Birth: 9 August 1890 Silk House, High Street, Stalbridge, Dorset, UK
Father: Arthur Ashford 1858-1936
Mother: Sarah Mary Scott 1860-1921
Christening: 2 November 1890 Stalbridge, Dorset, UK
Marriage: 13 April 1919 Stalbridge, Dorset, UK
Husband: Reginald Robert Park 1894-1955
Death: July-September 1967 Sturminster, Dorset,UK
Father unknown
Edwin Ashford 1908-1981
Birth of Nellie Ashford in FreeBMD in July-September 1890 in FreeBMD (5a 231).
Entry in Ancestry Dorset, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 for Nellie Ashford baptised 2 November 1890 in Stalbridge, parents Arthur and Sarah Mary Ashford. "Page 81 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Stalbridge in the County of Dorset in the year One thousand eight hundred and ninety. [...] 1890 Nov 2nd No. 642 Nellie [parents] Arthur, [a] Labourer, & Sarah Mary Ashford [of] Silk House, Stalbridge." Her brother John was baptised on the same day in the previous entry.
In the 1891 census as Nellie Ashford aged 2 months, born in Stalbridge, Dorset, and living with her parents (Arthur and Sarah Mary), and four brothers (Fred Chas, John, Sidney and William) in Silk House Yard, High Street, Stalbridge, Dorset.
Her sister was baptised on 1 July 1894 in Stalbridge.
In the 1901 census as Nellie Ashford aged 10, born in Stalbridge, Dorset, and living with her parents (Arthur and Sarah Mary), two brothers (John and Sidney) and sister (Katy) in three rooms at Silkhouse, High Street, Stalbridge, Dorset.
Her son was born in Sturminster in 1908.
In the 1911 census as Nellie Ashford aged 19, born in Stalbridge, Dorset, single, a general domestic servant, and living with her parents (Arthur and Mary), and two brothers (Jack and Sidney) and son (Edwin) in three rooms at Silk House, High Street, Barton, Stalbridge, Dorset.
Entry in Ancestry Dorset, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1921 for the marriage (sic) of Nellie Ashford and Reginald Robert Park on 13 April 1919 in Stalbridge. "Page 27 The Year 1919 No. 79 Banns of Marriage between Reginald Robert Park Bachelor and Nellie Ashford Spinster both of this Parish Were published as follows:- 1st, on Sunday Apr 13 [...] 2nd, on Sunday Apr 20 [...] 3rd, on Sunday Apr 27. May 3. 1919".
Marriage of Nellie Ashford and Reginald R Park in FreeBMD in April-June 1919 in Sturminster (5a 695).
Entry in Ancestry Dorset, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1921 for Nellie Ashford aged 29, father Arthur Ashford, and Reginald Robert Park on 3 May 1919 in Stalbridge. "Page 117 1919 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Stalbridge in the County of Dorset. [No.] 233 May 3 1919 Reginald Robert Park [aged] 35, [a] Bachelor [and] Carman [of] Stalbridge, [father] James Park (Deceased), [and] Nellie Ashford [aged] 29, [a] Spinster [of] Stalbridge, [father] Arthur Ashford, [a] Mason. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in the Presence of us Alice Park and Arthur Ashford".
Two entries in Ancestry Dorset, England, Electoral Registers, 1839-1922 for Nellie Park address Cottage, Cheap Street, Sherborne in 1921 and 1922, other occupant Reginald Park (husband?).
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Nellie Park, born on 9 August 1890, married, and living with Reginald Park (husband?) and Marion Ashford (daughter-in-law?) at 7 Albert Row North Road, Sherborne, Dorset.
Her husband was buried on 14 March 1955 in Sherborne.
Death of Nellie Park in FreeBMD in July-September 1967 aged 77 in Sturminster (7c 120).
There are thirty six entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Nellie Ashford.
Nellie Ashford was the mother of Edwin Ashford, husband of Helene Marion Luff, my half third cousin.
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