2.4.3.5.2 John Aubery Jegon Vevers

[Last amended: May 10, 2003]

John Aubery Jegon Vevers was the second child of Emily Hobbs and John Edwards Vevers. He was born in 1875 at Yarkhill, Herfordshire, where he was baptised on Noveember 8, 1875.

John was recorded in the 1881 census as a 4 year old in his parents household.

John died in a mining accident in South Africa according to a ltter from his aunt, Mary Smith, to his uncle, Joseph Hobbs, dated February 1897:

“I must not forget to tell you of the sad death of poor Emily’s eldest son. He went out to Africa last year as he could not settle down at home, and was getting on very well engineering at the Gold Mines at Johannesberg but he got entangled in the machinery and killed instantly.”