Birth: 18 February 1889 Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, UK
Father: Frank Register (Regester) 1856-1945
Mother: Ellen Augusta Turner 1859-1917
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: January-March 1918 Amersham, Buckinghamshire, UK
Husband: Thomas Frederick Luff 1895-1928
Marriage: 19 August 1929 St Mark, Woodcote, Purley, Surrey, UK
Husband: Frederick Alfred Finch 1872-1951
Death: January-March 1981 Croydon, Greater London, UK
Margaret Jean Luff [Croft] 1922-2012
Birth of Winifred Register in FreeBMD in January-March 1889 in Amersham (3a 631).
In the 1891 census as Winifred Register aged 2, born in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, and living with her parents (Frank and Ellen A), brother (Frank), two sisters (Ellen and Mary) and a servant (Louisa Reed aged 25, born in Chalfont St Giles and single) at the School House, The Green, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire.
In the 1901 census as Winifred Register aged 12, born in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, and living with her parents (Frank and Ellen A), brother (Frank), two sisters (Ellen and May), 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.
In the 1911 census as Winifred Register aged 22, born in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, single, a daper's assistant at a lady.s outfitter, and living with her parents (Frank and Ellen A), brother (Frank), and a servant (Gertrude Goodall aged 19, born in Seer Green, Buckinghamshire and single) in eight rooms at Rose Bank, Chalfont, St Giles, Buckinghamshire.
Marriage of Winifred Register and Thomas F Luff in FreeBMD in January-March 1918 in Amersham (3a 1627).
Three entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Winifred Luff address 5 Stamford Brook Avenue, Bedford Park, Chiswick, Hounslow in 1920, other occupantsThomas Frederick Luff (husband?) and four other people.
Her daughter was born in Amersham in 1922.
There are twenty five entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Winifred Luff address Wincote, Chipstead Valley Road, Couldson from 1921 to 1928, other occupant Thomas Frederick Luff (husband?) until 1927.
Her husband died in April-June 1928 in Croydon.
There is an entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Winifred Luff address Trevone, Grovelands Road, Woodcote, Couldson in 1929, other occupant Frederick Alfred Finch (future husband?).
Marriage of Winifred Register and Frederick A Finch in FreeBMD in July-September 1929 in Croydon (2a 1043).
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1937 for Winifred Luff aged 40, father Frank Register, and Frederick Alfred Finch aged 56, father John Woolmer Finch, on 19 August 1929 at Purley, St Mark, Surrey. " Page 4 [...] 1929 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the parish of St Mark's, Woodcote, Purley in the county of Surrey. No. 8 August 19th 1929 Frederick Alfred Finch aged 56, a Widower and Photographer of Trevone, Grovelands Road, Purley, father John Woolmer Finch (deceased), a Head Clerk, and Winifred Luff aged 40, a Widow of Trevone, Grovelands Road, Purley, father Frank Register, a Schoolmaster retired. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England after Banns [...] in the Presence of us, G Register and ?".
There are twenty six entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Winifred Finch address Trevone, Grovelands Road, Woodcote, Couldson from 1930 to 1962, changing to 29 Grovelands Road in 1937, other occupants Frederick Alfred Finch (husband?) until 1951, Margaret J Croft (married daughter?) in 1945, and Arthur Finch from 1949.
Her husband died at The District War Memorial Hospital Purley in 1951, and lived at 29 Grovelands Road, Purley.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Winifred Finch, born 18 February 1889, in January-March 1981 in Croydon (11 1972).
There are six entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Winifred Register with combinations of the above, one giving her death in Lewisham in 1942.
Croydon was transfered from Surrey to Greater London in 1965.
Winifred Register was the wife of Thomas Frederick Luff, my half second cousin once removed.
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