Birth: 22 December 1877 Knaresborough, Yorkshire, UK
Father: John Abbey (Abbay) 1845-1915
Mother: Sarah King 1850-1913
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Believed not marrued
Partner: Margaret Dearden King [Surr] 1874-1942
Death: July 1948 18 Walmsgate, Barnoldswick, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK Burial: 8 July 1948 St Michael, Bracewell, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
None known
Birth of James Henry Abbey in FreeBMD in January-March 1878 in Knaresbro' (9a 98).
In the 1881 census as James Abbey aged 3, born in Knaresboro, Yorkshire, and living with his parents (John and Sarah), (half-)brother (John), and two sisters (Harriet and Mary A) in Windsor Lane, Knaresborough, Yorkshire.
In the 1891 census as James H Abbey aged 13, born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, and living with his parents (John and Sara), brother (Tom R), (half-)brother (John), and three sisters (Harriet, Margaret M and Mary A) in four rooms in Windsor Lane, Knaresborough, Yorkshire.
In the 1901 census as James Abbey aged 23, born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, single, a bricklayer, and living with his parents (John and Sarah), brother (Tom R), and sister (Margaret M) in Gracious Street, Knaresborough, Yorkshire.
In the 1911 census as James Abbey aged 33, born in Knaresbro, Yorkshire, single, a bricklayer, and living with his parents (John and Sarah), and brother (Thomas) in six rooms in Chapel Street, Knaresborough, Yorkshire West Riding.
In the 1921 census as J H Abbey born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, and living with Mariam Abbey (I believe this was Margaret Deardon King who was still married to William Surr) and Jenny Abbey Jenny Abbey (I believe she was Jenny A Surr registered with her mother's maiden name Waddington and related to Margaret's true husband rather than to Margaret) in Barnoldswick, Skipton, Yorkshire (West Riding).
There are seventeen entries in Ancestry All West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for James Henry Abbey addresses 11 Westgate, Barnoldswick, Skipton from 1919 to 1920, 9 Westgate, Barnoldswick, Skipton from 1921 to 1924, 14 Westgate, Barnoldswick, Skipton from 1925 to 1931, other occupant Marion Abbey (I believe this was Margaret Deardon King who was still married to William Surr) from 1929, 7 East View, Barnoldswick, Skipton in 1934, other occupant Marion Abbey (I believe this was Margaret Deardon King who was still married to William Surr), 5 Croft Street, Skipton in 1935, other occupant Miriam Abbey (I believe this was Margaret Deardon King who was still married to William Surr) and another family, 13 Queen Street, Barnoldswick, Skipton in 1936, other occupant Margaret Abbey (I believe this was Margaret Deardon King who was still married to William Surr), 11 Westgate, Barnoldswick, Skipton from 1937 to 1938, other occupant Marion Abbey (I believe this was Margaret Deardon King who was still married to William Surr), and 38 Church Street, Barnoldswick, Skipton in 1939, other occupant Margaret Abbey (I believe this was Margaret Deardon King who was still married to William Surr), and Jenny Abbey (I believe she was Jenny A Surr registered with her mother's maiden name Waddington and related to Margaret's true husband rather than to Margaret).
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as James H Abbey born 22 December 1877, married, a bricklayer, and living with Margaret Abbey (I believe this was Margaret Deardon King who was still married to William Surr), Jenne Albus (sic - in the index, Jenny Abbey on the original changed to Kate in the index, but should be Tate as she married Norman Tate in Staincliffe in 1949, born 17 May 1917, single and a cotton weaver - I believe this was Jenny A Surr registered with her mothers maiden name Waddington and related to Margaret's true husband) and one other at 18 Walmsgate, Baroldswick, Yorkshire (West Riding).
There is an entry in Ancestry All West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for James Henry Abbey address 18 Walmsgate, Barnoldswick, Skipton in 1940, other occupants Margaret Abbey (I believe this was Margaret Deardon King who was still married to William Surr).
Margaret King died in Skipton in 1942.
There are four entries in Ancestry All West Yorkshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1840-1962 for James H Abbey address 18 Walmsgate, Barnoldswick, Skipton from 1945 to 1948, other occupant Jenny Abbey (I believe she was Jenny A Surr registered with her mothers maiden name Waddington and related to Margaret's true husband).
Death of James H Abbey in FreeBMD in July-September 1948 aged 70 in Staincliffe (2d 264).
Entry in Ancestry Lancashire, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1986 for James Henry Abbey buried 8 July 1948 in Bracewell, Lancashire. "Page 96 Burials in the Parifh of St Michael Bracewell in the County of York in the Year 1847 [...] James Henry Abbey No. 768 [of] 18 Walmsgate Barnoldswick [on] July 8 1948 [aged 70 years".
There are thirty one entries in Ancestry Family Trees for James Henry Abbey.
St Michael Bracewell is 2 miles NW of Barnoldswick. Both are in Lancashire but were in the West Riding prior to 1974.
James Henry Abbey was the first 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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