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Looking for birth/marriage and Death details for Frances Corder nee Keen.
Details are limited but born approx 1900 in Bucks. possibly Chalvey.
married Edwin Corder approx 1922
Died approx 1980.
I'm unable to find any matches please if anyone can start me off on the right track I would be most greatful.

Did she have a middle name? There is this birth in Bucks.:-

Name: Frances Edith Keen
Year of Registration: 1901
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Bicester
County: Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire
Volume: 3a
Page: 956

Kath. x

Heres the marriage from FreeBMD

Marriages Dec 1922

CORDER Edwin H H Keen Eton 3a 1978

she married as Fanny Keen !

KEEN Fanny M Corder Eton 3a 1978

It doesn't match up with the birth above, but there is this marriage:-

Edwin H. H. Corder to Fanny M. Keen
Dec. qtr. 1922, Eton, 3a, 1978

Could she have been known as Fanny?

Kath. x

Kath

I don't know about the middle name unfortuantly.
Do you know when in the year he cenus is taken?
if this is the frances I'm looking for may be I can check via that.
parents believed to be John Walter and Bessie Eleanor!

Sandra

Is this the parents on the 1901 census:-

Name: John Walt Keen
Age: 29
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1872
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Bessie Eleanor C
Gender: Male
Where born: Chalvey, Buckinghamshire, England

Civil Parish: Slough
Ecclesiastical parish: Upton St Mary
County/Island: Buckinghamshire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View image

Registration district: Eton
Sub registration district: Eton
ED, institution, or vessel: 8
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 116
Household Members: Name Age
Bessie Eleanor C Keen 27
Jno Walt Keen 11
John Walt Keen 29

No Frances or Fanny with them in 1901.

1901 census taken 31st March.

Kath. x

john walter on the 1881

Name: John Walter Keen
Age: 9
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1872
Relation: Son
Mother's Name: Fanny
Gender: Male
Where born: Chalvey, Buckinghamshire, England

Civil Parish: Upton Cum Chalvey
County/Island: Buckinghamshire
Country: England

Street address: Chalvey Grove
Education:

Employment status: View image

Registration district: Eton
Sub registration district: Eton
ED, institution, or vessel: 10
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Arthur Keen 2
Fanny Keen 32
John Walter Keen 9
Martha Mary Keen 12
Richard Keen 6
Alfred Sharpe 16



Source Citation: Class: RG11; Piece: 1459; Folio: 90; Page: 29; Line: ; GSU roll: 1341353.

This is the only Frances M. Keen birth I can find (although not in Bucks):-

Births Jun 1904
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Keen Frances May Westbury S. 6a 314

UPDATE - ignore this birth - see below

Kath. x

Kath

Could be she did have a brother John also other sibings Ernest, Elizabeth George.George and Margret.
Sandra

probably her birth

Births Mar 1902

KEEN Fanny Mary Eton 3a 804

This looks a more likely birth - given the place of marriage:-

Births Mar 1902
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KEEN Fanny Mary Eton 3a 804

Where did you get the name Frances from?

Kath. x

Frances is the name my husband remembers for his grandmother. But he mainly refers to her by a nik name so maybe he's got it wrong.
But he remembers his grandfather dying while he was young (late 40's early 50's)
Sandra

This looks like her death (registered in the name Francis Mary):-

Francis Mary Corder - date of birth given as 25th Dec. 1901 (which would probably be registered March 1902)
March qtr. 1983, Slough, 19, 0667

Kath. x

It could be as you say that he has it wrong Sandra. One of my cousins knows our grandmother as Eleanor as that is what she would have preferred to have been called rather than her real name which was Nellie.So his grandmother could have done the same thing.
Angela

Kath

I think you have cracked it!

now you have mentioned the date of birth being christmas day it is ringing all sorts of bells with my husband.

Sandra

Perhaps it would be worth getting the death certificate to see who registered the death. Do you think her husband died before or after her?

Perhaps they all just thought Fanny was short for Frances/Francis and just assumed that was her name (or as Angela said maybe she didn't like the name Fanny).

I would go with the birth of Fanny being right. You could order that certificate giving her parent's names as checking points. Her father's name should be on the marriage certificate.

Do you know if Slough would be the right sort of area for her death?

Kath. x

Kath

Slough is the right area and the 1983 would be about the right time of her death.

Her husband died alot earlier than her.
sandra

If her husband was already dead then it might be interesting to see who registered the death. Possibly one of your husband's parents or one of their siblings.

Kath. x

Kath and Shirley

Thanks for all your help.

Sandra