George Downer (1808-1864) and Mary Ann Stallard (1817-????). My 3rd great-grand uncle and aunt. George was baptised on 28 February 1808 at St John’s in Winchester, the son of Charles Downer and Ann Brent. He grew up in the city and then went on to have a successful career in the Royal Marines. Details of […]
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Mary Ann Downer and my other Downer ancestors
Mary Ann Downer (1803-1891). My 3rd great-grandmother. Mary Ann Downer was the first of the Downer’s in my Finch family tree, marrying my 3rd great-grandfather William Ward. The Wards lived in Middlesex – present-day London – but my Downer family came from Hampshire. The surname is common in Sussex, the Isle of Wight and Hampshire, […]
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Philip Comber (c1606-1680) – merchant tailor of London
Philip Comber (c1606-1680), Elizabeth (????-1654) and Dorothy Hounsell (????-1714). My 9th great-grand uncle and aunts. Philip Comber was probably born in West Hoathly, Sussex, but baptism records for the parish survive only from 1606 so his birth year remains a guesstimate. His parents were Thomas Rivers Comber and Ann Burstow and he received £10 from […]
William Medway Ward (1828-1898)
William Medway Ward (1828-1898). My 2nd great-grand uncle. William was born on 14 July 1828 and baptised on 14 September at All Hallows Church in Tottenham, Middlesex, to parents William Ward and Mary Ann Downer. He married Maria Earnshaw on 25 November 1850 at St John’s Church in Hackney. She’d been born on 1 March […]
Edward Green (1824-1876)
Edward Green (1824-1876) and Mary Ann Gedge (1817-1858). My 3rd great-grand uncle. Edward was born in 1824 to parents William Green and Willoughby Staff and baptised at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 29 October that year. He grew up with his parents and siblings in the town and then married on 25 October […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Robert Wetherall (1829-1905) – Marylebone bricklayer
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
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. After growing up in Admiralty Road, Great Yarmouth, Gertrude went to stay with her sister Emmeline and her family […]
Phoebe Ann Ward (1836-1921)
Phoebe Ann Ward (1836-1921). My 2nd great-grandmother. Phoebe Ann Ward was born in Tottenham, Middlesex, on 28 November 1836 and was baptised there on 26 February 1837 at All Hallows Church. Her parents were gardener William Ward and Mary Ann Downer. As a teenager, Phoebe worked as a domestic servant. The 1851 census shows her living at […]
Tanjore Abraham Ward (1832-1920) – businessman and publican
Tanjore Abraham Ward (1832-1920) and Amelia Lambourn (1834-1895). My 2nd great-grand uncle and aunt. Tanjore was born on 12 August 1832 and baptised at All Hallows in Tottenham, Middlesex, on 27 July 1834. Of all William Ward and Mary Ann Downer‘s children, Tanjore is the most curious. His name comes from a city, also known […]
Charles Thomas Ward (1829-1887) – a Tottenham publican
Charles Thomas Ward. My 2nd great-grand uncle. Born in Tottenham Hale, Middlesex, on 2 December 1829 to parents William Ward and Mary Ann Downer, Charles was baptised on Christmas Day at All Hallows Church in Tottenham. He was still living at home with his parents – 4 Cottage Place, Tottenham Hale – at the time […]
Arthur Albert Stolliday (1875-1935) and Elizabeth Mary Ann Wetherall (1876-1952)
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 […]