Author: Puckle, James William
Biography:
PUCKLE, James William (1786-1851: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 27 Aug. 1786 at St. Nicholas, Deptford, Kent, the son of Garland Puckle (1734-1803), a labourer, and his wife Mary Coller (1745-1807), who had married in the same church in 1769. Nothing is known of his education and for most of his life he worked as a clerk, accountant and auctioneer. He married Sarah Emma Maria Spencer on 30 May 1808 at St. Mary’s, Lambeth, south London. She died in 1819. There does not appear to have been issue. He married Eliza Thompson on 18 Aug. 1821, at St. Mary’s, Newington. They went on to have at least eight children. They moved to Bilston, Staffordshire, around 1824 and to West Bromwich around 1827 where he was in partnership as a timber-merchant until 1838 when he was declared bankrupt and returned to being an accountant. In 1849 he was recorded as living at 2 Waterloo Street, Birmingham. He was recorded as retired in the 1851 Census and died on 12 Sept. 1851 at The Hermitage, Aston Road, Birmingham, and was buried at Warstone Lane cemetery. His wife, Eliza Puckle, survived him and died in 1857. His only published work, Wild Blossoms (1817), was printed for him and sold at his house, 24 Brook Street, Lambeth. (ancestry.co.uk 7 Oct. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 7 Oct. 2022; Birmingham’s Aris’s Gazette 15 Sept. 1851; Birmingham Journal 6 June 1857; White’s Directory [Birmingham] [1849], 236) AA