Francis Job Poxon

(1872 - 1976)

1872 Birth  
1891

Father - Job - age 48 and mother - Mary Ann - age 48.

The siblings listed were:

  • Richard - age 23 was a farm labourer for his father.
  • William - age 20 was a farm labourer for his father.
  • Job - age 19 was a farm labourer for his father. (Later identified as Francis Job)
  • Joseph - age 16 was a farm labourer for his father.
  • Jane - age 15
  • Samuel - age 8
  • Mary Ann - age 6

They also had a farm labourer, Frank Webster, age 17, living with them.

1895

Marriage Marriage to Alice Jones. (West Bromwich - 6b 1493 - Oct, Nov, Dec 1895)
1901 Census

Job, aged 29, is now married to Alice, age 25, and is living in Ivy Cottages, Windmill Street, Wednesbury.

He is working as a carter and is listed as a 'worker' rather than 'employer' unlike his brother William, who lives next door. The detail as to what he delivers in his cart is difficult to read.... could be coal?

He has three children:

  • Edward H - age 4
  • Nance? - age 2
  • Job - age 4 months

He also has his in-laws (wife's siblings) living with him.

  • William J. Jones - age 22 is a blacksmith's striker - brother-in-law
  • Virtue Jones - age 20 works in a warehouse - sister-in-law
  • Richard H. Jones - age 19 - an iron furnace worker- brother-in-law

And he also has a domestic servant:

Clara Boden - age 15

 

1911 Census

The family are still living in Windmill Street - at Number 71. The house has five rooms - probably three bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen.

Francis Job, aged 39, was working as a labourer for a breeze block manufacturer.

His wife gives her full name: Alice Maud May. She was aged 36 and had been married to Francis for 14 years.

This census shows that Francis had had eight children, but only seven were living. He actually filled in the name of the son that he had lost: Job Baden Poxon who died when he was one year old - he would have been the third child.

His living children were:

  • Edward Harold - age 14 (working as a labourer at the iron tube works)
  • Maud - age 12
  • Ethel Gladys - age 9
  • Albert Ernest - age 6
  • Gertie - age 5
  • Mildred Irene - age 4
  • Ruby - age 2
24th September 1912 Application for patent on umberella for tricycle

This patent application was made from the address of 140 Albert Road, Blackpool in the names of Job and his sons: Richard, Joseph and Francis Job. All were classified as engineers.

     
September 1938 Disolution of business partnership

The business Job Poxon Senior started, was carried on by Job Junior and his brother Richard under the name Poxon Bros. The partnership was dissolved in 1939. Richard would have then been in his early 70s and Job in his late 60s.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, 22 SEPTEMBER, 1939

Page 6451

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between Richard Poxon and Francis Job Poxon carrying on business as Farmers and Contractors at 44 Walsall Street, Wednesbury and Moorlands Farm, West Bromwich under the style or firm of POXON BROTHERS has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 29th September, 1938.—Dated 14th September, 1939.

RICHARD POXON and F. J. POXON

17th February 1976 Disolution of business partnership

THE LONDON GAZETTE, 26TH FEBRUARY 1976

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