William Pitt ^56,61

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  General Notes:

William Pitt (of Wimborne Minster) married Eliza Spicer by licence on 25 Apr 1837 at Tolpuddle: James & Ann Spicer were witnesses.

Children baptised at Affpuddle: Selina (10 Aug 1837), Elizabeth (21 May 1839), William (30 Oct 1840), James (10 Jan 1843). Father recorded as 'farmer' on each entry.

1841 Census at Affpuddle: William (30, farmer), Eliza (??), Selina (3), Elizabeth (2), William (8m). Registration entry for Selina shows her name as Selina Spicer Pitt.

1851 Census at Affpuddle: William (40, born Buckhorn Weston), Eliza (47, born Broadmayne), Selina (13), William (10), James (8).

1861 census at Burton, Winfrith: Jane Pitt (71, head, fundholder, b. Buckhorn Weston), William (49, son, M, fundholder, b. Buckhorn Weston), Selina S (23, G/dau, U,b. Affpuddle), Elizabeth (21, g/dau, U, b. Affpuddle).

1871 census at Affpuddle (abode of John House): Eliza Pitt (66, boarder, M, annuitant, b. Broadmayne).

1881 census at Briantspuddle (abode of John House, 55, farmer): Eliza Pitt (76, widowed, boarder, b. Broadmaine).

Likely death record for Eliza Pitt in Q4 1890 in Wareham RD aged 90.
No death record found for husband William.

1881 census at Gloucester: James Pitt (37, head, draper, b. Affpuddle) plus wife, 3 children and neice Annis Gray (15, b. Northampton). ¹⁷⁶

  Events

• Census: UK, 1841, Affpuddle, Dorset, England. ¹⁸⁷ William (age 30), Eliza (age 35), Elizabeth (2), William (8 months). Also in the household are Hannah Walls (15) and Ann Spicer (20). All were born in the same county.

• Census: UK, 1851, Affpuddle, Dorset, England. ^1441,1443 Age 76 a Farmer of 400 acres employing 17 laborers. With wife Jane (60), married son William (40), Nephew William Jones (56), servant Ann Scutt (21), and daughter Selena (15).

• Census: UK, 1851, Affpuddle, Dorset, England. ¹⁴⁴³ Age 40 and married he appears with his father William, mother Jane. William Jones (56 and father's nephew), unmarried servant Ann Scutt (21) and sister Selena (13).

• Will, 8 Apr 1854, Affpuddle, Dorset, England. Extensive naming of children and spouses of children.

• Census: 1861 UK, 1861, Winfrith Newburgh, Dorset, England. Appears (age 49) with head household, Jane Pitt age 71. William is listed as married, but there is no wife listed for him.

• Census: UK, 1871, Shirley, Millbrook, Hampshire, England. ¹⁴⁴⁷ Assistant Collector of Rates.

• Probate, 27 Feb 1875. ¹⁰⁸⁷ to William Pitt of Broadmead Bristol Draper Son and one of the next of kin.

William married Elizabeth Spicer, daughter of Robert Talbot Spicer and Sarah Rosanna Frizell, 25 Apr 1837 in Tolpuddle, Dorset, England.¹⁷⁵ (Elizabeth Spicer was born in 1812 ⁵⁶, christened 15 Dec 1812 in West Stafford, Dorset, England,¹⁰⁷³ died Dec Q 1890 in Briantspuddle, Dorset, England ¹⁰⁸³ and was buried 13 Nov 1890 in Affpuddle, Dorset, England ¹⁰⁸⁴.)