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ROBERT BAXTER Spouse: MARY ANN BELLAMY
Parent/s: John and Ann (Blackwell) Baxter. Parent/s:
Born: Baptised 3 September 1820, Walsoken, Norfolk. Born: c1826, Elm, Cambridgeshire.
Married: December qtr 1851, Wisbech dist 14  301. Married: December qtr 1851, Wisbech dist 14  301.
Died: June qtr 1871, Wisbech dist 3b 385, age 50. Died:
Occupation: Horse Slaughterer. Occupation:
Notes: 1861 census, Next to the Rectory, Walsoken. Three sons and daughter Mary Ann at home.
1871 census, Turnpike Marsh, Walsoken. Sons Robert and Arthur and three daughters at home.		 Notes: 1881 census. a widow, age 54, Gravel Road, Walsoken. Her son Arthur and daughter Harriet were with her. They lived next door to her son Robert and Family.
1891 census, at Norwich Road, Walsoken. next door to her son Robert and family.
Source: Family member, GRO, Parish register.
1861 RG9/1052 F63 P1.
1871 RG10/1619 F73 P1.		 Source: Family member, GRO.
1881 RG11/1699 F58 P3.
1891 RG12/1308 F46 P1.

Robert and Mary Ann had three sons and three daughters:-
SOURCE: Family member, GRO, 1861, 1871, 1881 census as noted above.
Below: 1891 census RG12/1319 F78 P7.

The Sons:-

JOHN BAXTER born Wisbech, December qtr 1853, Wisbech dist 3b 514.

ROBERT BAXTER born December qtr 1854, Wisbech dist 3b 503.     MORE

ARTHUR BAXTER born June qtr1857, Walsoken. Wisbech dist 3b 618.
1871 census with parents at Turnpike Marsh, Walsoken. Occupation Ag. Lab.
1881 census, with mother at Gravel Road, Walsoken Occupation Horse Slaughterers Assistant.
On 12 December 1880 he was prosecuted at the Isle of Ely Court for poaching.
He was fined two pounds with sixteen shillings costs and asked for time to pay but was refused
and was ordered to pay ten shillings down and given a week to pay the rest.
Family legend has it that Arthur went to London to start a slaughtering business,
one night on his way home, splattered with blood, he was arrested and allegedly given a hard time
as a suspect in the hunt for Jack the Ripper.
When released he returned to Walsoken.
This may be the Arthur Baxter lodging at 69 Victoria Dock Road, West Ham, per the 1891 census.

The Daughters:-

MARY ANN BAXTER born March qtr 1860, Walsoken. Wisbech dist 3b 637.        MORE

HARRIET BAXTER  born March qtr 1864, Walsoken. Wisbech dist 3b 659.      MORE

EMMA ANN BAXTER born September qtr 1868, Walsoken. Wisbech dist 3b 636.
Death registered December qtr 1878, Wisbech dist 3b 419.

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