum Mosby that Robert, wife Elizabeth and six children that the family is enumerated in the 1841 census.

Robert's age is given as 40 years old in the 1841 census. In the 1841 census, people over the age of 15 are rounded down to the nearest five. So Robert could have been anywhere between 40 and 44 years old. Robert worked as an agricultural labourer. 

Ten years later, Robert aged about 54, born in Marton cum Mosby, Elizabeth born in Bishop Monkton, aged 56 are living in Marton cum Mosby. With them are their son, William, aged 11, and their granddaughter, Hannah Fields.

It looks like this would be Robert's death registration Deaths Mar 1868 FIELDS Robert 72 Easingwold  volume 9d page 223

Marton Cum Mosby was in Easingwold district

1841 Census of England, Yorkshire, Marton cum Mosby, Class: HO107; Piece: 1241; Enumeration District: 5; Page: 2; Line: 5, Robert Fields household; Ancestry.ca (http://www.ancestry.ca : accessed 25 October 2014) citing GSU roll: 464229.

1851 Census of England, Yorkshire, Marton cum Mosby, Class: HO107; Piece: 1241; Book: 1; Enumeration District: 5; Page: 2; Line: 5, Robert Field household; Ancestry.ca (http://www.ancestry.ca : accessed 1 November 2104) GSU roll: 464229

1861 Census of England, Yorkshire, Marton cum Mosby,  Class: RG 9; Piece: 3629; Folio: 25; Page: 6, Robert Feild [Field] household; Ancestry.ca (http://www.ancestry.ca : accessed 1 November 2014, citing GSU roll: 543163.

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52 Ancestors in 52 weeks : #36 Jane Fields

This is my thirty-sixth posting for the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge

Jane Fields was born 17 March 1829 according to the 1901 census. Family information gives her place of birth as Leeds, England. 1901 is the last census in which I have found her.   I have been unsuccessful in finding her death registration. My grand aunt Margaret told me that Jane died from inflamed appendicitis. My aunt Bessie said that Jane had died before her husband so that narrows it to between 1901 and 1905.

Jane Fields

I have been contacted by another researcher who has found the family in England.

Jane Fields married John Robinson. Their marriage was registered in the December quarter of 1848 in They had seven known children.

First born was named Joseph born about 1849. There is a jump to about 1854 when William was born. Mary Ann was born about 1856. She gave her age as 20 when she married in 1876 and that she was born in Canada. Next was Elizabeth Fields. Family information said that she was born 6 December 1859 in Toronto.

In 1851 Jane and her husband, John and their son Joseph were living at 7 Union Row in North Allerton, North Yorkshire. They lived with her sister, Phoebe and brother-in-law John Spence. The family hasn't been found in the 1861 Census in Canada or England.

In 1871, the family was living in Collingwood, Township, Grey County, Ontario. Sarah Jane was born about 1861. Next came Robert Robinson who was born 15 November 1862 in Collingwood (but not sure whether this was the town or the township). Isabella often referred to as Belle was born about 1865. The last child was Eliza Ann. The 1871 census gives her age as 5 but in the 1881 census they are shown as two years apart in age.

1901 Census of Canada, Algoma (district 44), Carnarvon (sub-district H3), division 2, p. 6, family 46, John Robinson household; digital image, Ancestry.ca (http://www.ancestry.ca : accessed 11 February 2014), citing microfilm T-6458, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa.

Marriages Dec 1848 FIELDS Jane --  Easingwold  24 page  411 index on FreeBMD website [put on wish list to order]

1851 Census of England, Yorkshire, North Allerton,

1871 Census of Canada, Ontario, Grey North (district 37), Collingwood (sub-district d), division 2, p 44, family 140, John Robinson household; microfilm C-9953, Library & Archives Canada, Ottawa.

1881 Ontario Census, Carnarvon, Algoma, Page 21 Family 104

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