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May DRAKEFORD
1924 - 2002 (77 years) Has 2 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.Set As Default Person
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Name May DRAKEFORD Relationship with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born 27 Oct 1924 Stoke on Trent Reg Dist, Staffordshire, England - GRO ref: Drakeford, May q4 1924 mother's maiden name: Beech, Stoke T. RD 6b 451
Actual date from 1939 register, which also shows she married a Donkin.
Gender Female Died Sep 2002 Stoke on Trent Reg Dist, Staffordshire, England - GRO ref: Donkin, May dob 27 Oct 1924 Reg Sep 2002, Stoke On Trent RD, Register Number: A75F, District and Subdistrict: 7371A, Entry Number: 280
Siblings 4 brothers and 4 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch Thomas DRAKEFORD, b. 30 May 1882, Pontefract Reg Dist, Yorkshire, England , d. Mar Q 1961, Stoke on Trent Reg Dist, Staffordshire, England (Age 78 years) (Father)
Anne Elizabeth BEECH, b. 15 Jul 1884, Stoke on Trent Reg Dist, Staffordshire, England , d. Sep Q 1960, Stoke on Trent Reg Dist, Staffordshire, England (Age 75 years) (Mother)Person ID I304750 All | All in the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study Last Modified 28 May 2023
Father Thomas DRAKEFORD, b. 30 May 1882, Pontefract Reg Dist, Yorkshire, England , d. Mar Q 1961, Stoke on Trent Reg Dist, Staffordshire, England (Age 78 years) Mother Anne Elizabeth BEECH, b. 15 Jul 1884, Stoke on Trent Reg Dist, Staffordshire, England , d. Sep Q 1960, Stoke on Trent Reg Dist, Staffordshire, England (Age 75 years) Married Sep Q 1909 Civil Register, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England - GRO ref: DRAKEFORD, Thomas to BEECH, Anne Elizabeth q3 1909 Stoke T. RD 6b 415
Civil register from Staffordshire BMD website.
By the time of the 1911 census Thomas and Anne had had two children, but both had died.
Although the 1939 register only shows that 5 out of their other 7 children were then with them the death registration index (on FreeBMD, viewed 14 Oct 2017) suggests that by then no others had died.
Family ID F300975 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Last Modified 28 May 2023 Family ID F3557 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- GRO ref: Drakeford, May q4 1924 mother's maiden name: Beech, Stoke T. RD 6b 451
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