Bowler Family History

Events

Parents

Families

Attributes

Pedigree

1. Sarah TOMBS
   1. James TOMBS
      1. Emma Mary Ann JONES
         1. John Thomas WIXON
         2. Harry James WIXON
         3. Charles Edward WIXON
         4. Edith Annie WIXON
         5. Florence May WIXON
         6. Frederick William WIXON
         7. Herbert George WIXON
         8. Rupert Walter WIXON
         9. Frank Cyril WIXON
         10. Ruby Dorothy WIXON

Ancestors

Source References

1. 1901 census
   1. • Citation:

        First name(s) James
        Last name Wixon
        Relationship Head
        Marital status Married
        Sex Male
        Age 41
        Birth year 1860
        Birth town Bledlow
        Birth town as transcribed BLEDLOW
        Birth place England
        Birth county Buckinghamshire
        Birth county as transcribed BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
        Occupation Gardener
        Full address Crowell Hill, Village, Crowell, Thame, Oxfordshire, England
        House name Crowell Hill
        Street -
        Town Village
        Parish Crowell
        County Oxfordshire
        Country England
        Registration district Thame
        Sub-district Lewknor
        Enumeration district 10
        Parliamentary borough or division South
        Ecclesiastical parish or district St Marys
        Other household member first name(s) Edith, Emma, Fredrick, Herbert, John, May, Rupert
        Other household member last name Wixon
        Archive reference RG13
        Piece number 1373
        Folio 111
        Page 3
        Schedule 1
        Record set 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census

2. 1921 Census
   1. • Citation:

        First name(s) James
        Last name Wixon
        Sex Male
        Birth year 1861
        Census date 19 June 1921
        Age in years 60
        Age in months 6
        Age as transcribed 60 y 6 m
        Relationship to head Head
        Marital status Married
        Birth place Bledlow, Buckinghamshire, England
        Birth county Buckinghamshire
        Birth country England
        Transcribed birth place Bledlow, Buckinghamshire
        Occupation Gardener Domestic
        Occupation code 013
        Occupation code with suffix 013/6
        Employer Private
        Employer code 760
        Place of work Home Close, Crowell Hill, Oxon
        Number of minor dependants 0
        Language used to complete form English
        Person making return James Wixon
        Street Springs Alley, Chinnor
        Address Springs Alley, Chinnor
        Full address as transcribed Springs Alley, Chinnor, Wallingford
        Parish Crowell
        Registration district Thame
        Registration district number 151
        Sub-district Lewknor
        Sub-district number 1
        Enumeration district number 10
        County Oxfordshire
        Country England
        Borough, urban or rural district Thame RD
        Parliamentary borough or division Oxfordshire PC, Henley Div.
        Archive The National Archives
        Archive series RG 15
        Piece number 07432
        Schedule number 22
        Schedule type code E
        District reference RD 151 RS 1 ED 10, 11
        Schedule type England household, single page, 10 entries
        Other household member's first name(s) Rupert Walter, Frank Cyril
        Other household member's last name Wixon
        Record set 1921 Census Of England & Wales

3. GRO index
   1. • Citation:

        Online trees suggest born James TOMBS, mother later married Daniel WIXON. If so this would appear to GRO entry?
        TOMBS, JAMES -
        GRO Reference: 1859 M Quarter in WYCOMBE Volume 03A Page 425

4. 1939 register
   1. • Citation:

        Name: James Wixon
        Gender: Male
        Marital Status: Married
        Birth Date: 15 Jan 1859
        Residence Date: 1939
        Address: The Bungalow Spriggs Ally Sydenham
        Residence Place: Bullingdon, Oxfordshire, England
        Occupation: Old Age Pensioner (Retired)
        Line Number: 30
        Schedule Number: 81
        Sub Schedule Number: 1
        Enumeration District: Dzcd
        Borough: Bullingdon
        Registration district: 151/2 8
        Inferred Spouse:
        Emma Mary Ann Wixon
        Inferred Children:
        Frank Cyril Wixon

5. Will
   1. • Citation:

        WILL of JAMES WIXON
        April 1937 - Note 37 crossed out and replaced with 39
        it is my Wish for my son Frank Wixon at the death of his Mother and me every thing to is Mother for her life and then to my son Frank on condition that to his sister May the sum of 20 Pounds and to his sister Dorothy Ruby 40 Pounds and his Brother Rupert 20 pounds the Bungalow to be Franks it was a present from Mrs L. D. Dutch to me I wish I could have left the others some thing but their is not any thing to leave and I hope I have done right
        James Wixon
        Joseph E. Cox
        P. Seymour
        -
        JAMES WIXON
        Affidavit filed that the Will was duly executed between the 1st and 30th days of April 1939

        On the 28 day of August 1943
        Administration with this Will of the effects of the Testator was granted
        at Oxford

6. Probate
   1. • Citation:

        In His Majesty's High Court of Justice
        District Probate Registry at Oxford
        Be it known that James Wixon of the Hollows Crowell Hill Chinnor
        in the county of Oxford
        Who died there on the 23rd day of May 1943 made and duly executed his last will and Testament and did not therein name any executaor . That Emma Mary WIXON the lawful wife of the said deceased and the mother of Frank Cyril WIXON (in the will called Frank WIXON) and as such the residuary legatee and devisee for life named in the said Will did in the lifetime of the said deceased.
        And be it further known that at the date hereunder written Letters of Administration with the Will.
        (a copy of whereof is hereunto annexed) of all the Estate which by law devolves to and vests in the personal representative of the deceased were granted by His Majesty's High Court of Justice at the District Probate Registry thereof at Oxford.
        to the said Frank Cyril WIXON of the Hollows aforesaid tractor driver son of the deceased the residuary legatee and devisee substituted in the said Will.

        And it is hereby certified that an Affidavit for Inland Revenue has been delivered wharein it is shewn that the gross value of the said Estate in Great Britain (exclusive of what the said deceased may have been possessed of or entitled to as a Trustee and not benefically) amounts to £436 10s 10d
        abd that the said Affidavit bears a stamp of £2 10 0
        net value of personal estate £136 10 10

        Dated 28th day of August 1943

        Extracted by Lightfoots and Lowndes solictors of Thame

7. Trade Directory
   1. • Citation:

        Trade Directory 1939
        Crowell
        Commercial
        WIXON Jas. gardener to Mrs. MANSEL