William Rufus Lincoln

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William was born in 1837 in Saxlingham, Norfolk.¹   William's father was William Lincoln and his mother was Hephzibah Elizabeth Everrett.  His paternal grandparents were James Lincoln and Mary Plummer; his maternal grandparents were Anthony Everrett and Elizabeth. He had six brothers and five sisters, named Edgar, William, William, Clement, Ebenezer, Ezra, Isabel, Eliza, Agnes, Elizabeth and Kerenhappuch.  He was the sixth oldest of the twelve children.  He died at the age of 54 in 1891 in Easington, Co Durham.²