Birth: April-June 1856 Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire, UK
Father: John Register 1821-1858
Mother: Ann Biggin 1820-1878
Christening: 9 April 1865 St Phillip, Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK
Marriage: 7 September 1881 Blandford Forum, Dorset, UK
Wife: Ellen Augusta Turner 1859-1917
Death: 17 May 1945 Rose Bank, Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, UK
Ellen Register [Webb] 1882-a1945
Frank Register 1828-1928
May Register [Gledhill] 1885-1957
Percy Register 1887
Winifred Register [Finch, Luff] 1889-1981
Hilda Register 1890
Birth of Frank Regester (sic - in the index, Register on the handwritten original) in FreeBMD in April-June 1856 in Ecclesall Bierlow (9c 200).
His father died in Sheffield in 1858.
In the 1861 census as Frank Register aged 4, born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, and living with his mother (Ann), three brothers (Henry Beggin, Herbert Thorn and John William) and sister (Mary Elizabeth) in Portland Street, Nether Hallam, Yorkshire.
Two entries in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Frank Register on 9 April 1865 at Saint Phillip, Sheffield, mother Ann Biggin Register.
I cannot locate him in the 1871 census, but he was not living with his mother.
In the 1881 census as Frank Register aged 24, born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, single, a school master, and lodging with Elizth.N. Harris (aged 54, born in Hargrave, Northamptonshire, widowed and a general shop keeper) at 1 Church Street, Hargrave, Northamptonshire.
Marriage of Frank Register and Ellen Augusta Turner in FreeBMD in July-September 1881 in Blandford (5a 421).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Dorset Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1999 for the marriage of Frank Register and Ellen Augusta Turner on 4 (sic - in the index) September 1881 in Blandford-Forum, Dorset. (This was the calling of banns).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Dorset Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1999 for the marriage of Frank Register aged 25 and single, father John Register, and Ellen Augusta Turner on 7 September 1881 in Blandford-Forum, Dorset.
Two entries in Ancestry Dorset, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1921 for Frank Register and Ellen Augusta Furner (sic) on 21 August 1881 in Blandford Forum, Dorset. "The Year 1881 No. 299 Banns of the Marriage between Frank Register of the Parish of St. Philips Sheffield and Ellen Augusta Turner of this Parish Were published, as follows: 1st, on Sunday 21st August [...] 2d, on Sunday 28th August [...] 3d, on Sunday 4th September", and for Frank Register aged 25 and single, father John Register, and Ellen Augusta Turner aged 22 and single, father John Chappell Turner on 7 September 1881 in Blandford-Forum, Dorset. "Page 216 1881 Marriage solemnized at Parish Church in the Parish of Blandford in the County of Dorset. No. 431 Sept 7 Frank Register aged 25, a Bachelor and School Teacher of St. Christopher? Sheffield, father John Register, a Manager, and Ellen Auster Turner aged 22, and Spinster of Blandford, father John Chappell Turner, Master of Union Workhouse. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in the Presence of us John Chappell Turner and Hannah Price Turner".
In the 1901 census as Frank Register aged 44, born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, a school master, and living with his wife (Ellen A), son (Frank), three daughters (Ellen, May and Winifred), a boarder (Flora L MacDonald aged 28, born in Ireland, single and a school mistress) and a servant (Florence Harding aged 23, born in Seer Green, Buckinghamshire and single) at the School House, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire.
Two entries in Ancestry England, United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751-1921 for Frank Register, aged 53, a schoolmaster of Rose Bank, Chalfont St Giles, and initiated into the Misbourne Lodge, Chalfont St Peter, on 29 October 1909, and another with entries from 1910 to 1920.
In the 1911 census as Frank Register aged 54, born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, an elementary school teacher employed by the county council, and living with his wife (Ellen A), son (Frank), daughter (Winifred) and a servant (Gertrude Goodall aged 19, born in Seer Green, Buckinghamshire and single) in eight rooms at Rose Bank, Chalfont, St Giles, Buckinghamshire.
His wife died in Amersham in 1917.
In the entry for his daughter Winifred's marriage to Frederick Alfred Finch in 1929 he was a retired schoolmaster.
Death of Frank Register in FreeBMD in April-June 1945 aged 89 in Amersham (3a 1175).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 for Frank Register died on 17 May 1945 in Buckinghamshire, probate 20 July Llandudno. "Register Frank of Rose Bank Chalfont St. Giles Buckinghamshire died 17 May 1945 Probate Llandudno 20 July to Ellen Webb (wife of Ernest Webb) and May Gledhill widow. Effects £1631 19s. 3d.",
There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Frank Register born in Sheffield, Yorkshire in 1857, his marriage to Ellen Augusta Turner in Blandford Forum, Dorset on 7 September 1881, and his death in Amersham, Buckinghamshire in June 1945. Another entry adds his four children (Ellen, Frank, Mary and Winifred). Another gives his death in Amersham on 26 October 1928. Another gives his birth in St. Philip's, Sheffield and adds parents as John Regester and Ann Biggin, aned another his birth in Ecclesall Bierlow and death in Rose Bank, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire on 17 May 1945.
Frank Register was the father of Winifred Register, wife of Thomas Frederick Luff, my half second cousin once removed.
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