In search of the family

JEAN IRIS HOWARD 1892-1951   Jean was the Granddaughter of Henry Pye 1797-1889 of Boughton Malherbe in Kent, the brother of my 3xGreat Grandfather Thomas Pye of Newlands, Charing. Henry married late in life in 1858 aged 61, Jean was the daughter of his youngest daughter Gertrude 'Jessie' Pye who married John Howard, the Agent General of Nova Scotia, an office that Jean was appointed to on her fathers death. Iris was born on the 5 th November 1892 and was baptised at Holy Trinity Church Marylebone on the 28 th Nov. crown copyright By the 1901 census the family had moved to Earls Court and in 1911 they are found in the village of Bisley in Surrey. From the 1939 register during WW1 Iris was employed in the Pensions Office. On the 24 th Feb 1920 the London Gazette printed a Land Registry document, citing that Jean Iris Howard had become the registered proprietor of the property 31 Roland Gardens, a rather impressive property in Kensington. crown copyright In 1925, mother J

BEATRICE J PYE 1854-1901  Beatrice was the youngest child of George & Margery ‘Rosella’ Pye nee Randolph and youngest sister of my Great Grandfather George Arthur Pye (Perry). She was baptised in Copiapo in the Atacama region of Chile on 23 rd April 1854. NAME Beatrix Per EVENT TYPE Christening EVENT DATE 23 rd April 1854 EVENT PLACE Copiapo Atacama Chile EVENT PLACE original Rosario Copiapo Atacama Chile GENDER Female FATHERS NAME Gorje Per MOTHERS NAME Rosa Ranalph "Chile, bautismos, 1585-1932", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FJTW-N4W : 14 February 2020), Beatriz Per, 1854. An inscription found on Thomas Pye, George’s father’s

  George Richard & Sarah Westcott nee Hall It was whilst writing a blog post about Ada Mildred Youell that I recalled this couple. My association is that Sarah’s second marriage was to my 3x Great Grandfather, William Youell. Further to this is that George and Sarah’s son took William’s name. So remembering them I decided it was time to investigate further. As with so many of my ancestors and wider family research, what would initially appear a simple task, turns up complex lives and characters, only scraping the surface of the truth behind the facts. Sarah Hall , was born in Swaffham, Norfolk on 12 Jul 1833, the daughter of William Hall, a shoemaker and Sarah nee Addison.                                          In the 1841 census she was at home with her parents and siblings but by the 1851 census she was working in service to Augustus Pyne and his family, the curate of West Bradenham, Norfolk. By 1854, she had moved to London as the next document to be found is her marriage

  In the early days of my research I did find a marriage for an Ada M Youell to an Aubrey M Cohen and not finding any other Ada M Youell births I sent for the certificate. It turned out not to be Ada May Youell but an Ada Mildred Youell, who, further research proved to be another distant relation by marriage. As happens whilst making a search for newspaper articles for Ada May Youell, I came across an interesting article indirectly concerning Ada Mildred. This is that story: Ada Mildred Youell nee Matthews. b. 1894 Ada Mildred Matthews married Frank Ernest Youell a theatre manager, in 1914. She became his widow in 1919, when he died of Tuberculosis, having been invalided out of the Royal Navy in 1917 due to the illness. Ada Mildred Youell married Aubrey Mendelsshon Cohen, an Insurance Agent at the Register Office St Martin in London on the 7 th January 1921. @crown copyright A record shows Ada Mildred Matthews was baptised at Holy Trinity, Islington, London on June 10 th

  Ada May Youell Anyone who may have the surname, Youell, in their family history will perhaps know how much of a nightmare it can be researching the name. Mistranscriptions I have found include; Yonnell, Zonell, Yowell to name a few. Ada May Youell 29 May 1875 – 27 Feb 1951, was my Great Grandmother’s youngest sister, the youngest child of Edward Youell, carpenter/joiner and Ann(ie) Brown. Ada was born in Camberwell on the 29 th May 1875 The1881 census showa Ada living with her parents and siblings, Edward, Edith, Eliza, Jane and Gertrude at 53 Trafalgar Rd, Camberwell. By the 1891 census, the household has changed. In the same year as the 1881 census was taken, on the 2 nd August at St Thomas’ Hospital, Annie died. On Christmas Day 1883, Edward married Mary Ann Davis, who gave birth to Ethel Mary in 1884.  On the census return, still living at 53 Trafalgar Rd. Mary, Ethel and a 16 year old Ada are all at home but Edward is a patient in St Thomas’ Hospital. There a