Robert France

  General Notes:

1861 : possibly a servant (carter) aged 18 b. Prees living at Sand Hole (a farm?), Prees [Census RG9/1888/pg6/no.27]

1881 : living in Prees (36,Ag Lab.,b.Prees) with wife Margret Ann (30,Ag ,b.Prees) and children James (4,scholar,b.Prees), Harry (6,scholar,b.Prees), Sarah (3,b.Prees) and Infant daughter (1mnth,b.Prees). [Census rg11/2669/pg5/no29]

1891 : living on Higher Heath, Prees (47,farm labourer,b. Prees) with wife Margret (40,b.Prees) and children Henry (16,? Labourer,b.Prees), Robert (11,b.Prees) Wallace (4,b.Prees), Nelly (2,b.Prees), M. E (female,10,b.Prees) George (8,b.Prees) and Jane (6,b.Prees) [Census rg12/2124/pg2/no9]

1911 : living at Rose Villa (?) in Prees, Whitchurch (66,married 40yrs,farm lab.,b. Prees) with wife Margaret (60,b.Prees), son George (28,single,farm lab.,b.Prees) and daughter Nellie Watson (22,married,b.Prees) and son-in-law Richard Watson (22,hay trusser,b.Morton Faye (?),Salop). Robert and Margaret had been married for 40ys and had had 12 children, 2 had died. Nellie and Richard had been married 1 year. [Census]

Marriage date 1871 [1911 census]

Robert married Margaret Ann Middleton about 1871. (Margaret Ann Middleton was born about 1851 in Prees, Shropshire ²¹⁴.)