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Reeves, John (c1758 SSX - )

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Reeves, John


Summary

Father:
Mother:

Birth: c1758
Birth Source: Marriage Licence

Death:
Death Source:

Spouse1: Jane JOY/JAY

Narrative

Nothing is presently known about John's early life. At the time he was married in November 1783, his age on the marriage licence was recorded as 25, placing his birth around 1858. The same marriage licence notes he was a husbandman and had only resided in the Parish of Aldingbourne for 1 year prior to the marriage.

John Reeves married Jane JOY on 3 November 1783 at the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin at Aldingbourne, Sussex, an adjoining parish to Boxgrove.
The marriage Licence was recorded by the Archdeaconry of Chichester and is dated 23 Nov 1783. His wife Jane was a spinster aged 19 and 1 year otsp (of the same parish) and indicated as wcof (with the consent of) John JAY [sic] husbandman of Bignor.

Children of John Reeves and his wife Jane (nee JOY):
  1. Hannah, bapt May 1784
  2. George, bapt December 1786
  3. Letitia, bapt November 1788
  4. John, bapt March 1791
  5. Thomas, bapt February 1794
  6. Charles, bapt April 1797
  7. William, bapt February 1790
  8. James, bapt December 1802
  9. Edmund, bapt June 1807
All John & Jane's children were baptised at the Priory Church of St Mary and St Blaise, Boxgrove, Sussex.

On baptism, Edmund's surname is recorded as REAVES, although in later records he appears as REEVES.

It is possible John's burial is that recorded at Boxgrove in March 1814 as John REAVES, but might be that recorded in October 1822 as John REEVES.

Research Notes

It is possible that this John is the son of John Reeves and Margaret who was baptised at the Parish Church of St Pancras in Chichester, Sussex. See https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NGPW-QRH.   If so, it is possible there would have been a settlement certificate for John when he set up home in Boxgrove, but its survival is not immediately evident from the catalogue of the West Sussex Records office for their Poor Law Records. Further research here would be indicated before extending John's tree back in time.

There are three burials of potential interest at Boxgrove.
The 1870 event also occurs on FreeBMD where the age at death is given as 0, and is therefore NOT his son John born 1791.   Without any additional information which might be present in the actual burial registers, it is not possible to positively link either of the 1814 or the 1822 to our subject John. Either could equally be the burial of his son John.

The given name of John occurs multiple time in this family group. Our subject's son William named his first born son John on baptism at Boxgrove in 1825, for example.

Sources

Birth:       
Baptism:   See Research Notes above
Marriage: FamilySearch https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N6Z8-8MT
Marriage Licence: SFHG The Sussex Marriage Index [up to 1837] CD-ROM published 2004 SFHGCD001
Death:     
Burial:      See Research Notes above