Happy 170th Birthday - Leah DOMAN - 4th gr-gran of my children

Leah Doman was born 170 years ago on July 24, 1840. She was baptized two days later in Hill Deverill, Wiltshire. Her parents were Benjamin DOMAN and Elizabeth HAYTER.

1841 census
Leah, age 10 months, living with her father Benjamin Doman (agricultural labourer), mother Elizabeth, older siblings Thomas, Emily, and Elizabeth

1851 census
Leah, age 11, mother Elizabeth died in 1848, father Benjamin
1861 living Hill Deverill, father has recently, remarried to Hannah Brown, Leah is the only child at home, working as a Silk Winder.Old Occupations defines a silk winder's task: Wound the silk from the silkworm cocoons onto bobbins

Wormspit has photos illustrating the modern version of Silk Winding

 Leah married Job Cox April 23, 1862. They emigrated to Ontario, Canada soon afterwards. The couple fhad the following children: Frank, Lucy, George, Mary Jane, and Elizabeth, and a son William who died as an infant, at 6 days old, of "convulsions".

Leah died 23 May 1933 at the age of 92. She was living at 929 Princess Avenue in London, Ontario. She is buried in Mount Pleasant cemetery.

New information discovered today:
Leah and Job's eldest son Frank married June 18, 1889 to Alice James. His marriage certificate lists his place of birth as England. I had him born in Ontario.