Henry Finch (1801-1885).My 3rd great-grandfather. Henry Finch was born on 6 February 1801, the son of Thomas Finch and Ann Burley. And he was one of the first of my ancestors I ‘discovered’, while roaming the graveyard at St Mary’s Church in Reigate one sunny but wintry Sunday morning. Henry may have been buried in Reigate […]
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William Henry Finch (1874-1949)
William Henry Finch (1874-1949).My 2nd great-uncle. William Henry Finch was the son of Isaac Finch and Phoebe Ann Ward, born in 1874 in Reigate, Surrey. He was baptised on 12 July that year at St Mary’s parish church. He grew up in the town with his siblings and by the 1891 census was working as […]
Mary Ann Finch (1867-1954) and her ill-fated soldier son
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 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 […]
Jacob Finch (1837-?)
Jacob Finch – my 3rd great-uncle. Henry and Jane Finch‘s son Jacob was born on 29 June 1837, according to his Royal Navy records, and was a triplet with Abraham and Isaac. They were baptised on the same day – 20 August – at St Mary Magdelene Church in Reigate, Surrey, and the record says that […]
Abraham Finch (1837-?)
Abraham Finch – my 3rd great-uncle. Born in 1837, Abraham Finch was a triplet along with Isaac and Jacob, born to parents Henry Finch and Jane Bashford. His Royal Navy record puts his date of birth as 29 June and a note alongside his baptism in the parish register, dated 20 August at St Mary Magdelene Church […]
Isaac Finch (1837-1896)
Isaac Finch (1837-1896).My 2nd great-grandfather. Isaac Finch was born on 29 June 1837, one of Henry Finch and Jane Bashford‘s triplets. Isaac, Abraham and Jacob Finch were all baptised on 20 August of that year at St Mary’s Parish Church in Reigate, Surrey, and the church record states ‘these three children were of the same […]
Evelyn Kathleen Finch (1911-2009)
Evelyn Kathleen Finch – my great-aunt. Evelyn was born on 20 May 1911 in Bynes Road, Croydon, Surrey, and was Walter and Annie Finch‘s youngest daughter. She was christened at St Augustine’s Church in South Croydon on 2 August of that year, along with her brothers Gerald and Geoffrey. Within the family, she was usually known […]
Geoffrey Herbert Finch (1909-1984)
Geoffrey Herbert Finch (1909-1984). My great uncle. Geoffrey was born on 3 July 1909 in Bynes Road, Croydon, Surrey, to parents Walter Finch and Annie Budgen. It was where they ran their bakery business. Geoff was baptised on 2 August 1911, at St Augustine’s Church in South Croydon. He grew up first Bynes Road but […]
Rupert Walter Finch (1902-1965)
Rupert Walter Finch (1902-1965).My great-uncle. Rupert was Walter Finch and Annie Budgen’s oldest child, born in Bynes Road, Croydon, Surrey, on 14 July 1902 and baptised at the old family church of St Mary’s Church in Reigate on 28 December of that year. Records show him registered as a pupil at Brighton Road Junior School in […]
Raymond Edward Finch (1917-1941)
Raymond Edward Finch (1917-1941).My great-uncle. Raymond was born during the First World War and died tragically young during the Second as an RAF pilot with Bomber Command. He was born to parents Walter Finch and Annie Budgen in Bynes Road, Croydon, Surrey, on 3 September 1917, their youngest child. He grew up with them as […]
Hilda Irene Finch (1905-1985)
Hilda Irene Finch (1905-1985).My great-aunt. Hilda was born on 22 August 1905 in Croydon, Surrey, the eldest daughter of Walter Finch and Annie Budgen. She grew up at 45 Bynes Road, Croydon, and later at 259 Brighton Road, Croydon, addresses where Walter ran the family bakery business. On 29 December 1929 she married Percy Stuart […]