William Robert Green (1847-1882) and Ellen Lodge (1848-????).My 2nd great-grand uncle and aunt. William was baptised on 18 July 1847 at St Nicholas’s Church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. His parents were William Mark Green and Elizabeth Maria Symonds. He lived as a child in Birmingham and Camberwell in Surrey with his parents and siblings before returning […]
19th century
Frederick Elijah Wetherall (1814-1906) and his family tragedies
Frederick Elijah Wetherall (1814-1906) and Lucy Sarah Lloyd (1815-1869). My 4th great-grand uncle and aunt. Frederick was born on 30 July 1814 and baptised at St John Timberhill, Norwich, Norfolk, a day later – his parents were Thomas Wetherill and Rebecca Brooks. He grew up in the city with his family but followed them when […]
Rebecca Wetherall (1845-1878) – a short life in Lancashire
Rebecca Wetherall (1845-1878) and James Peers (1847-1880). My 2nd great-grand aunt. Rebecca was born to Mary Wetherall on 29 January 1845 at the Great Yarmouth Workhouse but the birth certificate was blank where the father’s name should be, meaning she was illegitimate. The informant for the record was James Kemp, master of the workhouse. But […]
Maud Jane Wetherall (1881-1958) and a golden wedding
Maud Jane Wetherall (1881-1958) and Augustus Charles Towell (1882-1962). My great-grand aunt and uncle. Maud was born on 15 June 1881 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, and baptised in the town’s St Nicholas’s Church on 29 November that year. She grew up with her parents Benjamin Thomas Wetherall and Sarah Ann Elizabeth Green and siblings in Admiralty Road. […]
Maria Finch (1829–1868), a life cut short
Maria Finch (1829–1868) and Edward Duffell (1826-1895).My 2nd great-grand aunt and uncle. Maria Finch (or Mary as she was sometimes recorded) was baptised on 18 January 1829 at St Mary’s Church in Reigate, Surrey, the daughter of Henry Finch and Jane Bashford. She grew up in the town with her parents and siblings and was working […]
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 […]
Henry Stoliday (1841-????) – emigrated to Australia
Henry Stoliday / Stolliday (1841-????). My 2nd great grand-uncle. Henry was born in 1841 and baptised on 5 December that year at All Saints Church in Salhouse, Norfolk, to parents William Stoliday and Sarah Rose. He grew up in the village with his family but as a boy got into trouble with the law. A report […]
Sarah Rose and my other Rose ancestors
Sarah Rose (1817-1886).My 3rd great-grandmother. Rose is a common surname in Norfolk, which is where my branch of the family come from. The first of the Roses to join the family tree was Sarah, who married William Stoliday/Stolliday in 1835. Sarah was born in 1817 to farmer Robert Rose and his wife Hannah Holsworth (see […]
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 […]
Mary Pilgrim and my other Pilgrim ancestors
Mary Pilgrim (1811-1867).My 3rd great-grandmother. My Pilgrim ancestors came from Norfolk in East Anglia and joined my family tree when Mary Pilgrim married James Goulty in 1842. Mary was born illegitimately to mother Elizabeth Pilgrim on 7 January 1811 at Morley St Peter in Norfolk and was baptised there on 13 January. From a court […]
Jane Bashford and my other Bashford ancestors
Jane Bashford (1806-1885).My 3rd great-grandmother. The first Bashford to marry into my Finch family was Jane Bashford, who was born on 13 May 1806 in the village of Chipstead, Surrey. She was baptised at St Margaret’s Church on 15 June that year. Her parents were James Bashford and James Harman (see below). She married Henry […]
William Butchin’s newsworthy descendants
William Butchin was born in 1603 and baptised on 20 November that year at St Peter & St Paul’s Church in Nutfield, Surrey. I know little about by first cousin 11 times removed – the oldest son of another William Butching – but his wife and descendants were an interesting bunch… William’s father inherited the […]
Harriet Wetherall (1801-1859), who married a leading artist
Harriet Wetherill (1801-1859) and Thomas Lound (1801-1861). My 5th great-grand aunt and uncle. Harriet was born on 11 June 1801 and baptised on the 16th at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth. Her parents were James Wetherill and Mary Proctor. She grew up in the coastal town without knowing her father, who’d died just weeks […]
Sarah Green (1804-54), a policeman’s wife
Sarah Green (1804-54) and John Gilbert (1804-1874). My 4th great-grand aunt and uncle. Sarah Green was born on 28 July 1804 and baptised two days later at St Nicholas’s Church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Her parents were Edward Green and Mary Bustard. She grew up in the coastal town, where her father worked as a beachman, […]
Susanna Green (1844-1920) – a marathon journey to Utah
Susanna Green (1844-1920) and Henry Gillins (1840-1919). My 3rd great-grand aunt and uncle. Susanna Green was born on 10 May 1844 and baptised at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 9 June. Her parents were William Green and Willoughby Staff. She spent her childhood in the town but after the death of her […]
Sarah Ann Green (1829-1902) – a troubled marriage
Sarah Ann Green (1829-1902) and Jonathan Jary (1831-1890).My 3rd great-grand aunt and uncle. Sarah was baptised on 5 June 1829 at St Nicholas’s Church, Great Yarmouth, and grew up with her siblings and parents William Green and Willoughby Staff in the town. The 1851 census recorded her living with relative and mariner’s wife Elizabeth Saunders and […]
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 at St Fabian & St Sebastian Church in Woodbastwick, Norfolk. His parents were Charles Goulty and Rebecca Lock. He grew up in the village and married Mary Mortar at […]
Willoughby Staff (1803-1886) – a journey to the USA as a Mormon
Willoughby Staff (1803-1886) and William Green (1799-????). My 4th great-grandmother and grandfather. Willoughby Staff may have been born in rural Norfolk but she ended up as a member of the Mormon church in the American state of Utah… Her birth, though, is a bit of a mystery. Census records suggest it was Hickling, a village to […]
Mary Ann Green (1853-1918), widowed by a storm
Mary Ann Green (1853-1918), Frederick Rowland (1854-1881) and Daniel Robert Beales 1852-1909). My 2nd great-grand aunt and uncles. Mary Ann Green was born on 13 January and baptised on 17 April 1853 at St Nicholas’s Church, Great Yarmouth, to parents William Mark Green and Elizabeth Maria Symonds. Her first husband would drown in a notorious […]
Emmeline Louisa Wetherall (1872-1932) – widowed by a mill accident
Emmeline Louisa Wetherall (1872-1932) and Albert Robert Woods (1872-1917). My great-grand aunt and uncle. Emmeline was born on 2 June 1872 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, and baptised in the town on 14 July at St Nicholas’ Church. Her parents were Benjamin Thomas Wetherall and Sarah Ann Elizabeth Green. Emmeline (pictured top with her children Leslie […]