Family of William Howell GITTINS and Mary Deakin OWEN

Husband:	William Howell GITTINS (1874- )
Wife:	Mary Deakin OWEN (1888-1963)
Marriage	Q4 1948	Rhyl (St Asaph) 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

RG13/2542/65/17

Wife: Mary Deakin OWEN

	Mary Deakin OWEN		Mary Deakin OWEN		Mary Deakin OWEN, 2007, age 118, Vine Buildings Ruyton XI Towns 2		Mary Deakin OWEN, 2007, age 118, Vine Buildings Ruyton XI Towns 5

	Mary Deakin OWEN, 2007, age 118, Ruyton Independent Chapel 2007

Name:	Mary Deakin OWEN
Sex:	Female
Father:	John OWEN (1825-1900)
Mother:	Lucy COLES (1854-1931)
Birth	12 Dec 1888	Weston Lullingfields, Shropshire 2,4,5
Census (1)	5 Apr 1891 (age 2)	Ruyton XI Towns, Shropshire 6
Census (2)	31 Mar 1901 (age 12)	Vine Buildings, Ruyton XI Towns, Oswestry, Shropshire 2
Death	Q4 1963 (age 74)	Wrexham, 7

Additional Information

Census (1)	Vine Buildings, Ruyton XI Towns, Shropshire
Census (2)	RG13/2542/?/62

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).

Note on Wife: Mary Deakin OWEN (1) - 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).

Note on Wife: Mary Deakin OWEN (2)

Una Williams has photos of the wedding - she attended herself aged 17.

 

Polly died of Cancer - in her 80s. After her husband died she was left penniless, and went to live with Iris Dyer (her half niece) in Llangollen.⁸

Sources

1	Church of the Latter Day Saints, "http://www.familysearch.org/". Marriage Index Dec 1948. Cit. Date: 3 August 2003. Assessment: Primary evidence. Text From Source: William H. Gittins - Owen - St Asaph 8e 1177 Mary D. Owen - Gittens - St Asaph 8e 1177
	Internet. Call Number: http://www.familysearch.org/ (electronic).

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. Text From Source: Births Mar 1889 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Owen Mary Denken Ellesmere 6a 685 Probable birth index entry - middle name listed as "Denken"

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

5

GRO, Birth Certificate. Assessment: Primary evidence. Text From Source: Registration District: Ellesmere. 1889 BIRTH in the Sub-district of Baschurch in the County of Salop No: 99 When and where born: Twelfth December 1888. Weston, Baschurch R.S.D. Name if any: Mary Deakin Sex: Girl Name and surname of father: John Owen Name, surname and maiden surname of mother: Lucy Owen late Deakin formerly Coles Occupation of father: Master Tailor Signature, description and residence of informant: John Owen, Father. Weston Baschurch When registered: Eighteenth January 1889 Signature of Registrar: Edward Nild. Registrar CERTIFIED to be a true copy of an entry in the certified copy of a Register of Deaths in the District above mentioned. Given at the GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE, under the Seal of the said Office, the 23rd day of May 2005

Graham Hoadly.

	Source: Birth Certificate, Birth Certificate of Sophia Hoadly

6	"Census 1891 (John Owen) Ruyton XI Towns, Shropshire RG12//2114/64/19". Assessment: Primary evidence.

	Source: Census 1891 (John Owen) Ruyton XI Towns, Shropshire RG12//2114/64/19, Agnes Ann Deakin 91

7	GRO Indexes. Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: Dec 1963 Mary D. Gittins (74) Wrexham 8a 371
	Family Records Centre, 1 Myddleton Street LONDON EC1R 1UW. Tel: 020 8392 5300.

	Source: GRO Indexes, Frederich Charles Jaques Martha Kearns Marr 1907

8	"Una Iris Williams - telephone conversation".