The Marriages of James Wombwell

James Wombwell was born in 1823 in Stoke Newington, and was thus George Wombwell junior's younger brother by around a year. He married Sophia Trigg in 1842 in St. Leonard's Shoreditch. James was a porter and Sophia a servant. They were living in Islington in 1851, James now working as a 'milk' carrier, in other words, back in the dairy profession of the family. By the time Sophia died in 1854, in Caroline Street, Hackney, the couple had had six children:

i. George Zachariah Wombwell (1843–1936)
ii. Alfred Wombwell (1844–1884)
iii. Mary Ann Wombwell (1846–1853)
iv. Helen Sophia Wombwell (1848–????)
v. Fanny Wombwell (1850–1850)
vi. Elizabeth Wombwell (1853–1854)

James remarried in 1858 in Stepney, this time to Matilda Powell, a housekeeper. The marriage certificate records him as a labourer. There seems to be no record of what happened to Matilda at all.

Rose Hill Cemetary
Brookfields
Linn County
Missouri
From FindaGrave Website

In 1885 however, James married for a third time, to Martha Ann Ricketts (1848-1943), this time in Brookfield, Linn County, Missouri. James like other members of his family had also taken the decision to cross the Atlantic in search of a better life. With Martha, James had four more children late in life:



vii. Susan A. Wombwell (1882–1945)
viii.William Wombwell (1890–????)
ix. Charles Austin Wombwell Sr (1891–1947)
x. John Hogan Wombwell (1895–1964)

These ten children were again all third cousins x2 removed of Hetty Jane Owen.

James himself died in Brookfield in 1898.