Sarah Rice and my other Rice ancestors

Sarah Rice (1791-1871). My 4th great-grandmother. Sarah was the first of the Rice family to join my family tree. She was baptised on 3 July 1791 at St Mary’s Church in Balcombe, Sussex, to parents George Rice and Mary Harman. She married William Budgen at St Nicholas’s Church in Worth, Sussex, on 2 November 1808. […]

Florence Harriet Stolliday (1879-1973) – married a soldier

Florence Harriet Stolliday (1879-1973) and Hugh Gardiner Dalgleish (1867-1945).My great-grand aunt and uncle.  Born on 4 April 1879 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, to parents Edward Stoliday and Harriet Goulty, Florence was baptised on 7 September of that year in the parish church of St Nicholas. She grew up in the town with her family but […]

Elizabeth Maria Symonds and my other Symonds ancestors

Elizabeth Maria Symonds (1826-1911).My 3rd great-grandmother. Elizabeth Maria Symonds was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, in 1826 and baptised in St Nicholas’s Church on 24 November that year. Her parents were fisherman Charles Robinson Witchingham Symonds and Susanna Waters (see below). Elizabeth married mariner William Mark Green, a Yarmouth native, at St Nicholas’s on 29 […]

Henry Goulty (1804-1876) – American farmer

Henry Goulty (1804-1876) and Mary Mortar (1804-1866). My 3rd great-grand uncle and aunt. Henry Goulty was born on the 22 May 1804 and baptised on the 27th in Woodbastwick parish church, Norfolk. His parents were Charles Goulty and Rebecca Lock. He grew up in the village and married Mary Mortar at St James with Pockthorpe Church […]

Robert Wetherall (1829-1905) – Marylebone bricklayer

Robert Weatherall

Robert Wetherall (1829-1905) and Charlotte Watering (1829-1917).My 3rd great-grand uncle and aunt. Like several of his siblings, Robert’s actual birth and baptism dates are a bit of a mystery and it may be that he wasn’t baptised at all. Certainly, I’ve found no records recording it. Earlier census returns suggest he was born in Great […]

Gertrude Wetherall (1877-1964) – war service and tragedy

St Nicholas Church, Great Yarmouth

Gertrude Wetherall (1878-1964) and George Albert Harvey (1882-1937). My 2nd great-aunt and uncle. Gertrude Wetherall was born on 5 December 1878 and baptised on 23 December that year at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (above). Her husband, who fought in The Great War, killed himself on the railways. After growing up in Admiralty […]

Alice Amelia Stolliday (1877-1929)

Alice Amelia Stolliday (1877-1929).My 2nd great-aunt. Alice died relatively young, leaving her husband so distraught that he took his own life. She was born on 5 August 1877 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, and baptised on 12 May 1878 at St Nicholas’s Church to parents Edward Stoliday and Harriet Goulty. She grew up in the town, […]

Gertrude Emma Stolliday (1881-1964) – widowed by war

Gertrude Emma Stolliday (1881-1964) and Jonathan George Skipper (1879-1916). My great-grand aunt and uncle. Gertrude was born in Great Yarmouth on 2 January 1881 to parents Edward Stoliday and Harriet Goulty and baptised on 26 June of that year at St Nicholas’s Church. The census for 1881 showed the family living in the town’s row […]

Arthur Albert Stolliday (1875-1935) and Elizabeth Mary Ann Wetherall (1876-1952)

Arthur Albert Stolliday with wife Elizabeth and son-in-law Gerald Finch

Arthur Albert Stolliday (1875-1935) and Elizabeth Mary Ann Wetherall (1876-1952). My great-grandparents.  Arthur Stolliday was a colourful character and a Norfolk lad – born on 12 May 1875 in Row 123, Great Yarmouth, to Edward Stoliday and Harriet Goulty. He served in the First World War, worked behind the bar in various pubs, got into […]

Edward Thomas Budgen (1868-1925) – he took his family to Australia

The Kingstonian - the ship Edward sailed on to Gallipoli

Edward Thomas Budgen (1868-1925) and Alice Jane Hacker (1868-1943). My great-grand uncle and aunt. Edward Budgen was born in the Sussex parish of Worth on 28 April 1868, and was baptised by his parents Thomas Budgen and Maria Dolamore on 7 June that year. He went to live in Australia, served in the Great War […]

James Finch (1831-1900) and his adventurous son Jacob

HMS Malabar

James Finch (1831-1900) and Mary Wicks (1831-1881). My 2nd great grand-uncle and aunt. James Finch was baptised on 13 November 1831 at St Mary’s Church in Reigate, Surrey, one of the sons of Henry Finch and Jane Bashford. After growing up in the town with his siblings, he following his father in working as an […]

Mary Ann Finch (1867-1954) and her ill-fated soldier son

Mary and family in the 1911 census

Mary Ann Finch (1867-1954).My 2nd great aunt. Born to Isaac Finch and Phoebe Ann Ward in 1867 in Reigate, Mary Ann Finch was baptised at St Matthew’s Church in Redhill, Surrey, on 19 January 1868. She grew up in the area with her family and in 1881 was living at home but working as a domestic […]

Jacob Finch (1866-1935) – death in a sandpit

Jacob's burial record

Jacob Finch (1866-1935), Mary Ann Dodd (1870-1901) and Annie Elizabeth Lacey (1872-1955). My great-grand uncle and aunts. Jacob Finch was born in 1866 in Reigate, Surrey, the son of Isaac Finch and Phoebe Ann Ward, and was baptised on 19 August that year at St Matthew’s Church in Redhill. The 1881 census reported him working […]