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Walter Edwin GOUNDRY 1881 – 1970 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: ABT AUG 1881

Birth Location: Shildon, Co. Durham

Death Date: ABT JAN 1970

Death Location: Severalls Psychiatric Hospital, Colchester, Essex

Father: John GOUNDRY

Mother: Margaret THOMPSON

Spouse(s): Audrey TATWORTH

Children(s):

In 1881, Walter Edwin GOUNDRY entered the world in Shildon, Co. Durham, born to John Wesley GOUNDRY and Margaret THOMPSON. Years later, Walter Edwin GOUNDRY married Audrey Emily TATWORTH. Walter Edwin GOUNDRY died in 1970 in Severalls Psychiatric Hospital, Colchester, Essex.

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Parents

John GOUNDRY
1838 – 1905
Birth Location: Shildon, Co. Durham
JG
Margaret THOMPSON
1846 – 1919
Birth Location: Fremington, Reeth, Yorkshire (North Riding)
MT

Spouses(s)

Audrey TATWORTH
– 1964
Birth Location: –
AT

Children(s)

Sources

    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Year: ABT AUG 1881
    Event Place: Shildon, Co. Durham

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: ABT DEC 1885
    Record Source: living at Gosforth, with three siblings he joined the Big Book, a newspaper club for children, which promoted kindness to all living things

    Genealogy Event 3
    Event Type: Occupation
    Event Year: 1915
    Event Place: Auckland St. Andrew, Co. Durham

    Genealogy Event 4
    Event Type: Occupation
    Event Year: BET 1916 AND 1917
    Event Place: Auckland St. Andrew, Co. Durham

    Genealogy Event 5
    Event Type: Occupation
    Event Year: BET 1917 AND 1919
    Event Place: Stanhope, Co. Durham

    Genealogy Event 6
    Event Type: Occupation
    Event Year: BET 1919 AND 1937
    Event Place: St. Paul's Church, Upper Caterham, Surrey
    Record Source: and lived in Boundary Cottage, Chaldon Heath, Caterham.

    Genealogy Event 7
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 28 APR 1926
    Record Source: he conducted the marriage ceremony of his brother Jacob Ernest James GOUNDRY at Betchworth, Surrey - he was described as Assistant Curate, Caterham Parish.

    Genealogy Event 8
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 15 OCT 1929
    Record Source: at a meeting of the Church of England Pensions Board, in what was described as "a test case of importance to the poorer clergy" he appealed "against the decision of the Board to account Whitsun offerings as part of a curate's stipend for the purp

    Genealogy Event 9
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 20 MAY 1936
    Record Source: he was Curate of Caterham and conducted the marriage ceremony at Coulsden of his sister Margaret GOUNDRY

    Genealogy Event 10
    Event Type: Occupation
    Event Year: JUN 1937
    Event Place: Tatsfield Church, Surrey
    Record Source: .

    Genealogy Event 11
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: MAY 1939
    Event Place: Tatsfield Church, Surrey
    Record Source: he placed a notice next to the offertory box in Tatsfield Church, which had suffered some pilfering, saying "To Thieves: This box is not locked. We trust you not to steal in God's House - "Will a man rob God?" (Malachi, 3 - 8)"

    Genealogy Event 12
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 4 MAR 1940
    Record Source: at Oxted Police Court he was fined 10s. for "leaving a light unobscured at the Rectory during black-out hours". He stated that "he had been using his electric razor, and after using it put the bulb back and, it being daylight, must have failed t

    Genealogy Event 13
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: APR 1949
    Record Source: he was Rector of Tatsfield, Surrey, and was appointed as Rector of Horne

    Genealogy Event 14
    Event Type: Occupation
    Event Year: 1953
    Event Place: St. Mary the Virgin, Horne, Surrey
    Record Source: where he lived - his tel. no. was Smallfield 54

    Genealogy Event 15
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 25 FEB 1958
    Record Source: with his brother Rev. John Alfred GOUNDRY he was joint Executor of the Will of their sister Ruth Annie GOUNDRY

    Genealogy Event 16
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Year: 5 JAN 1960
    Record Source: with his brother Rev. John Alfred GOUNDRY he was joint Executor of the Will of their sister Janet Amelia Kate Mary GOUNDRY

    Genealogy Event 17
    Event Type: Death
    Event Year: ABT JAN 1970
    Event Place: Severalls Psychiatric Hospital, Colchester, Essex
    Record Source: Age:

    Genealogy Event 18
    Event Type: Burial
    Event Year: 5 JAN 1970
    Event Place: Caterham, Surrey
    Record Source: - his burial record states that he was Curate of the Parish of Caterham 1919-37.

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