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William in 1891:-

Name: William Tooke
Age: 17
Estimated birth year: abt 1874
Relation: Boarder
Gender: Male
Where born: Horndon, Essex, England

Civil parish: St Paul Deptford
Ecclesiastical parish: St Luke
County/Island: London
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation: Labourer in (Tar) Factory

Condition as to marriage: single

Registration district: Greenwich
Sub-registration district: St Paul Deptford
ED, institution, or vessel: 20
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Edward Newman 28
Mary I Newman 27
George Newman 6
Sarah Briggs 16
William Tooke 17

............Edward and Mary Newman were witnesses at the marriage!

O.k i will slow down

Yes i would like to concentrate on William and Louise for now.

Thanks

Have you had a look on Freebmd for William's birth? Nearest I can see Essex is:

Births Jun 1874 (>99%)
Took William Orsett 4a 196

Jan

I think we should all slow down. Lucy is very new new to all this, and us old hands are whizzing away like fury and expecting her to keep up with us.

Lucy, get a GIANT piece of paper and write down everyting that we chuck at you.

So, okay, you now want to concetrate an William and Louisa.

So let's forget the other side of the family for now, We can come back to them later. Does that sound to be what you would prefer?

One step at a time. But I see a few people have posted other messages, so will read them now.

William Tooke was born in 1874 and was born in essex.

Need to know more about his parents i am currently searching parish records as well i am drawing a blank any one with any ideas or information?

x

Wow this is great i can't believe it..............

Now i have some information on William Tooke, i would like to find out abput his parents, i know that is father was called John Tooke and was a labrorer, but do not know when his was born or his wife mother to William. I have looked for any records of William and his parents by drawing a blank any help or guidence of where to look would be much apreicated

Thank You
x

Bit of info on the Cemetery where Sidney is buried in case you do visit:-

Cemetery: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Country: France
Locality: Somme

Visiting Information: June 2010 NOTE: High level maintenance of the memorial will commence on 19th July 2010 and is expected to be completed by 31st July 2010. The Memorial will remain open to the public, however access will be restricted at times during the work. Access to the Visitor Centre is unaffected. The Commission would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused during this time. The Panel numbers (or Pier and Face) quoted at the end of each entry relate to the panels dedicated to the Regiment served with. In some instances where a casualty is recorded as attached to another Regiment, his name may alternatively appear within their Regimental Panel (or Pier and Face). Please refer to the on-site Memorial Register Introduction to determine the alternative panel numbers (or Pier and Face) if you do not find the name within the quoted Panels (or Pier and Face).
Location Information: The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, next to the village of Thiepval, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929). Each year a major ceremony is held at the memorial on 1 July.
Historical Information: On 1 July 1916, supported by a French attack to the south, thirteen divisions of Commonwealth forces launched an offensive on a line from north of Gommecourt to Maricourt. Despite a preliminary bombardment lasting seven days, the German defences were barely touched and the attack met unexpectedly fierce resistance. Losses were catastrophic and with only minimal advances on the southern flank, the initial attack was a failure. In the following weeks, huge resources of manpower and equipment were deployed in an attempt to exploit the modest successes of the first day. However, the German Army resisted tenaciously and repeated attacks and counter attacks meant a major battle for every village, copse and farmhouse gained. At the end of September, Thiepval was finally captured. The village had been an original objective of 1 July. Attacks north and east continued throughout October and into November in increasingly difficult weather conditions. The Battle of the Somme finally ended on 18 November with the onset of winter. In the spring of 1917, the German forces fell back to their newly prepared defences, the Hindenburg Line, and there were no further significant engagements in the Somme sector until the Germans mounted their major offensive in March 1918. The Thiepval Memorial, the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known grave. Over 90% of those commemorated died between July and November 1916. The memorial also serves as an Anglo-French Battle Memorial in recognition of the joint nature of the 1916 offensive and a small cemetery containing equal numbers of Commonwealth and French graves lies at the foot of the memorial. The memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, was built between 1928 and 1932 and unveiled by the Prince of Wales, in the presence of the President of France, on 1 August 1932 (originally scheduled for 16 May but due to the death of French President Doumer the ceremony was postponed until August). The dead of other Commonwealth countries, who died on the Somme and have no known graves, are commemorated on national memorials elsewhere.
No. of Identified Casualties: 72195

This may be the marriage:


London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
about William Tooke ... Labourer
Name: William Tooke
Age: 19
Estimated birth year: abt 1873
Spouse Name: Louisa Gertrude Browell
Spouse Age: 21
Record Type: Marriage
Event Date: 25 Dec 1892
Parish: St Luke, Deptford
County: Middlesex
Borough: Lewisham
Father Name: John Tooke ....labourer
Spouse Father Name: Joseph Browell ....labourer

Address for both 1 ? Mary Ann Place, Canal Bank, Deptford

Witnesses:
Edward Newman
Mary Jane Newman.

Dea x

I would also like to add how greatful i am of all the information on Sidney none of our family know anything about him, i am greatful for all the army deatils of him and that he died in action in ww1 he died young so my great nan did not know anything about him as she was only a couple of years old this has been very much apericated by all my family as we are now looking through records to see where he was laid to rest as my mum would like to go there and pay respects to her Great grandfather Sidney

Thank you very much everyone who has helped it has been very much apericated by myself and my family


Lucy
xx

O.K. then - take a deep breath then Lucy and try to make your messages more clear.

You wish to find more info on Sidney's parents - William and Louise?

I will see if I can find anything.

Dea x

These are the parents of Sidney Tooke
xx

Hi

Thomas has nothing to do with Sidney

the thomas and elizabeth that people have found information on are the parents of sidneys wife, that part of the family i am leaving for the minute concentrating on one side at a time!!!

I am trying to find information on the parents William and Louise tooke such as there birthdays and Lousies madian name hope that is a bit clearer now

xxxx

Hi

Sorry it is me Thomas and Elizabeth were his wifes parents

So sorry i am just very new to this only my fourth day

I do appologise i am trying to find information on William and Louise mainly lousise birth information and madian name

So sorry again

Lucy
xx

I guess she meant Sarah Farrow's parents.

England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1915
about Thomas Farrow
Name: Thomas Farrow
Year of Registration: 1889
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: St Olave Southwark (1837-1901)
County: London, Surrey
Volume: 1d
Page: 562 (click to see others on page)

Elizabeth May.

Hi again

All the information has confused me know

Who was Sidney Tookes father, have i got it right

Sidney's father was William and Williams father was Thomas

Please advise

Thanks

x

Am I lost?? - Perhaps it is me ??

I thought that 'we' thought that Sidney's parents were William + Louisa??

You have just announced that they were Elizabeth + Thomas ???

How do you know that?

What other info do you have that you have not yet given to us please?

Dea x

Hi

Thanks for all the information alot to look through, getting through it!!

As i am new to this i am finding it hard to find out about Sidney Tookes parents Elizabeth and Thomas, I don't know elizabeths madian name or when they were born.

Any help or guidence would be greatly aperictaed

Thank you

x

To Find the births & marriages on Freebmd (I am putting everything from start to finish):

Go to www.freebmd.org.uk
Click on "search"
Click on births or marriages option in box for "type"
Fill in relevant name(s) - note the surname is in 1st box, I'm forever doing it the wrong way round!
Forget year and area in this case, you will find these people easily without that

Good luck! Sorry if you know this, but I assume you are aware that the other finds - i.e. census reports and baptism - are from other sites??

Jan

Looked on freebmd cannot find anything or any of the information that everyone has found the search tool is to hard what am i doing wrong!!!!!!!!!!!

This information seems to be correct want to find out more

Any one help how to use freebmd

Couldn't see a baptism for Sidney but here's brother William:-

Name: William Harry Tooke
Record Type: Baptism
Date: 19 Sep 1893
Father's Name: William Tooke
Mother's Name: Louisa Tooke
Parish: St Barnabas, Rotherhithe
Borough: Southwark
County: Middlesex