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Old 13-11-09, 08:52
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Default Edwin Flower Mitchell (Week 1 - FMF)

Here we go then .....

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Edwin Flower Mitchell - don't know what he was known as, but his grandson, named Edwin after him, was called Ted!

Date and place of birth
17th Dec 1851 Keynsham, Somerset

Names of parents
Thomas Mitchell and Mary, formerly Lewis

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
15th Sept 1867 at Horfield Gloucestershire (all this family were baptised on separate dates in their teens)

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
1) 20th April 1873 at St Clements, Bristol to Priscilla Stone
2) 16th Jan 1879 at Holy Trinity and St Edmund, Horfield, Gloucestershire to my g-grandmother, Annie Allen


Occupation(s) - if any
Stonemason and also licenced victualler (1896-1911)

Military service - if any
None to my knowledge

Addresses where they lived
Before 1865: Keynsham, Somerset
1871: 4 Haines Cottages, Ashley Down, Gloucestershire
1881: Russells Fields, Horfield, Gloucestershire
1886-1891: 1 Bringland Terrace, Horfield, Bristol, Gloucestershire
1901-1904: The Anchor Inn, 323 Gloucester Road, Horfield, Bristol, Gloucestershire
1911: 112 Ashley Down Road, Bristol, Gloucestershire
1930: 7 Ashley Down Road, Bristol, Gloucestershire


Date, place and cause of death
6th April 1930 at Snowdon Buildings, Fishponds, Bristol, Gloucestershire of myocardial failure, myocardial degeneration and senility.

Date and place of burial / cremation.
No idea!

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
I've never looked to see if he left a will

Memorial inscription - if any
I've not found a memorial, though his second wife has one in Horfield churchyard.
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Old 13-11-09, 13:17
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I looked him up in the National Probate Calendar and didn't find anything, so there was probably no will or administration (unless it took years and years, since I only searched up to 1934).
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Old 13-11-09, 13:32
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That's very kind of you Kite. I will endeavor to put a note on my tree, so you don't find yourself looking again in a couple of years! lol
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Old 20-11-09, 16:45
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Incidently I know Snowdon Road quite well and the building was until recently a day centre.
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Old 20-11-09, 19:11
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I thought it was MFM not FMF this week.
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Old 20-11-09, 19:16
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This one's left over from last week, UJ!
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Old 20-11-09, 19:28
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