Alfred Matthews

Birth registered in Q1 1851 in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

1851 is age 2 months at the farm (Lilly Mill, Bradley) owned by grandfather Thomas (wife Elizabeth) with parents, uncle Thomas and a group of sevants/agricultural workers.

1861 is age 10,with parents and 6 siblings at Sherborne Mill, Smith's Green, Sherborne St John.

1871 is age 20, miller and farmer heading up a house of 5 siblings and 2 servants at Sherborne Mill House, Sherborne St John. His father died in 1865 and mother in 1870.

Marriage registered in Q1 1879 in Lambeth, London.

1881 is age 32, a farmer and miller of eighty-four acres employing one miller, two men and one boy, living with wife and a servant in Clapham Mill House, Sherborne St. John, Hampshire.

1891 is age 40, a farmer and corn miller, living with wife, two daughters, a servant and a monthly nurse at the same address.

1901 is age 50, a farmer and corn miller, living with wife, six children and a servant at 1 Worthing Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire.

1911 is age 60, a farmer and corn miller, living with wife and four children in Essex Lodge, Basingstoke, Hampshire.

Death registered in Hartley Wintney in Q2 1915. Probate in London to his wife on 8th April 1915 with estate of £3169/2s/6d.