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Rachel FLETCHER(DRURY)

1878 – 1958 · 23 Cooper Street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, Merseyside
Partner: George DRURY
Father: John FLETCHER · Mother: Isabella WOOD
👶Birth
10/12/1878
🏛️ Electric street lighting in London
23 Cooper Street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, Merseyside 📍 Baptism Records
Burial Records
1939 NHS Register

NHS Register 1939 has birth as 10 Dec 1881 whereas baptism in 1879. No trace of any civil birth registration.

Baptism
11/07/1879
Holy Trinity Church, Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside 📍 Baptism Records 📎 Baptism
🏠Lived (3)
1881
9 House, 12 Court, Mann Street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, Merseyside 📍 1881 Census 📎 Census
🏠Lived (4)
from 11/12/1882 to 15/05/1883
Toxteth Park Workhouse, 126 Smithdown Road, Liverpool, Merseyside 📍
Destitute Workhouse Records 📎 Image

Name: Rachel Fletcher
Born: 1876
Admitted: 11/12/1882
Discharged: 15/05/1883 (in for 155 days)
Relief Cause: Destitute
Last Address: 2/5 Mann Street
Religion: CofE

🏠Lived (7)
from 15/09/1885 to 28/10/1885
Toxteth Park Workhouse, 126 Smithdown Road, Liverpool, Merseyside 📍
Fever Workhouse Records 📎 Document

Name: Rachel Fletcher
Age: 7
Admitted: 15/09/1885
Discharged: 28/10/1885 (in for 43 days)
Relief Cause: Fever
Last Address: 4/1 Gore Street
Religion: CofE
Informant: Mother
Remarks: Corporation Van

🏠Lived (7)
from 09/11/1885 to 30/07/1886
Toxteth Park Workhouse, 126 Smithdown Road, Liverpool, Merseyside 📍
Destitute Workhouse Records 📎 Image

Name: Rachel Fletcher
Born: 1876
Admitted: 09/11/1885
Discharged: 30/07/1886 (in for 263 days)
Relief Cause: Destitute
Last Address: None
Religion: CofE
Informant: Self

🏠Lived (10)
from 20/08/1888 to 04/09/1888
🏛️ Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel
Toxteth Park Workhouse, 126 Smithdown Road, Liverpool, Merseyside 📍
Destitute Workhouse Records 📎 Image

Name: Rachel Fletcher
Born: 1876
Admitted: 20/08/1888
Discharged: 04/09/1888 (in for 15 days)
Relief Cause: Destitute
Last Address: 1 Richards Place
Religion: CofE

🏠Lived (13)
1891
🏛️ Free elementary education
4 House, 4 Court, Mann Street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, Merseyside 📍 1891 Census 📎 Census
🏠Lived (23)
1901
🏛️ Second Boer War
20 Compton (Chatham) Road, Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire 📍 1901 Census 📎 Census
💼Occupation (23)
1901
🏛️ Death of Queen Victoria
Domestic Servant 1901 Census
💒Marriage (24)
20/09/1902
George DRURY
St Peter Parish Church, Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire 📍 Marriage Certificate 📎 Marriage
🏠Lived (24)
1902
155 Boundary Street, Southport, Lancashire 📍 Marriage Certificate
🏠Lived (26)
1904
11 East Road, Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire 📍
with George DRURY Baptism Records
🏠Lived (33)
1911
🏛️ National Insurance Act
13 East Road, Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire 📍
with George DRURY 1911 Census 📎 Census
🏠Lived (43)
1921
🏛️ Irish Free State established
20 Compton (Chatham) Road, Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire 📍
with George DRURY 1921 Census 📎 Census
💼Occupation (43)
1921
Charwoman 1921 Census
🏠Lived (61)
1939
🏛️ Second World War
118 Sefton Street, Southport, Lancashire 📍
with George DRURY 1939 NHS Register 📎 1939 Register
💼Occupation (61)
1939
Domestic Worker 1939 NHS Register
🏠Lived (80)
1958
118 Sefton Street, Southport, Lancashire 📍
with George DRURY Burial Records
✝️Death (80)
01/07/1958
Promenade Hospital, Southport, Lancashire 📍 Burial Records
🪦Burial
05/07/1958
Duke Street Cemetery, Dukes Street, Southport, Lancashire 📍
Section 7 Grave 343 Burial Records 📎 Grave 📎 Grave 📎 Grave 📎 Grave

Purchased by Rachel Drury (wife of George Drury) 55 Birch Street, Southport.
Originally marked with stone kerbs which are no longer visible. No headstone.

Isabella Fletcher (widow) aged 73 years.
Died at 55 Birch Street – Buried June 20th 1914.

George Drury (railway employee) aged 63 years.
Died 18th January 1943 at his home address of 118 Sefton Street.
Buried 21st January 1943.

George Henry Drury (postman) aged 50 years.
Home address – 118 Sefton Street.
Died at the Infirmary 28th

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Children with George DRURY
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b. 1902, Southport, Lancashire · d. 1986, Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA · m. 1919 Joseph BEVINGTON
George Henry DRURY
b. 1904, 11 East Road, Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire · d. 1954, Southport Infirmary, Scarisbrick New Road, Southport, Lancashire · m. 1925 Annie May TAYLOR
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b. 1911, Southport, Lancashire · d. 2000, Southport & Ormskirk Hospital, Town Lane, Kew, Southport, Lancashire · m. 1936 Elsie WEIR
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b. 1915, Southport, Lancashire · d. 1981, Southport, Lancashire · m. 1939 Thomas Francis RYAN
Notes

From Joyce Chalkley: Grandma Rachel was a jolly sort of person.

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