The Orys and Cook Family Tree » William Hillson (1853-1935)

Personal data William Hillson 

• He was born in the year 1853 in Cornwood, Nr, Plympton, Devon, England.

  Name: William Hillson
  Registration Year: 1853
  Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
  Registration District: Plympton St Mary
  Inferred County: Devon
  Volume: 5b
  Page: 197

• Profession: in the year 1881 Farmer of 100 Acres.
• Resident:
• in the year 1861: Corntown Cottages, Cornwood, Plympton, Devon.

  Name: William Hillson Age: 8 Estimated Birth Year: 1853 Relation: Son Father's Name: Richard Hillson
  Mother's Name: Eliza Hillson Gender: Male Where born: Cornwood, Devon, England Civil Parish: Cornwood County/Island: Devon Country: England Street Address: Registration District: Plympton St Mary Sub-registration District: Plympton ED, institution, or vessel: 26 Neighbors: View others on page Household Schedule Number: 34 Piece: 1433
  Folio: 69 Page Number: 9 Household Members: Name Age Richard Hillson 48 Eliza Hillson 43
  John Hillson 13 Mary Jane Hillson 11 William Hillson 8 James Hillson 7 John Hawker Cunter 3

• in the year 1871: Hanger Farm, Cornwood, Devon.

  Name: William Hillson Age: 18 Estimated Birth Year: 1853 Relation: Son Gender: Male Where born: Cornwood Devon England Civil parish: Cornwood Town: Cornwood County/Island: Devon Country: England Registration district: Plympton St Mary Sub-registration district: Plympton ED, institution, or vessel: 26 Household schedule number: 8
  Piece: 2111 Folio: 48 Page number: 3 Household Members Age Relationship Richard Hillson 58 Head
  Eliza Hillson 53 Wife John Hillson 23 Son Mary Jane Hillson 21 Daughter William Hillson 18 Son James Hillson
  16 Son Amy B Horton 2 Granddaughter William A Horton 10/12 Grandson
  
  NGR:SX 6140 5865 Hanger is a Middle English word, describing a wood on a steep slope. First referred to in 1215, when John de Hanger witnessed a document relating to nearby Cholwichtown, the farmstead appears to have been created on former moorland on the western fringe of Hanger Down.

• in the year 1881: Fawnstone, Farm House, Shaugh Prior, Devon.

  Name: Alice Hillson Age: 30 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1851 Relationship to Head: Wife Spouse: William Hillson
  Gender: Female Where born: Shaugh, Devon, England Civil Parish: Shaugh Prior County/Island: Devon Country: England
  Street Address: Faunston Farme House Marital status: Married Registration District: Plympton St Mary ED, institution, or vessel: 23 Neighbors: View others on page Piece: 2189 Folio: 69 Page Number: 5 Household Members:
  Name Age William Hillson 52 Alice Hillson 30 Hannah Hillson 5 Alice Hillson 1 Fanny Pope 15
  Joseph Canter 18 William Parkin 14 ( Last 3 people Servants)

• in the year 1891: Fawnstone, Farm House, Shaugh Prior, Devon.

  Name: William Hillson Gender: Male Age: 41 Relationship: Head Birth Year: 1850 Spouse: Alice Hillson Child: Hannah Hillson Alice Hillson William Hillson Birth Place: Cornwood, Devon, England Civil Parish: Shaugh Prior Ecclesiastical parish: Shaugh Prior Residence Place: Shaugh, Shaugh Prior, Devon, England Registration District: Plympton St Mary Sub registration district: Plympton ED, Institution or Vessel: 23 Neighbors: View others on page Piece: 1724 Folio: 18
  Household Members: Name Age William Hillson 41 Alice Hillson 39 Hannah Hillson 15
  Alice Hillson 11 William Hillson 8 Charles Gorton 18 Samuel Gorton 15 Emma Besley 18
  Walter Andrews 72

• in the year 1901: Collacombe, Lamerton, Devon.

  Name: Alice Hillson Age: 50 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1851 Relation to Head: Wife Gender: Female Spouse: William Hillson Birth Place: Shaugh, Devon, England Civil Parish: Lamerton Ecclesiastical parish: Lamerton St Peter
  Town: Lamerton County/Island: Devon Country: England Registration District: Tavistock Sub-registration District: Milton Abbot ED, institution, or vessel: 3 Neighbors: View others on page Piece: 2119 Folio: 31 Page Number: 5
  Household Schedule Number: 30 Household Members: Name Age William Hillson 52 Alice Hillson 50 Hannah Hillson 25 Alice Hillson 21 William Hillson 18 William Snell 68 (Serv) Saml Chaming 16 (Serv)

• in the year 1911: Collacombe, Lamerton, Devon.

  Name: Alice Hillson Age in 1911: 60 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1851 Relation to Head: Wife Gender: Female
  Birth Place: Shaugh Prior, Devon Civil Parish: Lamerton County/Island: Devon Country: England
  Street Address: Collacombe Farm, Lamerton, Tavistock, Devon Marital status: Married Estimated Marriage Year: 1875
  Registration District: Tavistock Registration District Number: 279 Sub-registration District: Lifton ED, institution, or vessel: 06 Piece: 13106 Household Members: Name Age William Hillson 62 Alice Hillson 60 Hannah Hillson 34 Alice Hillson 30 William Hillson 27 James Madge 21 Alfred Pengelly 20 Harold Fry 15
  (Last 3 people are servants)

• He died on December 23, 1935 in Tavistock, Devon. England, he was 82 years old.

  Name: William Hillson
  Death Age: 87
  Birth Date: abt 1848
  Registration Date: Oct 1935
  Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
  Registration District: Tavistock
  Inferred County: Devon
  Volume: 5b
  Page: 470

• This information was last updated on March 13, 2021.

Household of William Hillson

He is married to Alice Andrews.

They got married March 1874 at Plympton, Devon. England, he was 21 years old.

Marriages Mar 1874 (>99%)
Andrews Alice Plympton 5b 397
HILLSON William Plympton 5b 397

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