meadows frost + alice gibbons
Meadows was baptised in Hunston, Suffolk on 23 December 1707 and was the only surviving son of Edmund Frost and Rebecca Meadows.
He married Alice Gibbons in Norwich on 11 April 1744 and they had one son also named Meadows. Neither his birth nor baptismal record has been located although later records indicate a birth date between 1752 and 1758.
No other details on the family, their lives or occupations have been found and they do not appear in the records again until their deaths. Alice Gibbons died in Great Yarmouth on 26 December 1765 and was buried in the church yard at St Nicholas. Meadows died in Great Yarmouth on 2 Nov 1782 and one week later, he was buried next to his wife at St Nicholas.
The Perlustration of Great Yarmouth (1874) by Charles John Palmer also contains details on the Frost family and their connections with the Norfolk town:
Meadows Frost of Great Yarmouth, who died in 1782, was the only son of Edmund Frost of Hunston Hall, Suffolk who died in 1742, aged 64, by Rebecca his wife, daughter of the Rev. John Meadows.
Their son married Mary Ann Wood in Great Yarmouth on 10 February 1773 but they did not have any children and in 1780, Mary Ann died. One year after his father’s death, Meadwows married a second time to Anne Willis and they had four children.
