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Sarah HOLMES(GIDDINGS)

1859 – 1923 · Hulme, Manchester, Lancashire
Father: Isaac HOLMES · Mother: Sarah VICKERS
👶Birth
1859
🏛️ Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
Hulme, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 1861 Census

7 April 1861 Census records her age as 1 and three quarters

🏠Lived (2)
1861
🏛️ Death of Prince Albert
3 Victoria Terrace, Embden Street, Hulme, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 1861 Census
🏠Lived (12)
1871
🏛️ Bank Holidays introduced
Stafford House, Ellesmere Road, Ellesmere Park, Monton, Lancashire 📍 📎 Census
💼Occupation (12)
1871
Scholar
🏠Lived (22)
1881
4 Burton Villas, Chester Road, Stretford, Manchester, Lancashire 📍 1881 Census 📎 Census

The 1881 Census records two servants and a visitor.

💒Marriage (25)
26/03/1884
🏛️ Third Reform Act
Alfred GIDDINGS
St John the Baptist Church, Buxton, Derbyshire 📍 Marriage Certificate 📎 Marriage
🏠Lived (32)
1891
🏛️ Free elementary education
23 Springfield Road, Sale, Cheshire 📍
with Alfred GIDDINGS 1891 Census 📎 Census

1891 Census - two servants

📌Event (36)
1895
🏛️ National Trust founded
Left by her father: a share of the residuary trust fund after her mother's death, charged in the first place with any loss on the £3,000 loan made by her father to her husband Alfred Giddings. Held for her separate use. Will
🏠Lived (42)
1901
🏛️ Second Boer War
Tweed Side, Ashley Road, Hale, Cheshire 📍
with Alfred GIDDINGS 1901 Census 📎 Census

1901 Census - 2 servants

🏠Lived (49)
1908
🏛️ Old Age Pensions introduced
Hillcrest, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire 📍
with Alfred GIDDINGS Will
Ref: of Jane HOLMES
💼Occupation (49)
1908
Lead Manufacturer Will
Ref: of Jane HOLMES
🏠Lived (52)
1911
🏛️ National Insurance Act
Hillcrest, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire 📍
with Alfred GIDDINGS 📎 Census
📝Will (57)
20/07/1916
🏛️ First World War
Will 📎 Will
✝️Death (64)
29/07/1923
Hillcrest, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire 📍 Probate Index
🪦Burial
01/08/1923
Hale Cemetery, Hale Road, Hale, Altringham, Cheshire 📍
Grave C23 Grave Headstone
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📎 Grave 📎 Grave 📎 Grave 📎 Grave 📎 Grave 📎 Burial

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
29/12/1923
London, Middlesex 📍
Effects £4727 3s 8d Probate Index 📎 Probate Grant 📎 Probate
Children with Alfred GIDDINGS
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
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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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Documents
Associations
Executor of her Will: James HOLMES
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