Birth: 1828 Fullers Bottom, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Father: William Pook 1803-a1851
Mother: Lucy Shrubb (Shrub) 1802-a1851
Christening: 23 March 1828 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Marriage: January-March 1847 Farnham, Surrey, UK
Husband: Edward Panhirst Winchester 1821-1881
Death: April-June 1911 Guildford, Surrey, UK
Amos Winchester c1847-a1871
Christening of William Pook in the IGI on 23 March 1828 in Headley, Hampshire, parents William and Lucy Pook. The same information is in Headley Baptisms adding her father was a labourer and she was born at Fullers Bottom.
In the 1841 census as Frances Pook aged 13, born in Hampshire, and living with William (father?), Lucy (mother?), John and William (brothers?), and Sarah (sister?) at Fullers Bottom, Headley, Hampshire.
Marriage of Frances Pook and Edward Panhirst Winchester in FreeBMD in January-March 1847 in Farnham (4 121) - note that both Headley and Bramshott were transfered from Farnham to Farnborough on 1 January 1847 and it may have been at Shottermill.
In the 1851 census as Frances Winchester aged 23, born in Headley and living with her husband (Edward Winchester) and son (Amos) at at Kingswood, Shottermill, Frensham, Surrey (between the A3 and B3002 near Grayshott).
In the 1861 census as Frances Winchester aged 34, born in Headley and living with her husband (Edward) and son (Thomas - sic - in the index, Amos on the original) at Kingswood, Pitfold, Frensham, Surrey.
In the 1871 census as Frances Winchester aged 44, born in Headley and living with her husband (Edward) and son (Amos) at Kingswood, Shottermill, Frensham, Surrey.
In the 1881 census as Frances Winchester aged 53, born in Headley, and living with her husband (Edward) at Yew Tree Cottages, Kingswood, Churt and Shottermill, Frensham, Surrey.
Her husband died in 1881.
In the 1891 census as Frances Winchester aged 63, born in Headley, widowed, employed as a housekeeper, and living with James Cover (aged 66, born in Frensham, single, and employed as a grocer) and two boarders (Frank Lawrence aged 44, and born in Frensham and James Pook aged 21 and born in Headley, both single and employed as general labourers) at Grayshot, Headley. Note that I cannot trace James Pook - there is no record of him being born or christened at Headley and I cannot identify him in the earlier censuses unless he is James Doddridge Pook born in 1870 in Curdridge, Hampshire, son of James and Annie Pook).
In the 1901 census as Frances Winchester aged 73, born in Headley, widowed, no stated employment, and living with a boarder (Emily Barton aged 25, born in London, single and employed as a laundress) at Crossways, Grayshott, Hampshire.
Death of Frances Winchester in FreeBMD in April-June 1911 aged 83 in Guildford (2a 67).
Frances Pook was my second cousin three times removed.
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