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Ancestors of Frank Edward Fletcher (1864 - 1946 (82)) and Elizabeth Stringer Fletcher (Procter) (1866 - 1953 (87))
Fletcher chronology, photos and document links Procter chronology, photos and document links
Recent Ancestors (with Portraits) all bmd document links
Robert Procter's Descendants Obituary for Dr F R Fletcher
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All the basic Fletcher information outside of the name of Frank Edward on this page came from detective work with UK census returns, BMD certificates, church records, and, on the Procter side, valuable and gratefully received help from Bill Harrison and Martin Wolfgang. In my youth (and later) nobody ever talked to me about the (West) Yorkshire or Scarborough Fletchers and Procters even though their story is just as interesting as other family branches! You can work out easily what drove John to work his way out of a family of crofter woolcombers, supported by an obviously competent wife, but what led Joseph Procter to drapering and Scarborough (and where was he in 1851?), and what is the story of Frank Edward's move to and training in music ?
Link to photos of the wedding of Frank Edward's eldest son Frank Rex to Ethel Burton in 1915. Map of West Yorkshire
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Frank Edward Fletcher
b 28 February 1864 in Lowertown, Oxenhope, West Yorkshire.
Later relocated with the rest of his family to Scarborough where he somehow found a seriously good music teacher. Then made the big break. Sometime between 1881 and 1890 he became a music teacher ("professor") and moved to Folkestone to practice his chosen profession. Where did he train ???
Married Scarborough girl Elizabeth Procter in April 1889 in the Wesleyan Centenary Chapel (built 1839, capacity 1,800) in Queen Street, Scarborough, and she came down to join him in Folkestone and very quickly start a family - Frank Rex was born in January 1890.
Organist and choirmaster at Christchurch, Folkestone (C of E, though he was brought up as a Wesleyan Methodist), which was destroyed by a German bomb on Sunday 17 May 1942, mercifully between services.
The tower of Christchurch, Folkestone was repaired and the site dedicated as a war memorial garden.
d 1946 (82), Folkestone, Kent
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John Fletcher
b 1824 Oxenhope, West Yorkshire
Broke out of the bottom of the food chain woolcomber mode to become a self employed tradesman - Tin & Iron Plate Worker & Gas Fitter, then a "Master Ironmonger" after he moved his large family to Scarborough between the 1871 and 1881 censuses and later set up shop at 20 North Street.
14 North Marine Drive - the Fletcher residence and ironmonger shop when they first moved to Scarborough in the 1870s.
Several census entries
d Scarborough in Q1 1894 aged 69 (buried Manor Rd Cemetery, grave P18 - 25).
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Thomas Fletcher
b 1801 Yorkshire - woolcomber.
m?
1841 Census - Living at Cold Well (now Oxenhope) (next house to Thomas Snr) - aged 40 - with 5 children aged 6 to 19, including John (17) - no wife.
1851 Census 1861 Census - still at Cold Well with daughter Sally then granddaughter Mary (aged 9 and a spinner in a worsted factory).
d? After 1861
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Thomas Fletcher (assumed to be Thomas' father because of next door residence)
b 1768 Yorkshire (probably Cold-Well)
Woolcomber.
1841 Census 1851 Census (described as "A Proprietor of Houses") - Living with wife Grace at Cold Well (now Oxenhope) (both aged 82 in 1851) alongside Thomas jnr.
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Grace Fletcher ( )
b 1768, Heptonstall
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Shaw Lane winds past Brooksmeeting Mill (centre of photo) and & Coldwell (next right).
Wife not recorded in 1841 census - probably deceased.
They had at least 5 children.
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Maria Fletcher (Dixon)
b c1837 Wadsworth, West Yorkshire
Young teen cotton power loom weaver in 1851 census, living in the (still there) cottage at
Cottage at Brooksmeeting Mill
Brooksmeeting Mill (Shaw Lane, Oxenhope), before she became 14 (possibly 13) year old Mrs John Fletcher at the end of the year (John was 27 - twice her age!), and then mother of 14 children.
They were married on Sunday 29 December 1851 in the new 1,600 seat Wesleyan Methodist “Chapel” in Temple Row, Keighley, on the site of the original Keighley preaching house built in the wake of the first visit of John Wesley to the town in the mid 1700s.
The building is now a mosque. The journey to Keighley would have been a long one in 1851 pre Worth Valley railway miles!
Several census entries with John and their family in Lowertown (Oxenhope) then N Marine Rd, Scarborough. Then after John dies a 1901 census entry as a widow living with two daughters in Scarborough, and then with just one daughter in 1911.
d Scarborough in Q2 1911 aged 74 (buried Manor Rd Cemetery, grave P18 - 25).
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William Dixon
b 1810 Shitlington (now Overton), near Wakefield, W Yorkshire (christened at St Lukes?)
1841 Census - Living at Lower Mill, Wadsworth with wife Susan and 4 young children including Maria.
Then moved with family west (1851 census) to live and work at Brooksmeeting Mill (W Shaw Lane, Oxenhope), some of which is still there building wise (photo left).
Various jobs in cotton industry during long life (70+ years).
By 1861 had moved down to Heywood (near Rochdale) and was there for the censuses of 1861 1871 and 1881.
d 1880s ?
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William Dixon
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Mary Dixon ( )
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Susan Dixon (Sutcliffe)
b 5 May 1811 Heptonstall, West Yorkshire
m on 27 Jun 1831 at St Michael and all Angels (we think), Thornhill (above - SW of Dewsbury, Yorkshire) (Family Search).
1841 Census. 1851 census. At 1861 census visiting dad whilst William and the "kids" are at "new" home in Heywood. Susan is in Heywood for the censuses of 1871 and 1881.
d 1880s ?
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John Sutcliffe
b c1786 Heptonstall, West Yorkshire.
Cotton Spinner Midge Hole, latterly employing c80 people 1841 Census 1851 Census
Then Proprietor, Prospect (Cotton Spinning) Mill, Ovendon (N of Halifax). At 1861 census living there as widower (aged 75) with son and two daughters. Daughter Susan (Dixon) is visiting.
d after 1861
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Elizabeth Sutcliffe ( )
b c1791, Stansfield (?Hansfield) Yorkshire
At 1841 Census - Living with husband & 6 children (Susan already married) in Midge Hole.
d between 1851 and 1861.
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► Marriage Certificate, April 1889 |
Link to the stories of great great grand-parents
and JOSEPH AND ELIZABETH PROCTER
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Elizabeth Stringer Fletcher (Procter)
b 1866, 54 Newborough, Scarborough, East Yorkshire
Mother of 6 (one dying in early childhood).
c1913 Frank Rex, Frank Edward Fletcher, Jack, Doris, Elizabeth (Procter), Hugh, Gwen
Census entry as Procter in 1871
Census entry as Procter 1881 page 2
Census entries as Fletcher from 1891
Farewelling Frank Rex in September 1917 with his wife Ethel and sister Gwen.
She looks to us like a really likeable person in these photos.
3 generations at Folkestone Beach c1928 Elizabeth (Procter) Ethel (Burton) Frank Edward Frank Rex and young Michael
Elizabeth & great grandson Adrian Fletcher late 1940s
d 1953 (87), Folkestone, Kent
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Joseph Procter
ch 8 July 1831, St George's (Wesleyean Methodist) Chapel, Walmgate, York.
1841 census - with parents at George St, Walmgate, York.
Living in Walmgate and was just 10 when his dad died suddenly in 1842.
No 1851 (aged 20) census entry found yet.
m March 1859, in the Wesleyan Centenary Chapel (built 1839, capacity 1,800 - not the rebuilt ugliness that's there now) in Queen Street, Scarborough.
► Marriage Certificate (March 1859)
A master draper - living in and running a large drapers shop (left rear of photo below and building still there today but not a draper) at 108 Westborough - Scarborough's main "new post-railway main drag".
c1900 (above) and 2009 (below)
Business Directory and Census entries from Scarborough in 1861 1871 1881 1891 and 1901
Procter full page ad on page 80 of the 1892 Hagyard Scarborough Directory.
d 17 Nov 1902 (71) in Scarborough (buried Manor Rd Cemetery grave O 0 - 4).
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Robert Procter
b c1794 Barnard Castle
Druggist (as per Joseph's 1859 marriage certificate) / Chemyst
m in All Saints Church, North Street, York on 24 January 1819.
Hammerbeam Roof with Painted Angels All Saints Church, North Street, York
Not to be found in 1820 -30s business directories for York or Barnard Castle. 1841 census - described as Chemyst, in George St, Walmgate, York (at the Fishergate end), living with Elizabeth, 3 daughters and son Joseph. Walmgate was one of the poorest urban areas in Britain at the time with "women sitting on the kerbs smoking pipes."
d suddenly "of apoplexy" on 2 August 1842 (48), which would have plunged his already fairly marginal family into a financial catastrophe. Robert was buried in a public grave in York Cemetery along with 9 other unrelated people (cost 4s 6d each) (grave 8068 coord U20). At some stage post 1873 a "family headstone" was erected (by ? most likely Joseph, who was his only son and had "made it" by then) commemorating Robert, Elizabeth and three of their daughters. Of those mentioned on the headstone only Robert is actually buried in this grave, whilst one of the daughters is buried elsewhere in the cemetery (Elizabeth Lazenby, d1865, grave 6733) and wife Elizabeth lies in St Mary Haxby.
Robert's wife Elizabeth was 40 when he died suddenly in 1842. Nearly 20 years later (in October 1861) she married George Kettlewell, a widower from Haxby, in St Marys Parish Church, Birkenhead. Both were described in the marriage record as being of "full age", though we learned later that technically this just means they were over 21. George died at their home in Haxby in June 1876, aged 78, and was buried alongside Elizabeth in a grave in the Parish Church of St Mary, Haxby, just north of York, where George had been a long term church warden.
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Joseph Procter, son of Robert.
Chemyst Druggist (& Grocer etc) of Barnard Castle - the shop is still there (now an opticians - the white shop below).
b c1764
Parish Church of St Mary, Barnard Castle
m1 12 March 1792 Barnard Castle (St Marys)
Procter Chemyst Shop - Barnard Castle
Pigots Guide 1828 - Chemyst in Barnard Castle
1841 Census - retired & living in Barnard Castle
d c1846 (82)
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Marriages -
1. Mary Procter (Harrison) 1764 - 1797 (33) - Mother of Robert (left) 2. Mary Procter (Monkhouse) 3. Alice Procter (Horne)
All buried in the same grave in St Marys, Barnard Castle, along with a few little children.
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Elizabeth Procter (then Kettlewell) (née Ashton)
ch 6 September 1801 in St Olave, York.
Aged 40 when Robert died suddenly on 2 Aug 1842, nearly 20 years later (on 16 October 1861) Elizabeth married widower George Kettlewell of Haxby in St Marys Parish Church, Birkenhead.
d Sept 22 1873 (72) and buried in the Parish Church of St Mary, Haxby (grave 22/09), to be joined there three years' later by George. Also in the Haxby churchyard is the grave of her daughter Martha Britton (d 1867 aged 32 after just 3 year's of marriage - grave 18 / 10)
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John Ashton
m 20 Oct 1783, Bubwith (All Saints Church), Yorkshire (NE of Selby on the River Derwent). A coachman (as per the second marriage record of daughter Elizabeth).
All Saints Church, Bubwith
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Sarah Ashton (Stubbins)
b Sept 1760 - Bubwith (Yorkshire)
Link to Bubwith - A One Place Study
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108 Westborough (distant right)
Elizabeth Procter (Dobson)
ch 11 Jul 1832, Scarborough
Milliner
Pre Marriage Census entries in 1841 and 1851
d 1911 (79) in Scarborough (buried Manor Rd Cemetery grave O 0 - 4).
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Matthew Dobson
b c1804 - no records yet
Master Mariner (deceased) as per daughter's 1859 wedding certificate; Sailor (alive) as per daughter's 11 July 1832 baptism record.
d before 1851 census (wife a widow), though not around at 1841 census either, and lack of further children after Elizabeth indicates death or disappearance possibly as early as 1833 (ie before government records started). No grave in the records of the Scarborough cemeteries, church records not checked yet (no tombstone anyway).
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Matthew's parents presently unknown.
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St Mary's Parish Church, Scarborough (which had a very early life as a Cistercian outpost)
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Elizabeth Dobson (Stringer)
Christened 19 Oct 1803 at St Marys Parish Church, Scarborough. We have traced her Stringer ancestors back three generations to the early 1700s in the library held records of St Mary's church.
m 27 December 1827, St Mary's Parish Church, Scarborough (church record transcript).
Seamstress / milliner listed in White's 1840 Directory under "Miscellany of Trades" at 6 Tanner Street.
Census entries in 1841 1851 1861 & 1871 Mostly living in Wilsons Almshouses (aka hospital).
d 1880 (77) Scarborough - Grave in Dean Road Cemetery - C 15-23 .
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William Stringer b Nov 1777 m 13 Aug 1797 - St Marys, Scarborough
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Mary Stringer (Short)
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