Birth: 6 April 1900 40 Ditchlingham Street, Brightside, Bierlow, Sheffield, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Father: Joseph Edward Palmer 1876-1949
Mother: Martha Davies 1879-1949
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 25 April 1925 St Mary, Balham, London, UK
Wife: Winifred Adeline King 1898-1978
Death: 30 August 1973 Dunedin, Bathampton, Bath, Somerset, UK
Buried: St Nicholas, Bathampton, Bath, Somerset, UK
Winifred (Freda) Maud Palmer [Heavers] 1927-1994
Birth of Alfred Davies Barton in FreeBMD in April-June 1900 in Sheffield (9c 623).
In the 1901 census as Alfred Palmer aged 11 months, born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, and living with his parents (Joseph and Martha), and widowed grandfather (James) in four rooms at 40 Ditchlingham Street, Brightside, Bierlow, Yorkshire.
In the 1911 census as Alfred Palmer aged 10, born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, a school library errand boy, and living with his parents (Joseph and Martha) and widowed grandfather (James) in four rooms at 40 Ditchingham Street off Ellesmere Road, Sheffield, West Riding, Yorkshire.
Entry in The London Gazette 4 May 1920 p 5112 "April 13, 1920 After Open Competition [...] Office of Woods: Assistant Clerk (Abstractor) Alfred Davies Palmer", and in The London Gazette 5 December 1924 p8884 "Transfers of Clerical Class (Men) [...] Forestry Commision [...] Alfred Davies Palmer, from H.M. Office of Woods".
Marriage of Alfred D Palmer and Winifred A King in FreeBMD in April-June 1925 in Wandsworth (1d 1041).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1931 for Alfred Davies Palmer aged 25, father Joseph Edward Palmer, and Winifred Adeline King, married on 25 April 1925 at St Mary, Balham, Wandsworth. "Page 114 1925 Marriage solemnized at The Church of St Mary in the Prish of Balham in the County of London No. 227 Twenty Fifth April 1925 Alfred Davies Palmer aged 25, a Bachelor and Civil Servant of 23 Plate Road, Brixton SW, father Joseph Edward Palmer, an Engineer, and Winifred Adeline King aged 27, a Spinster of 120 Ritherdon Road, Balham SW, father Ferdinand King, a Draughtsman. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in the Presence of us Maud A King, Maude King, F King, Martha Palmer, S Wayson, J E Palmer."
His daughter was born in Inverness in 1927.
Entry in Supplement to the London Gazette 1 January 1953 p14 "Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood St James Palace S.W.1 1st January, 1953 The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire [...] To be Ordinary Officers of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order [...] Alfred Davies Palmer Esq., Chief Executive Officer, Forestry Commision".
There are twenty two entries in Ancestry All Sutton, Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1931-1970 for Alfred D Palmer address 93 Link Lane, Beddington, Mitcham from 1946 to 1956, other occupant Winfred A Palmer (wife?), and 43 Cornwall Road, Belmont, Sutton from 1960 to 1968, other occupants Winifred A Palmer (wife?), Winifred M Palmer (daughter?) from 1949 to 1953, and Winifred M Heavers (married daughter?) in 1965.
Death of Alfred Davies Palmer, born 6 April 1900, in FreeBMD in July-September 1973 in Bathavon (7c 796).
Entry in Find A Grave for Alfred Davies Palmer born 6 April 1900, died 30 August 1973, buried St Nicholas, Bathampton, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, spouse Winifred Adeline Palmer, children W M Palmer Heavers. "In/Loving Memory of/Alfred Davies Palmer O.B.E./6th Apr. 1900 - 30th August 1973/And His Wife/Winifred Adeline/27th Feb. 1898 - 22nd July 1976/Also Their Daughter/W.M. 'Freda' Heavers/14th Dec. 1927 - 15th Oct. 1944/And Her Husband/Idris David Heavers/25th Sept. 1926-29th April 2013".
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 for Alfred Davies Palmer died 30 August 1973 in Bathampton, Bath, probate 7 November 1973 Bristol. Palmer, Arthur Davies of Dunedin Bathampton La Bathampton Bath died 30 August 1973 Probate Bristol 7 November £470".
here are four entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Alfred Davies Palmer born on 6 April 1900 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, parents Joseph Edward Palmer and Martha Davies, his marriage to Winifred Adeline King on 25 April 1925 in Balham, London, his daughter, and his death in Bath on 30 August 1973, one adding his address 43 Cornwall Road having moved here in late 1950s, and moved to Bathampton ca. July 1967.
Alfred Davies Palmer was the father of Winifred (Freda) Maud Palmer, wife of Idris David Heavers, my second cousin.
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