James Highatt COOMBS, 17991866 (aged 66 years)

Name
James Highatt /COOMBS/
Family with parents
father
mother
Marriage Marriage20 September 1796Beckington, Somerset
3 years
himself
17991866
Birth: 15 September 1799 24 24 Frome, Somerset
Death: 6 March 1866Gloucester
Family with BETTY SHERBORNE
himself
17991866
Birth: 15 September 1799 24 24 Frome, Somerset
Death: 6 March 1866Gloucester
wife
1799
Birth: 20 March 1799Stowey, Somerset
Death: Gloucester
Marriage Marriage17 March 1824Paulton, Somerset
9 months
daughter
1824
Birth: 25 December 1824 25 25 Nunney, Somerset
Death: Keynsham, Somerset
11 years
son
18351904
Birth: 27 September 1835 36 36 Bristol
Death: 5 August 1904Oxford
-10 years
son
18261826
Birth: 5 March 1826 26 26 Nunney, Somerset
Death: 1 October 1826West Harptree, Somerset
Family with Elizabeth Payne
himself
17991866
Birth: 15 September 1799 24 24 Frome, Somerset
Death: 6 March 1866Gloucester
wife
18001823
Birth: 13 September 1800 30 30 Nunney, Somerset
Death: 18 February 1823Nunney, Somerset
Marriage Marriage19 September 1822Frome, Somerset
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b 1799 at Frome, bp 15 Sep 1799 at Beckington (3m Frome, Somerset).
As a young man (1824, 1826) he was a Clothier, living in Nunney. By 1835 he was a Stationer.
In 1861 he was an Accountant and a Proprietor of Houses.

1799: born in Frome, baptised in Beckington (3m NE Frome).
1822: marries in Frome and sets up house in Nunney (3m SW Frome).
1824: marries in Paulton (10m NW Frome). Wife is from Stowey (5m NW Paulton, 16m NW Frome).
1824: has child in Nunney and baptises it in Nunney.
1826: has child in Nunney but baptises it in West Harptree.
1835: living in Bristol, but baptises child in West Harptree (3m SW Stowey, 12m S Bristol).
1841-1861, lives in Bristol.
1866: dies in Glucester, where he seems to have moved to.

m by licence 19 Sep 1822 at Frome St John to Elizabeth Payne, James's name given simply as James Coombs (no Highatt). On license, also mentioned a Benjamin Coombs.
Witness on wedding certificate was Charles Coombs.

Wife seems to have died almost immediately in 1823.

m by licence 17 Mar 1824 at Paulton to Betty Sherborne, name now given as James Highatt Coombs.

Only 3 children, which seems strange:
Bessie Sherborne Cooms b 25 Dec 1824 at Nunney.
James Highatt Coombs b 5 Mar 1826 at Nunney, d 1 Oct 1826 at West Harptree
Benjamin Coombs, b1835 at Bristol, but baptised 27 Sep 1835 at West Harptree, Somerset.

d 6 Mar 1866 at 27 St Mark Street, Kingsholm, Gloucester, probate proved 18 April 1866.