John & Jane Rebecca Edmunds

John Edmunds was born in 1813 and died in 1895, Jane Rebecca (nee Marshall) was born in 1825 and died in 1908.

Who were John & Jane Rebecca?

John & Jane were my Great Great Grand Parents (via my father Robert Percy Edmunds and his grandmother Harriet Ann Edmunds).
John was born in Boscombe, Wiltshire to John and Miriam Edmunds. 
Jane was born in Chilhampton, Wiltshire.
They married in 1847. The marriage was registered in Amesbury but does not appear in the Boscombe parish records

What work did they do?

John was an agricultural labourer throughout his life.

What children did John & Jane Rebecca have?

Mary Jane Edmunds
Born 1849 Boscombe, Wiltshire

Harriet Ann Edmunds 
Born 1853 Boscombe, Wiltshire

Harriet was my Great Grandmother (via my father Robert Percy Edmunds and his father Herbert William Edmunds).

Arthur Edmunds 
Born 1857 Boscombe, Wiltshire

William John Edmunds 
Born 1863 Boscombe, Wiltshire

Edward Ernest Edmunds
Born 1871 Boscombe, Wiltshire

Where did John & Jane Rebecca live?

In 1841 John, then aged 27, is recorded as living in Boscombe with George Saunders (aged 61) and Richard Yeats (aged 19)
In 1851 John and Jane lived at Edmunds Cottage, Boscombe with Mary Jane and John's mother Miriam, then aged 74. Also visiting on the occasion of the census were two children Thomas and Louisa Harris; Thomas is aged 12 (born in Pitton), and Louisa 5 (born in Winterbourne).
In 1871 they were still living in Boscombe, along with their children Arthur and William John
In 1881 they are still living in Boscombe, along with their children Arthur, William and Edward
In 1891, John and Jane continue to reside in Boscombe, along with their children William and Edward
In 1901 Jane is listed as a widow, aged 76, living in Boscombe with her son Ernest (aged 29, single and a farm labourer).

What else do we know about John and Jane?

John was aged 81 when he died. He was buried in Boscombe on July 9th 1895
Jane was buried in Boscombe on 8th December 1908. She was 84 years when she died.