GROWNS/GROUNDS

The Family History of Michael STRAND of Leicester, UK. email:  m-strand@iname.com 

Charles GROWNS/GROUNDS - born c.1818 , Kent. Married 22 Nov 1836, Sarah BURDEN (c.1816)  Kent.

Issue:

• Alfred GROWNS/GROUNDS (1836 - ????)
• Charles GROWNS  see below
• Elizabeth GROWNS (1841 prob. Biddenden - ????) Married 01 Nov 1862 at Biddenden, Kent, John VANE (1839 - ???)
• Sarah GROWNS/GROUNDS (1844 - ????) Married 21 Apr 1866 at Biddenden, Kent, Thomas PERREN (1838, prob. Headcorn, Kent)
• Susannah GROWNS/GROUNDS (1846, Biddenden, Kent - ????) Married 03 Mar 1866 at Biddenden, Kent, James VANE (1864 prob. Biddenden, Kent).
• Esther GROWNS/GROUNDS (1848 Biddenden, Kent - ????)
• Harriet GROWNS/GROUNDS (1853 Biddenden, Kent - ????)
• George GROWNS/GROUNDS (1857 Biddenden - ????)

Charles GROWNS/GROUNDS - born 26 Nov 1838 Biddenden, Kent - Died 08 Jan 1908 Blean, Kent) Married 9 Nov 1860 at Biddenden, Mary Ann Batt UNDERDOWN (03 Apr 1845 Smarden, Kent - 29 Sep 1924 Blean, Kent. See copy of her Will).
Charles' occupations, Bailiff / Market Gardener / ? Publican

Issue:

• Charles GROWNS (1862 Biddenden, Kent - ????). Married 1880, Fanny <UNKNOWN> (1861, Charing, Kent - ????) In 1881 Charles was a Milkman.
• Thomas GROWNS (1864 Biddenden, Kent - ????). In 1881 he was an Ag.Lab
• Mary Jane GROWNS (1866 Biddenden, Kent ? - ????) Married 30 Oct 1886, Sturry, Kent, Albert Harry Knight CURD (c.1866, Sturry, Kent - ????)
• Emily GROWNS (c.1868 Biddenden, Kent - ????) Married <unknown> EDWARDS
• Ernest GROWNS (1870 Biddenden, Kent ? - ????) Married 24 Nov 1888 at Sturry, Kent, Lily NEAVES (1868, ? Sturry, Kent - ????)
• Herbert GROWNS (1872 Biddenden, Kent ? - ????) Married 21 Nov 1892 at Sturry, Kent, Alice LOCKYEAR (1870 - ????)
• Mary Edith GROWNS (1874 Faringham, Kent ??)
• Laura Annie GROWNS (1879 Little Mongeham, Kent - ????)  Married 24 Aug 1899 at Holy Cross, Canterbury, Kent, Edward Charles CURD (1871 ? Sturry, Kent)
• Sarah GROWNS (1880 - ????) Married in 1904 to <unknown> GOODBAN (1880 - ????)
• Horace GROWNS (1880 Little Mongeham, Kent - 08 Jul 1916 Blean) Married Olive <UNKNOWN>
• Percy GROWNS see below
• Maud GROWNS (5 Apr 1884, Sturry, Kent - ????)
• Minnie GROWNS (17 Jan 1886 Sturry, Kent - ????) Married <unknown> CALVEREY (1880 - ????)
• Rosa (Rose) GROWNS see below

Percy GROWNS (30 Jan 1882 Mayton Fm, Sturry, Kent - ????) married 1901 to Ester Jane <NEE or NEAVES ??> (1878 - 15 Aug 1963 Whitstable, Kent)

Issue:

• Harold GROWNS
• Ernest GROWNS
• Joan GROWNS
• Joyce GROWNS
• Horace GROWNS (1903 Kent - ????)
• Edith GROWNS (1918 - ????)

Rose GROWNS (24 Apr 1888 Mayton Fm, Sturry, Kent - 10 Jun 1973 Peterborough Dist. Hospital, Cambs) Married 31 May 1905, Blean, to Ernest Charles STRAND (21 Oct 1883 - 29 Sep 1947 Bury, Hunts)

Issue:

• Sidney Ernest STRAND (14 Sep 1908 Canterbury, Kent - 29 Dec 1981 Leicester) Married 1934 Market Harborough, Leics, Florence Catherine KILBORN (03 Mar 1907 London - 06 Feb 1986 Mkt.Harborough, Leics).  Sid's occupation Ironmonger.
• Harold Charles (Snowy) STRAND (08 Sep 1911 Chillenden, Kent - 21 Nov 1993 Kidderminster, Worcs) Married 15 Mar 1947 <living>. Snowy was an Engineer.
• Ernest Percy STRAND (21 Jun 1913 Dartford, Kent - 11 Mar 1996 Peterborough Dist. Hospital) Married 10 Apr 1939 at Ramsey, Hunts, Florence Elizabeth BRIGHTY (22 Feb 1910 Ramsey Heights, Hunts - 17 Jun 1983 Gorleston, Suffolk). For 47 years, Ernie was a Grocer for the Co-op.
• Horace Albert David STRAND (06 Jul 1915 Lydd, Kent - 24 Feb 1978 Bury, Hunts) Unmarried. Horace was stone deaf and crippled. He worked as a casual Farm Labourer.
• Leslie Arthur STRAND (17 Jul 1918 New Romney, Kent - 26 Sep 1974 Ramsey, Hunts) Married 18 Oct 1941 at St.Ives to <living>

Ernest Percy STRAND was my father.

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