Robert Boulter
(1825-1875)

Robert Boulter was the youngest of the four known children of labourer William Boulter and his wife Ann Covell of the fenland village of Wentworth, Cambridgeshire, England.

Robert worked as an agricultural labourer in the rich fenland surrounding his home at Wentworth for at least 30 years.

He married Mary Ann Moden in 1852, and the couple went on to raise ten children. Sadly, two of their daughters - Emily, and youngest child Martha - failed to thrive, and died as infants. After Emily's death in 1857, they had to wait 9 years for their next daughter, who they named Emily too.

After his father's death, his widowed mother Ann came to live with him and his family until her own death in 1870.

Robert pre-deceased his wife Mary by 28 years in 1875.

Life Events

Born

• 1825 at Wentworth, Cambridgeshire, England.

Baptised

• 29th June 1825 at St. Peter's Church, Wentworth, Cambridgeshire, England.

Married

• Mary Ann Moden (1833-1903) on 12th October 1852 at St. Peter's Church, Wentworth, Cambridgeshire, England.

Children

• Elizabeth Boulter (1854-1903) married John Freeman Dewey (1856-1943)
• Mary Jane Boulter (1855-1945) married William Andrews (1859-?)
• Emily Boulter (1857)
• Robert Boulter (1859-1943) married Emily Amelia Clements (1856-1939)
• William Boulter (1861-1949) married Frances Sophia Powers (1857-1949)
• Thomas Boulter (1863-1928)
• Emily Boulter (1866-1959) married Fred Dewey (1873-1932)
• Ann Boulter (1869-1939) married James McKenham (18??-?)
• Sarah Boulter (1871-?) married John Parson Whetstone (1870-?)
• Martha Boulter (1875)

Census and Residence

• 1841: 15yrs, Mount Pleasant, Wentworth, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1851: 24yrs, Grunty Fen Lane, Wentworth, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1861: 34yrs, Grunty Fen Lane, Main Street, Wentworth, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1871: 44yrs, Wentworth, Cambridgeshire, England.

Employment

• 1841-1871: Agricultural Labourer

Death

• May 1875 in Wentworth, Cambridgeshire, England, aged 49 years.

Burial

• 1st June 1875 at St. Peter's Church, Wentworth, Cambridgeshire, England.