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 was recorded living in the town with his parents in the 1841 and 1851 censuses. However, he cannot be found in the 1861 census.
It’s not until the 1871 census that he cropped up again, recorded as a chemist and living at 183 Lorrimore Road, Walworth, Surrey, 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 showed 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. 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, south west of Norwich.
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. She was living in Sigismund Road, Norwich, with a niece at the time of the 1901 census but I’ve not found records after this. It appears the couple never had any children.
Sources. Birth, marriage, death and burial records including civil registrations from the General Register Office, census returns and other records at Ancestry.co.uk, Findmypast.co.uk and Norfolk Family History Society. British Newspaper Archive (titles in text). Norfolk Pubs online. England & Wales National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1861-1941.