Rev Gerald Dalton Debenham, St Stephen, Buckland

[hookleg]

Thanks to Wendy and Ray for the added information, and everybody who has contributed.

Dorothy Hilda was indeed Gerald's daughter but I have been unable to find much evidence of her apart from census, birth and death records. I believe she died in St Austell, Cornwall, so I may have a try on that counties forum.
Cheers to all, from a rather cold and damp Suffolk.

[oscardaphers]

Good morning hookleg,
I have been looking into Dorothy Hilda Debenham and have found in the British phone books on An***** entrys for D H Debenham living at Rookery Newquay between between 1929 and 1931 then 1932 to 1938 at Rookery Nook Trenance Gardens, Newquay (possibly the same place?)
As for the death registration Newquay became part of the St Austell reg district in 1936.
Hope this is useful to you.

Kind regards
Wendy

[hookleg]

Thanks Wendy, I had seen the phone book entry about Trenance Gardens and believe it is the home of a registered child minder. I had followed links to New Zealand where a Dorothy Hilda Debenham had been registered, but have now discounted them. Very interesting about the registration district, I had looked at a map and seen that St Austell was in the south of Cornwall and Newquay was in the north and was puzzled about that. I had thought that the registration would have been in Newquay, but of course it was probably quite a small place back then. Thanks to you, it now makes sense.

[Keith Roberts]

A little late, but some further info about St. Stephen's Church. I'm not clear at present about when it became a separate parish outside the Portsea umbrella, but I have temporary access to copies of the St Stephen's parish magazines from 1908 to 1913. It is clear from these that by 1908 St Stephen's was a full parish in it's own right, with the nearby St Alban's as a mission hall.  I am attaching the front page of the January 1908 magazine for interest.

[hookleg]

Hi Keith and may I welcome you to Rootschat. I'm sure you will find it a great site to use for any family research sticking points.
Thanks for the info about the church. Do you know if there is any similar info about the 1903 period?

[Keith Roberts]

Sorry - I'm in the dark on that earlier period. I was the organiser for the research project "20 Streets in Portsmouth" about the men on the St Wilfrid's War Memorials, and while adding material to that in the hope of producing a further DVD in due course, I am currently working on the many Portsea parish clergy who served as Chaplains to the Forces during WW1. As a spin off I am having to learn a lot about the Portsea Parish and am working through some items that have not yet made it to the archives.
Hopefully some will end up in the Portsmouth History Centre, while other material will be added when I get to producing the second DVD.

I'm not sure what is in the Portsmouth History Centre for St Stephen's. I went through their full index for the Portsea Parish last year, but I think St S is catalogues separately so was not in my particular sphere of interest.

[Keith Roberts]

I'm in the Portsmouth History Centre for a short session this morning. They have 4 St Stephen's parish magazines from 1904, a full run of 1905 and 5 of 10 for 1906. and a number of items from the 1930's. That appears to be all.

Keith

[Little Nell]

For information, St Stephen was originally a mission church to St Mark, North End, which itself was established in 1874.  St Stephen's records begin in 1902.  It became a separate parish in 1926 and closed in 1961.

Portsmouth History Centre has the Baptism Register 1902-1961, Marriage Register 1906-1961 and the Banns Register 1941-1958.

Nell

[hookleg]

Thanks Keith and Nell.