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Great Grandmother

MARTHA WAKEMAN BULLOCK 1881

Daughter of Farmer Bullock 1849 and Jane Stanley

Martha was born on 22 Sep 1881 (1) in Henley in Arden, Warwickshire. Martha had an unconventional life. She had 6 children. She married Samuel Austin Massie on 24 Sep 1923 (2) in the Register Office of Stratford on Avon. Witnesses to the marriage were Ellen Smith and George Walker. Samuel was 35 years old and his occupation is given as Telegraph Wireman for the GPO. The home address was 64 High Street, Henley in Arden.

Samuel Massie. I know nothing about Samuel Massie's family. From the age given on his marriage to Martha he was born about 1888 but I have not been able to trace his birth record.

 

Alfred William Bullock * Born 28 May 1906 in Worcester
Hilda May Totterdell Bullock Born 23 Oct 1907 in Stratford
Frederick George Totterdell Born 13 May 1909 in Beaudesert died 12 May 1911 aged 2
Horace Bullock Born 22 Jul 1911 in Stratford
Frank Bullock Born between 1911 and 1924 in Stratford
Living Massie Born in 1924 in Stratford
* has own page  
marthachildren

Martha with 3 of her children. From the Left, Alfred (my grandfather) Hilda and Horace.

Photograph courtesy of Gary Levine.

 

Samuel died on 5 March 1964 aged 76 years, His occupation was given as Post Office Engineer retired.(4) Martha died on 12 Jun 1968 (3) aged 86 in Birmingham. The address given on her Death Certificate was 82 Dovercourt House, Bell Bath Road, Birmingham.

 

Census results see Farmer Bullock 1849
 
Sources  
(1) Birth Certificate
(2) Marriage Certificate
(3) Death Certificate
(4) Copy of Death Certificate courtesy of Philip Boreham
  Page last updated 11 Nov 2009
Contact - Jacky Hockridge - juljacho@aol.com

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