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Name: Martha Frances Ritchie
Record Type: Baptism
Baptism Date: 25 Oct 1893
Father's Name: Alfred Ritchie
Mother's name: Jessie Emma Ritchie
Parish or Poor Law Union: Woolwich Holy Trinity
Borough: Greenwich
Register Type: Parish Registers


Name: Martha Frances Ritchie
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1894
Registration Year: 1895
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Age at Death: 1
Registration district: Woolwich
Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1d
Page: 752

dogsB, sorry but I find it really difficult to follow your posts.

However, where have you got the information he had a middle name - he didn't on 1891 or 1901 census, nor his marriage nor his children's christenings. I would have thought if he had a middle name (as Jessie did) it would show up on one of these records.

And he didn't use a middle name when he enroled his son very briefly (he left 26/10/99) in this school:

Alfred Jas Ritchie
Age:6
Birth Date:5 Sep 1892
School:Plumstead High Street School
Borough:Greenwich
Admission Date:3 Jul 1899
Parent:Alfred
Notes:High Street School, Plumstead (0783) opened in 1893. Renamed Plumstead High Street School in 1921, then Bannockburn School in 1951
Reference Number:LCC/EO/DIV06/HIG2/AD/001

Their address from this was 186 High Street.

Martha died as a baby, I have quite a few parish records.
I'm loving his school records, haven't got any of these for my family's, must get more if I can with xmss pres.
The house is all upside down at moment,
But will get all paper work out hopefully this weekend, to search middle name documents.
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James Ritchie was the Slater in 1881 Scottish census and on Alfred Ritchie marriage certificate has his father as a Slater.
Flip when cash available I will get Jessie's birth certificate in Brighton, have got on all ref details.
Many thanks everyone

Flip please could you tell me how to get school records ( Alfred Ritchie) :-D

They are on ancestry - I don't know if they are available elsewhere though. The one I posted was the only record coming up or him.

I don't think that James on the 1881 census is your Alfred's father.

Wondering if Ritchie was perhaps a stepfather's name?

I would also wonder at Jessie re-marrying using her maiden surname. Would it not have been usual, in England, for her to marry as Jessie Ritchie?

Again in England, was it not necessary to have the permission of a parent or guardian to marry if you were under 21? Just thinking out loud, Alfred claimed to be 21 when he married, but was he? Jessie may have stated she was an orphan as neither had permission to marry?

Up until his death in1941 -


Deaths Dec 1941

Eaton Daniel 80 Stepney 1c 172

Daniel and Jessie Eaton were living (from about the date of their marriage) at 104 Grove Buildings, Stepney.

In 1946 (after Daniel's death) Jessie Eaton was living at the same address with a Jessie RITCHIE (possibly her granddaughter?)

Jessie Eaton was still at the property in 1951 and this looks to be her death in 1954


Deaths Dec 1954

EATON Jessie E 81 Stepney 5d 511

Births Sep 1926

Ritchie Jessie E Larkin W. Ham 4a 301


Marriages Mar 1950

Blooman John P Ritchie Stepney 5d 1265
Ritchie Jessie E Blooman Stepney 5d 1265