Rebecca AKERMAN

Rebecca AKERMAN(SNELGROVE)

1842 – 1936 · Patney, Wiltshire
👶Birth
02/06/1842 8am
🏛️ Mines Act
Patney, Wiltshire 📍 Family Bible
Birth Certificate
📎 Birth Cert 📎 Photo
Baptism
31/07/1842
St Swithin Church, Woodland Road, Patney, Wiltshire, SN10 3QZ 📍 📎 Baptism
🏠Lived (9)
1851
🏛️ Irish Potato Famine
St John Street, Devizes, Wiltshire 📍
Visitor 1851 Census 📎 Census
🏠Lived (19)
1861
🏛️ Death of Prince Albert
39 Albany Street, St Pancras, London, Middlesex 📍
Visitor at Coffee House 📎 Census
💒Marriage (27)
14/10/1869
David SNELGROVE
St George's Parish Church, Hanover Square, Mayfair, London, Middlesex 📍 Marriage Certificate 📎 Marriage Cert

David Snelgrove of full age, Bachelor, Farmer of King Street and Rebecca Akerman of full age, Spinster of King Street. Fathers were David Snelgrove, Farmer and Jonathan Akerman, Farmer. Witnesses were [E]. Akerman and Matilda Catherine Akerman.

🏠Lived (27)
1869
King Street, London, Middlesex 📍
with David SNELGROVE Marriage Certificate
🏠Lived (29)
1871
🏛️ Bank Holidays introduced
Bratton, Wiltshire 📍 1871 Census 📎 Census

The 1871 Census also shows a Frederick Snelgrove living with the family who was his nephew aged 14 and born in Bratton, Wiltshire and Ann Hampshire, Domestic Servant, 12, born Chirton.

💼Occupation (29)
1871
Farmers Wife 1871 Census
🏠Lived (39)
1881
Chirton Farm, 42 The Street, Chirton, Wiltshire, SN10 3QS 📍
with David SNELGROVE 1881 Census 📎 Census

The 1881 Census also shows a Frederick Snelgrove living with the family who was his nephew aged 22 and born about 1859 in Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire working as a farmers assistant

🏠Lived (49)
1891
🏛️ Free elementary education
Chirton Farm, 42 The Street, Chirton, Wiltshire, SN10 3QS 📍
with David SNELGROVE 1891 Census 📎 Census
🏠Lived (59)
1901
🏛️ Second Boer War
Chirton Farm, 42 The Street, Chirton, Wiltshire, SN10 3QS 📍
with David SNELGROVE 1901 Census 📎 Census

The 1901 Census records the next household family as: Frederick Snelgrove (Head) 43 Farmer (own account) born Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire and his wife Christiania aged 43 born Chalford, Glost. It is assumed he is the nephew who was living with the family in 1881.

🏠Lived (69)
1911
🏛️ National Insurance Act
Chirton Farm, 42 The Street, Chirton, Wiltshire, SN10 3QS 📍
with David SNELGROVE 1911 Census 📎 Census
🏠Lived (79)
1921
🏛️ Irish Free State established
Chirton Farm, 42 The Street, Chirton, Wiltshire, SN10 3QS 📍 1921 Census 📎 Census
🏠Lived (94)
1936
🏛️ Abdication of Edward VIII
47 Stonard Road, Southgate, London, Greater London 📍
Lived with daughter Frances Margaret at least 1931-1936 Electoral Roll 📎 Image 📎 Image 📎 Image
✝️Death (94)
04/12/1936
47 Stonard Road, Southgate, London, Greater London 📍
Inquest 05/12/1936
Fractured femur due to falling down Familyhistoryonline
Death Civil Registration Index
Ref: 3a 929 Edmonton DecQ 1936 Aged 94
Death Certificate
📎 Death Cert 📎 Notice

North Wilts Herald 24th December 1936

CHIRTON
THE LATE MRS DAVID SNELGROVE.
The death of Mrs. David Snelgrove occurred at Palmer's Green, London, where she went to reside about two years ago. She was in her 95th year. Mrs Snelgrove made frequent visits back to her old home at the Manor Farm, now occupied by her son. The body was brought by motor hearse to Chirton for interment, with her husband, in the parish churchyard. The service was taken by the Vicar (the Rev. C. R. Cottell). The service

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Name Rebecca SNELGROVE Date of death 4 Dec 1936 Age 94 Notes wife of David Ref Num 136227 Place Chirton, WIL

🪦Burial
09/12/1936
St John The Baptist, The Street, Chirton, Wiltshire, SN10 3RP 📍 Grave Headstone
Wiltshire Archives
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Rebecca Snelgrove was buried on 9th December 1936, age 94. She lived at 47 Stonard Road, Winchmore Hill, London.

In
Loving Memory
of
DAVID SNELGROVE
DIED SEPT. 6TH 1926,
AGED 84
AT REST

ALSO REBECCA HIS BELOVED WIFE
DIED DEC. 4TH 1936, AGED 94 YEARS
PEACE PERFECT PEACE.

[Side]
AND OF
THEIR DAUGHTER
FRANCES MARGARET
SNELGROVE,

DIED JAN, 6th 1957,
IN HER 80th YEAR

[Restored in 2018 by James Tattersall]

Children with David SNELGROVE
F
b. 1870, Bratton, Wiltshire · d. 1941, Maldon, Essex · m. 1897 Ernst SCHWIER
Charles John SNELGROVE
b. 1871, Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire · d. 1943, The Cottage, 56 The Street, Chirton, Wiltshire, SN10 3QS · m. 1906 Mary Rose HAYWARD
M
b. 1873, Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire · d. 1949, Gosforth, New South Wales, Australia · m. 1901 Ethel COLLETT
Catherine Rebecca SNELGROVE
b. 1875, The Bell Inn, Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire · d. 1966, Fern House, 8 Queen's Park Road, Hanbridge, Chester, Cheshire, CH4 7AD · m. 1904 George William CORNISH
Frances Margaret SNELGROVE
b. 1877, Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire · d. 1957, Friern Hospital, Friern Barnet Road, London, Middlesex, N11 3BP
Annabella SNELGROVE
b. 1879, Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire · d. 1930, Edmonton, London, Middlesex · m. 1908 Albert Sidney POWELL
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Documents
Associations
Witness of her Birth: Ann Griffin PEARCE
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