SOURCES: BIRTH: Given as 19 July 1816 in Bishop Stortford LDS Branch
Records; later family records all show 20 July 1816. BAPT: from Bishop
Stortford LDS Branch Records (FHL #86,982; item 2); baptized by George
Teasdale. This may have been a rebaptism, as it appears she joined the
church in 1851.
SOURCES:
BIRTH/LDS BAPT: LDS Bristol Branch Records (FHL #86,986)
CHR: Madron Parish Register (FHL #254,191).
MARR: see wife's entry in LDS Bristol Branch Records; date and place
verified by Civil Registry marriage cert., copy owned by A.J. Cannon.
ORDINANCES: IGI -- Cornwall and Gloucester
DEATH: from Civil Reg. Death Cert. (copy owned by Anthony J. Cannon);
died of meningitis, while traveling as a journeyman blacksmith. Death
occurred at 6 Mill Lane, Reading, Eng.NOTES:
Bristol LDS Branch Record (see Sources) indicates John was ordained a
priest 19 June 1851.
OCCUPATION: listed variously as engine smith, engineer, blacksmith.
SOURCES: Birth and LDS Bapt.: Given in LDS Bristol Branch Records (FHL
#86,986). Chr.: From Phillack Parish Reg. (FHL #254,199); Note that
later family records (some apparently based on her own personal
records) give her birth year incorrectly as 1833.NOTES: Wife was sealed during her own lifetime (24 Nov 1860 EH) to
Robert Francis NESLEN, her second husband. Subsequently also sealed to
husband #1, who apparently was an active member of the Church but died
before sealing could be performed. This sealing occurred 18 Apr 1989,
SLAKE temple.