Edith Annie STACEY

  General Notes:

First names found on Parish Registers for baptism of children

Births Mar 1879
Stacey Edith Annie Launceston 5c 33

Marriages Jun 1903 Barnstaple 5b 1028
Thorne William Henry
Stacey Edith Annie

Marriage Certificate
Married at the Independent Chapel Barnstaple on 11th April 1903
William Henry Thorne, 22 years, Bachelor, Mason, 48 Pilton Street Pilton East. Father Joseph Henry Thorne, Mason.
Edith Annie Stacey, 24 years, Spinster, - , Bickington Fremington. Father Thomas Stacey, Farmer.

Notice of marriage in North Devon Journal 16 Apr 1903
Thorne - Stacey - April 11 at the Congregational Chapel, Barnstaple, William Henry Thorne, of Pilton Barnstaple, to Edith Annie Stacey, of Fremington.

Death Jun 1958
Taunton 7c 179 Thorne Edith A aged 79

1881 census
RG11/2247 F19 P9
Smithstone cottages, Berrynarbor, Devon
Thomas Stacey, Head, Mar, 29, Game Keeper, St Gennys Cornwall
Elizabeth do, Wife, Mar, 33, do Wife, St Giles in the Heath
Florence Emly do, Daur, , 4, Scholar, Lezant Cornwall
Edeth Anne do, Daur, , 2, , Lezant Cornwall

1891 census
RG12/1780 F35 P12
Ley, Bishops Tawton, Devon
Thomas Stacey, Head, M, 39, Game Keeper, Cornwall St Ginnis
Elizabeth Stacey, Wife, M, 43, , Devon St Giles
Florence Emly Stacey, Daughter, Single, 14, Scholar, Devon Lezant
Edith Annie Stacey, Daughter, -, 12, Scholar, Devon Lezant
Fredrick Wm Stacey, Son, , 9, Scholar, Devon Berrynabour
Maud Stacey, Daughter, , 8, Scholar, Devon Berrynabour
Frank Stacey, Son, , 5, Scholar, Devon Berrynabour
Herbert Thomas Stacey, Son, , 1, , Devon Bishops Tawton

1901 census
RG13/2143 F51 P26
98 High Street, Barnstaple, Devon
Edith Stacey, Servant, S, 22, General Domestic, Devon Fremington
- her parents were living in Fremington at this time

1911 census
RG14PN13384 RG78PN776 RD284 SD5 ED5 SN114
Bickington, Fremington, North Devon
William Thorne, Head, 30, Married, Bricklayer, Devonshire Fremington
Edith Thorne, Wife, 32, Married 8 years, , Cornwall Lezant
Herbert Thorne, Son, 7, , , Devonshire Barnstaple
Archie Thorne, Son, 6, , , Devonshire Fremington
Florence Thorne, Daughter, 4, , , Devonshire Fremington
Frank Thorne, Son, 1, , , Devonshire Fremington
- against Edith it is stated that there have been 4 live birthsand 4 still living
- the house had 5 habitable rooms


1939 Register
Ref: RG101/6809H/013/29 Letter Code: WFCG
3 Grosvenor Street , Barnstaple M.B., Devon, England
William Henry Thorne 23 Oct 1880 Male Mason Married 154 1
Edith Annie Thorne 11 Feb 1879 Female Unpaid Domestic Dut Married 154 2
Reginald Thorne 21 Nov 1909 Male S Railway Stations Clerical Duties Special Class Married 154 3
Florence Maud Thorne 19 Oct 1906 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married 154 4
Michael Edmund Thorne 13 Jun 1937 Male Under School Age Single 154 5
- Florrie's year of birth indexed as 1900
- Michael indexed as Michael Edward


between Fremington churchyard filling and the new cemetery being opened (1964) some people were buried in Instow churchyard - near the smaller entrance gate "against the road" not the Lychgate. they may be buried there. But more likely they are buried in Taunton where they were living when Edith died.

Edith married William Henry "Bill" THORNE, son of Joseph Henry THORNE and Eliza Ann BLACKMORE, on 11 Apr 1903 in Barnstaple, Devon, England.¹ (William Henry "Bill" THORNE was born on 23 Oct 1880 in Bickington, Fremington, Devon, England ², baptised on 15 Nov 1880 in Fremington, Devon, England ³ and died on 25 Oct 1966 in Fremington, Devon, England.)