Family of William Howell GITTINS and Mary Ellen CARTWRIGHT

Husband:	William Howell GITTINS (1874- )
Wife:	Mary Ellen CARTWRIGHT (1872?- )
Children:	Doris Ethel GITTINS (1900- )
Marriage	Q2 1899	Oswestry, Shropshire 1

Husband: William Howell GITTINS

	William Howell GITTINS

Name:	William Howell GITTINS 2
Sex:	Male
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	Q4 1874	Meifod, Montgomeryshire 2,3
Census	31 Mar 1901 (age 26)	Ruyton XI Towns, Shropshire 2
Occupation		Farmer 2

Additional Information

Census

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Wife: Mary Ellen CARTWRIGHT

Name:	Mary Ellen CARTWRIGHT 2
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	1872 (app)	West Felton, Shropshire 2
Census	31 Mar 1901 (age 29)	Ruyton XI Towns, Shropshire 2

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Census

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Child 1: Doris Ethel GITTINS

Name:	Doris Ethel GITTINS 2
Sex:	Female
Birth	Q2 1900	Ruyton XI Towns, Shropshire 2,4
Census	31 Mar 1901 (age 10 mns)	Ruyton XI Towns, Shropshire 2

Additional Information

Census

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Note on Husband: William Howell GITTINS - shared note

Conversation with Tom Jones of 2 Vine Buildings, Ruyton XI Towns 2002:

 

Tom Jones in 2002 was 77 years of age. He left school in August 1939.

 

Tom lived all his life in Ruyton, and recalled as a young child playing around Vine buildings where Lucy Owen and her daughter Mary lived.

 

Tom recalled that Mary was known as "Polly" Owen - and that the two women were laundresses.

They lived at Number 3 Vine Buildings, and in those days the laundry was a wooden building at the side of the house.

He remembers that the laundry had two boilers, and that there were a lot of ashes from the fires there.

There was a water pump at the back of the houses.

William Howell Gittins of Hall Farm, Ruyton founded Ruyton Creameries (which was eventually sold to the US firm Kraft.)

"Billy" Gittins was married but his wife, Mary Ellen, was ill and an invalid.

They had at least three children Doris, Enid and Wilfred.

 

After the death of Mrs. Gittins, Billy married Polly Owen and they settled in Rhyl where they both died. This would have been around 1940. [Actually 1948]

 

Wilfred Gittins had two sons, John and Michael - one of whom still lives at Hall Farm in Ruyton (2002).

Sources

1

"Information from Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths website: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/" (Internet). Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: Personal Information Name: Gittins, William Howell Record Type: Marriages Quarter: June Year: 1899 District: Oswestry County: Denbighshire Shropshire Volume: 6a Page: 1631 Name: Cartwright, Mary Ellen Record Type: Marriages Quarter: June Year: 1899 District: Oswestry County: Denbighshire Shropshire Volume: 6a Page: 1631

Internet. Call Number: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ (electronic).

	Source: Free BMD website, marriage certificate - Lucy Jaques Alexander Davis - 25Dec 1902

2	Public Record Office, "www.census.pro.gov.uk - 1901 Census" (Internet).
	Internet. Call Number: http://www.census.pro.gov.uk (electronic).

3	"Information from Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths website: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/" (Internet). Assessment: Questionable. Text From Source: Births Dec 1874 (>99%) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gittins William Llanfyllin 11b 221
	Internet. Call Number: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ (electronic).

	Source: Free BMD website, marriage certificate - Lucy Jaques Alexander Davis - 25Dec 1902

4	Ibid. Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: Births Sep 1900 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gittins Doris Ethel Oswestry 6a 663

	Source: Free BMD website, marriage certificate - Lucy Jaques Alexander Davis - 25Dec 1902