Reverend Benjamin Buckler Gifford Ludford-Astley ^{13,49,59,60,68,239}

  General Notes:

Educated at St. Alban Hall, Oxford, matriculated 23 November 1837; BA, 1841; MA, 1851. Rector of Cadeby, Leicestershire, 1872 and of Pitney Yeovil 1857, Vicar of Merevale, Leicestershire 1857 - 1872. Curate of Everleigh in 1851. Seems to be married to Maria Catherine b c. 1846 in Bognor, Sussex in 1871 census.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. He appeared on the census in 1841 in The Rectory, Pewsey, Wiltshire.

2. Census UK 1861: 1861, The Parsonage, Merevale, Warwickshire.

3. Census UK 1871: 1871, The Parsonage, Merevale, Warwickshire.

4. Census UK 1891: 1891, Cadeby, Leicestershire.

5. Resided: 21 April 1897, Queen's Gate, West Cheltenaham, Gloucestershire. ¹³

6. He had an estate probated on 5 June 1897 in London. ¹³

Benjamin married Maria Catherine Dixie in 1863 in Market Bosworth, Leciestershire.²⁷ (Maria Catherine Dixie died on 16 January 1934 in Bredon, Worcestershire ¹³.)

Benjamin next married Susan Louisa Pleydell Bouverie, daughter of Reverend Frederick Pleydell Bouverie and Elizabeth Sullivan, on 29 January 1850 in Pewsey, Wiltshire. (Susan Louisa Pleydell Bouverie was born on 20 March 1832 in Wiltshire and died on 7 June 1854.)