Birth: 29 January 1882 Dockenfield, Hampshire, UK
Father: Abraham Shrubb (Shrub) 1850-1917
Mother: Maria Deadman 1844-1882
Adpoted father: Thomas West 1825-1888
Adopted mother: Frances King 1818-1894
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 18 December 1910 Barnes, Surrey, UK
Wife: Emily Tucker 1873-1947
Death: October-December 1954 Farnham, Surrey, UK
Burial: 3 January 1955
Frank Ernest Shrubb 1911-1991
Reginald Stanley Shrubb 1913-1983
Birth of Ernest Shrubb in FreeBMD in January-March 1882 in Farnham (2a 125).
His mother died soon after his birth and he was adopted by Thomas West and Frances King.
In the 1891 census as Ernest Shrubb aged 9, born in Dockenfield, Hampshire and living with his widowed adapted mother Frances West (his father had boarded with them in 1871), and a boarder (James Hale aged 57, born in Dockenfield, single and a general labourer) at Batts Corner, Frensham, Surrey.
His adopted mother died in January-March 1894.
In the 1901 census as Ernest Shrubb aged 19, born in Farnham, Surrey, single, a houseboy, and living with Henry Torkington (aged 57, born in Melchbourn, Buckinghamshire, and a retired army officer RA), his wife (Annie J aged 45 and born in South Australia), his daughter (Mary C aged 25, born in Woolwich, Kent, single, and no stated employment), and six other servants (Thomas Baker aged 22, born in Redhill, Surrey, single and a groom, Dereniter Jones aged 59, born in Spetchley, Worcestershire, widowed and a cook, Grace Philpotts aged 18, born in Yarmouth, Norfolk, single and a housemaid, Andrewina Preston aged 33, born in Hullavington, Wiltshire, married and a palourmaid, and Emily Tucker aged 25, born in Buckland Filleigh, Devon, single, a housemaid and his future wife) at Willey Park Farnham, Surrey (on the north side of the A31 just west of the A325).
Marriage of Ernest Shrubb and Emily Tucker in FreeBMD in October-December 1910 in Richmond S (2a 921) which included Barnes
In the 1911 census as Ernest Shrubb aged 30, and living with Emily (wife?), and Frank (son?) in Farnham, Surrey.
The two children were born in Farnham, Surrey.
His wife died in 1947.
There are 19 entries in Ancestry British Phone Books 1880-1984 between 1934 and 1954 for Ernest Shrubb, a coal merchant, of Rochelle, Wrecclesham, number Farnham 568 until 1937 when it changed to 5568.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Ernest Shrubb in October-December 1954 aged 74 in Surrey SW (5g 904).
SVM Rosie has three entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Ernest Shrubb born 29 January 1882 in Dockenfield and his death on 3 January 1955 in Farnham, Surrey. One entry adds his parents as Abraham Shrubb and Maria Deadman Shrubb, and another adds his marriage to Emily Tucker in Barnes on 18 December 1910 and his two sons. J Musty also has an entry giving his birth on 29 January 1882 in Dockenfield, Hampshire, parents Abraham Shrubb and Maria Deadman, and his death on 3 January 1955 - this must be the burial because the death was registered in 1954.
Ernest Shrubb was my second cousin twice removed.
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