Ridd

[aussie researcher]

I'm helping a friend resolve a mystery.
Looking for information on a vicar/reverend/minister with the surname RIDD.
No idea of christian name.
Believed to possibly lived in Devon about 1920-1940 but my have travelled to another area in late 1940's.
Is there a list of clergy anywhere?

Had a daughter named Margaret Lilian Florence Ridd.
Any information on the family would be great.
Understand members maybe still living so private messages excepted.

Thank you
Aussie Researcher

[KGarrad]

Crockford's Clerical Directory lists Anglican ministers - but I can't find a Ridd?!

Also, I can't see a birth for Margaret Lilian Ridd anywhere?
Are you sure she was born in England or Wales?

However, there is a marriage:
September qtr 1953
Barnstaple district    vol 7a, page 593

Ridd, Margaret L F
Brayley, Arthur W

Margaret also known as Hand - probably a previous marriage?

[aussie researcher]

Thank you for checking the Crockford's Clerical Directory
We believe she was born in UK but one can't be sure.
Would have been born between about 1920 - 1930 we think.

[KGarrad]

How about 1917?

Births, December qtr 1917
Malmesbury (Wiltshire) district    vol 5a, page 74

Hand, Margaret L F
Mother's maiden name: Ridd


Marriages, September qtr 1914
Wilton (Wiltshire) district    vol 5a, page 457

Hand, Fred S
Ridd, Florence M


And:
Deaths, December qtr 1917
Malmesbury district    vol 5a, page 49

Hand, Florence M    age 31

[KGarrad]

So, a possible scenario?

Margaret, born 1917, mother dies in childbirth.
Father remarries (see below).

Margaret prefers to be known by her mother's maiden name, but mentions both father's and mother's surnames when she eventually marries at the age of 36?


Marriage, June qtr 1920
Barnstaple district    vol 5b, page 1237

Hand, Fred S
Dunn, Dora

[aussie researcher]

KGarrad you are an amazing detective.

Now wonder if there is a Frederick HAND who is a vicar/reverend/minister?
This would answer one question.

Margaret may have prefered to take her mothers maiden name if Dad with a clergy when she was older?

[aussie researcher]

Thanks to KGarrad I think I might be onto a match.
Frederick wasn't a vicar but a Policeman.
Thank you so much, your a true detective..

[KGarrad]

Fred Stewart Hand joined the Wiltshire Constabulary on 3rd July 1912.
He retired as Sergeant on 30th October 1945, aged 5553 years 4 months.
Height 5ft 10ins; Eyes Grey; Complexion Fair; Hair Fair.

There is a tree on Ancestry, and lots of photos!

Seems to have been born in Hampshire, 1890?


Births, September qtr 1892
Winchester district    vol c, page 120
Hand, Fred Stuart

[aussie researcher]

Thank you again for your help this mystery has now been sorted.
We are well on the way with what we were after.
As I have said many times in different areas of UK you are all so wonderful.
The help is just amazing.
Rootschat is the greatest site I know.

Thanks again ♥