Alfred Childs

1846 - 1930  (83 years)

• Name	Alfred Childs
  Born	16 Feb 1846	Crowland, Lincolnshire, England   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Father: John Childs Mother: Elizabeth _____
  	Birth Registration of Alfred Childs
  Census	1851	Crowland, Lincolnshire, England   [7]
  He was recorded while living with his mother.
  Age: 5
  Census	1861	Crowland, Lincolnshire, England   [1]
  He was recorded while living with his mother.
  Age: 15
  Census	1871	London, England   [8]
  He was living with his brother-in-law, Waller Kent and his family.
  Age: 25
  Christened	20 Jun 1875	Guildford, Surrey, England   [9]
  Agency: St John the Evangelist Church
  	Baptismal Record of Alfred Childs
  	St John the Evangelist Church, Stoke next Guilford, Surrey, England St John the Evangelist, Stoke-next-Guildford, a 20 minute brisk walk out northwards from the centre of Guildford, makes an interesting visit for its its ambience and its monuments – a goodly number of panels from the plainest through to several with good sculptural decoration. The Church itself is mostly Victorian, with a few earlier features, and the tower being largely of the 15th Century. It is this tower, square, rather squat, and battlemented, which forms the main feature of the exterior, the rest being the rather plain walls, windows and roofs of the broad nave and aisles. Having said which, the Victorian coating of flint and large stones and the buttressing give a unity to the Church, and its site within its large churchyard is fine. Inside there is an exposed-beam roof, low pillars, some ancient, supporting arches separating off the aisles, and a sense of several explorable spaces rather than just one (see an example above right) – and all those monuments on the walls, our interest here. In all, the Church contains over 30 wall monuments, with several from the early 18th Century, the majority from the 19th Century, and a few into the 20th Century. Most are shaped white marble panels, or the white-marble-on-black panels popular from the 1780s through to early Victorian times, but among them are four with figure sculpture, and a couple of good portraits in high relief. Also some variety of minor carving exemplifying a range of the types of panel of this period. A good number of the panels are signed by the sculptors or stonemasons who made them, which is always interesting, and we can find works by important sculptors – John Flaxman, John Bacon Junior, and E.H. Baily, and by less familiar names including Charles Regnart and C.H. Smith, as well as simpler works by a local man, J. Smart of Guildford, by the prolific Gaffin of Regent Street, and others.
  Census	1881	Wansworth, London, England   [2]
  He was a bricklayer.
  Age: 35
  Address: 1 Smeaton Road
  Immigration	16 Apr 1888	Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts   [10]
  The Childs family arrived at Boston on board the Cephalonia from England.
  	Passenger List of the SS Cephalonia
  	SS Cephalonia She was launched in 1882 as part of the Cunard Line. From 1899-1900 Boer War troopship, and was scrapped in 1901
  Naturalization	9 Feb 1889	Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts   [11]
  He partitioned for citizenship.
  	Citizenship Partition of Alfred Childs
  Naturalization	10 Sep 1892	Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts   [6]
  	Naturalization Record of Alfred Childs
  Census	1900	Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts   [3]
  He was a brick mason.
  Age: 55
  Census	1910	Mansfield, Bristol County, Massachusetts   [12]
  He was a salesman in a fish market.
  Age: 63
  Address: 9 George Street
  Census	1920	Mansfield, Bristol County, Massachusetts   [13]
  Address: 17 George Street
  Census	1930	Foxboro Norfolk County, Massachusetts   [14]
  Age: 84
  Address: 97 South Street
  Obituary	1930	Foxboro Norfolk County, Massachusetts   [15]
  	Obituary of Alfred Childs Foxboro Reporter, 26 Jul 1930
  Died	1930	Foxboro Norfolk County, Massachusetts   [16]
  Buried	Rock Hill Cemetery, Foxboro Norfolk County, Massachusetts   [15]
  Person ID	I1219	| Parent of a Delvee Spouse
  Last Modified	15 Sep 2018

  
  

  Family	Rebecca Jane "Jane" Summers,   b. Aug 1850, Middlesex, England ,   d. 1934, Foxboro Norfolk County, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 83 years)
  Married	28 Apr 1872	Derby, Derbyshire, England   [3, 4, 17, 18, 19]
  Agency: St. Peters Church
  	Marriage Record of Jane Summers and Alfred Childs
  Age at Marriage	He was 26 years - She was 21 years
  Children	+ 1. Walter Edwin Childs,   b. 10 Apr 1881, Wansworth, London, England ,   d. 14 Mar 1973, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts  (Age 91 years)
  Last Modified	15 Sep 2018
  Family ID	F717	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 16 Feb 1846 - Crowland, Lincolnshire, England Census - He was recorded while living with his mother.,Age: 5 - 1851 - Crowland, Lincolnshire, England Census - He was recorded while living with his mother.,Age: 15 - 1861 - Crowland, Lincolnshire, England Census - He was living with his brother-in-law, Waller Kent and his family.,Age: 25 - 1871 - London, England Married - Agency: St. Peters Church - 28 Apr 1872 - Derby, Derbyshire, England Christened - Agency: St John the Evangelist Church - 20 Jun 1875 - Guildford, Surrey, England Census - He was a bricklayer.,Age: 35,Address: 1 Smeaton Road - 1881 - Wansworth, London, England Immigration - The Childs family arrived at Boston on board the Cephalonia from England. - 16 Apr 1888 - Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Naturalization - He partitioned for citizenship. - 9 Feb 1889 - Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Naturalization - 10 Sep 1892 - Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Census - He was a brick mason.,Age: 55 - 1900 - Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Census - He was a salesman in a fish market.,Age: 63,Address: 9 George Street - 1910 - Mansfield, Bristol County, Massachusetts Census - Address: 17 George Street - 1920 - Mansfield, Bristol County, Massachusetts Census - Age: 84,Address: 97 South Street - 1930 - Foxboro Norfolk County, Massachusetts Obituary - 1930 - Foxboro Norfolk County, Massachusetts Died - 1930 - Foxboro Norfolk County, Massachusetts Buried - - Rock Hill Cemetery, Foxboro Norfolk County, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

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