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Lot VICKERS

1795 – 1872 · Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Partner: Sarah LEIGH
Father: Lot VICKERS · Mother: Mary SALT
👶Birth
12/12/1795
🏛️ French Revolutionary Wars
Wirksworth, Derbyshire 📍 International Genealogical Index
1861 Census
Baptism Records
Baptism
01/07/1796
St Mary the Virgin Church, Wirksworth, Derbyshire 📍 International Genealogical Index
Baptism Records
📎 Baptism
💒Marriage (22)
15/08/1817
🏛️ Regency period
Sarah LEIGH
Manchester Cathedral, Victoria Street, Manchester, Lancashire, M3 1SX 📍 International Genealogical Index
Marriage Certificate
📎 Marriage
💼Occupation (27)
23/05/1822
Employed by Postal Service in Manchester & York and Liverpool & Chester 📎 Image
🏠Lived (29)
1824
20 Turner Street, Manchester, Lancashire 📍
with Sarah LEIGH Street Index 📎 Image
💼Occupation (29)
1824
Coach Guard Street Index
🏠Lived (46)
1841
Paddock Street, Ardwick, Manchester, Greater Manchester 📍
with Sarah LEIGH 1841 Census 📎 Census

Lot not at home on day Census taken but assume to be living there but at work

💼Occupation (53)
1848
🏛️ Irish Potato Famine
Mail Guard
💼Occupation (65)
24/09/1860
Retired as a Mail Guard aged 64 years after 38 years and 4 months service. Annual salary £130. 📎 Document

Name of Applicant: Lot Vickers
Official Station: Mail Guard
Reccomended for: Superannuation
Age: 64 years
Service: 38 years and 4 months
Actual Salary: £130
Cause of Retirement: Above 60
Date of Commencement: Appointed Mail Guard on the 23rd of May 1822. His wages are £130 a year at which sum they have remained since 1840.
Whether holding any other Public Appointment: Not any

Absenses during each of the last 10 years:
1850 - 1854: no record
1855: 17 days illness
1856: -
1857: -
1858: 5 days

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🏠Lived (66)
1861
🏛️ Death of Prince Albert
Canal Side, Barton-Upon-Irwell, Eccles, Lancashire 📍
with Sarah LEIGH 1861 Census 📎 Census
💼Occupation (66)
1861
Superanuated Post Mail Guard 1861 Census
🏠Lived (72)
1867
🏛️ Second Reform Act
213 Warde Street, Hulme, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 Death Certificate
🏠Lived (76)
1871
🏛️ Bank Holidays introduced
Stafford House, Ellesmere Road, Ellesmere Park, Monton, Lancashire 📍 1871 Census 📎 Census
💼Occupation (76)
1871
Superanuated Post Office Guard 1871 Census
✝️Death (77)
22/10/1872
🏛️ Secret ballot introduced
Stafford House, Ellesmere Road, Ellesmere Park, Monton, Lancashire 📍
Apoplexy 6 days [stroke] Free BMD
Ref: Barton 8c 353
Aged 77
Death Certificate
📎 Death Cert
🪦Burial
26/10/1872
Weaste Cemetery, Cemetery Road, Salford, Lancashire, M5 5NR 📍
Grave 33/DISS/669 deceasedonline.com 📎 Grave 📎 Grave 📎 Grave 📎 Grave 📎 Grave 📎 Burial 📎 Grave 📎 Grave

Burial Register Details

Authority: Salford City Council
Cemetery: Weaste Cemetery, Salford
Grave Reference: 33/DISS/669
Burial Date: 26 October 1872
Register Number: 51712
Last Name: Vickers
First Names: Lot
Age: 77 Years
Original Grave Owner: Isaac HOLMES

Also interred in the same grave on 29/09/1877 was Sarah HARTLEY.

New headstone errected on 30th May 2024 with the following inscription:

In Memory of
LOT VICKERS
BORN: 12/12/1795
DIED: 22/10/1872

ALSO
SARAH VICKERS
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED AUGUST 14TH 1867
AGED 70 YEARS
INTERRED IN GRAVE B26/476

ALSO
SARAH HARTLEY
SISTER OF LOT VICKERS
BORN: 08/07/1794
DIED: 26/09/1877

[on rear of headstone]
33/669

[at bottom & rear of headstone]
ERECTED IN 2023 BY JAMES GILES TATTERSALL
4 X GREAT GRANDSON OF LOT & SARAH
jamestattersall.com

Children with Sarah LEIGH
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b. 1821, Manchester, Lancashire · d. 1890, Prestwich Asylum (Mental Hospital), Prestwich, Manchester, Lancashire
F
b. 1825, Chester, Cheshire · d. 1897, Lyndale, 9 Rawlinson Road, Southport, Lancashire · m. 1848 Isaac HOLMES
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b. 1827, Manchester, Lancashire · d. 1870, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland · m. 1850 Mary Ann HUGHES
M
b. 1830, Liverpool, Merseyside · d. 1831, Dean Street, Birmingham, West Midlands
F
b. 1833, Manchester, Lancashire · d. 1905, Ferrybridge, Knottingley, West Yorkshire · m. 1860 John HOLMES · m. 1880 George GREENHOW
M
b. 1835, Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, Manchester, Lancashire · m. 1856 Esther BARNES
F
b. 1838, Paddock Street, Ardwick, Manchester, Greater Manchester · d. 1904, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland · m. 1855 Archibald PATERSON
F
b. 1844, Manchester, Lancashire · d. 1848, Hulme, Manchester, Lancashire
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