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Please can anyone help.
I am trying to work through my family tree of William Corten and Georgina. He worked on the railway for over 50 years, firstly for the Great Eastern and then for the Midland Railway in Derby. They were caretakers of the Derby street Baptist Tabernacle in Burton for over 20 years. They ended their lives in the York Street Almshouses.

If anyone has any information on any of these points I would be very grateful to hear from you.
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Do you have some dates, please, Bizzielizie?
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Please can anyone help.
I am trying to work through my family tree of William Corten and Georgina. He worked on the railway for over 50 years, firstly for the Great Eastern and then for the Midland Railway in Derby. They were caretakers of the Derby street Baptist Tabernacle in Burton for over 20 years. They ended their lives in the York Street Almshouses.

If anyone has any information on any of these points I would be very grateful to hear from you.
Thank you
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I live in Burton. I can look up stuff in the library but would need a lot more info.

I also have the Burton Directories for 1911, 1934 and 1964.

Derby St Baptist church is still there but a newish building. York St Almhouses are long gone (my grandmother lived in York Street in 1925)

I have a friend named Corten, they were from Swadlincote, just over the border in Derbyshire.
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Welcome to the site Bizzielizie.

As others have said we need some dates and some idea of what information you need. For instance is this a married couple (I presume so)? Do you have their marriage record and census information or are you looking for these things?

I saw these deaths in 1929 and wondered if they are for the people you mention, but for all I know I'm a couple of centuries out!:

Deaths Mar 1929
Corten Georgina 81 Burton 6b 691
Corten William 81 Burton 6b 713
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I don't know if you have access to Ancestry, but this looks like a possible match for 1901:

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...=&pid=34630063
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1911 Burton Directory has a William Corten (retired) at 107 Horninglow Road

another William (baker and grocer) at 163 Horninglow Road and a George Joseph (foreman shunter) at 80 Victoria Crescent.

These addresses are all in close proximity to each other and to Derby Street and York Street.
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1934 Burton Directory only shows one Corten.

William a carter of 163 Horninglow Road
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1911 census shows the William of 107 Horninglow Road to have a wife George Hannah. William is described as a Pavior. They are both aged 63 and he was born in March, Cambridgeshire and her in Kentish Town, London.

They have been married 42 years and had three children two of which died.

These tie in with the deaths that Merry found.
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1911 census William of 163 Horninglow Road, the baker, is a widower with 4 children.

He had been married 12 years, 5 children 1 dead.

William was born in Derby and his children in Burton

William was 38 and sons:
William age 13
George age 11
Frank age 9
Jack age 7
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George Joseph of 80 Victoria Crescent is listed as Corton in 1911.

He was 51 and born in Derby, a railway foreman in goods dept.

He was married but his wife is not listed.

Married 10 years and 3 children with 1 dead.

Children are George Henry aged 9 and Frances Alice aged 4 both born in Burton
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