Person:John Rice (72)

John Rice was born on 21st November 1865 at Sheddock in the parish of Whithorn in Wigtownshire, Scotland. He was the youngest of six children of Jane Rice, formerly Lemon, and her husband James Rice, a ploughman. He appears in the 1871 census living with his parents and siblings in a one roomed house at Sheddock. By 1881 the family had left Sheddock and moved into the village of Whithorn itself, living in a two roomed house on the main street.

John's mother died in Whithorn 1890. John has not been found in the 1891 census. His next sighting is in 1901, by which time he was living at Croydon in Surrey with his brother James and James's wife and son. He was working as a painter and decorator. Four of John's five brothers and sisters had moved to the London area, leaving only John's eldest brother Peter in Scotland. For a few years around the late 1890s and early 1900s their widowed father (James senior) joined them in London too, living in Paddington with his eldest daughter Margaret. James senior returned to Scotland to live with his son Peter and died in 1907.

The 1911 census finds John still living with his brother James and his wife in the Thornton Heath area of Croydon, although James himself was away from home on census night. John's brother James died in 1913.

John stayed in the Croydon area, where he died in 1920 aged 55.

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

   1865. BIRTHS in the District of Whithorn in the County of Wigtown
   No.79
   Name: John Rice
   When and where born: 1865 November twenty first, 5h PM, Shaddock
   Sex: M
   Father: James Rice, Farm Labourer
   Mother: Jane Rice, M.S. Lemon
   Parents' marriage: 1850 December 13th, Craiglemine, Parish of Glasserton
   Informant: Jane Rice, Her X Mark, Mother
   Registered: 1865 December 9th at Whithorn, Robert Anderson, Registrar

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

   1865
   Name: [column blank apart from a squiggle which could say pm?]
   Law[ful]
   Parents: James Rice & Jane Lamont
   Born: November 25th
   Baptized: Dec 31st
   Sponsors: Peter Gilmore & Katy Currans
   Clergyman: P.T. O'Gorman

3. ↑ 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

4. ↑ General Register Office for Scotland. 1881 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh)
   900/00 010/00 001, 3 Apr 1881.

   Address: Main Street, Whithorn, Wigtownshire
   2 rooms with windows
   [one of three households listed in the same house - each household described as having two rooms with windows]
   James Rice, head, married, male, 55 [1825/6], Ag Labourer, b. Ireland
   Jane Rice, wife, married, female, 55 [1825/6], Ag Lab's Wife, b. Ireland
   John Rice, son, unmarried, male, 15 [1865/6], Ag Lab's Son, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire

5. ↑ 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

6. ↑ 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 3401 Schedule 52, 2 Apr 1911.

   Address: 30 Grange Park Road, Thornton Heath, Croydon, Surrey
   6 rooms occupied
   Alice Rice, head, female, 45 [1865/6], married 26 years, 2 children born, 1 child still living, b. Highgate, London
   John Rice, boarder, male, 45 [1865/6], single, Decorator, worker, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire

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

   d. John RICE, December Quarter 1920, Croydon Registration District, Volume 2a, page 401, aged 55 [1864/5]