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Edgcumbe Street, Plymouth cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Mike Rothery - geograph.org.uk/p/4817390 |
- Lucy Mary Bailey b. 1890 D Q in EAST STONEHOUSE Vol 05B 272
- Samuel William Bailey b. 1893 J Q in EAST STONEHOUSE Vol 05B 302
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Edgcumbe Street, Plymouth cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Mike Rothery - geograph.org.uk/p/4817390 |
Sangley Rd, Lewisham cc-by-sa/2.0 - © N Chadwick - geograph.org.uk/p/3162332 |
John Winship Soppit, son of John Soppit and Louisa Tompson married Mary Ellen Finch, at St Lawrence, Catford (built in 1887, demolished in 1968 to make a car park) [in Lewisham registration district] on 24 Sep 1904.
John and Mary Ellen had three daughters:
Mary Ellen Soppit then died in 1924 D Quarter in BIRMINGHAM NORTH Volume 06D Page 486.
In 1928, John Winship Soppit then remarried to Mary Baker (née Morrell), daughter of William Jabez Morrell and Sarah Waldron. This time we know she was a widow - her first husband Samuel Horatio Baker had died in 1925 - and had at least two sons from that previous marriage.
Second wife, Mary Soppit, died, aged 65, on 13 Jul 1950.
John Winship Soppit died, in Birmingham, on 6 May 1969. The death notice in The London Gazette gives his address as 15 Homecroft Rd, Yardley, Birmingham. It's ironic that growing up in Birmingham in the 1960's, at times I'll have been mere streets away from there, while my mother felt as 'a fish out of water' in that city. If only she'd known she had relatives so close.
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St Mary the Virgin, Great Dunmow, Essex cc-by-sa/2.0 - © John Salmon - geograph.org.uk/p/1304086 |
The "Old Age Pension" was introduced in 1909 in the United Kingdom. Following the passage of the Old-Age Pensions Act 1908 a pension of 5 shillings per week (25p, equivalent, using the Consumer Price Index, to £26 in present-day terms), or 7s.6d per week (equivalent to £39/week today) for a married couple, was payable to persons with an income below £21 per annum (equivalent to £2200 today), The qualifying age was 70, and the pensions were subject to a means test.
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Admiralty Mews, Deal cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Philip Halling - geograph.org.uk/p/1407334 |
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Tiverton : Tidcombe Hall cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Lewis Clarke - geograph.org.uk/p/6337380 Early 19th century house, shown as Tidcombe Rectory on late 19th century Ordnance Survey map. Much altered in late 20th century. The building was also once a Marie Curie daycare unit. |
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St Peters Church, Knowstone cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Roger Cornfoot - geograph.org.uk/p/6092409 |