Alfred GIDDINGS

1861 – 1941 · Stretford, Lancashire

Father: John GIDDINGS · Mother: Ellen OWEN

👶Birth 15/06/1861 🏛️ Death of Prince Albert	Stretford, Lancashire 📍 ⓘ1881 Census Birth Civil Registration Index 1939 NHS Register
🏠Lived (10) 1871 🏛️ Bank Holidays introduced	6 Dover Terrace, Stretford, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 📎 View
🏠Lived (20) 1881	Broughton House, Chester Road, Stretford, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 ⓘ1881 Census 📎 View 1881 Census. Broughton House is next to Burton Villas where his wife lived.
💼Occupation (20) 1881	Clerk to father (Metal Merchant) ⓘ1881 Census
💒Marriage (23) 26/03/1884 🏛️ Third Reform Act	Sarah HOLMES St John the Baptist Church, Buxton, Derbyshire 📍 ⓘMarriage Certificate 📎 View
🏠Lived (30) 1891 🏛️ Free elementary education	23 Springfield Road, Sale, Cheshire 📍 with Sarah HOLMES ⓘ1891 Census 📎 View 1891 Census - two servants
💼Occupation (30) 1891	Lead Manufacturer ⓘ1891 Census
💼Occupation (34) 1895 🏛️ National Trust founded	Glass and Lead Merchant Giddings and Dacre, Ducie Street, London Road, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 ⓘWill of Isaac Holmes 📎 View His business partner George DACRE was born in Hulme, Manchester on 24th September 1851 and died 11th March 1892 at The Limes, Derby Road, Heaton Moor. His wife, Sarah, died 20th April 1911. They are buried at Sale Cemetery (Brooklands), Cheshire next to the grave of Isaac HOLMES, father of Sarah HOLMES. He left an estate of £17,376 4s 10d [worth in 2025 about £18.6m by GDP per capita].
📌Event (34) 1895	Under his father-in-law's will: the £3,000 loan at 5 per cent made to him was allowed to remain outstanding after the testator's death for such period as the trustees thought expedient; any loss on it was made a first charge on the share of his wife Sarah. ⓘWill
🏠Lived (40) 1901 🏛️ Second Boer War	Tweed Side, Ashley Road, Hale, Cheshire 📍 with Sarah HOLMES ⓘ1901 Census 📎 View 1901 Census - 2 servants
💼Occupation (40) 1901 🏛️ Death of Queen Victoria	Lead, Paint, Brass & Glass Plumbers Merchant (Employer) ⓘ1901 Census
🏠Lived (47) 1908 🏛️ Old Age Pensions introduced	Hillcrest, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire 📍 with Sarah HOLMES ⓘWill Ref: of Jane HOLMES
🏠Lived (50) 1911 🏛️ National Insurance Act	Hillcrest, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire 📍 with Sarah HOLMES 📎 View
💼Occupation (66) 1927	Lead Manufacturer & Glass Merchant - Giddings & Dacre Ltd ⓘWill
📝Will (66) 12/10/1927	ⓘWill 📎 View
🏠Lived (78) 1939 🏛️ Second World War	The Coppice, Holly Road, Wilmslow, Cheshire 📍 ⓘ1939 NHS Register 📎 View
💼Occupation (78) 1939	Chairman Lead Manufacturer ⓘ1939 NHS Register
🏠Lived (80) 1941	Reservoir Cottage, Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire 📍 ⓘProbate Index
✝️Death (80) 28/01/1941	Portland Nursing Home, Buxton, Derbyshire 📍 ⓘProbate Index
🪦Burial 01/02/1941	Hale Cemetery, Hale Road, Hale, Altringham, Cheshire 📍 Grave C23 ⓘGrave Headstone deceasedonline.com 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View 📎 View SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF SARAH, THE DEAR WIFE OF ALFRED GIDDINGS OF CHAPEL-EN-THE-FRIFTH WHO FELL ASLEEP JULY 29TH 1923. ALFRED GIDDINGS WHO DIED JAN.Y 28TH 1941, IN HIS 80TH YEAR. "GOD TAKES THE LOVED ONES FROM OUR SIGHT, BUT NEVER FROM OUR HEARTS." [left side] DAISY THEIR BELOVED DAUGHTER CALLED TO REST JANUARY 1ST 1957.
⚖️Probate 09/04/1941	Manchester, Lancashire 📍 Effects £13,644 11s ⓘProbate Index 📎 View 📎 View

Children with Sarah HOLMES

Norman GIDDINGS

b. 1884, Sale, Cheshire · d. 1968, The Talbot Nursing Home, 23 Wimborne Road, Bournemouth, Dorset · m. 1914 Alice Jenkins HAY

Marguerite GIDDINGS

b. 1885, Sale, Cheshire · d. 1957, Grey Trees, 41 Abbey Road, West Moors, Nr Wimborne, Dorset · m. 1913 Arthur Munby BAYNE

John Neville GIDDINGS

b. 1890, Sale, Cheshire · d. 1954, Meveril Lodge, Combs, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire · m. 1923 Mary Bradbury JACKSON

Alfred GIDDINGS

b. 1894, Hale, Cheshire · d. 1987, Grey Trees, 41 Abbey Road, West Moors, Nr Wimborne, Dorset

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📎 DocumentOccupation, 1895 📎 WillWill, 12/10/1927 📎 Probate GrantProbate, 09/04/1941

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