Birth: January-March 1875 Metfield, Suffolk, UK
Father: John Pretty 1844-1922
Mother: Susanna Sadd 1848-1927
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: April-June 1900 Mutford, Suffolk, UK
Wife: Lilian Theodora Twigg 1876-1947
Death: April-June 1939 Lothingland, Suffolk, UK
Winifred Lilian Pretty [Kerridge] 1901-1969
Birth of William Pretty in FreeBMD in January-March 1875 in Hoxne (4a 598).
In the 1881 census as William Pretty aged 5, born in Metfield, Suffolk, and living with his parents (William and Susanna), three brothers (Frederick, George and John), and two sisters (Eva and Mary Ann) by the church in Metfield, Suffolk.
In the 1891 census as William Pretty aged 15, born in Metfield, Suffolk, and a farmer's servant living with Samuel Read (aged 77, born in Hempnall, Norfolk and a farmer and employer), his wife (Anna aged 53 and born in Hempnall, Norfolk), brother-in-law Charles More aged 62, born in Hempnall, Norfolk, single and a farmer's brother-in-law) and three nieces (Martha More aged 28, born in Hempnall, Norfolk, single and no stated employment, Anna More aged 21, born in London, single and no stated employment, and Anna More aged 2 and born in North Walsham, Norfolk, all visiting) by Fordingfield Road, Metfield, Suffolk
Marriage of William Pretty and Lilian Theodora Twigg in FreeBMD in April-June 1900 in Mutford (4a2003).
His daughter was born in Lowestoft in 1900.
In the 1901 census as William Putty (sic - in the index, original illegible) aged 26, born in Metfield, Suffolk, a domestic gardener, and living with his wife (Lilian Putty), daughter (Winifred Pretty), two boarders (Annie Grave born in Fakenham, Norfolk, and Esther Havers aged 21 and born in Norwich, Norfolk, both single and draper's assistants), all living with his parents-in-law (Job and Catherine Twigg) at 14 Arnold Street, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
In the 1911 census as William Pretty aged 36, born in Metfield, Suffolk, a retail coal merchant and employer, and living with his wife (Lilian J), daughter (Winifred L), and widowed grandmother (Catherine Twigg) in six rooms at 14 Arnold Street, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Death of William Pretty in FreeBMD in April-June 1939 aged 64 in Lothingland ((4a 1216).
There are three entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for William Pretty born in Metfield, Suffolk in 1876, parents John Pretty and Susanna Sadd, one adding his marriage to Lilian Theodora Twigg in Mutford in June 1900, and his daughter.
Note that Mutford became part of Lothingland in 1935.
William Pretty was the father of Winifred Lilian Pretty, wife of Wilfred Ernest Kerridge, Felicity's fourth cousin three times removed.
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