John ARIS

Father: Samuel ARIS
Mother: Charlotte HAMILTON

Family 1: Jane McCARTHY John and Jane were married in the Parish Church of St. Munchin's in the city of Limerick. The marriage was by license rather than the reading of banns. The ceremony was performed by Frederick Charles Hamilton, the vicar of St. John's Parish. Witness were E. Leitch and William Byrons.

St. Munchin's is a Parish Church of the United Church of England and Ireland - meaning it is part of the established Protestant Anglican church - the offical church of England. The American sect of this church are known as Episcopalians.

  1. Albert Ernest ARIS 
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Notes

On the 1861 census, John is still living with his parents as an unmarried 18 year old in Aston near Birmingham, Warwickshire. He is listed as a pupil teacher for his occupation. We believe this means that he was a tutor.
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John Aris' Entry Papers into the Inland Revenue Service (PRO reference number CUST 116/42) provide the following information about John. He was appointed to the situation of Second Class Assistant of Excise in the Dpartment of Inland Revenue on May 28, 1864. He passed examinations in Writing, Orthography (meaning spelling), and Arithmetic, including the first four rules of Vulgar & Decimal Fractions. He was certified free from any physical defect or disease which would be likely to interfere with the proper discharge of his duties and his character was such as to qualify him for public employment. He had qualified for surveying maltsers, distillers, brewers, tobacco manufacturers, spirit retailers, and tobacco dealers. He can "cast gauges both by pen and rule". He surveyed for six weeks in Glasgow, Scotland as part of his training. He prepared survey books during his training and prepared vouchers and abstractrs fromt those books.
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At the time of their marriage on February 24, 1870, John & Jane began living as a married couple at 9 Treaty Terrace in the City of Limerick, Ireland. John is of full age, a bachelor, and works as a revenue clerk. Jane is age 17 and a spinster. John Aris is the third generation of his family to be a tax collector. His father Samuel Aris was, at the time of John's marriage, a Supervisor of the Inland Revenue Service and before that an Excise officer. John's maternal grandfather, Robert Hamilton, was also an Excise officer.
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At the birth of John & Jane Aris' eldest child, Charlotte Elizabeth Aris, on August 23, 1871, the family was living at Treaty Terrace, Thomondgate, City of Limerick, County of Limerick, Ireland. John Aris was working for Her Majesty's Inland Revenue Service when the family was in Ireland. Also living at Treaty Terrace was Elizabeth McCarthy. We don't know if Elizabeth McCarthy was living in the same house or on the same street as the Aris family. However, Elizabeth McCarthy was the person present at the birth of Charlotte who registered her birth. She could be either the mother of Jane McCarthy Aris (who was about 19 when she gave birth to Charlotte) or she could be Jane's sister.
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On the 1881 British Census, John Aris and his family are living at 3 Lakenham Terrace off of City Road in Lakenham, Norwich, Norfolk, England. Lakenham is a suburb on the south side of Norwich. He is 38 years old and is Chief Clerk-Inland Revenue (Excise). Inland Revenue is Britain's Internal Revenue Service. John was born in Scotland. He was born in Leith, Scotland. Leith is a small town outside Edinburgh. He and his wife have 3 sons and 1 daughter. John's sister Flora is also in the household. They have a 17 year old domestic servant named Laura Trowse living with them.
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From the birth of his son Archie on January 18, 1884 to the birth of his daughter Margaret on August 17, 1899, John Aris is said to be living at 64 Clarendon Road. It is possible that Clarendon Road is off Unthanks Road since one address given in the St. Peter Mancroft parish baptism registrations also lists Unthanks Road along with Clarendon Road. The address is also given as being in South Heigham. To clarify, St. Peter Mancroft is the ecclesiastical parish while Heigham is the civil parish. On these registrations, John's occupation is variously given as Clerk of Inland Revenue Office (1/18/84), Revenue Accountant (11/23/88), Supervisor of Inland Revenue (9/17/91), Clerk in the Norwich Inland Revenue office (6/4/95), and principle clerk of Inland Revenue (8/17/99). It is not clear if these titles all refer to the same position or if these titles actually indicate career trajectory.
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Her Majesty's Customs & Excise Museum in Liverpool, England, provided the following information on John Aris in a letter to Mark Howells dated June 13, 1996:

The Museum provided a photocopy from Ham's Customs & Excise Yearbook for 1891. Ham's Yearbook was published annually from 1876 to 1930 and included a list of names of Inland Revenue officers. In the 1891 Yearbook, J. Aris is shown has having entered the service in 1864. He is a clerical supervisor in Norwich.
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On April 11, 1891, John Aris and his family are living at 64 Claredon Road, Heigham, Norwich, England according to the 1891 British Census. John is 48 years old and a Supervisor at Inland Revenue (Excise). He and his wife have 2 daughters and 5 sons living with them. John's sister Flora is also in the household. They have a 24 year old domestic servant named Emma Gosling living in the household. A family next door is also named Gosling and this servant may be their daughter.
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John Aris received a pension from the Inland Revenue of £208 on February 25, 1904 according to the Excise pension records (PRO reference number CUST 39/157). He drew this pension from the Norwich station of the Inland Revenue Service.

The H.M. Customs & Excise Deparmental Archivist in London provided additional proof of John Aris' retirement in 1904. The Archivist sent Mark Howells a photocopy from the above mentioned Ham's Excise Year Book from 1904 which included J. Aris on a Superannuated (retired) List. It shows him as having formerly been the Principle Clerk at Norwich.

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