36. James Frost

James Frost was the father of John Frost and the husband of Catharine Frost, nee Williams.

I have the marriage certificate for a James Frost and Catherine Williams who were married on 6 August 1838 at the church of St James Westminster. He was 'of full age' and a soldier by profession, living at St John's Wood [where there was a barracks]. His father was Wiliam Frost, farmer. She was living at 3 Queens Street, Golden Square. Her father was William Williams, shoemaker. I'm not sure this is the right couple. But it's the only one with those names to have been married between the start of central registration of marriages in 1837, and 1843. And it's just plausible that after serving as a soldier James Frost returned to his home village as a police constable.

We get the first definite sighting of James Frost when his son John was born in 1843 [difficult to read the exact date] at Dunmow in the County of Essex. His birth certificate gives his father as James Frost, a police constable living in Great Dunmow (according to a contemporary gazetteer, "The POLICE STATION is a neat and substantial building, erected in 1842, by the County Magistrates, at the cost of £1200; and has a court room, in which Petty Sessions, are held for Dunmow Hundred, on the first Monday of every month".

James Frost was one of the witnesses of his son's marriage in 1865. His occupation is given as iron founder.

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