Lived in South Molton all his life and was a baker and farmer – the 1871 census records him having 26 acres, but it does not say where.
1851 Census – head of family at 107 Barnstable Street,
1881 – he had moved to 2 Barnstable Street
1891 – he was retired and living at 1 Barnstable Street with his son William the Baker and farmer at Number 2