No FreeBMD records: my guess is that he lived, married and died in India.
His birth index:
First name(s) JOHN LITTLETON
Last name SYMONS
Birth year 1848
Birth quarter 4
District St. Germans
County Cornwall
Country England
Volume 9
Page 109
Record set England & Wales Births 1837-2006
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His death index:
First name(s) JOHN L
Last name SYMONS
Gender Male
Birth year 1849
Age 68
Death quarter 1
Death year 1917
District Marylebone
County London
Volume 1A
Page 867
Country England
Record set England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007
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His burial:
First name(s) JOHN LITTLETON
Last name SYMONS
Age 68
Birth year 1849
Death year 1917
Death date 19 Jan 1917
Place BOTUS FLEMING
Burial ground Parish Church
County Cornwall
Country England
Card or location number Card
Reference 146
Record set Cornwall Memorial Inscriptions
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Only one Edith Maud marriage, but the husbands and place are wrong:
Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Marriages Mar 1892 (>99%)
Bird Frederick Ernest Stourbridge 6c 171
HILL Edith Maud Stourbridge 6c 171
Millward Ann Maria Stourbridge 6c 171
Woolridge Alfred Stourbridge 6c 171
Might the marriage have been in India?
Yes. See
www.search.Fibis.org which gives:
Presidency of Marriage Bombay
Marriage Year 1892
Husband First Names J L
Husband Surname Symons
Wife First Names Edith M
Wife Surname Hill
IOR Reference Z/N/3
Volume Number 67
Folio 104
LDS Film Reference 523868
Transcribed by Sylvia Murphy
Later, the fuller record with image was found on FindMyPast:
First name(s) John Littleton
Last name Symons
Marriage year 1892
Marriage date 13 Feb 1892
Spouse's first name Edith Maud
Spouse's last name Hill
Presidency Bombay
Groom's age 43
Bride's age 28
Groom's father's first name William
Groom's father's last name Symons
Bride's father's first name Edward Nicholas
Bride's father's last name Hill
Catalogue description Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bombay, 1709-1948, :
Archive reference N-3-67
Folio number 104
Record set British India Office Marriages
Her brother Chaude H Hill was a witness with a Hugh L Symons.
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