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John Blackburn SPENCE

Male 1853 - 1912  (59 years)


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  • Name John Blackburn SPENCE 
    Birth 1853  Richmond Yorkshire Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 1891 Census
    Baptism 6 Oct 1853  Richmond Yorkshire Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Ancestry North Yorkshire CofE records Richmond No 1066 6th Oct 1853
      John Blackburn son of John & Jane Spence of Richmond labourer
    Gender Male 
    Burial 1912  Tudhoe Cemetery Tudhoe Co Durham Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Find a Grave website Memorial ID 223609972
      Birth 1853
      Death 28 Jun 1912 (aged 58)
      Burial Tudhoe Cemetery Tudhoe
      Plot C, 200
      Death date listed may be the interment date
    Death 25 Jan 1912 
    • FreeBMD Mar 1912 Durham 10a 432 aged 58

      Ancestry Wills and Probate
      John Blackburn Spence of Tudhoe Village died 25th Jan 1912 Administration Durham 21st Feb 1912 to William Spence balcksmith Effects £261 8s 3d
    Person ID I28001  Main Tree
    Last Modified 16 Jan 2026 

    Father John SPENCE,   b. 1825, Northallerton Yorkshire Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Jane BLACKBURN,   b. 1826, Grewelthorpe Yorkshire Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 12 May 1851  St John Stanwick Yorkshire Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Ancestry North Yorkshire CofE records St John Sranwick No 86 12th May 1851
      John Spence full age bat labourer of Aldbrough son of John Spence labourer to
      Jane Blackburn full age spin of Aldbrough dau of John Blackburn labourer
      By banns; Jane signed; witnessed by Robert Wardell; Mary Blackburn & Ralph Moses
    Family ID F7268  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Martha RACE,   b. 1858, Weardale Co Durham Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1898 (Age 40 years) 
    Marriage 1881 
    • FreeBMD Mar 1881 Durham 10a 457
    Children 
     1. William SPENCE,   b. 1882, Tudhoe Village Co Durham Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Joseph SPENCE,   b. 1884, Tudhoe Colliery Co Durham Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. John SPENCE,   b. 1886, Tudhoe Colliery Co Durham Find all individuals with events at this location
    +4. Sarah Jane SPENCE,   b. 1889, Tudhoe Colliery Co Durham Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Harold SPENCE,   b. 1890, Tudhoe Village Co Durham Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Frances M SPENCE,   b. 1896, Tudhoe Village Co Durham Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F7266  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2026 

  • Notes 
    • 1861 RG9 3683 78 at Carlbury son single aged 7 born Aldbrough Named as Blackburn
      1891 RG12 4102 11 at Tudhoe Village head married cartman aged 37 born Richmond
      1901 RG13 4681 42 at Tudhoe Village head widower cartman leading coal aged 47 born Richmond Also had Frances Jane Robinson relative single housekeeper aged 21 born Tunstall Sunderland
      1911 RG14 29949 103 at Tudhoe Village 3 rooms head widower married 17 years 6 chidren born alive and all still living cartman to & from colliery aged 57 born Richmond Also had Frances Ann Spence sis single aged 48 born Denton