Birth GRO 2nd qtr 1866
STEEL, James Cuckfield 2b 136
Death GRO 3rd qtr 1919
STEEL, James 53 Brighton 2b 219
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James Steel (born 1866, Burgess Hill, Sussex) began his working life as a "hack driver". [The term "hack" refers to the "Hackney Carriage", a hired, horse drawn cab, employed in much the same way as a taxi-cab is used today]. After his marriage to Susan Brownings in 1886, James Steel found employment with a local railway company. In 1901, James Steel was working as a "Railway Porter", but when the census was taken a decade later on 2nd April 1911 , he gave his occupation as "Railway Station Foreman". By this date, James Steel was a forty-four year old widower, his wife Susan having died earlier in the year at the age of 44. James Steel died in Brighton in 1919, aged 53.
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1891 Census
Piece: RG12/776 Place: Hailsham -Sussex Enumeration District: 3
Civil Parish: Hailsham Ecclesiastical Parish: Hailsham
Folio: 43 Page: 41 Schedule: 275
Address: Terminus Road
Surname, Forename Rel Status Sex Age Occupation Where Born
STEEL, James Head M M 24 Railway Porter Sussex - Burgess Hill
STEEL, Susan Wife M F 23 Sussex - Burgess Hill
STEEL, Edith E Dau S F 3 Sussex - Horsham
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