George Meakin

  General Notes:

1841 Source information: HO107/1003 11 1 (line 6) Registration distric t: Cheadle Sub-registration district: Dilhorne
Address: Mear, Staffordshire (Township of Weston, Coyney & Hulme). GSU Num ber: 474629
Name: George Meakin Age: 45 Occupation: Publican & Farmer
Elizabeth Meakin abt 1801 Caverswall Staffordshire N (45)
Adam Meakin abt 1831 Caverswall Staffordshire N (10)
Anne Meakin abt 1834 Caverswall Staffordshire N (7)
Harriett Meakin abt 1835 Caverswall Staffordshire N (6)
Francis Meakin abt 1837 Caverswall Staffordshire N (5)
George Meakin abt 1838 Caverswall Staffordshire N (3)
Thomas Meakin abt 1839 Staffordshire, England Caverswall Staffordshi re Y (2)
and servants:
Ann Hoult abt 1811 Staffordshire, England Caverswall Staffordshire (3 0) Y
Elizabeth Askey abt 1828 Staffordshire, England Caverswall Staffordshi re (13) Y
William Lovatt abt 1821 Staffordshire, England Caverswall Staffordshire ( 20) Y
Charles Jones abt 1825 Staffordshire, England Caverswall Staffordshire ( 16) Y

From Robyn Arkinstall:

I can find no trace of George in the 1851C and believe that a possible death for George Meakin from Ancestry.co is - Mar Qtr 1844 - St.George Sq. London - Cert no. 1 26. In the census Elizabeth (50)*, Adam (20) & Thomas ( 9) are enumerated back in London, but there is no sign of George and the other children. They definitely weren't shown in the 4 enumerated districts of Caverswall area either.

I believe Adam married in Lambeth in the Jun Qtr of 1851, and I can't find any further trace of him, in the census records, so he could have left the country. Thomas married firstly in the Sept Qtr 1868, and then when his wife Adelaide died in 1871 he remarried in 1875, and was a successful Real Estate Auctioneer in London and had several mentions in "The London Times". He died on All Saints Day 1918 at Anerley, London.
According to Free BMD's Elizabeth Elliott Meakin died at Croydon, Surrey in the March quarter of 1874. I believe I know where Elizabeth fits in to the Arkinstall family, because of her son Adam's middles names \endash Uriah Bryant which was a family name on her side of the family, but the Elliott mention as her own middle name has me stumped, but also looks like a family hand-me-down like George Elliott Meakin's was from his mother's maiden name.

* However in the 1851 return Elizabeth is shown as married (DAR).

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation/Address: Publican & Farmer, 1841, Mear, Caverswall, Staffordshire.

• Possible death registered: St George Square, London Mar qtr, 1844. ²⁵⁴

George married Elizabeth Elliott Arkinstall on 18 Mar 1829 in St Giles without Cripplegate, London. (Elizabeth Elliott Arkinstall died on 13 Jan 1874 in Penge, 1 Clyde Villas, Amerley Rd, G London ²⁵⁴.) The cause of her death was Shock following the extraction of Bone from the Oesophagus after 22 hours.