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SPAFFORD, George
1823 - 1879 (56 years) Has 2 ancestors and 3 descendants in this family tree.
1799 - 1857 (58 years)-
Name SPAFFORD, George Birth 1823 Beckingham, Lincolnshire, England 
Gender Male Death 1879 Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England Burial 15 Aug 1879 Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England Person ID I392 Edgoose Last Modified 3 Feb 2026
Father SPAFFORD, Thomas, b. 1801, Beckingham, Lincolnshire, England d. 1855, Marston, Lincolnshire, England (Age 54 years) Mother ANDERTON, Mary, b. 1799, Beckingham, Lincolnshire, England d. 1857, Marston, Lincolnshire, England (Age 58 years) Marriage 13 Sep 1821 Beckingham, Lincolnshire, England Family ID F266 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family EDGOOSE, Clarissa, b. 27 Mar 1818, Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England d. 21 Dec 1894, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England (Age 76 years) Marriage 29 Oct 1849 Marston, Lincolnshire, England Children 1. SPAFFORD, Louisa, b. 16 Oct 1850, Marston, Lincolnshire, England d. 1932, Gainsborough Registration District, Lincolnshire (Age 81 years)Family ID F264 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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GEORGE SPAFFORD 1823-1879
George, son of Thomas and Mary SPAFFORD of Beckingham, was baptised at Beckingham, Lincolnshire, on 7 December 1823.
(PR)
Clarissa EDGOOSE married George SPAFFORD, a Marston carpenter, at Marston, Lincolnshire, on 29 October 1849. He was the son of Thomas SPAFFORD, a sawyer. She was a Marston schoolmistress. Witnesses were William SPAFFORD and Mary Anne TOMLINSON.
(GRO December Q 1849 Newark 15 1137)
She and her husband were at Marston at the time of the 1851 census:
*George SPAFFORD, head, aged 27, master carpenter [no men], born at Beckingham, Lincolnshire;
Clarissa SPAFFORD, wife, aged 29, born at Gosberton, Lincolnshire;
Louisa SPAFFORD, aged 5 months, born at Marston, Lincolnshire.
(HO107/2138/204/16)
The 1861 census of 11 Eastgate, Lincoln:
*George SPAFFORD, head, aged 38, wood sawyer, born at Beckingham, Lincolshire;
Clarissa SPAFFORD, wife, aged 40, born at Gosberton, Lincolnshire;
Louisa SPAFFORD, daughter, aged 10, scholar, born at Marston, Lincolnshire.
(RG9/2361/50/9)
The 1871 census of 11 Eastgate, Lincoln:
*George SPAFFORD, head, aged 49, sawyer, born at Beckingham, Lincolnshire;
Clarissa SPAFFORD, wife, aged 50, born at Gosberton, Lincolnshire;
Frances NEEDHAM, lodger, aged 50, unmarried, born at Hull, Yorkshire;
Elizabeth LEWIS, lodger, aged 1, born at Durham, Co. Durham.
(RG10/3373/96/17)
The death of George SPAFFORD aged 55 was registered in 1879.
(GRO September Q 1879 Lincoln 7a 286)
He was buried at St. Mary Magdalene in the Bail, Lincoln, on 15 August 1879.
(NBI 3)
NOTES & QUERIES:
George SPAFFORD's ancestry was provided by Mrs. Sue DAVIS, formerly a fellow member of the Guild of One-Name Studies, and Ben MORANDI. A source of further information might be Bill@Spafford.us.
TRANSCRIPTION OF THE MATERIAL PART OF MRS. SUE DAVIS's LETTER DATED OCTOBER 1996
"Many thanks for your letter. Firstly many thanks for suplying me with Clarissa SPAFFORD's maiden name. I had got 1816 as her D.O.B., but this was from Cousins information etc.. where people were often forgetful or economical with the.avid that, I have quickly re-checked the 1851 Census; the family were at Marston, Lincs. when George gave his age as 27 & Clarissa as 29! Louisa, who is the only off-spring I know of, was 5 months old (born Marston 1850). I have a note of a Louisa SPAFFORD who married in 1878 in Bradford, but have no proof of it being the same one.
George SPAFFORD b. 1823 in Beckingham (LINCS. not Notts) & died Lincoln 1879. He was the son of Thomas SPAFFORD (b. Beckingham, Lincs 1801) & Mary (Nee ANDERTON) who married in 1821. They also had William (b. 1822) married Ann (SWAIN)s (ougham) married ?Mary? 1853, Newark. Eliza (b.1837 at Marston) & John (b 1840 at Marston)
Thomas (1801) was the son of William & Elizabeth (nee ANDREW) married in Stragglethorpe 1800. William was born in 1779 In Beckingham, the son of William (d.o.b. unknown) & Elizabeth WADESON (who died in 1822) who married in Beckingham in 1778.
The only other information I have on Clarissa is from the 1881 Census. She is a Widow Tailoras (their spelling!), Living in St. Margaret's, Lincoln, aged 65, and born in Gosberton Cheal Lincs. The enumerator spells her name CLIRISA & obe spelling!
I am afraid I have no date of death for her, but I do have a death in my St. Catherine's House deaths, between approx 1899-1910, so this might be an area to search."
(revised 08.01.2018)