Edward Stoliday (1849-1938) and Harriet Goulty (1848-1936). My 2nd great-grandparents. Edward Stoliday was born in 1849 in the Norfolk village of Salhouse and baptised on 12 August at All Saints’ Church. His parents were labourer William Stoliday and Sarah Rose. At the age of 13 he was already working as an agricultural labourer, according to […]
19th century
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 […]
Agnes Louisa Finch (1869-1952) – shopkeeper in Scotland
Agnes Louisa Finch (1869-1952) and Robert Hardie (1866-1920). My great-grand aunt and uncle. Agnes spent much of her life in Scotland but was baptised on 21 November 1869 in St Matthew’s Church, Redhill, Surrey, the daughter of Isaac Finch and Phoebe Ann Ward. The family lived in Chart Road and Glovers Road, Reigate, and by […]
Joseph Finch (1800-1821) – transported to Australia
Joseph Finch. My 4th great-grand uncle. Joseph was born in England but died young in Australia, one of several convicts from my family tree who ended up being transported as punishment. He was likely born towards the end of 1800 and baptised on 3 January 1801 at St Mary’s Church in Reigate, Surrey. He was […]
George Budgen (1826-1893) – Brighton publican
George Budgen (1826-1893), Anne Maria Baker (1826-1873) and Margaret Cole (1835-1903) My 3rd great-grand uncle and aunts. Baptised on 28 January 1827 in Worth, Sussex, George was the son of agricultural labourer William Budgen and Sarah Rice. In 1841 George was living with his parents at Standing Hall Farm in the village and working as a farm […]
William Budgen (1820-1864) – killed on the railway
William Budgen (1820-1864) and Amy Frith (1826-1921). My 3rd great-grand uncle and aunt. Baptised in Worth, Sussex, on 6 February 1820, William was the son of William Budgen and Sarah Rice and would meet a gruesome end. But that was some years after he married Amy Frith, the 18-year-old daughter of a gamekeeper, on 6 April 1844 […]
Edward Thomas Budgen (1868-1925) – he took his family to Australia
Edward Thomas Budgen (1868-1925) and Alice Jane Hacker (1868-1943). My great-grand uncle and aunt. Edward Budgen was born in the Sussex parish of Worth on 28 April 1868, and was baptised by his parents Thomas Budgen and Maria Dolamore on 7 June that year. He went to live in Australia, served in the Great War […]
Harry Budgen (1879-1944) – award-winning public servant
Harry Budgen (1879-1944).My 2nd great-uncle. Harry was born on 1 April 1879 in Reigate, to Thomas Budgen and Maria Dolamore. He was baptised on 25 May that year at St Mary’s parish church. Harry never married and for many years lived with members of his family. In 1901 he was working as a water works […]
Emma Budgen (1861-1925) – Mayoress of Reigate
Emma Budgen (1861-1925) and George Alfred Reynolds Ince (1863-1951).My great-grand aunt and uncle. Emma Budgen was the oldest of Thomas Budgen and Maria Dolamore‘s children. She was born in 1861 in Worth, Sussex, and baptised in the village on 1 September that year, but went from humble beginnings to become the Mayoress of Reigate. As […]
Isabella Finch (1848-1934) – died in a cycle crash
Isabella Finch (1848-1934) and Jesse Freeman (1846-1923). My 2nd great-grand aunt and uncle. Isabella Finch was christened on 27 August 1848 at St Mary’s in Reigate, Surrey, the daughter of Henry Finch and Jane Bashford. She grew up in the town while her father worked as an agricultural labourer. On 4 September 1870 at St Mary’s […]
Peter Finch (1845-1891) and his well-travelled son Henry
Peter Finch (1845-1891) and Eliza Esther Turner (1841-1895). My 2nd great-grand uncle and aunt. Born in 1845 to parents Henry Finch and Jane Bashford, Peter could well have been the twin of his brother George as they were both baptised on 15 June that year at St Mary’s Church in Reigate, Surrey. And he ended […]
Alfred Finch (1842-1911) – baker and builder
Alfred Finch (1842-1911) and Ellen Young (1841-1909). My 2nd great-grand uncle and aunt. Born in 1842, Alfred Finch was baptised on 1 May that year at St Mary’ Church in Reigate, Surrey. He was one of Henry Finch and Jane Bashford’s many children and was brought up in the town. By the time of the 1861 […]
Henry Finch (1834-1919) – gardener and property owner
Henry Finch (1834-1919), Lydia Lambourn (1822-1891) and Eleanor Streeter (1845-1927). My 2nd great-grand uncle and aunts. Henry Finch was baptised in St Mary’s Church in Reigate, Surrey, on 9 March 1834, the son of Henry Finch and Jane Bashford. His father was an agricultural labourer and he grew up with the family in and around […]
James Finch (1831-1900) and his adventurous son Jacob
James Finch (1831-1900) and Mary Wicks (1831-1881). My 2nd great grand-uncle and aunt. James Finch was baptised on 13 November 1831 at St Mary’s Church in Reigate, Surrey, one of the sons of Henry Finch and Jane Bashford. After growing up in the town with his siblings, he following his father in working as an […]
Henry Finch (1801-1885)
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 […]
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) and Thomas Richard Wall (1870-1941). My great-grand aunt and uncle. 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 […]
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 […]