Amy Abbey (1896-1960)

Dates

Birth: 12 June 1896 Knaresborough, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Father: Frederick Abbey 1849-1914
Mother: Emma Luty 1857-1928

Christening: Unknown

Marriage: Believed not married

Death: January-March 1960 Claro, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK

Children

None known

Notes

Birth of Amy Abbey in FreeBMD in July-September 1896 in Knaresbro' (9a 97).

In the 1901 census as Amy Abbey aged 4, born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, and living with her parents (Frederick and Emma), two brothers (Alfred F and Frederick F) and two sisters (Amy and Clara) at Long Walk Cottage, Knaresborough St John the Baptist, West Riding, Yorkshire.

In the 1911 census as Amy Abbey aged 14, born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, a laundry hand, and living with her parents (Fredick and Emma), two brothers (Alfred F and Frederick F), two sisters (Florence and Clara), and widowed grandmother (Ann Luty) in five rooms at Cheapside, Knaresbrough, Yorkshire (West Riding).

Her father died in January-March 1914 in Knaresborough.

In the 1921 census as Amy Abbey born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire in 1896 and living with Emma Abbey (mother?), Alfred Fanbank and Frederick Fainbank Abbey (brothers?), Florence (sister?) and one other in Knaresborough, Yorkshire (West Riding).

Amy Abbey was a witness to the marriage of her cousin Helena to Frank Killingbeck on 9 September 1929 at St John the Baptist, Knaresborough.

In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Ary (sic - in the index. Amy on the handwritten original) Abbey, born 12 June 1896, single and living with Alfred F Abbey (brother?) and Flrina Abbey (sister?) at 6 Church Lane, Knaresborough, Yorkshire (West Riding).

There are twenty entries in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for Amy Abbey address 6 Church Street, Knaresborough, Ripon changing to Harrogate in 1949 from 1918 to 1962, other occupants Alfred Fairbank (brother?) in 1930 to 1940, Alfred F Abbey (brother?) from 1945 to 1948, and Florence Abbey (sister?) 1930 to 1940.

Death of Amy Abbey in FreeBMD in January-March 1960 aged 64 in Claro (2c 150).

There are nineteen entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Amy Abbey.

Knaresborough became part of Claro in 1947.

Relationship

Amy Abbey was the second cousin of Thomas Abbey, husband of Ruth Cross, first cousin once removed of Albert Alfred Cross, husband of Florence Violet Luff, my half second cousin once removed.

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