Family History, Dring Chart 0632 James Jackson Dring and Mary Ann Ranson

1841 High Street, St Neots, Huntingdonshire. At this address there was a Sarah JOYCE (15) Carpenter's daughter, Clarke CHARLES (15) Carpenter's Apprentice, Mary COLBERT (14) Female Servant, Jane JACKSON (25) Boarding School, Susan BETTERSON (15) and Sarah GEORGE (20) both Teachers, Mary BARNETT (15) Female Servant, and nine boarders of which Susannah, Mary and James DRING were 3. From this above we note that the younger DRING children are known to be Oliver's children i.e. Susannah DRING, Mary DRING and James Dring. The other Dring names could be of a related family but further research in this area is required to confirm. BUT it is also important to note the names of the principle as Jane JACKSON and one of the teachers is named as Sarah GEORGE. Jane JACKSON was née GEORGE and had married one James Darwin JACKSON but he is not found in this 1841 census so he may have died before his date. Jane remarried to a ROBERTS later and has been found in other census returns and also living with Nephew James Jackson DRING (See under James's notes). Within the family of Oliver DRING we know that the name of Jackson was given to son James as a middle name and this name was also passed down by James to his son later as George Jackson DRING. Oliver's wife Mary is also very likely related to the teacher above named as Sarah GEORGE. 1851 Bridge Street, Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Visitors were Marion Cartwright GEORGE (80) and Mary GEORGE (74) both married, Retired Wheelwright and Retired Wheelwright's wife, born Roxton? Bedfordshire and St Neots, Huntingdonshire respectively. House Servants were Eliza ELDSON (18) and Ann WITHAM (18) born Borough Gates, Cambridgeshire and Swavesey, Cambridgeshire respectively. Five unmarried Lodgers were: Henry Richard JOHNSON (27) Undergraduate born Witherley, Yorkshire, Stafford REEVES (24) Undergraduate Trinity College born Hull, Yorkshire, George Arthur Knutting CROFT (21) Undergraduate at Trinity College born Pickering, Yorkshire, Herbert CRAWSHAY (21) Student born London and Albert DeRUTEYEN (21) Undergraduate Trinity College born St James, London 1861 35 Petty Curry, St Mary The Great, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Visiting them was Foster STUART (56) widower born Scotland and Mary STUART (18) Servant born Huntingdon. A servant was Jane TATE (18) born Potton, Bedfordshire 1863 Bridge Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (marriage) 1864 Grantchester, Cambridge, Cambrideshire 1871 24 Silver Street, St Botolph, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Sarah RADFORD (17) born West Wratting, Cambridgeshire was a General Domestic Servant 1881 22 Silver Street, St Botolph, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. In the same property there was an aunt, J J ROBERTS (66), an Annuitant born Roxton, Bedfordshire, and J MUBBURY (15), a servant born Cambridgeshire. (J J ROBERTS was Jane ROBERTS, formerly JACKSON née GEORGE, sister to James's mother Mary) 1890 8 & 9 Petty Cury, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire widower. (address given at probate) 1863 Little Shalford, Cambridgeshire (marriage) 1871 24 Silver Street, St Botolph, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Sarah RADFORD (17) born West Wratting, Cambridgeshire was a General Domestic Servant 1881 22 Silver Street, St Botolph, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. In the same property there was an aunt, J J ROBERTS (66), an Annuitant born Roxton, Bedfordshire, and J MUBBURY (15), a servant born Cambridgeshire. (J J ROBERTS was Jane ROBERTS, formerly JACKSON née GEORGE, sister to James's mother Mary) 1871 24 Silver Street, St Botolph, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Sarah RADFORD (17) born West Wratting, Cambridgeshire was a General Domestic Servant 1881 22 Silver Street, St Botolph, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. In the same property there was an aunt, J J ROBERTS (66), an Annuitant born Roxton, Bedfordshire, and J MUBBURY (15), a servant born Cambridgeshire. (J J ROBERTS was Jane ROBERTS, formerly JACKSON née GEORGE, sister to James's mother Mary) 1890 8 & 9 Petty Curry, St Andrew the Great, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (Will of Father) 1893 2 Petty Cury, St Andrew the Great, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire 1891 Petty Curry, St Andrew the Great, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Kate S and Mary L, Georges sisters were with George and Eliza 1901 24 Caroline Road, St Andrew the Less, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. With his was a Corvie WORSLEY aged 26 a dressmaker own account born Cambridge, Cambridgeshire and a George F DELLER a Visitor aged 1 born Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. 1911 Mill Road, St Andrew the Less, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire 1932 20 Claribel Road, Brixton, Surrey (address given at probate) Note from Richard DOLMAN 22/6/2007 "In the 1901 census we find George Jackson DRING, Butcher, living with a boarder, a young woman with a child names George Jackson F DELLER. Could this child be George's son born illegitimately to someone not his wife? Although George states he is married his wife Eliza is not at home but possibly down in London on her own. (Not with any known relatives). Another unresolved situation is that in 1890 we find that George's father James Jackson DRING died earlier that year. A few months later we find a birth of one James Jackson DRING born in that same year. (Reference: James Jackson DRING born September quarter 1890 Cambridge District, Cambridgeshire Volume 3b page 473), then a death (James Jackson DRING died December quarter 1890 Cambridge District, Cambridgeshire Volume 3b page 329), Buying the birth certificate would resolve this query as to this being the son of George Jackson and Eliza DRING who died at a few months old. Other than daughter Dorothy DRING I have not found any additional children for this couple. Also no other children in the house of George DRING in the 1901 census other than the above named George Jackson F DELLER who is more than likely George's son, especially with that name." Information from Richard DOLMAN 25/6/2007 Administration of father's Will to George Jackson DRING and Mary Louisa DRING 15 September 1890 Information about Will of George Jackson DRING This is the last will of me George Jackson DRING of 20, Claribel Road Brixton in the County of London, Butcher. I Do appoint my dear wife, Nellie Maud DRING (nee SHURRUCKS) to be my Sole Executrix and I give devise and bequeath to her all my estate and effects real and personal wheresoever situate and of whatsoever kind or description the same may be (subject to payment thereout of all my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses) to be hers absolutely - In Witness where of I have to this my Will set my hand this Eleventh day of January Onet housand ninehundred and twenty nine. Then usual wording for witnesses signed by two Solicitor clerks as witnesses. (A. Armstrong solicitors) George Jackson DRING of 20, Claribel Road, Brixton, Surrey. died March 3 1932 Probate London 25th May 1932 to Nellie Maud DRING Widow (In Will it refers to Nellie Maud née SHURROCKS) Effects £624. 14s. 11d. Resworn £874. 14s . 11d. Research continuing to trace marriage to Nellie Maud SHURROCKS, her death, and death of first wife. Information from Richard DOLMAN 14/8/2007 George Jackson DRING married Nellie M SHORROCKS in Cambridge in 1928 and shortly thereafter must have moved to Brixton in South London with Nellie where in 1929 he made his Will in her favour. Prior to this late marriage to Nellie M SHORROCKS in Cambridge we find two girls registered in the Birth register. From this we may assume that as George's wife Eliza Ellen had left him, George took another woman as a common law wife with whom he had at least two known daughters (as listed below). They were registered with the Registrar as though George and Nellie were married which gave them legitimacy on their birth certificates although in truth George and Nellie were not married. In 1928 George Married Nellie. It maybe possible that either there was a divorce or that Eliza his first wife had died, thus freeing George to remarry. We know from George's death that he and Nellie had moved to Brixton, (Lambeth registration area) and here George died in 1932. Two years later his widow Nellie remarried to one Albert E BENTLEY. This again in the Lambeth registration area. 1871 24 Silver Street, St Botolph, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Sarah RADFORD (17) born West Wratting, Cambridgeshire was a General Domestic Servant 1881 22 Silver Street, St Botolph, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. In the same property there was an aunt, J J ROBERTS (66), an Annuitant born Roxton, Bedfordshire, and J MUBBURY (15), a servant born Cambridgeshire. (J J ROBERTS was Jane ROBERTS, formerly JACKSON née GEORGE, sister to James's mother Mary) 1891 Petty Curry, St Andrew the Great, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. With her brother and his wife. 1901 48 Burlington Gardens, Acton, Middlesex, Kate was a Boarder with a Sarah A COX born Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire who is down as Head married but not husband with her but she has 8 children with aged between 5 and 24. There are three other boarders and a servant with the family. 1871 24 Silver Street, St Botolph, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Sarah RADFORD (17) born West Wratting, Cambridgeshire was a General Domestic Servant 1881 22 Silver Street, St Botolph, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. In the same property there was an aunt, J J ROBERTS (66), an Annuitant born Roxton, Bedfordshire, and J MUBBURY (15), a servant born Cambridgeshire. (J J ROBERTS was Jane ROBERTS, formerly JACKSON née GEORGE, sister to James's mother Mary) 1890 8 & 9 Petty Curry, St Andrew the Great, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (Will of Father) 1891 Petty Curry, St Andrew the Great, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. With her brother and his wife. 1901 37 Bridge Street, St Giles, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. They had a daughter Mary G NORMAN born Abt. 1899 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (Not found on FreeBMD) 1911 37 Bridge Street Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Mary is down as having been married 15 years and having had 3 children all of whom survive at the date of this Census. They are Gwendoline Mary NORMAN aged 12 School, Kathleen Sissie NORMAN aged 7 and Irene May NORMAN aged 2 all born Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. With the is a Martha Annie ROWE a Servant Domestic aged 23 also born Cambridgeshire.

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