See also

Family of Alexander Walter Sinclair and Ellen Parish

  • Husband:

  • Alexander Walter Sinclair (1889-1964)

  • Wife:

  • Ellen Parish (1889-1966)

  • Marriage:

  • Q2 1947

  • Ipswich "Registration District", Suffolk, England1

Husband: Alexander Walter Sinclair

  • Name:

  • Alexander Walter Sinclair1 2

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • automobile engineer then a motor diesel fuel injection engineer3 4

  • Birth:

  • 16 Oct 1889

  • Barcelona, Spain3 4

  • Census absence:

  • 5 Apr 1891 (age 1)

  •  

  •  

  • presumably in Spain

  • Census absence:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 11)

  •  

  •  

  • presumably in Spain

  • Census absence:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 21)

  •  

  •  

  • presumably in Spain

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 33 yrs 8 mns)

  • 154 London Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, England3

  •  

  • married head of the household working as an automobile engineer in the High Street Ipswich and living in six rooms with his wife Florence, daughters Barbara, Joan and Pamela, son Alexander and as yet un-named. Born in Barcelona Spain

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 49)

  • 115 St. Helens Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England4

  •  

  • a widowed travelling motor diesel fuel injection engineer living alone. Born on 16th October 1889

  • Death:

  • btw 30 Oct 1964 and 2 Nov 1964 (age 77)

  • Ipswich "Registration District", Suffolk, England2 5

  • Probate:

  • 12 Nov 1965

  • Probate Registry, Arcade Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England5

  •  

  • of 165 St. Helens Street Ipswich who was last seen alive on 30th October 1964 and whose dead body was found on 2nd November 1964 at 165 St. Helens Street, probate of £7,340 (~£129,000 in 2017) to Walter Horace Mulley solicitor

Wife: Ellen Parish

  • Name:

  • Ellen Parish6 7

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Nickname:

  • Nellie

  • Father:

  • Frederick Parish (1859-1923)

  • Mother:

  • Keziah Edwards (1863-1943)

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • domestic servant then as a parlour maid8 9

  • Birth:

  • 26 Mar 1889

  • Shelland, Suffolk, England6 10 8 9 11 12

  •  

  • 1911 census says born in Onehouse Suffolk, 1921 census says born in Ipswich Suffolk

  • Baptism:

  • 16 Jun 1889 (age 0)

  • King Charles the Martyr Church, Church Lane, Shelland, Suffolk, England7

  •  

  • daughter of Frederic Parish (horseman) and Kezia of Shelland

  • Census:

  • 5 Apr 1891 (age 2)

  • Shelland Green, Shelland, Suffolk, England10

  •  

  • daughter living in three rooms with her parents Frederick and Keziah, and sisters Jane and Maria. Born in Shelland Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 12)

  • Ipswich Road, Stowmarket, Suffolk, England8

  •  

  • a domestic servant as Nellie living with Edwin and Alice Cocksedge and family. Born in Shelland Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 22)

  • 71 Upper Berkeley Street, Marylebone, London, England9

  •  

  • a spinster working a parlour maid and living in twenty-one rooms with widowed Jane Rutherford, her niece, and four other servants. Born in Onehouse Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 31 yrs 3 mns)

  • 343 Cavendish Road, Balham, London, England11

  •  

  • married wife doing home duties and living in three rooms with her husband Frederick, and son Basil. Born in Ipswich Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 50)

  • 112 St. Helens Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England12

  •  

  • married doing unpaid domestic duties and living with her husband Fred, and her son Basil. Born on 26th March 1889 and married a Sinclair at a later date

  • Death:

  • 18 Jan 1966 (age 76)

  • Tregea, Perranporth, Cornwall, England13 14

  •  

  • note that the death index gives Ellen's age as 71

  • Probate:

  • 17 Oct 1967

  • Probate Registry, Arcade Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England14

  •  

  • of 9 Marcus Hill Newquay Cornwall died 18th January 1966 at Tregea Private Home Perranporth Cornwall, probate of £3,782 (~£61,000 in 2017) to Walter Horace Mulley solicitor

Note on Husband: Alexander Walter Sinclair

Alexander previously married Florence Nelly Dale (c1895-1927) in the second quarter of 1912 in Ipswich registration district3 15 16

Sources

1.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Ipswich 1947 quarter:2 volume:4b page:2340. Cit. Date: 14 November 2025.

2.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1964 quarter:4 volume:4b page:834. Cit. Date: 15 November 2025.

3.

England and Wales Census 1921, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive series:RG15 piece:9400 registration district:213 sub-district:1 enumeration district:8 schedule:23. Cit. Date: 15 November 2025.

4.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG101 piece:6598C page:15 line:12 letter code:TVAI. Cit. Date: 15 November 2025.

5.

UK Government Probate Service, UK Government Find a Will, (on-line at www.probatesearch.service.gov.uk, www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Ipswich 1965 page:347. Cit. Date: 15 November 2025.

6.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2023, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Stow 1889 quarter:2 volume:4a page:758. Cit. Date: 1 November 2025.

7.

Suffolk Family History Society All Baptisms Suffolk 1813-1900, (SFK-BPI/P1-1 own copy). Shelland King Charles the Martyr baptisms entry:219. Cit. Date: 1 November 2025.

8.

England and Wales Census 1901, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG13 piece:1762 folio:23 page:4 schedule:22. Cit. Date: 13 November 2025.

9.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG14 piece:537 class:RG78 piece:19 registration district:7 sub-district:2 enumeration district:1 schedule:7. Cit. Date: 13 November 2025.

10.

England and Wales Census 1891, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG12 piece:1455 folio:96 page:3 schedule:17. Cit. Date: 1 November 2025.

11.

England and Wales Census 1921, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive series:RG15 piece:2419 registration district:26 sub-district:7 enumeration district:23 schedule:410. Cit. Date: 13 November 2025.

12.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG101 piece:6610G page:6 line:35 letter code:TVON. Cit. Date: 13 November 2025.

13.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Truo 1966 quarter:1 volume:7a page:296. Cit. Date: 15 November 2025.

14.

UK Government Probate Service, UK Government Find a Will, (on-line at www.probatesearch.service.gov.uk, www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Ipswich 1967 page:297. Cit. Date: 14 November 2025.

15.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Ipswich 1912 quarter:2 volume:4a page:2087. Cit. Date: 15 November 2025.

16.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1927 quarter:1 volume:4a page:1516. Cit. Date: 15 November 2025.