William Addison

   Cause of his death was Natural Decay.⁵³⁷

  General Notes:

William, a surgeon of Soham, where he practised laboriously for more than half a century, being held in great esteem by rich and poor. Beyong this, his life may be described as uneventful, though it is due to him to state that the Cromwell monument, forming so striking an object in Soham Churchyard, and displaying the descent of the Addisons from henry, the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, downwards, is the expression of his hereditary homage. It has been said that the career of his great progenitor was not often made by Mr. Addison the prominent subject of remark, yet the write of this book well remembers the flashing up of the old fire at an interview held with him many years back, when the old gentleman modestly hinted that the Protector's facial lineaments were not yet obliterated in his descendants. Many will say that his son Thomas, the Ely solicitor, illustrates the fond belief even more than the father did. Mr. Addison died in 1868, having married Anne, daughter of Thomas Fox, of the Newlands, in Curdworth, co. Warick, farmer. ²⁷³

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: surgeon, 1838 Nov 15, Soham, Cambridge, England. ⁴⁸²

• Occupation: Surgeon, 1841, Soham, Cambridge, England. ²⁷⁴

• Residence: Sand Street, 1841, Soham, Cambridge, England. ²⁷⁴

• Occupation: surgeon general practitioner, 1851, Soham, Cambridge, England. ²⁷⁵

• Residence: Sand Street, 1851, Soham, Cambridge, England. ²⁷⁵ Also present in the home at the time of the 1851 cesus was Henry Newman, business partner and surgeon (born abt 1820, Hersey, Suffolk) and Ann Bonde (born abt 1833, Soham, Cambridgeshire)

• Occupation: surgeon, 1859 Jul 20. ⁴⁷⁶

• Residence: Sand Street, 1861, Soham, Cambridge, England. ²⁷⁶ At the time of the 1861 census, there was one servant living with the family, Mary Baker, age 19.

• Occupation: general medical practitioner since 1813, 1861, Soham, Cambridge, England. ⁵³⁶

• Residence: Sand Street, 1868 Nov 12, Soham, Cambridge, England. ⁵³⁷

• Occupation: surgeon, 1868 Nov 12, Soham, Cambridge, England. ⁵³⁷

William married Anne Fox, daughter of Thomas Fox and Mary. (Anne Fox was born ca 1798 in Curdworth, Warwickshire, England ^274,275,276 and was christened on 1798 Nov 26 in Curdworth, Warwickshire, England ⁵³⁸.)