Frederick Green (1840-1892).
My 3rd great-grand uncle.
Frederick was born to parents William Green and Willoughby Staff and baptised on 28 September 1840 at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth. He’s recorded as living in the town with his parents in the 1841 and 1851 censuses. However, he then disappears from the records.
It’s not until the 1871 census that he crops up again, recorded as a chemist and living at 183 Larrimore Road, Walworth, East London, with his wife Mary Ann and 11-year-old niece Lizzie Dean. There’s no record of the marriage as far as I can tell but the census shows that Mary Ann was born in Brighton, Sussex, in about 1837. The couple were back in Norfolk by the 1881 census, living at Black Street, Martham, with Frederick still working as a pharmaceutical chemist.
The Norfolk News of 8 October 1881 carried a public notice that referred to the termination of a business partnership between Frederick and a John Bloomfield Green (no relation), who had been trading as “F & J B Green, Grocers, drapers & co” in Martham, Norfolk – some miles to the east of Norwich. This suggested that Frederick was going it alone. Ten years later, ever the entrepreneur, he was the publican at the historic Pelican pub in the Norfolk village of Tacolneston, now some miles to the south west of Norwich. If nothing else this proves that Frederick and his wife moved around a lot…
Frederick died on 7 April 1892 at nearby Forncett St Peter. Described as a licensed victualler and chemist, he died intestate so Letters of Administration were issued granting his belongings, with a value of £266, to Mary Ann. I cannot trace Mary Ann after Frederick’s death, other than the fact that the Letters of Administration mention that she’d moved to Norwich. It appears the couple never had any children.
Sources. All data has been gathered from Ancestry.co.uk, FindMyPast.co.uk, Norfolk Family History Society.