George Luxton - born 1830 - George was a groom in 1851 census - George Luxton (1830 - 1896) was baptised at Wembworthy, Devon, on November 28, 1830 and never married, He was a 19 year old groom in 1851 and a 30 year old blacksmith in 1861 and a 39 year old grocer in 1871 and in 1881, when he was living at 15 Cathall Road, Leyton, he was a 44 year old labour. When he died of paralysis at the Union Workhouse, Leystone on November 22, 1896 his death certificate describes him as George Luxton 66, Hostler, "No Home" of Leyton.

Ann Luxton Baptised Sep 29 1832 at Brushford - no further information

Emma Luxton - born 1835 - Emma (1835 - 1877) married James Lanigan (1840 - 1877) a zinc worker at St Batolph, Bishopsgate, London on July 13, 1862. Emma who died aged 77 in West Ham in December 1912 is an ancestor of Mrs Ethel Pier.

1881: Census - 5, Angle Street, Low Leyton Essex
Emma Lanigan - Head - Widow - 44 1837 - Laundress - Newton, Devon
James Lanigan - Son - 14 1867 - Scholar - Leytonstone, Essex
Alice Lanigan - Daughter - 11 1870 - Scholar - Leytonstone, Essex

1911: Census - 49 Cranbourne Road Leyton Essex
James W Lanigan - Head - Married - 42 1869 - G E R Steele Frame Labourer - Leytonstone Essex
Laura Lanigan - Wife - married 20 years - 40 1871 - Coggeshall Essex
Harold J Lanigan - Son - Single - 19 1892 - G E R Apprentice - Stratford Essex
Leonard W Lanigan - Son - Single - 16 1895 - Office Boy - Stratford Essex
Bertie E Lanigan - Son - 11 1900 - School - Stratford Essex
Emma Lanigan - Mother - Widow - 76 1835 - Old Age Pensioner - Devonshire N K

William Luxton - born 1837 - William was baptised at Newton St Cyres on June 4, 1837 and married Susan Steel in East London in the January/March quarter of 1868. In 1871 William a 32 year old blacksmith lived at 21 Angle Place, Stratford, Essex, with Susan his wife, 27, their son william aged 1 and James Steel, his brother-in-law who was a 21 year old porter. Later William earned his living as a brass fitter and the family lived in Stratford at 10 Victoria Street 1877 to 1879, 22 Victoria Street in 1881 and 61 Victoria Street 1883 - 1900. William who died at the age of 76 in West Ham in the June quarter of 1913, was the progenitor of an extensive family in Stratford, East London, Susannah Luxton, his widow, died aged 65 in West Ham in 1922. The couple had eight children...

1- Child of William Luxton (1807) and Susan Steele
William Luxton (1870 - 1915) who was born in Lambeth in the January/March quarter of 1870. William was a 21 year old machine maker of Marks' Road when he married Amanda Matilda Laws, 21, at the parish church of St Andrews' in Romford, Essex on August 1, 1891. He died aged 45 in West Ham in the second quarter of 1915 and his widow Amanda married Mr Simms in the third quarter of 1918. William Luxton and his wife Amanda, had an extensive family.

1 - Child of William Luxton (1870) and his wife Amanda Matilda Laws
William Luxton (1892 - 1962) married Emily Fisher in 1914 and they had a family of six in East London, but only four reached adulthood. one of these, their youngest son....

1 - Child of William Luxton (1892) and Emily Fisher
Reginald C. Luxton (1928) a self employed printer, with a business in Walthamstow married Patricia Rainbird in 1950 and had a daughter Jacqueline, who supplied a lot of family information in 1989.

2 - Child of William Luxton (1870) and his wife Amanda Matilda Laws
Alfred Ernest Luxton (1894 - 1955), who married Louise Dorothy Nelson in Bethnal Green in 1916 had six children and more grandchildren, including Mrs Wendy Cook in Luton.

3 - Child of William Luxton (1870) and his wife Amanda Matilda Laws
Ernest George Luxton born December 15, 1895,

4- Child of William Luxton (1870) and his wife Amanda Matilda Laws
Percey Herbert Luxton born December 26, 1897.

5 - Child of William Luxton (1870) and his wife Amanda Matilda Laws
Kate Luxton born December 20, 1899 - Kate married Clement Baylis in September 1922

6 - Child of William Luxton (1870) and his wife Amanda Matilda Laws
Albert Luxton born January 29, 1902.

7 - Child of William Luxton (1870) and his wife Amanda Matilda Laws
Stanley Luxton born 1905

8- Child of William Luxton (1870) and his wife Amanda Matilda Laws
Frederick Luxton born 1907

9 - Child of William Luxton (1870) and his wife Amanda Matilda Laws
Edger James Luxton (1909 - 1915)

10 - Child of William Luxton (1870) and his wife Amanda Matilda Laws
James Luxton born 1911

1911: Census - 19 Waddington Street, Stratford, Essex
William Luxton - Head - Married 20 years - 41 - Fitter, G E Railway Co - Lambeth, London
Amanda M Luxton - Wife - 39 - Cardiff, Wales
William H Luxton - Son - Single - 18 - Fitters Apprentice, G E Railway - Stratford
Alfred E Luxton - Son - Single - 17 - Apprentice Cabinet Making - Stratford
Ernest G. Luxton - Son - Single - 15 - Coach Painting Apprentice, G E Railway - Stratford
Percy H Luxton - Son - 13 - School, Newsboy - Stratford
Kate Luxton - Dau - 11 - School - Stratford
Albert Luxton - Son - 9 - School - Stratford
Stanley Luxton - Son - 7 - School - Stratford
Frederick Luxton - Son - 5 - School - Stratford
Edwin Luxton - Son - 2 - Stratford
James Luxton - Son - 3months - Stratford

Hi - I have recently found your webiste which is very interesting. I am a descendent of William Luxton and Mary Pike. My mother who is now 84 is the daughter of Alfred Ernest Luxton and Louise Dorothy Nelson.
Alfred was the son of William Luxton and Susan Steele. With a family that size money was short and they often did a 'moonlight flit' with all their posessions on a cart.
Alfred and his wife were both deaf and dumb and Louise Dorothy only had one leg. Life was hard for them with their six children and they received a lot of help from the Salvation Army.
Percy married Caroline Elizabeth Barrett in 1921.
I have been told that Kate married someone called Bainbridge and had a sweet shop in Bow London and that Percy moved to France I am not sure how true this is.
Alfred was estranged from his brothers and sister in later years so not many family stories have been passed down and we have no family photographs.
Thank you for sharing all the information you have online. - Jean Driver

1911: Census - 61 Victoria St Stratford West Ham Essex
William Luxton - Head - Married - 73 1838 - Retired Carriage Fitter - Newton St Cyrus Devonshire
Susan Luxton - Wife - married 42 years - 66 1845 - Latchingdon Essex
Harold Newman - Nephew - Single - 21 1890 - Dock Labourer - Enfield Middlesex

Mary Ann Luxton - 1840 - Mary was born in Newton St Cyres in 1840 She moved to London with her parents and was a domestic servant when she lost an infant daughter, Elizabeth aged one month, from convulsions on April 7, 1863. On February 17, 1864, she married a coachman, Charles Warren at St John Evangelical Church Stratford.

1881: Census - 74, Winchester St, New Sarum St Edmund Wiltshire
Charles Warren - Head - Married - 42 1839 - Coachman N D - Combe Bittett, Wiltshire
Mary A Warren - Wife - 40 1841 - Newton St Cyres, Dorset
Charles W Wareen - Son - Single - 16 1865 - Wood Turner - Salisbury, Wiltshire
Albert H Warren - Son - 14 1867 - Solicitors Clerk - Salisbury, Wiltshire
Elizabeth A Warren - Daughter - 11 1870 - Scholar - Salisbury, Wiltshire
Frederick C Warren - Son - 10 1871 - Scholar - Salisbury, Wiltshire
Rosina M M Warren - Daughter - 1 1880 - Salisbury, Wiltshire
Betsy Goodfellow - Lodger - Single - 61 1820 - Formerly Needlewoman - Salisbury, Wiltshire

1911: Census - 1 Eyres Almshouses London Road Salisbury Wiltshire
Charles Waren - Head - married 48 years - 72 1839 - Retired Coachman Living In Almshouse - Coombe Bissett Wilts
Mary Ann Warren - Wife - 70 1841 - Newton St Cyres Devon

Samuel Luxton - (1841 - 1907) - Samuel was born at Newton st Cyres on September 3, 1841. In 1841 he is listed as a 29 year old farrier, residing with his parents at High Road, Leyton. There is no mention of his wife Elizabeth Crossingham who he had married at St Johns' Church in Straford Essex, on April 10, 1864. The couple had already separated and his wife Elizabeth, a 45 year old servant to Anthony Howell, a wine merchant in the High Street, Romford, described herself as unmarried in the 1881 census, She bigamously married James Bailey, a widower and coachman of 10 Byford Terrace, Custom House after banns at the Parish Church of Holy Trinity, Barking Road, Essex on November 4, 1883, Samuel Luxton was a 64 year old homeless farrier, when he died at Whitechapel Infirmary, Whitechapel, London on February 3, 1907. The couple had three children...

1 - Child of Samuel Luxton (1841) and Elizabeth Crossingham
Elizabeth Luxton born 1845 at Leytonstone, in the May of 1864 was a 19 year old spinster and boot maker of 33 Radnor Street, St Lukes, when she married Thomas Walter Jackson 19, farrier of 4 Alfred Place, Gee Street, St Lukes at Thomas', Bethnal Green on September 21, 1884. The fact she describes herself as the daughter of George Luxton farrier, suggests she had cut herself off from contact with her real father Samuel. - Elizabeth Jackson died aged 58 at St Colunbas' Hospital, Hampstead, London on March 30, 1924. She was a grandmother to Mrs Gladys Doyle of Burgess Hill, West Sussex.

2 - Child of Samuel Luxton (1841) and Elizabeth Crossingham
Emma Mary Luxton (1867 - 1951) - Emma was born in the Union Workhouse, Leytonstone, Romford, Essex on February 24, 1867. Mr Brian Phillips of Plymouth, Emmas' grandson relates that she arrived in Shobrooke, Devon (the parish adjoining Newton St Cyres) about 1876, when she was nine, to work as a scullery maid, in the Red Lion Public House. She is listed in the 1881 census as a 14 year old servant with an inn keeper, William Slade and family at Little Silver, Shobrooke. Emma Mary Luxton 21, spinster of Shobrooke, described as the daughter of William Luxton , blacksmith (in reality he was her uncle or perhaps grandfather). married John Fey a 43 year old carpenter at Shobrooke on December 24, 1889. She died aged 84 at 27 The Village Shobrooke on October 3, 1951. Her grandson Brian Phillips writes "Emma was a remarkable woman. She had no education, never owned anything of value, was married to the Shobrooke master carpenter on Christmas day 1889, gave birth to my Aunt the following day, was widowed with seven children in 1908 and lived until 1951".

3 - Child of Samuel Luxton (1841) and Elizabeth Crossingham
William Luxton 1869 - William was born in the Union Workhouse, Romford, Essex on July 31, 1869 he was an inmate aged 11 in the Crediton Union Workhouse when in the 1881 census was taken. There are no details of his later life.

Elizabeth Luxton - 1844 - Elizabeth was baptised at Newton St Cyres on January 7, 1844. At the age of 17 in 1861, she lived with her parents and siblings at 41 Grove Green Lane, Leyton. The last reference of her is in March 1887 when as Mrs Elizabeth Wibberley with a home address in Brighton, she was present at her fathers' death.

Sarah Jane Luxton - 1847 - Sarah was baptised at Newton St Cyres on October 12, 1845 was aged 4 in 1851 and was living with her parents and siblings at scotch Row, High Road, Leytonstone. Ten years later she had left home probably for domestic Service. She witnessed the marriage of her brother Samuel Luxton to Elizabeth Crossingham at St Johns' Stratford on April 10, 1864 and was married at Bethnal Green in October/December 1882.

Henry Luxton - (1849 - 1927) - Henry was baptised at Newton St Cyres on October 7, 1849. He was aged one in 1851 when the family were living at scotch Row, High Road, Leytonstone. Henry, a fireman, married Caroline Steele daughter of James Steele, Labourer, on May 13, 1876. In 1881, Henry, a 31 year old brewery stoker and his wife Caroline 33 were living at 57 Colgrove Road, Stratford, which they shared with relatives James and Matilda Steele. Ten years later, Henry 41, was an engine driver and his wife Caroline 43, lived at 34 Colegrove Road, Stratford, Caroline Luxton died aged 79 in West Ham in the September quarter of 1926 and Henry died there aged 84 in March quarter 1933.

1881: Census - 57, Colgrove Rd, West Ham Essex
Henry Luxton - Head - Married - 31 1850 - Stoker (Brewery) - Newton, Devon
Caroline Luxton - Wife - 33 1848 - Latchingdon, Essex

1911: Census - 19 Burgess Road Stratford E, Essex
Henry Lucton - Head - Married - 61 1850 - Engineer Labourer - Newton St Cyrus Devon
Caroline Luxton - Wife - married 34 years - 63 1848 - No Occupation - Laychingdon Essex