Birth: 22 June 1910 Holwell, Hertfordshire, UK
Father: Charles Burr 1870-1927
Mother: Alice Bunyan 1865-1934
Marriage: January-March 1937 Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
Wife: Robina Grace Gibbs 1911-1982
Death: 10 April 1980 3 Bearton Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, UK
Roger Cecil Burr 1939-2006
Maurice C Burr 1942
Birth of Francis C Burr in FreeBMD in July-September 1910 in Hitchin (3a 780).
In the 1911 census as Francis Burr aged 9 months, born in Holwell, and living with his parents (Charles and Alice), three brothers (Frank, Hubert and Reginald) and five sisters (Clara, Ethel, Iva, Hilda and Violet) in Holwell, Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
In the 1921 census as Francis Cecil Burr born in Holwell, Bedfordshire in 1910 and living with Charles and Alice Burr (parents?), Frank Dudley and Reginald Charles Burr (brothers?) and Eva Daisy, Hylda Grace and Violet May Burr (sisters?) in Holwell, Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
Marriage of Cecil F Burr and Robina G Gibbs in FreeBMD in January-March 1937 in Caerleon (11a 498).
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Cecil F Burr born 22 June 1910, married, a builders general foreman, and living with Robina C Burr (wife?) and Roger C Burr (son?) at 30 Holwell Road, Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
His two sons were born in Hitchin in 1939 and 1942.
Death of Cecil Francis Burr, born on 22 June 1910, in FreeBMD in April-June 1980 in Hitchin (10 457).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 for Cecil Francis Burr died 10 April 1980 in Hitchin, Herts, probate 17 June 1980 in Ipswich. "Burr, Cecil Francis of 3 Bearton Av Hitchin Herts died 16 April 1980 Probate Ipswich 17 June £29999".
Entry in Ancestry UK and Ireland, Newspapers.com™ Obituary Index, 1800s-current for Cecil Francis Burr spouse Robina Grace Burr in The Daily Telegraph.
There are thirteen entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Francis Cecil Burr.
Note that Howell which is 2 miles north of Hitchin was in Bedfordshire until 30 September 1897.
Francis Cecil Burr was the father of Roger Cecil Burr, husband of Suzanne C Gardner, wife of Christopher D Vanstone, husband of Susan L G Farrow, wife of Lloyd Peter Izod, first cousin four times removed of George Marden, husband of Elizabeth Hall, my second great grandaunt.
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