John Levitt
(1838-1925)

John Levitt was the sixth of the nine known children of John Levitt and his wife Elizabeth Skeel of Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.

John worked the land around his native Swaffham Bulbeck, and appears on several censuses as an agricultural labourer and a general labourer, and seems to work the land until he retired in his old age.

When John was about 24 years old, he married Sophia Howard and the couple swiftly began their family, with the baptism of their first child just three months after their marriage in 1863.

The couple eventually became parents 12 times over the space of 23 years.

John was pre-deceased by his beloved Sophia in 1914, and he followed her to the grave eleven years later, aged 87.

Life Events

Born

• 1838 in Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.

Baptised

• 18th February 1838 at St. Mary's Church, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.

Married

• Sophia Howard (1842-1914) on 20th February 1863 at St. Mary's Church, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.

Children

• John H Levitt (1863-1906)
• Amelia Levitt (1864-?)
• Reuben Levitt (1866-?) married Susan Heffer (1871-?)
• George Levitt (1868-1949) married Ann Scott (1867-1912)
• Ruth Levitt (1870-?) married Arthur Pryor (1876-?)
• Frederick Levitt (1873-?)
• Asher Levitt (1874-1964) married Florence Delphye Newman (1887-1931)
• Matilda Levitt (1876-?)
• Eliza Levitt (1878-?)
• Albert Levitt (1880-?)
• Sidney Levitt (1883-?)
• Arthur Levitt (1886-?) married Harriet Chapman (1883-?)

Census and Residence

• 1841: 3yrs, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1851: 13yrs, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1861: Not yet located.
• 1871: 33yrs, The Royal Oak, Bowyer's End, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1881: 48yrs, High Street, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1891: 53yrs, High Street, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1901: 63yrs, Commercial End, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1911: 73yrs, Commercial End, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.

Employment

• 1871-1891: Agricultural Labourer
• 1901: General Labourer
• 1911: Labourer

Death

• 20th December 1925 in Swaffham BulbeckCambridgeshire, England, aged 87 years.

Burial

• 24th December 1925 with his wife Sophia in Grave H65, at Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.