Elizabeth Perkins of Wokingham

[fletcherhist]

Hi People,

You may be interested in the following Wokingham extracts from Kelly’s and other directories:

The first appear in 1887

1887 to 1899—Perkins, Herbert Howard, fancy repository, Denmark Street
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1901      Perkins, Herbert Howard, 78 Rose Street
      
1903-1907   PRIVATE--Perkins, Herbert Howard, St. Kilda,  Finchampstead Road.
                  COMM—nothing.

1911      PRIVATE-- Perkins, Herbert Howard, 77 Fairview Road
      COMM--      Perkins, Herbert Howard, cycle agent, 11-39 Market Place.

1915      PRIVATE—Perkins, Eric Heard, 17 Milton Road
                  Perkins, Herbert Howard, 29 Milton Road
      COMM--     Perkins, Eric Heard, cycle agents, 11 and 39 Market Place.

1920      PRIVATE-- Perkins, Eric Heard, 19 Milton Road,
                  Perkins, Frank Stanley, 8 Langborough Road
                  Perkins, Herbert Howard, 29 Milton Road
      COMM--      Perkins EH & FS, cycle agents, 39 Market Place and motor garage
                  40 Broad Street

1928      PRIVATE-- Perkins, Eric Heard, 27 Broad Street,
                  Perkins, Frank Stanley, 21 Broad Street
                  Perkins, Herbert Howard, 29 Milton Road
      COMM--      Perkins Bros, cycle agents, 29 Market Place, and motor garage
                  40 Broad Street. TN 112.

1931      PRIVATE—Perkins, Alan Howard, 19 Crescent Road
                  Perkins, Frank Stanley, 33 Broad Street
                  Perkins, Herbert Lindsay, 129 Barkham Road
      COMM         Perkins Bros, cycle agents, 1 Denmark street, and motor garage
                   38, 40 and 42 Broad Street. TN 112.

1939      PRIVATE    Perkins, Eric Heard, 27 Broad Street,
                  Perkins, Frank Stanley, 21 Broad Street
                  Perkins, Herbert Howard, 29 Milton Road
      COMM        Perkins Bros motor garage, 38, 40 and 42 Broad Street. TN 112. 
Perkins (Mrs) MRAD (Inter) AISTD (SB&RCB) teacher of tap dancing, 27 Broad Street
Perkins, Howard C  MISTD(BB), MNATD teacher of Dancing, 27 Broad Street.

Fletcherhist

[frogg]

Hi Gang,

You might be right  there Perks, I didn't realize John Milford (or Melford) PERKINS became a political figure. His Grave shows "Milford" as does the Tassie archives.
Can't find much about him on the internet.

I had a sniff around on the weekend looking for possible family connections for John PERKINS (b1812) eligibility at being a Huntingdon PERKINS, I'm running into doubts, most Johns seem to be accounted for.

Back to Huntingdon again....I think our PERKINS from there did have influencial connections, I seem to recall Bingley being an Esquire, & certainly his daughters married into families with higher class connections....not that I'm into that sort of thing myself....but Eliza's son Henry John CHAPMAN married Sarah Christiana LEADER.....who herself was descended from Royal lineages via Anglo-Irish landed gentry.

The RIGNALLS who Frances PERKINS, (Elijah's sister) married made mention in the Gentlemans magazine from where I found their death dates. Hubby John RIGNALL was a Sexton & Bellman in Godmanchester. It seems some of the immediate family drifted to Godmanchester, where the name & even Elijah himself (in Huntingdon & St Neots) are quite often recorded as PARKINS.

Will keep searching.

Cheers.
Milton

[Perks1]

Hi Milton

Do you have any info on the BINGLEY line? I've got nothing myself - just a middle name for John Bingley Perkins.

Perks1

[frogg]

I haven/t been able to find how the name BINGLEY got into the family.
There are not that many BINGLEY's in Huntingdonshire.

However other names crept into the family that weren't ancestral, eg, godparents, inlaws etc, like EYNON, HIDDLESTONE, WADSWORTH, on the CHAPMAN, side, WARRENDER etc on the WATCHORN side.
Cheers.
Milton.

[frogg]

Yo Perkins people,
Interesting stuff here relevant to PERKINS name.
Seems they are all related way back, there are families in Wales, Berkshire, & Leicester which must be ancestral to the PERKINS families mentioned in this thread.
I guess the Huntingdon crowd would descend from the Leics. mob, incidentally where there is a great abundance of BINGLEY's.

http://freepages.books.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kiddiecampus/

Cheers.
Milton.

[frogg]

More interesting reading on PERKINS here, but still no mention of HUNTINGDON cuzzies.
Cheers.
Milton

http://www.archive.org/stream/perkinsfamilyiny00park/perkinsfamilyiny00park_djvu.txt

[SallyReed]

Hi all - I dont have anything particularly useful to add yet but I just thought I'd introduce myself, I'm Sally Reed (maiden name Evans) and I'm related to Eliza Perkins through her daughter Clara Chapman, who gave birth to my Great Grandfather Frederick W. Evans. I'm from Melbourne, Australia (my father is from Hobart but moved to Melbourne as a young man) but now reside in the UK.

I'm quite new to this family tree thing but I'm rather enjoying exercising my brain as I'm taking a bit of a career break to raise my family 

[frogg]

Hi Sally,
I'm descended from Clara's brother Henry John Chapman who came to New Zealand about 1863.
I don't have alot on Clara's descendants, but do have extensive info on the many other branches.
I can be contacted directly at  frogg@igrin.co.nz  I'd love to fill in some gaps.
Cheers.
Milton.

[fletcherhist]

Hi,
I'm not a member of the Perkins family, just interested in the local history of Wokingham,Berkshire. If I can be of assistance just ask.

Fletcherhist