My 5xgreat grandparents Thomas Sporne and his wife Mary Beck had eight children, including my 4xgreat grandmother Margaret Sporne. They married in January 1796 in Burnham Westgate, Norfolk. Their youngest known child was William Sporne – named for an older brother who died in infancy some ten years earlier - baptised in Burnham, Norfolk, on 15 December 1816. The baptism record shows that his father was by then working as a Carrier – someone who had his own cart or carriage, and who would carry goods to other parts of the country on a fairly regular route, for a set fee or fees. He was just ten years old when his father died in 1827.
On the 1841 census (found at FindMyPast), it seems that he has carried on in his father’s and older brother John’s footsteps; his widowed mother Mary Beck is living with him at Burnham Sutton, where he is described as ‘Carrier and Conv.’ (someone who both carried and conveyed goods).
There is a burial record for a William Sporne at Burnham
Sutton on 26 May 1851, but the burial image shows that this was for an 85-year
old – a man of his parents or grandparents’ generation. I have not found any
likely records for him after the 1841 census so his later life remains a
mystery.
For the sources mentioned in bold, see blogpost: MyRoots: Lesly's family history: Sources and resources: A quick view
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