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Alexander Fairbairn
(1795-)
Janet Walton
(-)
Robert Rochester
(1836-)
Mary Ann Fairbairn
(1839-)
John Thomas Rochester
(1863-1924)

 

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Spouses/Children:
Sarah Jones

John Thomas Rochester 1 2

  • Born: 1863 1 2
  • Marriage: Sarah Jones 29 Mar 1890, New Seaham 1
  • Died: 13 Dec 1924, at age 61 1 2

   Another name for John was Fairbairn.

   User ID: 2.

  General Notes:

Sarah, wife of John Thomas was also known as Sally was born in Staffordshire where it appears that her brother Samuel and sister Mary were born, her sister Margaret was born in Durham. It is believed that Sarah spoke Welsh as her daughter Phoebe Jones ? (really a true Rochester (some doubt as to her father ?) called her mother by the Welsh name for mother. John Thomas just missed being killed in the 1880 pit disaster as he was on a different shift. Book called Troubled Seams [Rochesterlast.FTW]

Sarah, wife of John Thomas was also known as Sally was born in Staffordshire where it appears that her brother Samuel and sister Mary were born, her sister Margaret was born in Durham. It is believed that Sarah spoke Welsh as her daughter Phoebe Jones ? (really a true Rochester (some doubt as to her father ?) called her mother by the Welsh name for mother. John Thomas just missed being killed in the 1880 pit disaster as he was on a different shift. Book called Troubled Seams 1

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Miner. 1 2

• Baptism, 12 Dec 1867, Christchurch, New Seaham. 1 2


John married Sarah Jones on 29 Mar 1890 in New Seaham.1 The marriage ended in divorce. (Sarah Jones was born in 1869 in Hanley, Stafford 1 2 3 and died in 1938 in Seaham 1 2.)


Sources


1 Robert Rochester, Exract from Robert Rochester's family tree (desendents of John Fairbairn and Grizel Johnstone), (Supplied to Martin Fairbairn as a Gedcom file on 9 May 2004.) ID: Rochester.GED.

2 Rochesterlast.FTW.

3 1881 census.

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