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Notes
Joseph Jephcott, the third son of James and Hannah,
like his elder brother John, also took up the trade
of bricklayer. At the age of 27 years he married Selina
Wallace, the daughter of a cattle dealer. They had
nine children. After Selina's death, Joseph remarried
around 1885 to another Selina (maiden name unknown)
and they had a daughter May Selina.
Joseph died in 1910 and is buried in St Laurence
churchyard. Selina died in 1930. In his will, Joseph's
address was given as 520 Stoney Stanton Road and in
it he directed that his property should be offered
to his son Joseph for the sum of £700 and which
was presumably somewhat less than the market value.
In addition he left legacies of £20 to his children
Emily Mason, Annie Cantrill, May Selina Jephcott,
Henry, and Joseph, and to his grand-daughter,
the child of his daughter Annie Maria Norgrove. To
his son George Edwin, he left £10. He left his
first wife's clothes box to his daughter Emily Mason
and his own clothes box to his son Joseph. The residue
of his estate was left to his daughter May Selina.
Henry Jephcott
Henry was apprenticed in Coventry to William and
John Johnson as a 'Plumber, Painter and Glazier'.
At 20 years of age, he married Mary Jane Cox, a gardener's
daughter, and they had three children.
Their marriage certificate gave both of their addresses
as 22 Stony Stanton Road. He started a plumbing business
in Coventry and then later moved to Birmingham. It
is believed that the family went into the abattoir
and/or meat transport business at some stage and,
following a disagreement or upset within the family,
Henry gave up his share of the company.
It is not known what became of Mary Jane but Henry
met Eunice May Innis, some thirty years his junior,
and together, they had three children. One child,
Wilfred, died in infancy, and shortly afterwards they
all moved to London.
Henry was very active with his newly adopted church
in London and was made a Freeman of the City.
He died in Battersea in 1939 at the age of 81 and
is buried in Morden Cemetery.
Further
Information on the Foleshill, Jephcotts
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