Francis Walter Stubbs (1875-1951)

Dates

Birth: April-June 1875 Bradninch, Devon, UK
Father: John Stubbs c1831-1919
Mother: Mary Warren c1845-1930

Christening: Unknown

Marriage: October-December 1905 St Pancras, London, UK Plymouth, Devon, UK
Wife: Mary Pettienal (Pethenal, Pethnal) Quarm Gregson 1881-1970

Death: April-June 1951 Wood Green, Middlesex, UK

Children

Miriam Winifred Stubbs [Clinch] 1907-1986
Cyril Warren Stubbs 1914-1971

Notes

Birth of Francis Walter Stubbs in FreeBMD in April-June 1875 in Tiverton (5b 413).

The family moved from Tiverton to Truro in the spring/summer of 1877 from the birth and death of his sister Mary.

In the 1881 census as Francis W Stubbs aged 5, born in Bradninch, Devon, and living with his parents (John and Mary), three brothers (Arthur G, Frederick and Percival), two sisters (Beatrice and Mary E), (half)sister (Florence), and a servant (Adelaide Manley aged 15, and born in Scorrior, Cornwall) in Edwards Street, Truro St Mary, Cornwall.

His brother was born in Truro in 1881, but his sister and three brothers were born in Tiverton in 1882 to 1887.

In the 1891 censusas Walter Statts (sic - in the index, correct on the original) aged 15, born in Bradninch, Devon, a blacksmith's apprentice, and living with his parents (John and Mary), and two sisters (Beatrice and Mary Emily) in Bampton Street, Tiverton, Devon.

In the 1901 census as Walter Stubbs aged 25, born in Bradninch, Devon, single, a draper and employer at home, and living with his parents (John and Mary), sister (Mary E), half-sister (Florence) and a general servant (Emma M Webber aged 15 and born in Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devon) at 8 Bampton Street, Tiverton, Devon.

Marriage of Francis Walter Stubbs and Mary Pethenal Gregson in FreeBMD in October-December 1905 in Pancras (1b 45).

His daughter was born in Islington in 1907.

In the 1911 census as Francis Walter Stubbs aged 35, born in Truro, Cornwall, an engine fitter at the steel works, and living with his wife (Mary Pethenal), daughter (Meriam Winifred) and a boarder (Alfred Dickl aged 19, born in Malvern, Worcestershire, single and an established postman) in four rooms at Graig Road, Pontardawe, Glamorganshire.

His son was born in Cilybebyll in 1914.

His father died in Plymouth in 1919 and left effects of £2647 2s 10d to Francis Walter Stubbs draper and Henry Steer Wood accountant.

Nine entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Francis Walter Stubbs address 9 Horsey Rise (second floor), Islington in 1908, 32 Hazellville Road, Tollington, Islington in 1932 to 1934, other occupant Mary Stubbs (wife?) plus another family, address 1 Warltersville Road, Tollington, Islington N19 in 1935 and 1936, other occupants Mary Pettenar Quarm Stubbs (wife?) and Miriam Winifred Stubbs (daughter?) (owned by Henry Phillip Sacker of 2 Somerville Road N4 who lived at 8 Mount View Road in 1939), 8 Mount View Road, Stroud Green, Hornsey in 1937 to 1939, other occupants Mary Stubbs (wife?) and five others including Henry Phillip Sacker, and also 13 The Parade, Stroud Green Road, Tollington, Islington (a shop?), and five entries for Francis W Stubbs address 21 Birchington Road, Crouch End, Hornsey in 1946 to 1951, other occupants Mary L Stubbs (wife?) in 1946 to 1950, and Cyril W Stubbs (son?) in 1946 to 1950

Entry in the London Gazette 21 November 1930 p7455

Mary Stubbs, Deceased
Pursuant to Statute 15 Geo V c 19
Notice is hereby given that all creditors or other persons having any claims or demands against the estate of Mary Stubbs, late of 3 South View-park, Compton, Plymouth, in the county of Devon, Widow, deceased (who died on the first day of April,1930, and whose will was proved in the Probate Division of His Majesty's High Court of Justice at the Principal Registry on the twenty-fifth day of July, 1930 by Francis Walter Stubbs and Henry Steer Wood, the executors therein named) are hereby required to send the particulars, in writing, of their claims or demands to us, the undersigned, the Solicitors for the said executors, on or before the twenty-second day of January 1931, after which date the said executors will proceed to distribute the estate of the said deceased, having regard only to those claims or demands of which they shall then have had notice - Dated this 18th day of November 1930
Shelly and Johns, Princess House, (142) Plymouth, Solicitors for the said Executors.

Death of Francis W Stubbs in FreeBMD in April-June 1951 aged 75 in Wood Green (5f 463).

Entry in Stubbs Genealogy for Francis Walter Stubbs born in Tiverton in April-June 1875, son of John Stubbs and Mary Warren, living with his father and occupied as a draper in 1901. He married in St Pancras in October-December 1905 and produced a son Cyril Stubbs. He died in the 2nd quarter of 1951.

There are two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Francis Walter Stubbs born in Bradninch, Devon in 1876, parents John Stubbs and Mary Warren.

Bradninch is 9 miles NE of Exeter.

Relationship

Francis Walter Stubbs was Felicity's first cousin three times removed.

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