See also

Family of Christopher Benstead and Edith Maud Bowtle

Husband: Christopher Benstead

  • Name:

  • Christopher Benstead2,3

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • horse trainer4

  • Note:

  •  

  •  

  •  

  • BENSTEAD, Christopher Turbine Stud 1941 - Father of Ian and C.John Benstead, Chris Benstead was a leading trainer under Pony Club Rules. He trained ponies at Ruxley Lodge, Claygate, c. 1932 - 1938, and was later based at the Turbine Stud

  • Birth:

  • 21 Aug 18965

  •  

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 43)

  • Turbine Stud Highfield Farm, Woodcote Side, Epsom, Surrey, England5

  •  

  • a married trainer (Pony - Turf Club Rules) living with his wife, a daughter, four closed records and a stable lad. Born on 21st August 1896

  • Death:

  • Q4 1969 (age 73)

  • Chichester "Registration District", West Sussex, England6

Wife: Edith Maud Bowtle

  • Name:

  • Edith Maud Bowtle2,7,8

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • John Bowtle (1861- )

  • Mother:

  • Ellen Dennis (1867?-1942)

  • Birth:

  • 18 Aug 1902

  • Westminster, London, England5,7,8

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 8)

  • 5 North London Cottages, Market Road, Islington, London, England8

  •  

  • a daughter attending school and living in four rooms with her parents John and Ellen, and sister Dorothy. Born in Westminster London

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 37)

  • Turbine Stud Highfield Farm, Woodcote Side, Epsom, Surrey, England5

  •  

  • married doing unpaid domestic duties and living with her husband, a daughter, four closed records and a stable lad. Born on 18th August 1902

  • Death:

  • Q3 1987 (age 84-85)

  • Surrey "Mid Eastern Registration District", Surrey, England9

Child 1: Patricia Benstead

  • Name:

  • Patricia Benstead5,10

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • Bernard Ernest Hatfield (1913-1997)

  • Birth:

  • 19 Feb 1922

  • Epsom "Registration District", Surrey, England5,10

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 17)

  • Turbine Stud Highfield Farm, Woodcote Side, Epsom, Surrey, England5

  •  

  • an unmarried drapery clerk out of work living with her parents, four closed records and a stable lad. Born on 19th February 1922. Married a Hatfield at a later date

Child 3: Myra Benstead

  • Name:

  • Myra Benstead11

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 7 Jul 1933

  • Kingston "Registration District", Surrey, England11,12

  • Death:

  • Aug 1994 (age 61)

  • Chichester "Registration District", West Sussex, England12

Note on Marriage

divorce assumed as Edith marriaed again before Christopher died

Sources

1.

Deb Woollard personal communication. BDM on Ancestry.co.uk.

2.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Epsom 1921 quarter:4 volume:2a page:84. Cit. Date: 25 February 2018.

3.

Deb Woollard personal communication. BDM.

4.

Internet Web Site. http://www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk/RacehorseTrainersAtEpsomA-Z.pdf Book RACEHORSE TRAINING AT EPSOM - Over 400 trainers, over 50 stables, over 300 big race winners. By BILL EACOTT. Cit. Date: 25 February 2018.

5.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG101 piece:1415A page:20 line:40 letter code:CNYK. Cit. Date: 25 February 2018.

6.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Chichester 1969 quarter:4 volume:5h page:1792. Cit. Date: 1 September 2018.

7.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). St. George Hanover Square 1902 quarter:3 volume:1a page:495. Cit. Date: 27 February 2018.

8.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG14 piece:847 class:RG78 piece:30 registration district:410 sub-district:4 enumeration district:6 schedule:372. Cit. Date: 1 September 2018.

9.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Surrey Mid Eastern 1987 quarter:3 register:887 volume@17 page:83. Cit. Date: 1 September 2018.

10.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Epsom 1922 quarter:1 volume:2a page:63. Cit. Date: 25 February 2018.

11.

Ibid. Kingston 1933 quarter:3 volume:2a page:819. Cit. Date: 25 February 2018.

12.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Chichester 1994 quarter:3 district:7793 register:C39 entry:92 date:0894. Cit. Date: 1 September 2018.