Birth: October 1860 Cranbrook, Kent, UK
Father: John Gurr 1829-1913
Mother: Caroline Rofe c1835-1907
Christening: 28 October 1860 Cranbrook, Kent, UK
Marriage: 20 January 1891 St John the Evangelist, Stoke next Guildford, Surrey, UK
Wife: Emily Stannard 1867-1942
Death: October-December 1936 NE Surrey, UK
George Stannard Gurr 1892-1953
Sophia Gurr 1893-1895
Dorothy Lucy Gurr [Weston] 1896-1979
Birth of George Gurr in FreeBMD in October-December 1860 in Cranbrook (2a 463).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for George Gurr baptised on 28 October 1860 in Cranbrook, Kent, parents John and Caroline Gurr.
In the 1861 census as George Gurr aged 7 months, born in Goudhurst, Kent and living with his parents (John and Caroline) and sister (Sophia) in Florden, Goudhurst, Kent.
In the 1871 census as George Gurr aged 10 months, born in Goudhurst, Kent and living with his parents (John and Caroline) and two sisters (Emily and Sophia) in Back Lane, Hunton, Kent.
In the 1881 census as George Gurr aged 20, born in Goudhurst, Kent and a groom living with Henry William Evans (aged 71, born in Wimborne, Dorset, and a Coll Retired List H M Indian Army), his wife (Caroline Leenora aged 58, and born in Hopland Hall, Bradwell, Suffolk), and two servants (Emma Mackrell aged 24, born in Farnham, Surrey, and a cook, and Anmie Wright aged 23, born in Penshurst, Kent and a housemaid) in Faulkners Cottage, Hadlow, Kent.
Marriage of George Gurr and Emily Stannard in FreeBMD in January-March 1891 in Guildford (2a 90).
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1937 for George Gurr aged 27, father John Gurr, and Emily Stannard aged 23, father David Stannard, on 20 January 1891 at Stoke Next Guildford, St John the Evangelist. "Page 179 [...] 1891 Marriage solemnized in the Parish Church in the Parish of Stoke next Guildford in the County of Surrey. [No.] 358 Jan 20th George Gurr [aged] 27, [a] Bachelor [and] Police Constable [of] Burbridge, [father] John Gurr, [a] Coachman, [and] Emily Stannard [aged] 23, [a] Spinster [of] Stoke, [father] David Stannard, [a] Farm Bailiff. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in Presence of us John Geomans and Sophia Gurr".
In the 1891 census as George Gurr aged 27, born in Goudhurst, Kent, and living with his wife (Emily) in four rooms in Godalming, Surrey.
His son was christened in Puttenham in 1892, his daughter buried in West Clandon in 1894, and daughter born in Ash in 1896.
There are six entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for George Gurr address Crownpits, Godalming, Chertsey in 1892, and 1893, The Street, Puttenham, Guildford, Chertsey in 1893, Clandon Street, West Clandon, Guildford, Chertsey from 1895 to 1897, The Vale, Ash, Chertsey in 1897, and Station Road, Stoke D'Abernon, Epsom in 1898.
In the 1901 census as George Gurr aged 40, born in Goudhurst, Kent, a coachman not domestic, groom, and living with his wife (Emily), son (George S), daughter (Dorothy L) and three visitors (Michael Kilmurray aged 37, born in South Africa, and a domestic, Edith Kilmurray aged 23 and born in Brighton, Sussex, and Gruse M M Kilmurray aged 4 and born in Brighton, Sussex) in Station Road, Stoke D'Abernon, Epsom.
There are six entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for George Gurr address Station Road, Cobham, Epsom from 1903 to 1908.
In the 1911 census as George Gurr aged 50, born in Goudhurst, Kent, a groom at stud, and living with his wife (Emily), son (George Stannard) and daughter (Dorothy Lucy) in five rooms at 3 Korea Cottages, The Tilt, Cobham, Surrey.
In the 1921 census as George Gurr born in Goudhurst, Kent in 1860 and living with Emily Gurr (wife?) in Cobham, Epsom, Surrey.
There are twenty five entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for George Gurr address The Tilt, Cobham, Epsom from 1911 to 1915, Korea Cottages, Cobham, Epsom from 1918 to 1939, changing to 5 Korea Cottages in 1924, and 3 Korea Cottages in 1930, other occupants Emily Gurr (wife?) to 1935, and George Stannard Gurr (son?) in 1921 only.
Death of George Gurr in FreeBMD in October-December 1936 aged 76 in Surrey NE (2a 77).
There are sixteen entries in Ancestry Family Trees for George Gurr.
Geirge Gurr was the father of Dorothy Lucy Gurr, wife and first cousin of Archibald William Stannard Weston, husband of Winifred Louise Foulkes, my third cousin twice removed.
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