The Clerks Croft, Bletchingley

[suds]

Hello

I've tried searching, within rootschat, for The Clerks Croft, Bletchingly, without success. Apologies if there are already references that I have missed.

I have requested help here previously, regarding my Wallis family of Redhill and Reigate but not proceeded very far. My Gran was Alice Irene Wallis born 1887, Redhill. In 1901 she is living with her uncle in Deerings Road, Reigate and she married my Grandad, George Frederick Hill, at Holy Trinity Church, Reigate on 23 February 1909. He was a bachelor soldier (Grenadier) aged 26. She was a spinster aged 21.

Anyway, here goes. I was looking to fill in a few gaps and started to look for the birth of my Uncle George who was born at Clerks Croft, Bletchingley on 3 July 1909. In the GRO indexes there was a likely candidate but it gave the MMN as Parry. Who was that?

So I sent off for the birth certificate which arrived this morning.

Under mother's name it says 'Alice Irene Hill formerly Parry of Caterham'. That was a surprise, I took it to mean that she had previously been married to a Mr Parry but I can find no marriage. Then, looking up Clerks Croft in Google it looks like it was the workhouse.

Can anyone confirm that Clerks Croft, Bletchingley was a workhouse? If so, are the records available?

Anyone any ideas what might have been going on with the name Parry?

Regards

Suds

[Milliepede]

Parry should be her birth name so where did the Wallis come from - do you have a birth record for Alice ** or have her in 1891 with Wallis parents? 

Maybe her own mother was Parry. 

** Birth for Alice Irene Wallis Sep 1887 Reigate has no mothers maiden name

[Milliepede]

There's a baptism in 1895 for an Alice Irene Wallis mother Elizabeth Wallis school teacher.

If that was her perhaps her mother married someone called Parry - not sure 

In 1891 Alice is with grandparents William and Jemima.

Arthur Wallis Hill born Dec 1910 has mothers maiden name Wallis so no Parry on that one.

[Milliepede]

Hasn't got to the bottom of the Parry name yet but William and Jemima do have a daughter called Elizabeth who is 16 in 1881.

[stanmapstone]

It was Godstone Union Workhouse http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Godstone/ After 1930 it became Clerk's Croft  Mental Deficiency Institution.

Stan

[MaureeninNY]

There's a baptism in 1895 for an Alice Irene Wallis mother Elizabeth Wallis school teacher.

If that was her perhaps her mother married someone called Parry - not sure 
 

Makes you wonder who the parents of this one were:
PARRY, HARRY  CHARLES VICTOR    mmn WALLIS     
 1891  D Quarter in REIGATE  Volume 02A  Page 166
 

Maureen

[suds]

Sorry, I had to go and have lunch.

[suds]

Hello

I have attached a copy of my Gran's birth certificate.

In passing, I can say, and have pursued it on other threads on rootschat, this is the last sighting I have of Elizabeth Wallis. The possibility that she married someone called Parry is an exciting prospect that I will follow.

On my Gran's wedding certificate she says her father is Hubert Wallis (deceased) which I think is a fib to cover up her illegitemacy.

I hadn't seen the baptism in 1895 before, that must surely be them although Gran must be eight at that point and there's no guarantee that her mother was present. On Gran's birth certificate you can see that her mother describes herself as assistant schoolmistress. I have been able to follow her progress in the school diaries. She eventually goes off sick just prior to Gran's birth.



regards

Suds

[suds]

Hello

The school diary attached

regards

Suds