Birth: July-August 1875 Ampney St Mary, Gloucestershire, UK
Father: Unknown
Mother: Lucy Jane Russell [Telling] 1854-1933
Marriage: 15 October 1902 Ampney St Mary, Gloucestershire, UK
Husband: George Frank Hurdle 1876-1961
Death: 13 November 1959 St Albans City Hospital, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
Frank Hurdle 1904-1989
Fanny Gertrude Hurdle [Squires] 1907-2003
Birth of Gertrude Annie S Russell in FreeBMD in July-September 1875 in Cirencester (6a 374).
Entry in Ancestry Gloucestershire, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1913 for Gertrude Annie Sellina Russel (sic) baptised 22 August 1875 in Ampney St Mary, parents Lucy and Jane Russel. "Baptisms folemnized in the Parifh of Ampney St Mary in the County of Gloucester in the Year 1874 [...] 1875 [...] August 22nd No. 336 Gertrude Annie Selina, [mother] Lucy Jane Russel [of] Ampney St Mary [a] Single Woman".
Her mother married Frederick Tilling in Ampney St Mary on 29 December 1879.
In the 1881 census as Gertrude Annie Russell aged 6, born in Ampney St Mary, Gloucestershire and living with her uncle (William Russell), aunt (Fanny Elizabeth Russell) and brother (Edward Henry) in Poulton, Gloucestershire.
In the 1891 census as Gertrude Russel (sic) aged 15, born in Ashbrook, Gloucestershire, and a servant living with Edmund Stephens (aged 65, born in Oaksey, Wiltshire and a farmer), his wife (Anne aged 50 and born in Bampton, Oxfordshire), two sons (James A aged 27, and a farmer, and Robert aged 21 and no stated employment, both born in Maiseyhampton, Gloucestershire) and four daughters (Alice L aged 24, Elenor aged 40 in the index, possibly 22 on the original, Florance W aged 23 and Frances K aged 30, all born in Maiseyhampton, Gloucestershire and single) at Hurshall? Farm, Maisey Hampton, Gloucestershire
In the 1901 census as Gertrude A S Russell aged 25, born in Ampney St Mary, Gloucestershire, single, a domestic housemaid, and living with Robert H Gamlin (aged 63, born in Stoke Newington, London, married and a solicitor), his two daughters (Edith L aged 22 and Isabel E aged 23, both born in Harrow, Middlesex and no stated employment), and three other servants (Elizabeth Pulker aged 57, born in Bloomsbury, London and a nurse, Susan Jones aged 41, born in Stoke Upon Trent, Staffordshire, and a domestic cook, and Octavia Sweeting aged 22, born in Aylshopp Bookring, Essex, and a domestic palourmaid, all single) at New Place, School Lane, Welwyn, Hertfordshire.
Marriage of Gertrude Annie S Russell and George Frank Hurdle in FreeBMD in October-December 1902 in Cirencester (6a 817).
Entry in Ancestry Gloucestershire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938 for the marriage of Gertrude Annie Selina Russell aged 27 and George Frank Hurdle on 15 October 1902 at Ampney St Mary. "Page 34 [...] 1902 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Ampney St Mary in the County of Gloucester. [No.] 68 October 15 1902 George Frank Hurdle aged 26, [a] Bachelor [and] Gardener [of] Welwyn Hertfordshire, [father] George Hurdle, [a] Labourer, [and] Gertrude Annie Selina Russell [aged] 27, [a] Spinster [of] Ampney St Mary [no father]. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after banns in the Presence of us Frederick Fellin? [and] Fanny Hurdle".
Her son was baptised on 10 April 1904 and daughter on 7 April 1907, both in Welwyn, Herts.
In the 1911 census as Gertrude Annie Selina Hurdle aged 35, born in Ampney St Mary, Gloucestershire, married for 8 years with two children both still living, and living with her husband (George Frank), son (Frank) and daughter (Fanny) in four rooms at Harmer Green, Welwyn, Hertfordshire.
Entry in her husbands Army Service Records states Gertrude Ann Selina Russell married George Frank Hurdle on 12 October 1902 at St Mary, Welwyn (sic), had two children Frank born 9 March 1904 and Fanny Gertrude born 2 March 1907 and was living in Welwyn in 1915.
In the 1921 census as Gertrude Annie Selina Hurdle born Ampney St Mary, Gloucestershire in 1875 and living in Digswell, Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Gertrude A S Hurdle born 23 June 1875, married and living with George F Hurdle (husband?) at 2 Beehive Cottages, Welwyn, Hertfordshire.
Death of Gertrude A S Hurdle in FreeBMD in October-December 1959 aged 84 in St Albans (4b 185).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Gerturde Annie Selina Hurdle died 13 November 1959 in Hertfordshire, Hertford, probate 6 January 1960 in Peterborough. "Hurdle Gertrude Annie Selina of 11 Harmer Green Lane Welwyn Hertfordshire (wife of George Frank Hurdle) died 13 November 1959 at St Albans City Hospital St. Albans Hertfordshire Probate Peterborough 6 January to the said George Frank Hurdle carpenter. Effects £1143 10s. 6d."
There are eight entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Gertrude Annie Selina Russell.
Gertrude Selina Annie Russell was the wife of George Frank Hurdle, my second cousin twice removed.
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