Ellen "Nell" TUCKER

  General Notes:

From birth entry of daughter Elsie on Freebmd

Births Jun 1880
Barnstaple 5b 511 Tucker Ellen

Marriages Mar 1909 Barnstaple 5b 793
LEY Elizabeth
ROOKE Richard
THORNE Edmund
TUCKER Ellen

Edmund and Ellen were 2nd cousins - through Evans family

Deaths Mar 1948
Barnstaple 7a 259 Thorne Ellen (66)

Probate Calendar 1948
Thorne Ellen of 16 Signal Terrace Barnstaple Devonshire widow died 13 January 1948 Probate London 5 March to Reginald Thorne railway signalman and May George married woman. Effects £3499 10s 7d
- Reginald and May are two of her children

I have a copy of a photo of Ellen with her family in about 1900 - it lists her brothers and sisters as Charlie, Jack, Jim, Eliza, Bill, Lizze, Annie and George

1881 census
James J. TUCKER Head M Male 29 Braunton, Devon, England Gamekeeper Unemployed
Eliza TUCKER Wife M Female 26 Fremington, Devon, England
Annie TUCKER Daur Female 2 Sherwill, Devon, England
Ellen TUCKER Daur Female 1 Sherwill, Devon, England
Source Information:
Dwelling Village
Census PlaceGoodleigh, Devon, England
Public Records Office Reference RG11
Piece / Folio 2244 / 149
Page Number 16

1891 census
RG12/1780 F174 P9
Lake Hamlet, Tawstock, nr Barnstaple, Devon
James Tucker, Head, M, 37, Plate Railey Laborer (sic), Braunton Devon
Eliza do, Wife, m, 35, , Fremington Devon
Annie do, Daur, S, 12, Scholar, Sherwill Devon
Ellen do, Daur, S, 11, Scholar, Sherwill Devon
Charles do, Son, S, 9, Scholar, Goodleigh Devon
James do, Son, S, 7, Scholar, Goodleigh Devon
John do, Son, S, 5, Scholar, Tawstock Devon
Eliza do, Daur, S, 2, Tawstock Devon
Elizabeth do, Daur, S, 6mo, Tawstock Devon

1901 census
RG13/2153 F43 P5 & P6
Sticklepath, Tawstock, Devon
Annie C Yeo, Head, S, 50, Living on own Means, Devon Barnstaple
Mary L Yeo, Sister, S, 49, Living on own Means, Devon Barnstaple
Annie Hawke, Visitor, S, 42, Living on own Means, Cornwall St Kew
Ellen Tucker, Serv, S, 20, General Servant Domestic, Devon Tawstock

1911 census
RG14PN13322 RG78PN772 RD284 SD1 ED6 SN278
4 Clifton Street, Sticklepath, Barnstaple, Devon
Edmund Thorne, Head, 32, Married, Machinist - Cabinet Works, Fremington Devon
Ellen Thorne, Wife, 30, Married 2 years, , Shirwell Devon
Reginald Thorne, Son, 1, , , Barnstaple Devon
- against Ellen it is stated that there has been 1 child born alive and 1 still alive, to this marriage
- the reference to Cabinet Works is presumably Shapland & Petter
- the house had 5 habitable rooms

Lived at 16 Signal Terrace (Sticklepath, Barnstaple) and had a shop
(her mother Eliza died there in 1931)

1939 Register
Ref: RG101/6810A/010/19 Letter Code: WFCJ
16 Signal Terrace , Barnstaple M.B., Devon, England
Ellen Thorne 04 Apr 1880 Female General Shop Keeper Widowed 97 1
Elsie Stone (Thorne) 29 Mar 1914 Female General Help Single 97 2
May George (Thorne) 26 Feb 1916 Female Shop Assistant Single 97 3
Frederick Roper 27 Jul 1874 Male Printers Reader (Retired) Married 97 4
- against May it states "3-10-44 WFC"
- no idea who Mr Roper was, presumably a lodger

Nell married Edmund "Ned" THORNE, son of Joseph Henry THORNE and Eliza Ann BLACKMORE, on 30 Jan 1909 in Barnstaple, Devon, England.¹ (Edmund "Ned" THORNE was born on 28 Sep 1878 in Bickington, Fremington, Devon, England ², baptised on 20 Oct 1878 in Fremington, Devon, England ³ and died on 12 May 1919 in Barnstaple, Devon, England ⁴.)