James Killick

  Research Notes:

resided in Mays Farm- later 1 The Alders, occupation Farm hand - later Carpenter
James: As a boy James was employed as a servant and farm worker at Wickham Court Farm but he later took an apprenticeship in Beckenham as a Carpenter and went on to found his own carpenter and joiner business in West Wickham (in 1879).

Allan Ellson has copy of James's Will ²

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census UK: Aged 5, 1841, Hayes, Kent, England.

• Census UK: Farm Serv., aged 15, 1851, Wickham Court Farm, West Wickham, Kent, England. ⁴ Claims b. Cudham
Working for a William Churcher, Farmer of 690 acres

• Census UK: Ag. Lab., aged 25, Unm, 1861, Mays Farm, West Wickham, Kent, England. ⁵

• Census UK: Carpenter, aged 35, 1871, No.12 The Alders, West Wickham, Kent, England. ⁶

• Census UK: Carpenter, aged 45, 1881, 1 The Alders, West Wickham, Kent, England. ⁷

• Census UK: Builder, aged 56, 1891, Mays Cottage High St., West Wickham, Kent, England. ⁸ An Emily Plumb aged 9 is visiting them, b. London, Scholar - suspect she is the daughter of Hannah Maria Killick and Frederick George Plumb

• Census UK: Builder, aged 65, 1901, Mays Cottage High St., West Wickham, Kent, England. ⁹

James married Maria Durling, daughter of Thomas Durling and Hannah Maria Stow, on 10 May 1863 in West Wickham, Kent, England.¹ (Maria Durling was born on 10 Jun 1841 in Well Wood Cottage, West Wickham, Kent, England ^{1 10}, christened on 1 Aug 1841 in St John The Baptist, West Wickham, Kent, England ^{11 12} and died about Dec 1925 in West Wickham, Kent, England ^{3 13}.)