Birth: 11 November 1913 Shoreham, West Sussex, UK
Father: Patrick Abberley 1893-1925
Mother: Edith Rooke 1895-1925
Marriage: October-December 1934 Steyning, West Sussex, UK
Husband: Michael William Burtenshaw 1908-1971
Death: April 2001 Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK
David S Burtenshaw 1938
Mary C Burtenshaw 1942
The following assumes her father was Patrick Abberley.
Birth of Amelia M E (initials are not clear) Rooke in FreeBMD in October-December 1913 in Steyning (2B 450).
Her brother? was registered in April-June 1917 in Steyning with surname Rooke, and her parents married on 4 August 1917 at St Mary, New Shoreham.
In the 1921 census as Amelia Abberley aged 7 years 7 months, born in Shoreham, Sussex, both parents alive, and living with her mother (Edith) and brother (David) all boarding with Robert N Wiseman (aged 23, born in Winchester, Hampshire, and a grocer's assistant working at Alfred Mills Grocer, Central Stores, Kings Road, Shalford), and his widowed mother (Annie L Wiseman aged 57 years 9 months and born in Twickenham, Middlesex) in four rooms at 7 Pound Place, Shalford, Surrey. Her father was a lance corporal in the Infantry living at The Quadrant, Bridge Street, Guildford.
Her father died on 29 November 1925 at the Royal Surrey County Hospital and his mother around the same date, both due to burns from a fire at their house in Shalford, Surrey.
Marriage of Amelia E E R (initials are not clear) Abberley and Michael W Burtenshaw in FreeBMD in October-December 1934 in Steyning (2B 814).
Four entries in Ancestry All West Sussex, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1963 for Amelia Edith Ellen Burtenshaw address 27 Clarendon Road in 1935 changing to 46 Clarendon Road from 1936, Broadwater, Worthing from 1936 to 1939, other occupant Michael William Burtenshaw (husband?).
Her son was born on 19 January 1938 and registered in January-March 1938 in Brighton..
In the 1939 Register as Amelia Burtenshaw born 11 November 1913, married, and living with Michael Burtenshaw (husband?), David Burtenshaw (son) Jean Winter and two others at 46 Clarendon Road, Worthing, Sussex.
Her daughter was registered in October-December 1942 in Surrey South Western.
Eight entries in Ancestry All West Sussex, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1963 for Amelia Edith E Burtenshaw address 46 Clarendon Road from 1936, Broadwater, Worthing from 1945 to 1963, other occupants Michael William Burtenshaw (husband?), and David S Burtenshaw (son?) from 1961, noting a large gap from 1950 to 1960.
Her husband died in October-December 1971 in Worthing.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Amelia Edith E Burtenshaw, born 11 November 1913, in April 2001 in Eastbourne (B75E 4541B 238).
There are two entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Amelia Abberley.Amelia Edith Ellen Rooke was the great grand aunt of Ann Catherine Abbly, wife of George David Hearne, father of David G Hearne, husband of Karan Deanne Wolchover, wife of Keith Andrew Pulver, husband of Joanna A Kanawka, wife of Steven Stuart Prendergast, husband of Elaine Booker, my half third cousin three times removed.
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