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Family of Francis George Spraggins and May Florence Chisnall

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St Clement 18 04 2017

  • Husband:

  • Francis George Spraggins (1901-1969)

  • Wife:

  • May Florence Chisnall (1903- )

  • Status:

  • Divorced

  • Marriage:

  • 21 Apr 1924

  • St. Clement's Church, Star Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, England1 2

  •  

  • Francis a bachelor working as a flour packer of 3 Holy Wells Cottages Bishop's Hill and son of Arthur James Spraggins a stockman. May a spinster of 18 Waterworks Street and daughter of James Chisnall a deceased sack dresser. Married banns and witnessed by William Francis Garnham and Elizabeth Irene Alice Ward

Husband: Francis George Spraggins

  • Name:

  • Francis George Spraggins3 1 4

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Arthur Thomas Spraggins (1861-1929)

  • Mother:

  • Alice Francis (1864-1934)

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • millers labourer then a flour packer5 6

  • Birth:

  • 2 Oct 1901

  • Ipswich, Suffolk, England3 7 5 6 4

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 9)

  • 3 Holywells Cottage, Bishop's Hill, Ipswich, Suffolk, England7

  •  

  • son living in four rooms with his parents Arthur and Alice, and half-brother William Garnham. Born in Ipswich Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 19 yrs 8 mns)

  • 3 Holywells Cottage, Bishop's Hill, Ipswich, Suffolk, England5

  •  

  • unmarried son working as a millers labourer for Cranfields millers and merchants of Ipswich and living in four rooms with his parents Arthur and Alice, nephew Frederick Garnham, and his widowed grandmother Lucy Francis. Born in Ipswich Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 37)

  • 16 Chevallier Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England6

  •  

  • a married flour packer (heavy worker) living with his wife Margaret, and a Jesse Neeve. Born 2nd October 1901

  • Death:

  • Q2 1969 (age 67)

  • Ipswich "Registration District", Suffolk, England4

Wife: May Florence Chisnall

  • Name:

  • May Florence Chisnall8 9

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • James Chisnall (1857?- )

  • Mother:

  • Sarah Anne Clarke Rainbird (1865-1923)

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • parlourmaid10

  • Birth:

  • Q1 1903

  • Hadleigh, Suffolk, England8 11 10

  • Baptism:

  • 15 Dec 1903 (age 0)

  • St. Mary's Church, Church Street, Hadleigh, Suffolk, England9

  •  

  • daughter of James Chisnall (cloth dresser) and Sarah Ann of Hadleigh, born on 25th April 1903 (note that her birth was registered in the first quarter of 1903 so this cannot be correct), and baptised with sister Francis, and brother William

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 8)

  • 13 Angel Square, Hadleigh, Suffolk, England12

  •  

  • daughter living in four rooms with her parents James and Sarah, sisters Elizabeth, Bessie and Frances, and brothers Charlie, William, Arthur, Sidney and Fredie. Born in Hadleigh Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 18 yrs 4 mns)

  • 7 Homefield Road, Wimbledon, Surrey, England10

  •  

  • a unmarried parlourmaid living in ten rooms with Charles and Helen Holland and family, and a cook. Born in Hadleigh Suffolk

Note on Marriage

Confirmed from marriage to Cissie Rose13

Note on Wife: May Florence Chisnall

Unsure what happened to May, her husband Francis remarried in 1935 but no trace of her can be found

Sources

1.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Ipswich 1924 quarter:2 volume:4a page:2242. Cit. Date: 8 November 2019.

2.

Ancestry Suffolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1949, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich St. Clement marriages 1923-1936 page:10 entry:20. Cit. Date: 8 September 2025.

3.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2023, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1901 quarter:4 volume:4a page:1044. Cit. Date: 8 November 2019.

4.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1969 quarter:2 volume:4b page:2227. Cit. Date: 8 November 2019.

5.

England and Wales Census 1921, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive series:RG15 piece:9425 registration district:213 sub-district:2 enumeration district:2 schedule:55. Cit. Date: 8 September 2025.

6.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG101 piece:6600D page:19 line:27 letter code:TVAV. Cit. Date: 8 November 2019.

7.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG14 piece:10827 class:RG78 piece:585 registration district:213 sub-district:2 enumeration district:2 schedule:308. Cit. Date: 8 September 2025.

8.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2023, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Cosford 1903 quarter:1 volume:4a page:949. Cit. Date: 6 November 2019.

9.

Ancestry Suffolk, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1924, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk). Hadleigh St. Mary baptisms 1899-1924 page:26 entry:204. Cit. Date: 9 September 2025.

10.

England and Wales Census 1921, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive series:RG15 piece:3598 registration district:40 sub-district:1 enumeration district:6 schedule:197. Cit. Date: 18 May 2025.

11.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG14 piece:10586 class:RG78 piece:568 registration district:206 sub-district:2 enumeration district:4 schedule:171. Cit. Date: 2 April 1911.

12.

Ibid. Cit. Date: 6 November 2019.

13.

Ancestry Suffolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1949, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich St. Clement marriages 1923-1936 page:120 entry:239. Cit. Date: 8 September 2025.