Hertfordshire Postcard Artists, Photographers, Publishers, etc.

Jabez & John Henry Croft

of Rickmansworth

  

Timeline
date   source   data
1823   Register   Jabez Croft, son of James and Sarah, baptised at Great Missendin 5 December 1823
1847       Married Maria Dixon at Rickmansworth, 28 Merch
1851   census   Jabez Croft (29, painter, born Missenden, Bucks), wife Maria (26, born Rickmansworth) and infant Sarah (2 months?, born Rickmansworth) were living in the High Street, Rickmansworth.
1861   census   Javas Croft (37, painter, journeyman, born Missenden, Bucks), his wife Meria (36, born Rickmansworth) and son John (8, born Rickmansworth) were living in Church Street, Rickmansworth.
1866   directory   Jabez Croft, photographer, Church Street, Rickmansworth
1867       married Elizabeth Demenza at Rickmansworth, 20 May, 1867
1871   census   Jabez Croft (50, photographer, born Great Missenden), wife Elizabeth (45), and sons John (19, photographer) and William (11, scholar, born Rickmansworth) at Psysic Row, Rickmansworth.
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CDV of young man by Croft of Rickmansworth

CDV

 

J. Croft

Photographer

Church Street

Rickmansworth
1881   census   Jabez Croft (60?, photographer, born "Missenden, Berks") and his wife Eliz (56, born Bollan?, Lancashire) were living at 5 Psysic Row, Rickmansworth. Their 26 year old son, John H Croft, was a photographer born in Rickmansworth.
1881   FreeBMD   April-June - death of Jabez Croft registered Watford
1890   directory   John Henry Croft, photographer, Church Street, Rickmansworth
1891   census   John H Croft (35, photographer) wife Jane (29, born Coventry, Warwwickshire) and four children, eldest Leonard (8, born Rickmansworth) in Church Row, Rickmansworth
1901   census   John H Croft (48, photographer own account at home), wife Jane, and six children at 4. Church Row.
1911   census   John Henry Croft (58 green grocer with family in Church Street
1912   directory    - nothing listed in Rickmansworth

 

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