occupation

Sexton and cordwainer

dates

Born: 20 Mar 1814, Oxford

Married: 1st. Rebecca JACKSON, 11 May 1835,
                at St Clement’s, Oxford

                2nd. Mary Ann NOYES (née TAGG),
                5 Oct 1857 at St Peter in the East,

                Oxford

Died: 1886

residence

King Street, Bath Place, both in Oxford

submitted by

Ann RYDER (step great-great-granddaughter)

related faces

Mary Ann TAGG (wife)

Henry SAMMONS (son)

Charles Alfred HIGGINS (grandson)

Henry James HIGGINS (grandson)

Ann Sarah NOYES (sister-in-law)

William Thomas SAMMONS (brother-in-law)

Elizabeth Lavina NOYES (step-daughter)

Annie Sarah HIGGINS (step-granddaughter)

Elizabeth Mary HIGGINS (step-granddaughter)

Ann WALE (mother-in-law)

Florence May HIGGINS (step-granddaughter)

Background information

Frederick SAMMONS was born on
20 Mar 1814, son of coachman John SAMMONS and his wife Mary, who lived in Queens Lane, Oxford.

Frederick became a cordwainer (shoemaker). He married 19-yr-old Rebecca JACKSON at St Clement’s on 11 May 1835. They had 10 children. Rebecca died 6 Dec 1856.

Frederick later married a widow, Mary Ann NOYES (née TAGG), at St Peter in the East, where he was sexton. He died in 1886, aged 74. Being very deaf, he did not hear an approaching two-horse tram car, was knocked down by it and killed. There was an extensive report of this unfortunate incident  in Jackson’s Oxford Journal.