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WILSON, Frederick
1839 - 1903 (63 years) Has 34 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
1805 - 1855 (50 years)-
Name WILSON, Frederick Birth 20 Jan 1839 Downham Market, Norfolk, England 
Gender Male Death 1903 Headington, Oxfordshire, England Person ID I3765 Edgoose Last Modified 8 Feb 2026
Father WILSON, Frederick, b. 1812, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire d. 25 Jan 1893, Dorking, Surrey, England (Age 81 years) Mother EDGOOSE, Susanna, b. 1805, West Walton, Norfolk d. 31 Dec 1855, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England (Age 50 years) Marriage 1 Aug 1831 Wisbech, Cambridgeshire Family ID F3267 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family HORN, Sarah, b. 1837, Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England d. 1916, Headington, Oxfordshire, England (Age 79 years) Marriage 24 Aug 1862 Islington, Greater London, England Family ID F1751 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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FREDERICK WILSON 1839-1903
Frederick WILSON was born at Downham Market, Norfolk, on 20 January 1839, son of Frederick WILSON, haircutter, and his wife Susanna nee EDGOOSE.
Frederick WILSON and his sister ELIZABETH were baptised in the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel at Downham Market, Norfolk, on 20 June 1841. Frederick was aged 2 years. Elizabeth was aged 2 months.
(FreeReg)
In 1841 Frederick and Susanna were living at Bridge Street, Downham, Norfolk:
*Frederic (sic) WILSON, aged 25, hairdresser, N (Not born in Norfolk);
Susanna WILSON, aged 30, Y (Yes, born in Norfolk);
George WILSON, aged 7, Y;
Susanna WILSON, aged 5, Y;
Elizath WILSON, aged 2 months, Y.
(HO107/754/9/19)
Two year old Frederic (sic) WILSON was living with William and Elizabeth GRABURN in Bridge Street, Downham. He was born in Norfolk.
The 1851 census of Magdalen Street, Cambridge St. Peter, Cambridgeshire:
Frederick WILSON, head, aged 38, hairdresser, born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire;
Susannah WILSON, wife, aged 43, hairdresser's wife;
George WILSON, son, aged 16, errand boy;
Susannah WILSON, daughter, aged 14, milliner;
*Frederick WILSON, son, aged 12, scholar;
Elizabeth WILSON, daughter, aged 9, scholar
Sarah Ann BROWNING, wife, married, aged 33, dressmaker, born at Wisbech;
Frederick BROWNING, son, aged 4, scholar, born at Brighton, Sussex.
(HO/107/1760/912B)
At the time of the 1861 census he was living alone in the parish of St. George the Martyr, Finsbury:
*Frederick WILSON, head, aged 22, unmarried, hairdresser, born at Downham, Norfolk.
(RG9/182/ /16)
Frederick WILSON, a bachelor of full age, a hairdresser of 6 Holloway Road and son of Frederick WILSON hairdresser, married Sarah HORN, a spinster of full age of the same address and daughter of Charles HORN shoemaker at Islington Parish Church in the County of Middlesex on 24 August 1862. Witnesses were Willm ROBINSON and Emma FARRELL.
(PR)
(GRO September Q 1862 Islington 1b 409)
He and his father signed as witnesses to the marriage of Elizabeth WILSON to William David ROWLES at the West Street Independent Chapel, Dorking, Surrey, on 6 September 1870.
(GRO September Q 1870 Dorking 2a 208)
The 1871 census index of 28 High Street, Oxford St. Clement, Oxfordshire:
*Frederick WILSON, aged 32, hairdresser, born at Downham Market;
Sarah WILSON, aged 33, born at Kidlington, Oxfordshire.
(RG10/1435/96/5)
The 1881 census of 45 St. Clement Street, Oxford St. Clement, Oxfordshire:
*Frederick WILSON, head, aged 42, hairdresser, born at Dereham, Norfolk;
Sarah WILSON, wife, aged 44, born at Kidlington, Oxfordshire.
(RG11/1498/90/9)
The 1891 census of 45 St. Clement Street, Oxford St. Clement:
*Frederick WILSON, head, aged 52, hairdresser, born at Downham, Norfolk;
Sarah WILSON, wife, aged 54, born at Kidlington, Oxfordshire.
(RG12/1165/27/7)
The 1901 census of No. 11 Magdalen Road, Cowley, Oxfordshire:
*Frederick WILSON, head, aged 62, barber & hair working at home on his own account, born at Downham, Norfolk;
Sarah WILSON, wife, aged 64, born at Kidlington, Oxfordshire.
(RG13/1379/60/1)
The death of a Frederick WILSON aged 64 was registered in 1903.
(GRO December Q 1903 Headington 3a 539)
Cowley is in Headington Registration District.
(revised 25.11.2012)