Person:James Rice (42)

James Rice was born on 18th April 1857 at Sheddock in the parish of Whithorn in Wigtownshire, Scotland. He was the third of six children of Jane Rice, formerly Lemon, and her husband James Rice, a ploughman. The 1861 census finds young James living with his parents and siblings at Sheddock, where the family lived in a one roomed house. They were still there in 1871.

By 1881 James had left Scotland and was living in Brixton in the southern suburbs of London with his sister Margaret and her husband. He was by this time working as a joiner, which trade he stayed with for the rest of his life. On 7th March 1885, aged 27, he married Alice Seagrief from Kentish Town in the northern suburbs of London. James and Alice had a son named James born the following January in Camberwell, back on the south side of London. Back in Scotland James's mother died in 1890.

James and Alice moved to Fulham in the western suburbs, where they had a daughter named Lizzie in 1891. Lizzie was baptised at St John the Baptist in Kentish Town, the church at which James and Alice had married. Sadly Lizzie died when she was only 20 months old, and was buried at Kingston upon Thames; presumably the family had moved again. James and Alice had no further children, leaving their son James effectively an only child.

By 1901 the family was living at 4 Speke Road in Croydon. They had James's brother John living with them. James's father (James senior) had also moved down from Scotland and was living with James's sister Margaret in Paddington in the 1901 census. James senior later returned to Scotland to live with the only one of his six children who had stayed in Scotland, James's brother Peter. James senior died in 1907 in Scotland.

James's son James was married at Thornton Heath in 1910. The 1911 census finds James away from home at Gosport in Hampshire on census night, whilst Alice was at 30 Grange Park Road in Thornton Heath, with James's brother John still living with the family.

James died on 8th July 1913, aged 56. Immediately before his death he had been living at Foxearth, Ecclesbourne Road, Thornton Heath. Alice secured a grant of administration over his estate in May 1915. Alice survived James by over forty years and emigrated to Canada in 1925, where she died in 1957.

1. ↑ Birth certificate, in General Register Office for Scotland. Civil Registration.

   1857. BIRTHS in the District of Whithorn in the County of Wigtown
   No.24
   Name: Rice, James
   When and where born: 1857 April eighteenth 7h AM, Shaddick
   Sex: M
   Father: James Rice, Farm Labourer
   Mother: Jane Rice maiden name Leeming
   Informant: James Rice, His X Mark, Not present [at birth]
   Registered: 1857 April 29th at Whithorn, Robert Anderson, Registrar

2. ↑ Roman Catholic Church. Newton Stewart Catholic Parish Registers. (Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish Catholic Archives).

   1857
   James Law[ful] PM James Rice & Jane Lamont, born May 4, baptised May 10, Sponsors Denis Gilmore & Sophia Gilmore, clergyman Patk Thos O'Gorman

3. ↑ General Register Office for Scotland. 1861 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh)
   900/00 002/00 002, 7 Apr 1861.

   Address: Shadock Cothouse, Whithorn, Wigtownshire
   1 room with windows
   James Rice, head, married, 30 [1830/1], Ploughman, b. Ireland
   Jane Rice, wife, married, female, 34 [1826/7], Ploughmans Wife, b. Ireland
   Margret Rice, daughter, unmarried, female, 8 [1852/3], Ploughmans Daur, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire
   Peter Rice, son, unmarried, male, 6 [1854/5], Ploughmans Son, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire
   James Rice, son, unmarried, male, 3 [1857/8], Ploughmans Son, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire
   Mary Rice, daughter, unmarried, female, 9 months [1860], Ploughmans Daur, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire

4. ↑ General Register Office for Scotland. 1871 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh)
   900/00 002/00 003, 2 Apr 1871.

   Address: Sheddock Cottages No.1, Whithorn, Wigtownshire
   1 room with windows
   James Rice, head, married, male, 42 [1828/9], Ag lab, b. Armagh, Ireland
   Jane Rice, wife, married, female, 44 [1826/7], b. Tyrone, Ireland
   Peter Rice, son, unmarried, male, 16 [1854/5], Farm Servant, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire
   James Rice, son, male, 13 [1857/8], Scholar, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire
   Mary Rice, daughter, female, 10 [1860/1], Scholar, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire
   Joseph Rice, son, male, 8 [1862/3], Scholar, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire
   John Rice, son, male, 5 [1865/6], Scholar, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire

5. ↑ England. 1881 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands: . (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG11; Piece 622; Folio 98; Page 65, 3 Apr 1881.

   Address: 122 Mayall Road, Brixton, Lambeth, Surrey
   Stephen Sweeney, head, married, male, 27 [1853/4], Joiner, b. Scotland
   Margaret Sweeney, wife, married, female, 28 [1852/3], Nil, b. Scotland
   James Rice, boarder, unmarried, male, 23 [1857/8], Joiner, b. Scotland

6. ↑ England. 1891 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG12; Piece 54; Folio 40; Page 32, 5 Apr 1891.

   Address: 3 Burlington Road, Fulham, London
   3 rooms occupied
   James Rice, head, married, male, 33 [1857/8], Joiner, employed, b. Scotland
   Alice Rice, wife, married, female, 25 [1865/6], b. Highgate, London
   James Rice, son, male, 5 [1885/6], b. Camberwell, London

7. ↑ England. England. 1901 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG13; Piece 646; Folio 189; Page 56, 31 Mar 1901.

   Address: 4 Speke Road, Croydon, Surrey
   5 or more rooms occupied
   James Rice, head, married, male, 43 [1857/8], Carpenter, worker, b. Scotland
   Alice Rice, wife, married, female, 35 [1865/6], b. Middlesex
   James Rice, son, single, male, 15 [1885/6], b. Camberwell, Surrey
   John Rice, brother, single, male, 34 [1866/7], Painter, worker, b. Scotland

8. ↑ England. 1911 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom: The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), (formerly the UK General Register Office.))
   Class RG14; Piece 5641; Schedule 214A, 2 Apr 1911.

   Address: Lower Bedenham Farm, Gosport, Alverstoke, Hampshire
   5 rooms occupied
   James Paice, head, male, 47 [1863/4], married 25 years, 4 children born, 4 still living, Carter on farm, worker, b. Bishops Waltham, Hampshire
   Martha Paice, wife, female, 45 [1865/6], married, b. Bishops Waltham, Hampshire
   Charles Paice, son, male, 22 [1888/9], single, Farm labourer, worker, b. Bishops Waltham, Hampshire
   Dorothy Paice, daughter, female, 18 [1892/3], single, Domestic servant, b. Fareham, Hampshire
   James Rice, boarder, male, 53 [1857/8], married 26 years, Joiner - building, worker, b. Wigtownshire N.B.
   Benjamin Harwood, boarder, male, 40 [1870/1], widower, Labourer, worker, b. Woking, Surrey
   William Gilbert, boarder, male, 53 [1857/8], single, Labourer, worker, b. Islington, London

9. ↑ Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. James RICE, September Quarter 1913, Croydon Registration District, Vol. 2a, page 297, aged 56 [1856/7]

10. ↑ England. National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1858 onwards. (Ancestry.com).

    1915
    RICE James of Foxearth Ecclesbourne-road Thornton Heath Surrey died 8 July 1913 Administration London 28 May to Alice Rice widow. Effects £67 10s.