Re: ran off with the farmhand

"Steve Hayes" <hayesmstw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:qvmnj19qqcdmd8pno819l6gq4bro3is3kd@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:39:16 +0800, "Michael Corby"
> <michaelcorby1964@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Great Aunt Beryl Granger was born in1902 (Wykin, Leics)and according to
>>family legend, ran off with the farmhand. If there was an available census
>>for the relevant date, I'd be able to see Great-Uncle John Swanson listed in
>>the household as "Lab" and the other usual details - this would be
>>fascinating, and would prove the family story. (Marriage listed in Staffs
>>BMD for 1939.)
>
> If you do find out, I'd be interested in knowing how yuo do it, because I have
> a similar case:
>
> Family Group Report
> For: Dorothy Gridley (ID=10408)
> Date Prepared: 29 Sep 2005
>
> NAME: GRIDLEY, Dorothy, Born Feb 1891 in Bristol, Died ???;
> FATHER: GRIDLEY, Edward, Born ??? 1842, Died 20 Oct 1932 at
> age 90; MOTHER: HAYES, Sabina Kate, Born ??? 1854?, Died ???
>
> This Dorothy Gridley is said to have eloped with her father's chauffeur and
> died of cancer at the age of about 50 (thus about the Secodn World War).
>
> Her date of birth is from Free BMD index and 1891 census. I have a newspaper
> clipping about her attending a cousin's wedding in 1913, and she wasn't
> married then, so my guess is that her elopement was probably during the First
> World War. No census available then, but any suggestions for sources in that
> period gratefully received.
>

Are you aware of a previous marriage of Edward Gridley? ......

http://www.burkes-peerage.net

BARON GRIDLEY [Extract]

Lineage: JOSEPH GRIDLEY, of Bristol; b 1801; m Charlotte Bucknole, and had:

EDWARD GRIDLEY, of Bristol; b 1842; m Emily Mary (d 20 Jan 1882), dau of Thomas Babb, and d 20 Oct 1932, having had:

1a Edward Thomas; d unm NZ 1910

2a ARNOLD BABB, 1st Baron

1a Florence Amelia; m W Lang

2a Mabel Gertrude; m F Edmonstone

3a Emily Mary, d Canada April 1965

The yr son,

ARNOLD BABB GRIDLEY, 1st Baron Gridley, of Stockport, Co Palatine of Chester (UK), so cr 10 Jan 1955, KBE (1920); b 16
July 1878; educ Bristol GS and Clifton Laboratories; consulting engr, MIEE, Dir Electric Mfg, Controller Electric Power
Supply Min Munitions 1916-19, Special Duties Home Office Jan-Sept 1919, MP (C) Stockport 1935-50 and Stockport S
1950-55, chm C Members Ctee 1946-51, pres Assoc Br Chambers Commerce 1946-48; m 10 Aug 1905 Mabel (d 5 July 1955), dau
of Oliver Hudson, of Fakenham, Norfolk, and d 27 July 1965, leaving: [Continues]


and are Burke's Peerage aware of his second marriage!

Data Junkie
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