28 September 2009
Byers
Byers- meaning `cowman'
John
Byers
The IGI shows the birth
of a John Byors in about 1774 in Aikton , Of Dorahall, Cumberland and also
John's marriage to Mary Graham on the 20th of November 1797 in Kirkbampton.
1841
Township of Little Bampton, Kirk Bampton Cumberland
John Byers 70 ag lab born Cumberland
Mary Byers 71 born Cumberland
Joseph Byers 29 ag lab born Cumberland
Ruth Holliday 35 seamstress born Cumberland
John Holliday 10 born Cumberland
Sarah Holliday 8 born Cumberland
Mary Robinson 20 born Cumberland
John Robinson 1 born Cumberland
1851- (Byus on Ancestry)
Little Compton Cumberland
John Byers head married 79 road labourer born Sebergham Cumberland
Mary Byers wife 81 born Thursby Cumberland
Ruth Holliday daughter married 46 seamstress born Aikton Cumberland
John Robinson grandson 11 scholar born Kirkbampton Cumberland
William Robinson grandson 3 born Kirkbampton
Was
widowed in 1852. Mary Byers, 83 years old, wife of John Byers, husbandman, died
on 1st December 1852 at Littlebampton, Kirkbampton as the result of old age. Her
daughter, Mary Robinson, also of Littlebampton was present at the death.
1861-
Ploughlands, Little Bampton Cumberland
John Byers head widower 89 formerly husbandman born Sebergham Cumberland
Mary Byers daughter 44 married farm labourer born Aikton
Wm Byers grandson 13 scholar born Kirkbampton
John Byers, agricultural labourer, of Ploughlands, Kirkbampton died on the 29th
May 1861, at the age of 89 years as the result of old age. His son, John, of
Fingland, Bowness, was present at the death.
John
and Mary had at least
6 children:-
