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Thank you all very much for all your hard work and research for my Berry family.

A previous post on this site, found by an internet search for Freda Flora Berry

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/general_topics/thread/1172185

Posted 21 Aug 2009

Unfortunately, the poster Janis did not return to the thread. There is more found info on this current one.

RISELEY, (or Risley), a parish in the hundred of Stodden, county Bedford, 9 miles south east of Higham Ferrers, its post town, and 5½ south west of Kimbolton. The village, which is situated in a valley, is chiefly agricultural. ......................The Wesleyans, Moravians, and Baptists, have places of worship.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/BDF/Riseley/index.html

A tree on another site has the following children - note the ? where there is some query

Arthur Vivian BERRY 1891 – 1896
Reginald James BERRY 1893 – 1960
Eva Maud BERRY 1896 –
Doris Lilian BERRY 1898 –
? Alice Cordelia BERRY 1899 – 1899
? Walter Ward BERRY 1900 –
Freda Flora BERRY 1906 –

1891 census for Flora.....Fred is in Glamorgan as a Boarder his occupation is a Sewing Machine Agent.

Name: Flora Berry
[Flora Ward]
Age: 23
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1868
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: James Ward
Mother's Name: Martha Ward
Gender: Female
Where born: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

Civil parish: St Ebbe
Ecclesiastical parish: Holy Trinity
Town: Oxford
County/Island: Oxfordshire
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status:

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Registration district: Oxford
Sub-registration district: Oxford
ED, institution, or vessel: 15
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 1168
Folio: 122
Page Number: 13
Household Members:
Name Age
James Ward 58 occ Builder
Martha Ward 56
Sarah Ann Ward 31 dau
Flora Berry 23 dau married
Arthur V Berry 1/12 grandson

All born Oxford

1911 Fred's employer looks like Marasian Church???

>>>edit maybe moravian church

Since Freda Flora appears to have died as a single lady, how far do you want us to go back??

Father was a police sergeant, Middlesex Police:

1881 England Census
about Fred.Vivian Berry Name: Fred.Vivian Berry
Age: 14
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1867
Relation: Son
Father's Name: John Berry
Mother's Name: Cordelia Berry
Gender: Male
Where born: East St Bloomsbury

Civil parish: St Margaret
County/Island: London
Country: England

Street Address: 7 Alfred Street
Education:

Employment status: View image
Occupation: School Boy

Registration district: St George Hanover Square
Sub-registration district: St Margaret Westminster
ED, institution, or vessel: 16
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 120
Folio: 71
Page Number: 30
Household Members: Name Age
John Berry 38
Cordelia Berry 40
Fred.Vivian Berry 14

Civil registration event: Marriage

Name: BERRY, Fred Vivian
Registration district: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Year of registration: 1888
Quarter of registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Spouse's last name Not available before 1912
Volume no: 3A
Page no: 1213

MarriageFinder™: [?] Fred Vivian Berry married one of the following people

WALTON, Emily Martha
WARD, Flora
BUCKLAND, Thomas William

1901 for the same family -with more children

Fred V Berry
Age: 34
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1867
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Flora Berry
Gender: Male
Where born: Bloomsbury, London, England
Civil parish: Swindon
Ecclesiastical parish: Swindon St Paul
County/Island: Wiltshire
Country: England
Fred V Berry 34 - Electrician, lighting and telephones(?!) worker.
Flora Berry 33
Reginald J Berry 7 - Oxford
Eva M Berry 5 - Swindon
Doris L Berry 3

1901 census

Address: 107, Dixon Street, Swindon

BERRY, Fred V Head Married M 34 1867 Electrician (Lighting & Telephony) Bloomsbury, London
BERRY, Flora Wife F 33 1868 Oxford, Oxfordshire
BERRY, Reginald J Son M 7 1894 Oxford, Oxfordshire
BERRY, Eva M Daughter F 5 1896 Swindon, Wiltshire
BERRY, Doris L Daughter F 3 1898 Swindon, Wiltshire

Christening? No image to check against

Freda Flora Berry
Gender: Female
Christening Date: 19 Jan 1906
Christening Place: Torquay, Devonshire, England
Father's Name: Fred Berry
Mother's Name: Flora

Birth reg - the certificate would give the names of her parents, including mother's maiden name

Freda Flora Berry
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1906
Registration district: Newton Abbot
Inferred County: Devon
Volume: 5b
Page: 104

Same person's Death?

Freda Flora Berry
Birth Date: 5 Dec 1905
Date of Registration: May 1995
Age at Death: 89
Registration district: Mendip
Inferred County: Somerset
Register Number: 30B
District and Subdistrict: 7213
Entry number: 125

1911 census

Address: High Street Riseley Bedford

BERRY, Fred Vivian Head Married M 47 1864 Minister And Rural Missionary London Bloomsbury
BERRY, Flara Wife Married22 years F 43 1868 Oxford St Ibbs
BERRY, Doris Lilian Daughter F 13 1898 School Swindon Wiltshire
BERRY, Freda Flora Daughter F 5 1906 School Nerston Abbot Devonshire

???

1911 census
Freda Flora Berry
Age in 1911: 5
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1906
Relation to Head: Daughter
Gender: Female
Birth Place: Newton Abbot, Devonshire, England
Civil parish: Riseley
County/Island: Bedfordshire
Country: England
Street Address: The Manor, High Street, Riseley, Bedford
Occupation: School
Registration district: Bedford
Registration District Number: 174
Sub-registration district: Riseley
Name Age
Fred Vivian Berry 44 - Bloomsbury, London
Flora Berry 43 - St Ebbs, Oxford
Doris Lilian Berry 13 - Swindon, Wiltshire
Freda Flora Berry 5 -Newton Abbot

Occupation is a Minster and rural missionary of some sort of Church - sorry can't make it out. Morasian?
Married for 22 years, 7 live births of whom 4 are still living

Looking for parents of Freda Flora Berry born Newton Abbott, also names of her sisters. Believe Mothers name Florence maiden name not known or place or year of birth. Thank you.