Richmond -Mason Family Tree
Wife : Sarah Richmond

Born:                 1809           at: Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex  chrsitened there 1810  dau of Hanna nee  Waller and William Richmond
Married:             1837            at: St Leonards, Shoreditch, London. witness Fanny Richmond, James Cranmer and John Young
1841 Census High Street Maldon  , married,  aged 35, with son James Mason aged 4 .
1851 Census  Butt Lane Maldon  41, born Burnham, was married and living in Butt Lane,
                            with James Mason, (Jr.) aged 14 & Elizabeth Mason aged 7  born 1844  Maldon
1881  Census Maldon " sole occupant"  Wantz Road born Burnham
Died:                 1881   died 17 November " widow, of James Mason seaman, aged 71, born Burnham,
                                  son James Mason present at death  of  “general decay”.at: Wantz Road Maldon
Father:          William Richmond
Mother:               Hannah WALLER see
    Other spouses: Henry Harridance

Husband: James Mason  occupation mariner, barge owner   1871 kelllys dir barge "Beeleigh"
Born: c 1810
Died: 1873  Maldon  June quar. 4A page 147 aged "66"
                                                                                                              other MASON family information

Children: 2
Name:      James Mason            inherited from Fanny Richmond "to her nephew"
Born:          1838        at: Maldon, Essex
Married:    yes            at: Braintree, Essex
Census :1881    Eastern Road ,  Census Place Romford, Essex, occ.  railway auditor aged 43 born  maldon:,
            wife Elizabeth born Gt Saling, Essex aged 37,
            3ch :[all said to die no issue]
 Elizabeth MASON   Dau      Female   12   Witham, Essex, England   Scholar     [later Madam Elizabeth ARNOLD]
 Sidney MASON   Son      Male   9   Witham, Essex, England   Scholar
 Frank Victor MASON   Son      Male   6   Witham, Essex, England   Scholar
 Eliza WISEMAN   Servt   U   Female   19   Wickham, Essex, England   Gl Domestic Servt
 Sarah Ann WISEMAN   Visitor   M   Female   53   Tollesbury, Essex, England   Nil

Died:             1916
Buried: MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS RECORDED BY ESSEX SOCIETY FOR FAMILY HISTORY
Monumental inscriptions in church and churchyard of All Saints, Cressing, recorded 1991
"headstone of James Mason (died 1916) 'for 45 years a faithful official of the Great Eastern Railway Company'."

Name:        Elizabeth Fanny Mason
                          - "Fanny" middle name used only on the willl of Fanny Richmond - her great aunt.  -inherited from Fanny Richmond "to her neice"
Born:            1844 Maldon
Married:        no [ family legend] but maybe?
                                         see Dianes ancestors!

I wonder if this Elizabeth Mason married Edward Richmond?
NO MISTAKE HERE- ALTHOUGH BORN 1844 MALDON DISTRICT TOO -this Eliz Mason was a widow and daughter of a John RUSH.
2009  I have seen the marriage certificate, and John RUSH was an ag lab and illiterate, they married in an Independent chapel at Southmister too!
FreeBDM website gives this
Marriages Jun 1868 :
Mason  Elizabeth     Maldon  4a 280   and on same page is only one entry  for June
Richmond  Edward     Maldon  4a 280
"Diane's ancestors---  grandfather was Harold Richmond born in Burnham.
Sarah Richmond who married James Mason was the mother of Elizabeth [Louisa ] Mason [b 1844 Maldon]  who did NOT   marry  [1868?] Edward Richmond, my grandfather's grandfather.
Alfred Richmond, son of Edward Richmond and Elizabeth Mason married Ellen TURPIN.
 [2009 Gerry TURPIN SENT ME THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE THAT SHOWS ABOUT INFO]

Sidney Richmond killed in WW1 and remembered on the war memorial at Burnham.  This was the eldest son of Edward  Richmond and Elizabeth Clark, my grandfather's eldest brother.  (Edward being son of Edward and Elizabeth Mason)."

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