Born c1845 in St James’s parish (61C).
| 1861 | Labourer at pottery, boarding at 1 Swan Court, St Philip’s parish (16) (61C). |
| 1871 | Labourer, 9 Pile Street, St Mary Redcliffe parish (25), living with his wife Mary (24) and children Rosina (3) and Mary (6 mths), all born in Bristol (71C). |
| 1881 | Fireman, ‘Robin Hood’, 17 Queen Street, Bedminster (37), living with his wife Mary (34) and children Rosina (13), Mary A, (11), James (8), Elizabeth (5) and Florence (1), all born in Bristol (81C). |
| 1883 | 9 Mar. An Inquest carried out at the Royal Infirmary ‘on the body of James Howell, aged 39 years, a fireman at Messrs Price’s pottery. The deceased had attended the hospital, where he was treated for pleurisy, and on Wednesday morning a man named John Phippin found him lying dead in a field near the Railway Bridge, St Philip’s Marsh. There was no appearance of a struggle near the place where the deceased was found. The wife stated that shortly after Christmas the deceased fell down and sustained a severe wound in the head. He then lost a large quantity of blood, and since had never been in good health. [It was found] the deceased had suffered from inflammation of the lungs and pleurisy … and that death was due to syncope brought on by the before mentioned maladies’ (Bristol Mercury). |