Birth: July 1853 Wirksworth, Derbyshire, UK
Father: Edmund Horatio Stubbs 1807-1871
Mother: Mary Ann (Anne) Empson c1811-1872
Marriage: 6 June 1877 St George, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Wife: Mary Hessay 1856-1914
Death: April-June 1936 Huddersfield, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Arthur Stubbs 1878
Edmund Stubbs 1879
Margaret Stubbs 1881-1959
Charles Stubbs 1883-1955
Elsie Stubbs 1884-1945
Mary Ethel Stubbs [Wittwer] 1886-1967
William Stubbs 1988-1913
Emily Stubbs 1891
Harry Bertram Stubbs 1893
Frank Stubbs 1894-1918
Doris May Stubbs 1896-1968
Nora Stubbs 1901-1993
Birth of Reuben Alfred Stubbs in FreeBMD in July-September 1853 in Belper (7B 393).
Entry in Ancestry Derbyshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1916 for Reuben Alfred Stubbs baptised 24 July 1853 at Wirksworth. "Page 202 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Wirksworth in the County of Derby in the Year 1853 [...] July 24th No. 1615 Reuben Alfred [parents] Edmund Horatio, [a] School Master & Mary Anne Stubbs of Wirksworth.
In the 1861 census as Alfred Stubbs aged 7, born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, and living with his parents (Edmund and Mary A), brother (James), two sisters (Caroline and Sarah Ann) and twenty seven pupils at the school at 94 Commision Street, Bolton, Lancashire.
His father died on 14 February 1871 in Little Horton, Bradford, Yorkshire.
In the 1871 census as Alfred Stubbs aged 16, born in Worksworth, Derbyshire, a draper's apprentice, and living with his brother and sister-in-law (Horatio and Elizabeth), two other brothers (James A and William Hy) and three nephews (Cahries, Horatio and William) at 311 Horton Lane, Horton, Yorkshire.
Marriage of Reuben Alfred Stubbs and Mary Hessay in FreeBMD in April-June 1877 in Leeds (9B 509).
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935 for the marriage of Reuben Alfred Stubbs aged 23, father Edmund Horatio Stubbs, and Mary Hessay on 6 June 1877 at Leeds, St George. "Page 241 [...] 1877 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of St George Leeds in the County of York. [No.] 482 June 6th 1877 Reuben Alfred Luff [aged] 23 [a] Bachelor [and] Draper's Assistant [of] 16 Portland Crescent, Leeds [father] Edmund Horatio Stubbs [a] School Master, [and] Mary Hessay [aged] 21 [a] Spinster [of] Lumn? Mills Nr Bury [father] Thomas Hessay [a] Commercial Traveller. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church by Superintendent Registrars Certificate [...] in the Presence of us Charles Pullman and James Armitage Stubbs".
His son was baptised on 12 February 1879 at St Matthew, Leeds when he was a warehouseman living at 3 Groslenor Crescent.
In the 1881 census as Reuben A Stubbs aged 28, born in Worksworth, Derbyshire, a stuff merchant and living with his wife (Mary), two sons (Arthur and Edmund) and a servant (Annie Chisman aged 21, born in Stockton, Durham and single) at 31 New Briggate, Leeds, Yorkshire.
In the 1891 census as Reuben Alfred Stubbs aged 37, born in Worksworth, Derbyshire, a draper, and living with his wife (Mary), four sons (Arthur, Charles, Edmund and William), three daughters (Elsie, Margaret and Mary Ethel) and a monthly nurse (Ann Armitage aged 58, born in Lees Holbrek, Yorkshire and widowed) at 46 Sholebroke Avenue, Potter Newton, Yorkshire.
His daughter was baptised at All Souls, Leeds on 5 December 1891 when he was a draper living in Saltaire.
In the 1901 census as Rueben (sic - on the original) A Stubbs aged 47, born in Works, Worth, Derbyshire, a linen draper and employer,and living with his wife (Mary), four sons (Charles, Frank, Harry and William), five daughters (Doris M, Elsie, Emily, Ethel M and Margaret) and a boarder (Agnes W Nadin aged 45, born in Oldham, Lancashire, married and a monthly nurse working on her own account) at 54 Hamilton Avenue, Potter Newton, Yorkshire.
In the 1911 census as Reuben Alfred Stubbs aged 57, born in Worksworth, Derbyshire, a furniture salesman, and living with his wife (Mary), three sons (Frank, Henry Bertram and William) and four daughters (Doris May, Elsie, Emily and Nora) in seven rooms at 19 Croft House Lane, Marsh, Huddersfield, Yorkshire-West Riding.
His wife died in Huddersfield in April-June 1914.
In the 1921 census as Reuben Alfred Stubbs born in Derbyshire in 1853 and living with Doris May and Nora Stubbs (daughters?), James and Margaret Golt (son-in-law and daughter?), Frank and James Golt (grandsons?) and Mary Ann Stirk (born in Yorkshire in 1852) in Huddersfield Yorkshire (West Riding).
Death of Reuben A Stubbs in FreeBMD in April-June 1936 aged 82 in Huddersfield (9A 434).
There are forty six entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Reuben Alfred Stubbs.
Andrew & Nancy Peel's Family Tree has an entry for Reuben Alfred Stubbs born 24 June 1853 in Wirksworth, Derbyshire, parents Edmund Horatio Stubbs and Mary Ann Empson, and his marriage to Mary Hessay on 6 June 1877>
Reuben Alfred Stubbs was Felicity's great grand uncle.
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