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Radnage parish church
Bennett End and the Three Horseshoes
Caroline Avery birth cert.
Downley Village - including the old school, above. The date if this
building is unknown but many of the 'scholars' would have attended there.
Albert (Bert) Taylor, Ruth (nee Avery) and Evelyn (Evie) about 1920
in Ickenham.
Bert, Ruth (Avery) & Evelyn Taylor in the 1920s
Evelyn Sims (nee Taylor) and Hazel Davis (nee Jemmett) sorting out the
photos in 2005.
Most of the above details from Evelyn Taylor.
Marriages Dec 1873: Avery Henry Wycombe 3a 745 Stratford
Eliza Wycombe 3a 745
Marriage
certificate (click image):
1873. Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Radnage
in the County of Bucks
Oct 11
Henry Avery 32 Bachelor Chairmaker Radnage Robert Avery Farmer
Eliza Stratford 23 Spinster Lacemaker Radnage William
Stratford Labourer
Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of
the Established Church after Banns by me George Philliness[?] Rector
This Marriage was solemnized between us Henry Avery; Eliza Stratford
in the Presence of John Avery X Martha Avery
HENRY AVERY was born August 26, 1841 in Bledlow Ridge Bucks. He married ELIZA STRATFORD October 11, 1873 (he was 32, she was 23) in Radnage Bucks (Henry, know as Harry, died 1912). Eliza was born 1850 in Radnage Bucks.
1874 birth - Name: Avery, Mary Ann; Record Type: Births; Quarter:
June; Year: 1874; District: Wycombe; County: Buckinghamshire Gloucestershire
Oxfordshire; Volume: 3a Page: 514 (know as Annie)
i. MARY ANN AVERY, b. July 5, 1874, Radnage Bucks
ii. HENRY AVERY, b. February 6, 1876, Radnage Bucks
iii. ALFRED THOMAS AVERY, b. 1879
iv. GEORGE WILLIAM AVERY, b. 1880
1881 Census
Civil parish: Radnage; County/Island: Buckinghamshire
Address: Bennett End (next on the census after The Three Horseshoes)
Henry Avery 39, b.Bledlow Ridge, Bucks, Head, Agricultural Labourer
Eliza Avery 29 b.Radnage, Bucks, Wife, Lacemaker
Mary Ann Avery 6 b.Radnage, Bucks, Daughter, Scholar
Henry Avery 5 b.Radnage, Bucks, Son, Scholar
Alfred Thomas Avery 3 b.Radnage, Bucks, Son
George William Avery 1 Radnage, Bucks, Son
Births Sep 1883 - Avery, Cecil; Wycombe; 3a 610
Births Jun 1885 - Avery Caroline Wycombe 3a 652
Birth certificate (left):
1885 Birth in the Sub-district of Princes Risborough in the
Counties of Buckingham and Oxford.
Tenth May 1885 Radnage Bucks RSD
Caroline, girl, Henry Avery, Eliza Avery formerly Stratford, Labourer.
Eliza Avery, mother, Radnage Bucks, Fifteenth June 1885, Jas J
Painter, Registrar.
Some time in the late 1880s the family moved from Radnage to Downley and lived in a cottage at Plomer Green Farm (4).
Births Dec 1887 - Avery, Edwin; Wycombe; 3a 672
Births Sep 1890 - Avery Ruth Wycombe 3a 676
1891 Census
Civil parish: West Wycombe; Ecclesiastical parish: St Lawrence; Town:
County: Buckinghamshire; Hamlet: Downley
Address: Plomer Green
Avery, Harry 44 Bledlow Ridge, Bucks Head Farm Labourer
Avery, Eliza 37 Radnage, Bucks Wife
Avery, Ann 16 Radnage, Bucks Daughter
Avery, Harry 15 Radnage, Bucks Son Farm Servant
Avery, Alfred 14 Radnage, Bucks Son Farm Servant
Avery, George 11 Radnage, Bucks Son Scholar
Avery, Robert 9 Radnage, Bucks Son Scholar
Avery, Cecil 8 Radnage, Bucks Son Scholar
Avery, Caroline 5 Radnage, Bucks Daughter Scholar
Avery, Edwin 3 Radnage, Bucks Son
Avery, Ruth 10/12 Downley, Bucks Daughter
Births Mar 1893 - Avery, Sarah Ann, Wycombe, 3a 704
Birth Mar 1895 birth - Avery, Walter; Wycombe; 3a 741
1901 Census
Civil parish: West Wycombe; Ecclesiatical parish: St Lawrence; Town: Downley;
County/Island: Buckinghamshire
Address: Downley
Henry Avery 58 Radnage, Bucks, Head Cowman cattle, worker
Eliza Avery 49 Radnage, Bucks, Wife
Alfred L Avery 23 Radnage, Bucks Son, Navvy, worker
Robert Avery 19 Downley, Bucks Son Cowman cattle, worker
Cecil Avery 17 Downley, Bucks Son Farm Labourer
Carrie Avery 15 Downley, Bucks Daughter
Edwin Avery 13 Downley, Bucks Son
Ruth Avery 10 Downley, Bucks Daughter
Sarah Avery 8 Downley, Bucks, Daughter
Walter Avery 5 Downley, Bucks Son
1911 Census
AVERY HENRY M 1842 69 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY ELIZA F 1851 60 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY ROBERT M 1883 28 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY CAROLINE F 1887 24 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY EDWIN M 1888 23 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY SARAH F 1893 18 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY WALTER M 1895 16 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY VICTOR M 1905 6 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
Marriages Jun 1898: Avery Henry Wycombe 3a 1267 ,
Anderson Jane Wycombe 3a 1267
Births Dec 1900 AVERY Mabel Annie Wycombe 3a 751
1901 Census
Civil parish: Hughenden ; Ecclesiatical parish:
Hughenden St Michael ; Town: Naphill ; County/Island: Buckinghamshire
; Country: England
Address: row of cottages
Ann Anderson 69 Hughendon, Bucks, Head
Henry Avery 27 Radnage, Bucks, Son-in-law general labourer, worker
Jane Avery 31 Hughendon, Bucks, Daughter
Harold Avery 1 Naphill, Bucks, Grandson
Mable Avery 4 months Naphill, Bucks, Granddaughter
1911 Census
AVERY HENRY M 1876 35 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY JANE F 1870 41 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY HAROLD M 1900 11 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY MABEL F 1901 10 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY FRANK M 1907 4 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY DORIS MAY F 1910 1 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
Marriages Jun 1904 : Avery Alfred Thomas Wycombe 3a 1584
Harris Agnes Wycombe 3a 1584
Births Mar 1886 HARRIS Agnes Anne Wycombe
3a 696
Births Dec 1904 Avery Winifred Wycombe 3a 899
Births Mar 1906 Avery Cecil Wycombe 3a 942
Births Dec 1907 AVERY Robert Thomas Wycombe 3a 914
1911 Census
AVERY ALFRED THOMAS M 1878 33 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY AGNES F 1883 28 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY WINNIE F 1905 6 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY CECIL M 1906 5 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY ROBERT M 1908 3 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
Marriages Jun 1926 Winifred E Avery : Patrick C
Carmody ; Wycombe 3a 2228
Marriages Sep 1927 Robert T
AVERY :
Eva M Stacey Wycombe 3a 2849
Marriages Jun 1934 Kathleen A Avery : ? Wibrew ; Wycombe 3a 2846
Births Jun 1928 Carmody Peter C J Avery Wycombe 3a 1595
Births Jun 1930 Carmody Sheila M Avery Wycombe 3a 1721
Births Dec 1934 Carmody Maureen A Avery Wycombe 3a 1649
Births Mar 1930 Avery Rex D Stacey Wycombe 3a 1556
Marriages Dec 1908 : AVERY George William Wycombe 3a 1570
HARRIS Lilly Emma Wycombe 3a 1570 (b.1882)
Births Mar 1882 Harris Lily Emma Wycombe 3a 511
- post 1911 children below
Births Jun 1909 - AVERY George William Wycombe 3a 990
1911 Census
AVERY GEORGE WILLIAM M 1882 29 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY MRS F 1881 30 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY GEORGE WILLIAM M 1909 2 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
Births Jun 1912 Avery Cicely R Harris Wycombe 3a 1866
Births Jun 1914 AVERY Kathleen A Harris Wycombe 3a 1949
Births Jun 1915 Avery Frances E C Harris Wycombe 3a 1820
Births Jun 1916 Avery Leonard N Harris Wycombe 3a 1868
Marriages Sep 1907 : AVERY Cecil Wycombe 3a 1845 ;
PHILLIPS Lily May Wycombe 3a 1845
Births Mar 1888 PHILLIPS Lily May Wycombe 3a 689
Births Jun 1908 Avery Vera Lily M Wycombe 3a 1014
Births Jun 1910
AVERY Albert Edward Wycombe 3a 981
1911 Census
AVERY CECIL M 1885 26 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY LILY MAY F 1887 24 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY VERA LILY MAY F 1909 2 Wycombe Buckinghamshire
AVERY ALBERT EDWARD M 1910 10 MONTHS Wycombe Buckinghamshire
Births Jun 1915 Avery Freda W Phillips Amersham 3a 1748
Births Sep 1918 Avery Norman C Phillips Amersham 3a 1250
Marriages Jun 1927 Vera L M Avery : Allen F
GEARY Amersham 3a 2180
3 possible marriages for Albert Edward
Births Jun 1927 Geary Irene M Avery Amersham 3a 1451
Marriages Mar 1915 Edwin Avery : Bertha M Brooks Wycombe 3a 1421
Births Mar 1895 Brooks Bertha May Wycombe 3a 736
Births Sep 1920 Avery Gladys M Brooks Wycombe 3a 1927
Births Mar 1923 Avery Gertrude Brooks Wycombe 3a 1641
Births Jun 1925 Avery Lily Brooks Wycombe 3a 1527
Births Mar 1928 Avery Evelyn R Brooks Wycombe 3a 1529
Births Dec 1929 Avery Dorothy J Brooks Wycombe 3a 1435
Births Mar 1932 Avery Elsie E Brooks Wycombe 3a 1603
Marriages Dec 1915 Ruth Avery : Albert E
Taylor; Wycombe 3a 2735
Births Jun 1918 Taylor Evelyn R Avery Uxbridge 3a 65
1977 death
-Albert Edwin Taylor, 8.4.77 age 93
Births Jun 1899 Mullett Kathleen Rose Wycombe
3a 786
Marriages Jun 1924 Walter
Avery : Kathleen R
Mullett;Wycombe 3a 2116
Births Jun 1928 Doreen J Avery, Mullett Wycombe 3a 1576
Deaths Dec 1912 Avery Henry 71 Wycombe 3a 954
Early Averys from Frances: Descendants of Christopher Avery (.rtf file)
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Henry & Eliza marriage cert. 1873
Eliza Avery, nee Stratford, probably in Downley in the late 1920s when
Eliza was in her late 70s. Her granddaughter Evelyn Taylor, b.1918, was
present and remembers that as granny came round the corner of the house
she said "ooh, someone's taking my likeness".
Eliza, right, with her daughter Ruth, left and Ruth's mother-in-law
Sarah Taylor. Probably also in the 1920s.
Walter Avery, appears to be during WWI
on the back: Sergeant George Avery, 1th (sic) Royal West Kent Regiment, wounded 1914, Killed in Action February 10th, 1917.
Fred Sims & Evelyn Taylor
Doreen Avery & Tom Biggins
Walter Avery with his daughter Doreen at her wedding to Tom
Biggins, probably in the 1940s.