Birth: 30 July 1916 Spring Gardens, Aldborough, Boroughbridge, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Father: William Fairbank Abbey 1853-1937
Mother: Amy Elsworth Reynard 1878-1940
Christening: 2 September 1916 St Andrew, Aldborough, Boroughbridge, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Marriage: July-September 1943 Bradford, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Husband: Samuel John Weir 1915-1977
Death: 6 January 1998 Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK
Adrienne F Weir [Stoneman] 1948-a1981
Birth of Hilda M Abbey, mother's maiden name Reynard, in FreeBMD in July-September 1916 in Gt. Ouseburn (9A 126).
Entry in Ancestry North Yorkshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1921 for Hilda Mary Abbey born 30 July 1916, baptised 2 September 1916 in Aldborough, parents William Fairbank and Amy Abbey. "Page 176 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Aldborough in the County of York in the Year 1916 and 1917. Sept 2nd 1916 No. 3187 Hilda Mary [parents] William Fairbank [a] Labourer [and] Amy Abbey of Spring Gardens, Aldborough, Born July 30 1916".
In the 1921 census as Hilda Mary Albey (sic) born in Boroughbridge, Yorkshire in 1916 and living with William Fairbank and Amy Albey (parents?), Horace Albey (brother?), and Amy Kathleen and Hilda Mary Albey (sisters?) in Embsay with Eastby, Skipton, Yorkshire (West Riding).
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for Hilda Mary Abbey address 12 Ermysted Street, Skipton in 1931, other occupants Amy Abbey (mother?) and Thomas Webb.
Her father died in October-December 1937 in Skipton.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Hilda M Abbey, changed to Weir on the original, West in the index) born on 30 July 1916, single, a house keeper in private service, and living with Amy Abbey (widowed mother?), Amy K Abbey (sister?) and Brenda K Abbey (neice?) and one other (neice?) at 12 Water Street, Skipton, Yorkshire.
There are two entries in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for Hilda Mary Abbey address 12 Water Street, Skipton in 1940, other occupants Amy Abbey (mother?) and Amy Kathleen Abbey (sister?), and at 2 Salisbury Street, Skipton in 1940, other occupants Percy Wright and Bertha Stephenson.
Her mother died in July-September 1940 in Skipton.
Marriage of Hilda M Abbey and Samuel J Weir in FreeBMD in July-September 1943 in Bradford (9B 204).
Her daughter was registered in July-September 1948 in Bradford.
Her husband died in October-December 1977 in Bradford.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Hilda Mary Weir, born on 30 July 1916, in January 1998 in Bradford (B58A 0811B).
Eight entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Hilda Mary Abbey adding her death on 6 January 1998.
Note that Bradford was transfered from West Riding, Yorkshire into West Yorkshire in 1974. Aldborough was a parish in 1916 but became part of Boroughbridge in 1938, and was transfered from West Riding to North Yorkshire in 1974.
Hilda Mary 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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