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James Worster
1804 - 1866 (~ 62 years)-
Name James Worster - Possible confusion with the James Worster from Billesdon in Leicestershire - see notes
Birth Abt. 1804 [1] Gender Male Death 27 May 1866 Union Workhouse, Skipton, Yorkshire 
[1] - Occupation: Railway labourer
Cause: Pneumonia (typhoid)
Informant Albert C Bland (Union Workhouse) [1]
Burial 28 May 1866 Holy Trinity, Skipton, Yorkshire [2] Person ID I2592 Miscellaneous Trees Last Modified 1 Jul 2025
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Notes - Possible confusion between two James Worsters:
Both born around the same time.
One from Billesdon in Leicestershire and the other unknown.
Both died in West Yorkshire, one in 1866 in the Skipton workhouse and the other in 1874 in Keighley.
The one from Leicestershire had a family and was consistently a woolcomber and the other a railway labourer on his death certificate.
We now believe the one with the family to be the one who died in Keighley in 1874 as (a) his occupation was given as a woolcomber, (b) the informant was a John Worcester (likely his son, but it doesn't specify) and (c) his wife Martha was down as married on the 1871 census and widowed on the 1881 census.
None of this is conclusive, but on balance we believe this to be the case.
This of course does leave a "stray" James Worster on the miscellaneous tree.
- Possible confusion between two James Worsters:
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