newcomer needs help!!!- Ernest Arthur Chinnery

[cchinnery]

hello, im new on here and havent got a clue where to start! ive done a bit of research on Ancestry.com but seem to have come to a dead end... i wonder if anyone with a bit more experience can help me? I'm looking for my great grandfathers family Ernest Arthur Chinnery born 1875 in Essex, ive found lots of army info on him but i cant seem to find his parents or siblings, i think his father was called George... any help at all would be greatly appreciated! thanks, Clare.

[Diblet]

Hello Clare

Welcome to Rootschat. It's a great genealogy site you've found and I hope you'll be able to discover lots of useful information on it!

Apart from his army records, do you know anything about Ernest at all? Do you know where in Essex he was born and where he got married?

Any extra clues at this stage would help us to help you!
 

[jobucoth]

Hello Clare
I think this is the family in 1881
George Chenery  Head Married 33 years   Gardner     Born  Essex  Gt Horksley
Elizabeth   "          Wife              32                                  "    Suffolk  Bures
Ernest        "                                5  Scholar                     "    Essex  Fordham
Lizzie          "                                4     "                           "     Essex Fordham
Basil            "                                2                                 "     Essex  Fordham

Living at Nr The Rectory, Fordham
On RG11  1799   Folio 75  Page 11 on An....
Hope this helps
Roy

[Maggie1895]

Welcome from me as well.

This looks like the same family in 1891, still living at Rectory Lodge (Main Road, Hands Farm):
George Chinnery, age 43, Gardener/Domestic Servant  Born Gt Horksley
Elizabeth, 42, born Bures St Mary in Suffolk
Children:
Lizzie, 12, Esther 8, Afred 7, Thomas 5, all born Fordham in Essex
No Ernest or Basil though
There is also a Rosa Everitt, niece, age 3, born in Edmonton in Middlesex.

That may mean that Elizabeth (the mother) may have been Elizabeth Everitt, or it may mean that one of George's sister married a Mr Everitt but Rosa is there on her own without either parent listed.

No sign of Basil or Ernest but then he would be 15, and you may know from his Army records where he was?   I'll just have a quick look at marriages to see if I can find the Everitt connection

p.s. sorry - reference was RG12/ 1416/95  p7

[cchinnery]

thanks so much for such swift replies!! this could be the right family, Ernest was born in Colchester (i think) may 1875, he was married to mary leonora curtis in 1901 (in Sandhurst where i believe that her family were gate-keepers), she died in 1921 and ive been told he re-married but i cant find any record of that either! Ernest died in 1929 so he must have remarried 1922-1928...I'm guessing!! thanks so much, what a great site this is!