John Joseph Tonks

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: John Joseph Tonks
• Baptism: 4 Dec 1864, Saint Michael's, Stoke, Coventry, Warwickshire, England
• Occupation: 1881; Railway Porter
• Residence: 1891, 78, Dale Street, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England
• Occupation: Between 1891 and 1901; Railway Guard
• Residence: 1901, 34, King Street, Walsall, Staffordshire, England

Notes:

1891 Census Dale Street Burton Upon Trent
Household of Richard Adams Green Grocer
Joseph Tonks S 25 Railway Guard b. Stoke Warwickshire
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1901 Census 34 King Street Walsall
John J Tonks Head 36 Railway Guard b. Stoke Warw
Fanny Tonks Wife 39 b. Deeping St James Lincs
Anne Tonks Dau 7 b. Walsall
Joseph Tonks Son 6 b. Walsall
Ethe Tonks Dau 5 b. Walsall
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Residence:
Boarder to Richard Adams Green Grocer

John married Fanny Young in 1892 in Walsall, : Registration District, England. Fanny was born in 1862 in Deeping Saint James, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Anne Tonks was born in 1893 in Walsall, Staffordshire, England.
2. Joseph Tonks was born in 1894 in Walsall, Staffordshire, England.
3. Ethel Tonks was born in 1895 in Walsall, Staffordshire, England.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Joab Tonks
• Baptism: 5 Oct 1817, All Saints, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England
• Residence: Between 1861 and 1891, Bulls Head Lane, Stoke, Coventry, Warwickshire, England
• Occupation: Between 1861 and 1891; Gardener
• GRO Death Index: Dec 1895; Foleshil 6d - 323

Notes:

1861 Census Stoke Warwickshire
Bullshead Lane
Job Tonks Head 40 Gardener b. ----
Caroline Tonks Wife 31 Laundress b. Burton Hastings
Phoebe Tonks Dau 3 b, Stoke
Caroline Carrington 18 Vis b. Burton Hastings
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1871 Census Bulls Heasd Lane Stoke
Job Tonks 52 Ag Lab b. Ratcliffe Culey
Caroline Tonks Wife 44 Laundress b. Burton Hastings
Phoebe Tonks 13 Dau B. Stoke
Sarah A Tonks Dau 9 b. Stoke
Joseph Tonks Son 6 b. Stoke
Alice Haywood Serv 21 Laundress Assistant b. Stoke
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1881 Census , The New Inn, Stoke, Warwick, England
RG11 - 3065 Folio 80

Job T. TONKS M 61 M Ratcliffe, Leicester, England
Rel: Head
Occ: Gardeners Lab ((Laundress))
Caroline TONKS M 54 F Burton Hastings, Warwick, England
Rel: Wife
Occ: Laundress ((Invalid))
Pheobe TONKS U 23 F Stoke, Warwick, England
Rel: Daur
Occ: Invalid ((Assistant Laundress))
Sarah Ann TONKS U 19 F Stoke, Warwick, England
Rel: Daur
Occ: Assistant Laundress
Joseph TONKS U 16 M Stoke, Warwick, England
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1891 Bulshead Lane Stoke War
Job t Tonks 71 Gardener b. Ratcliffe Culey Leic
Caroline Wife 64 b. Laundress Burton Hastings
Sarah Ann Tonks 28 Laundress b. Stoke

Job married Caroline UNKNOWN about 1855. Caroline was born in 1827 in Burton Hastings, Warwickshire, England; died in 1914 in Coventry, : Registration District, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Between 1871 and 1891, Stoke, Coventry, Warwickshire, England; Launderess
• GRO Death Index: Mar 1914; Coventry 6d - 906 Age 87

Notes:

1901 Census Bulls Head Lane Stoke
Caroline Tonks Head Wid 74 Laundress b. Burton Hastings
Sarah Ann Tonks 38 Single Laundress b. Stoke
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Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: John Tonks
• Residence at marriage: Orton on the Hill, Leicestershire, England
• Occupation: Labourer

Notes:

1841 Census Ratcliffe Culey

Tunks John 60 Y
Tunks An n60 Y
Tunks Elizabeth 50 Y

John married Frances Chamberlain on 8 Oct 1801 in Saint Mary Magdalane, Peckleton, Leicestershire, England. Frances was born in 1772; died in Jan 1847 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 17 Jan 1847 in All Saints Churchyard, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Fanny Tunks
• Residence at marriage: Peckleton, Leicestershire, England

John married Sarah Cheatle on 2 Nov 1769 in All Saints, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England. Sarah (daughter of Joseph Cheatle and Mary Orme) was born in Jun 1746 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; died in Jul 1828 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 20 Jul 1828 in All Saints Churchyard, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 30 Jun 1745, All Saints, Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England

Notes:

Of interest is the oldest memorial to survive in All Saints Churchyard, Ratcliffe Culey; LEI, lying to the South West of the Chancel, (that ground being considered in pre-reformation times as being the most holy), a small roughly incised slab of Sarah's Brother Joseph Viz:-
Here Lyeth the Body of Joseph Cheatle
Departed this life March ye 15th
the year of our lord 1765 aged 22
Farwell my wife and child most dear
I am not dead but sleeping here
My life is spent my grave you see
my loving wife mourn not for me
. My mother and Sister too
For now I have bid this world a dew
as I am so you must be steay
but awile and follow me

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The Cheatle family were notable farmers at Bodymoor Heath close to the border with Lea Marston in the Parish of Kingsbury. There are numerous family memorials in the churchyard there. Today at Dosthill there is a building called Cheatle's Court and a farm at Bodymoor heath called Cheatle's Farm.

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Mary the widow of Joseph Cheatle of Ratcliffe Culey in her will dated 1 Aug 1767 named her daughter Sarah as executrix and her main beneficiary including her messuage. after her death in Feb 1797 probate was granted 27 April 1797 to her daughter Sarah wife of John Tonks.

Notes:

John Pemberton was the Parish Clerk and William Farmer the Church Warden