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Re: William Percy BERRY
« Reply #9 on: Monday 16 June 14 19:11 BST (UK) »
Hi again, if you feel the 1901 is yours, then have you searched 1911 for them, Harriett aged 39 b Surrey looks to be in an Institution in Wandsworth?

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Re: William Percy BERRY
« Reply #10 on: Monday 16 June 14 19:22 BST (UK) »
Yes in 1911 they are in institutions. Christopher Snr is in Wandsworth Prison and Harriet is in the workhouse, as is their son Joseph Herbert George Berry.

I am confident that this is the right family. As far as I know there were 5 children: Christopher John Jnr, William Percy, Joseph Herbert George, Margaret Ellen Florence and Frank Harold. I have birth certificates for the last three. I have a tentative reference for Christopher John Jnr as mentioned above and can't find anything for William Percy.

I will obviously have to order the 1893 certificate for Christopher to see if it checks out.

I should also mention, that Harriet had another child before their marriage, probably by a different father, possibly named Godfrey. Ada Godfrey Barnes who was born in 1888 and brought up by Harriet's parents back in Godalming/Stoke.

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« Reply #11 on: Monday 16 June 14 19:28 BST (UK) »
OK so where were the eldest boys in 1911?
If you have original 1911 for Harriett how many children does she show born/died?

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Re: William Percy BERRY
« Reply #12 on: Monday 16 June 14 19:34 BST (UK) »
Not sure where they were, though someone suggested that the a prefix on the electoral register entry indicates that William Percy is absent on military service.

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Re: William Percy BERRY
« Reply #13 on: Monday 16 June 14 19:43 BST (UK) »
The 1911 census for Harriet states that she had 8 children: 5 living and 3 dead.

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Re: William Percy BERRY
« Reply #14 on: Monday 16 June 14 20:44 BST (UK) »
1911 free index suggests a Percy Berry is in an institution in the Wandsworth area.


Born c1897 Gloucestershire so maybe worth looking there for a birth?
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: William Percy BERRY
« Reply #15 on: Monday 16 June 14 20:56 BST (UK) »
That's interesting, as his father is from Gloucestershire. His father's family moved to Surrey from Gloucestershire, sometime between 1871 and 1882.

Unfortunately I can't find the reference you have discovered. Can you point me in the right direction?

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Re: William Percy BERRY
« Reply #16 on: Monday 16 June 14 20:59 BST (UK) »
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: William Percy BERRY
« Reply #17 on: Monday 16 June 14 21:10 BST (UK) »
Hi have you checked out the William Percival/Percy Barnes Sept qtr 1898 Wandsworth 1d 751 (clutching at straws)!
Maybe not the birth as marriage in 1926 Wandsworth!
And was he the William P Berry who married an Elizabeth Holmes Sept qtr 1922 Wandsworth 1d 898?
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