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could anyone please help me i am trying to find information on my great grandmother kate parker. all i know is she married a john stannard around 1905 in suffolk. i know they had five daughters but unfortunately kate died quite young. if anyone could help me i would be very grateful as i have now hit a brick wall. many thanks for your time spent reading my notice. tara

Their marriage...

Name: John Allen Stannard
Year of Registration: 1905
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Blything
County: Suffolk
Volume: 4a
Page: 2159 (click to see others on page)


Linda

Johns birth....

Name: John Allen Stannard
Year of Registration: 1886
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Blything
County: Suffolk
Volume: 4a
Page: 894 (click to see others on page)

hi linda, thank you so much for your help. the only information my dad could give me about his grandparents was that john and kate married and had the 5 daughters then kate died and john remarried someone (have no name) and went on to have 2 more children i believe their names might be david and alma, but i am not certain. again thank you so much for your time and effort. tara

This is only a possibilty for Kate's birth...if she was born in Blything...

Name: Kate Ellen Parker
Year of Registration: 1879
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Blything
County: Suffolk
Volume: 4a
Page: 775 (click to see others on page)

I would order the marriage cert first and then you will ascertain her father's name to find her on the census.

Linda

linda you are wonderful!! many thanks tara

Darn computer crashed...

Do you know roughly when Kate died ?....did they stay in Blything ??

If you have any idea let me know and I will gladly look up any other info on the complete bmd index tomorrow night.

Linda

kates last born was agnes and she was born around 1916 i'm afraid thats all i have apart from names and births of the other 4 daughters
thanks tara

There's this death as a possible (it's the first Kate Stannard that I've found from 1914 onwards

Deaths Dec Quarter 1919
Kate Stannard
Age = 39
District = Mutford
Vol = 4a
Page = 1130

would i be able to apply for a death certificate with this information?

Hi Tara

You can order the death cert from the GRO site
https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/Login.asp. You need to register and then use the details I posted above. Make sure that you tick the box to say that you have the reference and it'll cost £7. There's a bit of a delay with getting certs out to people at the moment.

I've found a possible for his second marriage but if it's him he married a very short time after the death of the possible Kate!

Marriage June Quarter 1920
John A Stannard
Ethel Bailey
District = Mutford
Vol = 4a
Page = 2881

I've checked births with mother's maiden name Bailey and there aren't any that I can see between MQ1920 & DQ1926. It is possible that this was not Ethel's first marriage but it's difficult to know what her maiden name was without the Stannard/Bailey marriage cert. There is a death for an Ethel Stannard in Chichester in Oct 1987 with birthdate of 25 July 1889. If we assume that Ethel was born in Suffolk then this gives us these possibilities for Ethel with no middlename:

Births Sep 1889
Basham Ethel Risbridge 4a 631
Bird Ethel Sudbury 4a 661
Brown Ethel Bosmere 4a 757
Bruce Ethel Cosford 4a 674
Dalby Ethel Hoxne 4a 750
Hawtin Ethel Stow 4a 719
Howe Ethel Cosford 4a 670
Jackson Ethel Ipswich 4a 812
Manning Ethel Bosmere 4a 758
Markham Ethel Plomesgate 4a 846
Stockings Ethel Plomesgate 4a 839

Of these, there are some Stannard births with mmn Manning so I'll go back and look at the births again and see if I can find an Alma or David with mmn Manning or any other possibles for these two firstnames.

No Alma or David in 1920, 1921 or 1922

hi katherine, many many thanks for your help. as far as i know they stayed in suffolk, but i know later my nan and 1 of her sisters moved to norfolk.
thank you so much for you help
tara

Right, I think we're sorted:-)

This is the birth for Alma
Birth Jun Quarter 1925
Alma D Stannard
Mother's Maiden Name = Fenn
District = Mutford
Vol = 4a
Page = 1839

This is the birth for David
Births Sep Quarter 1927
David J Stannard
Mother's Maiden Name = Fenn
District = Mutford
Vol = 4a
Page = 1715

This is the first marriage for Ethel
Marriage Dec Quarter 1912
Ethel Fenn
Arthur J Bailey
District = Blything
Vol = 4a
Page = 2582

This is probably Ethel's birth
Births Dec Quarter 1892
Ethel Fenn
District = Blything
Vol = 4a
Page = 863

This is the nearest to the above Ethel on the 1901 census although she should be 8 and not 9

1901 England Census
about Ethel Fenn
Name: Ethel Fenn
Age: 9
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1892
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: Joseph
Mother's Name: Mary Ann E
Gender: Female
Where born: Wenhaston, Suffolk, England

Civil Parish: Wangford
Ecclesiastical parish: Wangford
Town: Wangford
County/Island: Suffolk
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status:

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Registration district: Blything
Sub registration district: Wenhaston
ED, institution, or vessel: 6
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 84
Household Members:
Name Age
Agnes Fenn 1 month
Caroline Fenn 11
Ethel Fenn 9
James Fenn 1
Joseph Fenn 36
Joseph Fenn 6
Mary Ann E Fenn 35
William Fenn 4

hi katherine,
i really appreciate all the time and effort that you have spent helping me. i spoke to my dad today and although he doesnt remember much about his grandparents he remembers his mother telling him that her step mother's sister married a quaker and was very religious. and he seems to think it is correct that his grandfather did actually marry quite quickly after the death of kate. i am now getting my list sorted of the certificates that i need to order from the registery office, lol. can i ask how you can find all this info out as i have a couple of others in my tree that i have come to a holt on and would like to be able to go futher on. again thank you so much for your help. tara

Hi Tara

For BMDs fairly complete upto about 1920 and hit and miss to 1930 you can search on www.freebmd.org.uk where these have been transcribed. For later stuff you need to manually go through the indexes for each quarter until you find a match. This can be done with a subscription to a genealogy site such as ancestry, findmypast etc or by going to Kew or one of the record offices round the country where these indexes are held. If you can give a relatively accurate date, place and names of the person of parents then you could try posting on this site and someone may help you.