Sarah Ann Green (1829-1902) and Jonathan Jary (1831-1890).My 3rd great-grand aunt and uncle. Sarah was baptised on 5 June 1829 at St Nicholas’s Church, Great Yarmouth, and grew up with her siblings and parents William Green and Willoughby Staff in the town. The 1851 census recorded her living with relative and mariner’s wife Elizabeth Saunders and […]
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Mary Ann Green (1853-1918) – widowed by a storm
Mary Ann Green (1853-1918), Frederick Rowland (1854-1881) and Daniel Robert Beales 1852-1909). My 2nd great-grand aunt and uncles. Mary Ann Green was born on 13 January and baptised on 17 April 1853 at St Nicholas’s Church, Great Yarmouth, to parents William Mark Green and Elizabeth Maria Symonds. Her first husband would drown in a notorious […]
Gertrude Wetherall (1877-1964) – war service and tragedy
Gertrude Wetherall (1878-1964) and George Albert Harvey (1882-1937). My 2nd great-aunt and uncle. Gertrude Wetherall was born on 5 December 1878 and baptised on 23 December that year at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (above). Her husband, who fought in The Great War, killed himself on the railways. After growing up in Admiralty […]
Lilian May Stolliday (1898-1982)
Lilian May Stolliday (1898-1982), William James Rowland (1889-1946) and William J English (????-1980). My great-aunt and uncles. Born on 15 April 1898 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Lilian (or Lily as she was known to family) was christened by parents Arthur Stolliday and Elizabeth Wetherall on 28 May 1898 at the parish church of St Nicholas. […]