Birth: 15 August 1902 Goldsborough, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Father: Unknown
Mother: Emma Gertrude Abbey [Kelly, Lister] 1882-1966
Marriage: January-March 1926 North Bierley, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Wife: Louisa Oakes 1903-1951
Marriage: January-March 1952 Halifax, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Wife: Lois Eleanor Smith 1901-1959
Marriage: January-March 1926 North Bierley, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Husband: Alice Sawkill b1955-a1960
Death: 13 January 1978 42 New Park Road, Queensbury, West Yorkshire, UK
Minie Abbey 1926-1926
Doris Abbey 1928
Annie Abbey [Balme, Lees] 1922-2006
Birth of Arthur Francis Abbey in FreeBMD in July-September 1902 in Knaresbro (9A 99).
His sister was born in Goldsborough in 1904, father unknown.
His mother married Alfred Lister in Wetherby in 1909.
In the 1911 census as Arthur Francis Abbey aged 8, born in Goldsborough, Yorkshire, and living with his mother (Emma Gertrude Lister), stepfather (Alfred Lister), sister (Edith), (half)brother (Alfred Lister), three sons of his stepfather (Bertie, Henry Joshia and Norris), and his stepfather's daughter (Ileen) in four rooms at Horse Fair, Wetherby, Yorkshire.
His stepfather died in Wetherby shortly after the census, and his mother married Daniel Joseph Kelly in Bradford in 1917.
In the 1921 census as Arthur F Abbey born in Goldsborough, Yorkshire in 1903 and living with Emma S Kelly (mother?), Edith Abbey (sister?), Daniel Kelly (stepfather?), Kathleen Kelly (half-sister?) and Alfred and Herbert Lister (half-brothers?) and Irene Lister (half-sister) in Bradford, Yorkshire (West Riding).
Marriage of Arthur F Abbey and Louisa Oakes in FreeBMD in January-March 1926 in N.Bierley (9B 59).
His first daughter was born in Bradford in 1926, and second and third in Halifax in 1928 and 1933.
Four entries in Ancestry All West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for Arthur Francis Abbey address 1 Cape of Good Hope, Queensbury, Elland from 1929 to 1934, other occupant Louisa Abbey (wife?), and five entries for Francis Abbey, address 30 Roper Lane, Queensbury and Shelf, Elland from 1935 to 1939, other occupant Louisa Abbey (wife?).
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Arthur F Abbey born 15 August 1902, married, a colliery hewer below ground, and living with Louisa Abbey (wife?) and two others at 30 Roper Lane, Queensbury and Shelf, Yorkshire (West Riding).
Three entries in Ancestry All West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for Arthur Abbey address address 30 Roper Lane, Queensbury and Shelf, Elland from 1945 to 1948, other occupant Louisa Abbey (wife?) in 1945.
His wife died in Bradford in 1951.
Marriage of Arthur F Abbey and Lois E Smith in FreeBMD in January-March 1952 in Halifax (2b 1493).
His wife resident of 17 Roper Lane, Queensbury died on 29 January 1959 at Crossfield Bus Station, Halifax and left effects of £160 0s. 4d. to her husband Arthur Francis Abbey.
Marriage of Arthur F Abbey and Alice Sawkill in FreeBMD in January-March 1960 in Calder (2b 617).
Death of Arthur Francis Abbey, born on 15 August 1902, in FreeBMD in January-March 1978 in Bradford (4 447).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 for Arthur Francis Abbey died 13 January 1978 in Queensbury, Bradford, probate 14 March 1978 in Leeds. "Abbey, Arthur Francis of 42 New Park Rd Queensbury Bradford died 13 January 1978 Probate Leeds 14 March £1789".
There are twenty eight entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Arthur Francis Abbey.
Arthur Francis Abbey was the second cousin once removed 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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