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Ellen FARRER

Female 1853 - 1941  (87 years)


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  • Name Ellen FARRER 
    Birth 1 May 1853  Pontefract Yorkshire Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 1891 Census
      1939 Register
    Gender Female 
    Death 5 Apr 1941 
    • Ancestry Wills and Probate
      Ellen Sylvester of 40 Harlech Road Southgate widow who died 5th Apr 1941 Probate Llandudno 27th May 1941 to William Thomas Farrer Sylvester company director & Charles Henry Sylvester engineer Effects £687 7s 9d
    Person ID I15201  Main Tree
    Last Modified 7 Oct 2020 

    Father Charles FARRER,   b. 1825, Pontefract Yorkshire Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Margaret PEASE,   b. 1827, Pontefract Yorkshire Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 28 Jan 1857  St Peter Leeds Yorkshire Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Ancestry West Yorkshire CofE records St Peter Leeds No 17 28th Jan 1857
      Charles Farrer aged 26 druggist of Pontefract son of Benjamin Farrer watchmaker to
      Margaret Pease aged 24 spin of Rockingham St dau of William Pease cabinet maker
      By licence; both signed; witnessed by James Crough & Edwin Moore
    Family ID F3781  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Henry SYLVESTER,   b. 8 Jul 1848, Islington London Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 3 Oct 1877  All Saints Castleford Yorkshire Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Ancestry West Yorkshire CofE records All Saints Castleford 197 3rd oct 1877
      Henry Sylvester aged 29 bat engineer of St Marys Newington London son of William Thomas Mainwaring Sylvester rector of Castleford to
      Ellen Farrer aged 24 spin of Castleford dau of Charles Farrer chemist
      By banns; both signed; witnessed by C harles Farrer, Alfred D Sylvester, Eliza L Farrer & M Carpenter?; performed by grooms father WTMS
    Children 
     1. William Thomas Farrer SYLVESTER,   b. 23 Dec 1878, Allerton Bywater Yorkshire Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Charles Henry SYLVESTER,   b. 22 Dec 1879, Wakefield Yorkshire Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Ernest Frank SYLVESTER,   b. 1881, Mexborough Yorkshire Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Sydney Stuart SYLVESTER,   b. 1894, Finchley Middlesex Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Norman Dykes SYLVESTER,   b. 1895, Finchley Middlesex Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F3780  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 10 Jan 2026 

  • Notes 
    • 1871 RG10 4638 68 at Star & Garter Hotel Church Street Castleford dau single aged 18 born Pontefract
      1881 RG11 4688 19 at Dry View Low Burlet? Mexborough wife married aged 28 born Pontefract
      1891 RG12 1056 108 at Summers Lane Finchley wife married aged 37 born Pontefract
      1901 RG13 1259 170 at 9 Cairn? Terrace Victoria Road Wood Green wife married coal aged 47 born Pontefract
      1911 RG14 7274 323? at 167 Albert Green Wood Green wife married 33 years 7 children born alive and 5 still living aged 57 born Pontefract
      1939 Register 132/6 BQBH 105 at 40 Harlech Road Southgate female widow private means born 1st May 1853