Other Events:

• Occupation: Joiner, soldier
• Baptism: 30 Mar 1811, Middlewich

Notes:

Service record, obtained by Walter Jakeman, husband of a descendant, shows that John enlisted into the 80th Regiment of Foot at Congleton on Nov 25 1833, aged 22 years 6 months. He was absent without leave briefly in 1834, and deserted in August 1835. He was court-matialled and imprisoned for three months after rejoining in 1842, but gained credit for subsequent campaigns in India, where he won a medal in 1846, and in Burma. He was discharged after being declared medically unfit in 1854.

John married Elizabeth Taylor about 1838. Elizabeth (daughter of William Taylor and Hannah Done) was born in 1815 in Middlewich; died about Oct 1882 in Northwich. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Not known if John and Elizabeth formally married, though there is a possible record on 14.3.1836 in Cheadle (Cheshire Bishop's Transcripts, Ancestry). This is some distance from their known residences, but would have been seven months after John deserted the Army and he may have deliberately chosen an unlikely location There is no evidence of another John or Elizabeth Hough around Cheadle in the 1841 census.

1. John Hough was born on 5 Nov 1838 in Congleton; died about Aug 1904 in Northwich.
2. William Hough was born in 1840 in Wigan; died on 10 Dec 1923 in Winnington, Cheshire; was buried on 13 Dec 1923 in Barnton.
3. Joseph Hough was born on 16 Aug 1842 in Leftwich Workhouse.

James married Ann. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Probably Ann Anderson, m 15.11.1809 Over, Cheshire (IGI).