Birth: July-September 1867 Belstead, Suffolk, UK
Father: David Stannard 1836-1900
Mother: Charlotte Noble 1838-1911
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 20 January 1891 St John the Evangelist, Stoke next Guildford, Surrey, UK
Husband: George Gurr 1860-1936
Death: 10 November 1942 3 Korea Cottages, The Tilt, Cobham, Surrey, UK
George Stannard Gurr 1892-1953
Sophia Gurr 1894-1895
Dorothy Lucy Gurr [Weston] 1896-1979
Birth of Emily Stannard in FreeBMD in July-September 1867 in Samford (4a 581).
In the 1871 census as Emily Stannard aged 3, born in Belstead, Suffolk, and living with her parents (David and Charlotte), brother (George), and four sisters (Charlotte, Eliza, Elizabeth and Jane) in Belstead Street, Belstead, Suffolk.
In the 1881 census as Emily Stannard aged 14, born in Besltead (sic in the index, Belstead on the original), Suffolk, and a servant living with William Ransom (aged 53, born in London and a butcher), his wife (Maria aged 50 and born in Bailham, Suffolk), and a visitor (Annie Smith aged 8, and born in Newcastle) at 25 Tacket Street, Ipswich, Suffolk.
Marriage of Emily Stannard and George Gurr in FreeBMD in January-March 1891 in Guildford (2a 90).
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1937 for Emily Stannard aged 23, father David Stannard, and George Gurr aged 27, father John Gurr, on 20 January 1891 at Stoke Next Guildford, St John the Evangelist. "Page 179 [...] 1891 Marriage solemnized in the Parish Church in the Parish of Stoke next Guildford in the County of Surrey. [No.] 358 Jan 20th George Gurr [aged] 27, [a] Bachelor [and] Police Constable [of] Burbridge, [father] John Gurr, [a] Coachman, [and] Emily Stannard [aged] 23, [a] Spinster [of] Stoke, [father] David Stannard, [a] Farm Bailiff. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in Presence of us John Geomans and Sophia Gurr".
In the 1891 census as Emily Gurr aged 23, born in Belstead, Suffolk, and living with her husband (George) in four rooms in Godalming, Surrey.
Her son was christened in Puttenham in 1892, her daughter buried in West Clanden in 1894, and daughter born in Ash in 1896.
In the 1901 census as Emily Gurr aged 32, born in Batstead (sic - in the index, Berstead on the original), Suffolk and living with her husband (George), son (George S), daughter (Dorothy L) and three visitors (Michael Kilmurray aged 37, born in South Africa, and a domestic, Edith Kilmurray aged 23 and born in Brighton, Sussex, and Gruse M M Kilmurray aged 4 and born in Brighton, Sussex) in Station Road, Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey.
In the 1911 census as Emily Gurr aged 43, born in Belstead, Suffolk, married for twenty years with three children, two living, and living with her husband (George), son (George Stannard) and daughter (Dorothy Lucy) in five rooms at 3 Korea Cottages, The Tilt, Cobham, Surrey.
In the 1921 census as Emily Gurr born in Belstead, Suffolk in 1867 and living with George Gurr (husband?) in Cobham, Epsom Surrey.
There are eighteen entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1945 for Emily Gurr address Korea Cottages, Cobham, Epsom from 1918 to 1939, changing to 5 Korea Cottages in 1924, and 3 Korea Cottages in 1930, other occupants George Gurr to 1935, and George Stannard Gurr in 1921 only, and Hannah Watts in 1939.
Her husband died in NE Surrey in 1936.
Death of Emily Gurr in FreeBMD in October-December 1942 aged 75 in Surrey NE (2a 64).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 for Emily Gurr died on 10 November 1942 in Surrey, probate 26 February 1943 in Llandudno. "Gurr Emily of 3 Korea-cottages The Tilt Cobham Surrey widow died 10 November 1942 Administration (with Will) Llandudno 26 February to George Stannard Gurr patrol officer R.A.C. Effects £408 11s 9d."
There are thirty entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Emily Stannard.
Emily Stannard was the mother of Dorothy Lucy Gurr, wife and first cousin of Archibald William Stannard Weston, husband of Winifred Louise Foulkes, my third cousin twice removed.
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