Writer Trevor Locke

Tag: Suffolk

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21st January 2023

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10th September 2016

Sidney Algernon Webb

Today the marriage certificate of Sidney Algernon Webb (junior) arrived in the post. This was the most significant development to the history of the family, in recent times.

Sidney was married in 1905 in Suffolk. Although the writing on the certificate is not easy to read, it looks like they were married in the Parish Church at Ringshall, possibly St. Catherines. He married Daisy Elizabeth Bugg. Now that really was a surprise. Given that my grand mother was Emma Bugg. The marriage took place on 12th June. Sidney was 21 and Daisy was 23. The certificate shows that Sidney was a carpenter living in Ringshall and his father was also called Sidney Algernon Webb (although the certificate gives him as ‘deceased’. We know he died in 1901.)

Daisy’s father Robert was present at the marriage because he ‘signed’ the certificate (or rather he made an X instead of his name.) He was an agricultural labourer and could not read or write. Not uncommon in the rural communities of those times.

The other witness to sign the certificate was Rose Agnes Bugg.

My records show that Sidney Algernon Webb (junior) was born in Chelsea in 1886 (although his age on the marriage certificate was shown as 21.) Following his marriage he had two children that I know of: Ivy and Beatrice. We know that he lived in Wangford, Suffolk, and was foreman to the Earl of Stradbroke, at Henham Hall from 1930 to 1939. He died in 1939 and is buried in Wangford at St. Peter’s church.

His father Sidney Algernon Webb (senior) was born in 1855 in Chelsea and was the son of George Webb and Elizabeth Margaret.

Robert Bugg, the father of Daisy, was born in 1838 at Bradfield Combust. I do not yet know the date of his death. He was present at the wedding of his daughter Emma Bugg in 1889 when she married Herbert Arthur Webb at St. Peter’s church, Fulham.

Master list of names completed

Today was also a milestone in the genealogical highway as I completed the master index of all names in the family tree.

Work on compiling an index of genealogical data for my whole family, started many years ago. When I began work on the project, I used a form I designed myself and completed one for each person for which I had a record.

The form recorded such items as date and place of birth, date of marriage and name of the person they married, date and place of death and burial and a list of the children from that person. It was important to annotate the source of that information with codes that referenced back to certificates, printouts and catalogues.

All these sheets were arranged in alphabetical order by surname. It was in August, of this year, that I started to digitalise this index, making it much easier to search for information because it was all in a document that could be searched on the computer.

Now that the index is complete, with well over 100 individuals, finding details of any one person takes only a few seconds. The master index can also be used to store the many notes from other research sources, such as the census returns, searches on the Internet and so on.

10/09/2016
Ive

Notes about the IVE family name

This is post was migrated from an old blog called Locke Family which no longer exists. Posts on that blog have now been imported into this one.

People with the surname IVE appear in the family tree for the Buggs of Suffolk – my material grandmother’s family.

Mary Anne Ive (born 1838 in Stansfield, Suffolk) was the wife of Robert Bugg by maternal Great Great Grandfather.

Mary Anne married Robert Bugg in 1860 at Hawstead – a small village in Suffolk about five kilometers south of Bury St. Edmunds.

Mary Anne was the daughter of Edward and Anne Ive who was born in 1801 and his wife Anne was born in 1811.

She had two brothers: Alfred Ive (born 1830) and Joseph Ive (born 1834); and a sister called Rebecca Ive (born 1832).

Edward Ive was born in 1801 and, with his wife Anne, had several children: Alfred, Rebecca, Joseph and Mary Anne. I know very little about him other than he was a wheelwright living in Hawstead in 1860.

See the page about the Buggs of Suffolk.

20/07/2016
Bugg

The Suffolk Buggs

This is post was migrated from an old blog called Locke Family. Posts on that blog have now been imported into this one. The old blog will eventually be deleted.

My material grandmother was Emma Bugg. She was born in 1869 in the Suffolk village of Lawshall near Sudbury. This family connection brings the Buggs into the wider family tree.

Emma Bugg in 1929. The boy is said to be her lodger.

Emma Bugg married Herbert Arthur Webb. He was born in 1864. They were married at St. Peters Church in Fulham.

Herbert Arthur Webb came from a large family and had at least four brothers and possibly one sister; their names were Edith, Frederick Arthur, Ellen Maud, Violet May, Herbert Reginald, George Robert and Doris Alice (my mother.)

I never knew Grandmother Emma because she died in 1948. Here she is (on the far right side of the picture) in Portsmouth with members of the Locke family:

Agnes, Ivy, Mary, Doris, Peter, Derek and Emma at the house in Tangier Road, Portsmouth in 1944

Herbert Arthur was a carpenter and lived in Fulham, in London. He was the son of George and Elizabeth Margaret Webb but George had died the year before Herbert’s marriage.

Many of Herbert’s brothers are buried in Brompton Cemetary.

George Webb was born in 1818 in Chelsea, then a village on the outskirts of London. He was christened at the parish of Chelsea St.Luke, an Anglican church in Sydney Street. When George was born, the village of Chelsea was expanding. It was a large and architecturally impressive building; the author Charles Dickens was married there in 1836 as were the parents of Robert Baden-Powell (founder of the scouting movement) in 1846.

George Webb was the son of Francis and Charlotte Webb. In 1861 we know that George was living at 12 South Street. He was a master carpenter. In 1846 he married Elizabeth Margaret Suter, his marriage being registered in the district of Kensington. George died in 1888 at the age of 70 and was buried in Brompton cemetery. At the time of his death he lived at Leete Street, in Chelsea. George purchased a burial plot at the Brompton cemetery in 1853 for which he paid the sum of three pounds and three shillings.

The Webb family grave in Brompton cemetery, photographed in 1992

Read about the Webbs of Chelsea and Fulham.

The Bugg family

Robert Bugg (born 1811 in Hawstead), married Louisa Farrow (born 1811 in Lawshall, Suffolk). Robert Bugg and Louisa Farrow are shown in the IGI index of February 1988, page 3, 100.

Robert and Louisa’s children were Robert (born 1838), Emma (born 1840), Charles H. (born 1842), Charlotte (born 1845), Jacob (born 1847), Ambrose (born 1850) and Lynetta (born 1852). Robert Bugg also appears in the above cited IGI index. The entry indicates he was christened on 4th March 1838 in the parish of Bradfield Combust.

Robert Bugg (born 1838) married Mary Anne Ive in 1850 at Hawstead. Their daughter was Emma Bugg, my maternal grandmother.

Margaret Bugg

Margaret Bugg otherwise known as Polly

Sometimes called Polly, Margaret Bugg was known to my uncle Bob of Leeds. She might have been born in 1863 in the village of Hawstead, Suffolk. There is a reference to a Margaret Bugg in the 1871 cenuses for Hawstead, given as Margaret, aged 8, born 1863 at Hawstead. She is shown as the granddaughter of Robert Bugg (Senior) who was 61 at the time (b 1810) an agricultural labourer of Hawstead whose wife was Louisa (nee Farrow). If this is the right Margaret, her siblings could have been Jacob and Ambrose. More data is required to verify this.

Arthur Bugg was born in Lawshall in April 1865. He was the grandfather of John Bugg a relative of Lynda Bugg who I corresponded with in the 1990s about the Bugg family tree. They, it appears, are descendants of Robert and Mary Ann. That would make me a distant cousin of Lynda. It seems that Arthur married Suzannah Taylor in 1888 (he would have been 23 then) and they had nine children. Lynda gave me the names of the children as Elizabeth Mary, Gertrude Mary, Edith, Arthur Charles, Harriet Ruth, George Edward, Frederick James, William John and Grace.

Suffolk

The English county of Suffolk contains several places of interest – Hawstead, Bradfield Combust, Hartest and Lawshall. The Stonhams lie four miles east of Stowmarket and include Little Stonham, Stonham Aspal and Earl Stonham. Census data and parish registers are held at the record office in Bury St. Edmunds. Lawshall in the county of Suffolk is in the registration district of Sunbury. In 1871 Lawshall had a population of 870; by 1881 this had declined to 799 and then down to 770 in 1891.

Unverified notes

The 1861 Census shows a Charlotte Bugg (aged 16, which would have been right given she was born in 1845) working as a servant in the house of William Snell, a farmer, of Hawstead.

The 1871 Census shows a Margaret Bugg (aged 8, born 1863), grand-daughter of Robert Bugg and Louisa.

Alice Bugg (born 1867) was the daughter of Robert, a labourer; her mother was Ann of Lawshall.

The problem of verification

I mentioned Jacob Bugg (above) as a possible brother of Margaret. In the census data that I have for the area there are three Jacob Buggs. One born in 1806 who married Eliza (1841 census), another born in 1847/8 at Hawstead (1851 census) and one born in 1803 (1851 census). This highlights the problem of verification. Persons with a name can be verified as a relative only if they have proven connections to known and verified individuals. For example, the 1881 census for Hawstead shows an address called The Flat at Hawstead. The people listed there were Robert Bugg, his wife Louisa, his son Jacob and his gandson William G. Nunn who was aged 6 at the time. These people were all born in either Hawstead or Lawshall, which places them in the right area. The dates of birth, calculated from the ages they gave, seem to tie up more or less.

The primary sources that verify a family connection are certificates of birth, death or marriage or an entry in a parish register that gives enough information to confirm their relationship to known individuals.

See also

Webb

Ive

Home page for the Genealogy channel.

Page last updated 8th November 2022.

05/07/2016
The Locke family

Locke, a family from the UK.

This was originally published on my old blogsite. It is now imported into this, my current blog.

This post was originally published on my old blog called Locke Family. It has been imported into this blog. The old blog site will eventually be deleted. The Locke family – the one I am in – came from Hampshire in England. My ancestors lived in Andover. My mother’s relatives were from Suffolk.

Ivy Doris Locke

My aunt Ivy was born in Andover, Hampshire, in 1905. Later in her life, she moved to South Africa. For many years, I could not find any reference to the date of her death or where she died. It was not until very late in 2022, that I discovered a record suggesting she died in 1997 in Somerset West, Cape Province. That information is still to be verified but it is the first clue I have ever had to her final resting-place.

Portsmouth

I was born in Portsmouth and lived there for the first 16 years of my life.

Here is the house in Portsmouth in which I was born in the 1940s

On my mothers side, the Webbs were from Fulham in London and the Buggs were residents of Suffolk. A variety of other names come into the broader family tree, such as Ive, Applegate, Nook, Clark and Suter. I will be writing about these other branches of the broader family tree. This site is provided in the hope that others will offer information if they have links to the branches of my family trees.

The Locke and the Webb families

The photo below shows three generations of both families, gathered together in Portsmouth in December 1944.

Agnes, Ivy, Mary, Doris, Peter, Derek and Emma at the house in Tangier Road, Portsmouth in 1944

The youngest members of that group ere Mary, born 1941 and Derek, born in 1940. Peter was born in 1938. The oldest members were Agnes born in 1875 (far left) and Emma Webb (nee Bugg) born in 1869 (far right.) Agnes Locke was my father’s mother. Ivy Locke was the daughter of Agnes, my aunt and my father’s sister. Mary and Derek were the children of William Locke (we called him ‘uncle Bill’) of Swindon in Wiltshire. Peter Locke was my brother. Doris was my mother. Emma Webb was my mother’s mother, originally from Lawshall in Suffolk. That is seeing them from my position in the family tree.

Here is another picture of the Locke family.

Lockes: William, Leslie, Ivy, Agnes and Leonard
Circa 1912

I would say that photo was taken in around 1912. Seated in the foreground is Leonard Locke. He died in 1914, apparently killed in a car accident. See our page about The Webbs. See more about the Locke family of Portsmouth.

03/07/2016