George Mullins (1800 - 1867)

Born 17 Aug 1800 in Box, Wiltshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Susannah (Gardiner) Mullins — married 5 Jan 1835 in St Pauls Church, Bristol, England,

Descendants

Died 29 Apr 1867 at age 66 in Box, Wiltshire, England

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Biography

George MULLINS was born in 1800.

He was ordained Deacon on 21 December 1823 and appointed Stipendiary Curate of Ditteridge. On 19 December 1824, he was ordained Priest and the next day, appointed Stipendiary Curate of Great Chalfield. Barely 3 weeks later on 14 January 1825, he became the Rector of Ditteridge.

On the 5th January 1835, he married Susannah Gardiner in St Paul’s Church, Bristol.

According to the 1841 census, George Mullins was living in Box with his wife and four of their children: George Henry (4), twins Henrietta and Mary (1½), and baby Joel, who had not yet been named. Their son Robert (2) was staying with his maternal grandmother at Westbury-on-Trym.

In the 1851 census, George Mullins (50) was the Rector of Ditteridge and the Master of Corsham Almshouses in Wiltshire, and was living at the almshouses with Susannah (45) and their children Robert (12), the twins Henrietta and Mary (11), Joel (9), Edwin (6), Elizabeth (5), and Harriet (2), plus one servant, and his mother-in-law Elizabeth Lake (70). George Henry (14) was boarding at Marlborough School.

About 1852, he was appointed Rector of Great Chalfield.

At the 1861 census George Mullins was still living at Hungerford Almshouses in Corsham, as although he was now the Rector of Chalfield, he remained the Master of Cosham Almshouses. At home with him were his wife and two of his children: George Henry (24) and Elizabeth (15).

In 1867, he appears to have been living at 12 Park Town in Oxford where he died on 29 April 1867. He was buried at St Sepulchre’s Cemetery on 2 May 1867.^[1]. His death announcement in Jackson’s Oxford Journal read simply: “April 29, at 12, Park-terrace, Oxford, the Rev. George Mullins, Rector of Great Chalfield, Wilts.” His effects came to under £1,500, and his widow, who continued to live in Park Town until at least the date of probate (12 June 1867) was his sole executrix. His grave site can be seen at St Sepulchres^[2]

By the 1871 census, Mrs Susannah Mullins (65) was living in Bromley in Kent at 24 Bromley College (a kind of almshouse for clergy widows) with her daughter Elizabeth Susannah (35) and one servant.

Mrs Mullins died at Fyfield in Berkshire, the home of her daughter, Mrs Harriet Druce, in 1879 and was buried at St Sepulchre’s Cemetery on 28 November (burial recorded in the parish register of St Giles’s Church). Her personal estate came to under £600, and her executor was her eldest son George Henry Mullins, then living at West Deyne, Uppingham.

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Sources

• http://www.stsepulchres.org.uk/burials/mullins_biography.pdf
• http://www.stsepulchres.org.uk/burials/mullins_biography.pdf

Footnotes

1. ↑ Burial recorded in the parish register of St Giles’s Church
2. ↑ http://www.stsepulchres.org.uk/burials/mullins_george.html

Acknowledgments

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