Birth: 16 October 1887 Scriven with Tentergate, Yorkshire, UK
Father: Fairbank Abbey 1855-1935
Mother: Jane Elsworth 1857-1947
Christening: 13 November 1887 St John the Baptist, Knaresborough, Yorkshire, UK
Marriage: 9 February 1929 St John the Baptist, Knaresborough, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Husband: Frank Killingbeck 1886-1960
Death: 29 December 1983 Abbeyville, 72 Garden Lane, Sherburn in Elmet, North Yorkshire, UK
Buried: St Paul, Hensall, Selby, North Yorkshire, UK
None known
Birth of Helena Abbey in FreeBMD in October-December 1887 in Knaresbro' (9A 101).
Entry in Ancestry North Yorkshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1921 for Helena Abbey born 16 October 1887 and baptised 13 November 1887 at Knaresborough: St John the Baptist, parents Fawbank (sic) and Jane Abbey. "Page 468 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Knaresborough in the County of York in the Year 1887 [...] Nov. 13 born Oct 16 1887 No. 2859 Helena daughter of Fairbank [a] Clerk & Jane Abbey [of] Bond End".
In the 1891 census as Helena Abbey aged 3, born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire and living with her parents (Frederick and Jane) and two sisters (Edith E and Sarah Jane) in Bond End, Scriven with Tentergate, Yorkshire.
In the 1901 census as Helena Abby (sic - on the orinal) aged 13, born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, and living with her parents (Fairbank and Jane), and two sisters (Helena and Sarah Daniel) in Prospect Terrace, Knaresborough, Yorkshire.
In the 1911 census as Helena Abbey aged 23, born in Knaresbro, Yorkshire, single, an elementary school mistress for the county council, and boarding with Arthur Thos Lyall (aged 41, born in Thockton On Tees, Durham and a constructional plater for a gas plant maker), his wife (Annie Elizabeth aged 41 and born in Thornaby-On-Tees, Yorkshire), two daughters (Ada Mary Louisa aged 14 and Annie aged 17 and a milliner, both born in Thornaby-On-Tees, Yorkshire), and his cousin ((Elizabeth Ann Lyall aged 31, born in Thornaby-On-Tees, Yorkshire and single) in six rooms at 3 Oxford Road, Thornaby On Tees, North Riding, Yorkshire.
Helena Abbey was a witness at the marriage of her sister Edith Elsworth and Harold Simpson Ward on 7 August 1913 at St John the Baptist, Knaresborough.
In the 1921 census as Helena Abbey born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire in 1887 and living with Taubank and Jane Abbey (parents?), and Sarah Jane Abbey (sister?) in Knaresborough, Yorkshire (West Riding).
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for Helene (sic - on the original) Abbey address 4 Prospect Terrace, Knaresborough, Ripon in 1930, other occupants Fairbank and Jane Abbey (parents?), and Sarah Jane Abbey (sister?).
Marriage of Helena Abbey and Frank Killingbeck in FreeBMD in January-March 1929 in Knaresbro' (9a 169).
Entry in Ancestry North Yorkshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937 for the marriage of Helena Abbey aged 41, father Fairbank Abbey, and Frank Killingbeck on 9 February 1829 at Knaresborough, St John the Baptist. "Page 59 1929. Marriage solemnized at The Parish Church in the Parish of Knaresborough in the County of York. [No.] 117 February Ninth 1929 Frank Killingbeck [aged] yrs 42 [a] Bachelor [and] Farmer [of] Hensall House, Hensall, York [father] Thomas Hiscroft Killingbeck (deceased) [a] Farmer, [and] Helena Abbey [aged] yrs 41 [a] Spinster [of] 4 Prospect Terrace, Knaresborough [father] Fairbank Abbey [a] Retired Law Clerk. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church by License [...] in the Presence of us Thomas Laycock, Fairbank Abbey [and] Amy Abbey.
There are nine entries in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for Helena Killingbeck address Hensall, Pontefract from 1931 to 1938, other occupant Frank Killingbeck (husband?) plus several other Killingbecks but the house names are not stated.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Helena Killingbeck born 16 October 1887, married, and living with Frank Killingbeck (husband?) and one other at Hensall House, Osgoldcross, Yorkshire (West Riding).
There are twelve entries in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for Helena Killingbeck address Fairbank, Hensall, Goole from 1949 to 1961, other occupant Frank Killingbeck (husband?) to 1959, in 1961 he was living at Weeland Cottages woth Dorothy Killingbeck.
Her husband died on 30 August 1960 at Faircroft, Hensell, Goole.
Death of Helena Killingbeck, born 16 October 1887, in FreeBMD in October-December 1983 in Selby (2 2534).
Entry in Find a Grave for Helena Killingbeck died 29 December 1983 and buried in St Paul, Hensall, Selby, North Yorkshire. "In Loving Memory Of/Frank/The Dear ? ? ? Killingbeck/Who Died August 30th 1960/Aged 73 Years/Also Wife of the Above/Helena Killingbeck/Who Died December 29th 1983/Aged 96 Years".
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Helena Killingbeck died 29 December 1983 in Sherburn-in-Elmet, North Yorks, probate 26 March 1984 in Leeds. "Killingbeck, Helena of 72 Garden La Sherburn-in-Elmet North Yorks died 29 December 1983 Probate Leeds 26 March £75279".
There are twenty five entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Helena Abbey.
Note that Selby was transfered from West Riding Yorkshire to North Yorkshire in 1974.
Helena Abbey 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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