See also

Family of Alfred Alexander Carnell and Grace Violet Gillingham

  • Husband:

  • Alfred Alexander Carnell (1893?- )

  • Wife:

  • Grace Violet Gillingham (1896-1983)

  • Status:

  • Divorced

  • Marriage:

  • 10 Oct 1915

  • The Register Office, Grimwade Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England1 2

Husband: Alfred Alexander Carnell

  • Name:

  • Alfred Alexander Carnell1 2

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 1893 (app)2

  •  

  • Military Service:

  • btw 19 May 1915 and 1919 (age 21-26)

  • -2

  •  

  • he was 5' 9" tall with a chest of 40" expansion 4", scars on both calves. He received a finger wound in action on 1st October 1916 and on 27th July 1917 he was wounded in the left leg. See his personal folder for more details

  • Medals:

  • 21 Aug 19172

  •  

  •  

  • Military medal for bravery in the field

Wife: Grace Violet Gillingham

picture

St Margaret 18 04 2017

  • Name:

  • Grace Violet Gillingham3 4

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • Albert Gillingham (1873-1906)

  • Mother:

  • Menora Emilie Carnell (1872?-1953)

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • shop assistant5

  • Birth:

  • 12 Mar 1896

  • Ipswich, Suffolk, England3 4 6 5 7 8

  • Baptism:

  • 11 Oct 1896 (age 0)

  • St. Margaret's Church, Bolton Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, England4

  •  

  • daughter of Albert Gillingham (carpenter and joiner) and Menora Emilie of North Hill Road

  • Census:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 5)

  • 46 Cemetery Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, England6

  •  

  • daughter living with her parents and sister Doris. Born in Ipswich Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 15)

  • 3 Cobbold Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England5

  •  

  • unmarried daughter working as a shop assistant and living in six rooms with her mother, sister Doris and four boarders. Born in Ipswich Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 43)

  • Post Office, Holbrook, Suffolk, England7

  •  

  • married doing unpaid domestic duties and living with her husband Alfred, two closed records (presumably her daughters Iris and Jennifer) and her son Jack. Born on 12th March 1896

  • Death:

  • Q3 1983 (age 87)

  • Ipswich "Registration District", Suffolk, England8

Note on Marriage

divorce assumed as no death record can be found for Alfred and Grace remarried in 1917 in her maiden name

Note on Husband: Alfred Alexander Carnell

did Alfred emigrate to the USA c1925?

Sources

1.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Ipswich 1915 quarter:4 volume:4a page:3122. Cit. Date: 21 March 2019.

2.

FindMyPast British Army Service Records, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive ref:WO363 service no:GF 1527. Cit. Date: 21 March 2019.

3.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipwich 1896 quarter:2 volume:4a page:912. Cit. Date: 24 December 2018.

4.

Suffolk Family History Society - Ipswich Baptisms 1813-1900, (2011 SFK-BPI-06/P1 own copy). Ipswich St. Margaret's Church entry:1452. Cit. Date: 24 December 2018.

5.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG14 piece:10845 class:RG78 piece:585 registration district:213 sub-district:2 enumeration district:20 schedule:170. Cit. Date: 24 December 2018.

6.

England and Wales Census 1901, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG13 piece:1780 folio:27 page:4. Cit. Date: 24 December 2018.

7.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG101 piece:6652G page:19 line:13 letter code:TXKO. Cit. Date: 21 March 2019.

8.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1983 quarter:3 volume:10 page:2526. Cit. Date: 21 March 2019.