Robert Henry James Davison Spens
Birth Index: Spens, Robert H. 1856 Jun Q. Newcastle T. 10b 43, at Hall's
court, Leazes Lane, born Robert Henry Spens, died Robert James Davison Spens;
!Death: Robert James D. age 35, 1891 Sep Q. Newcastle T. 10b 45, lived at 1
Douglas Terrace, and was a half brother to Thomas H. Davison who reported
Robert's death; Spens Epitaph at Newcastle General Cemetery, also known as
Jesmond Old Cemetery: No. 362 "Erected in loving memory of Robert Davison
Spens, beloved husband of Annabella D. Spens, died Sep 28, 1891, aged 35
years. Also Sidney Davison their son who died in infancy; will states that he was commonly known as Robert Davison, of the King's Arms, Douglas Terrace,
Newcastle Upon Tyne, licnesed vitualler, personal estate 512 pounds 13s 2d, and that "all property bequeathed to my dear wife Ann Bella and I appoint her sole executrix and sole guardian of my infant children;" 1871 Census (RG 10/5070 folio 99 schedule no. 367) age 14 Robert Jas. Spens, shop boy; 1891 Census, RG 12/4191, Schedule 182, 1 Douglas Terrace, Robert Davison, age 34 married, publican, employer, residence: Race Street, married in the Parish of Jesmond;
Dressmaker; Name listed on Sidney's birth record. Birth record 10b 78 Dec quarter, 1857, Newcastle Upon Tyne;
Spens epitaph at Newcastle General Cemetery, also known as Jesmond Old Cemetery, erected by Annabella but does not have her death on the monument;
1881 Census, age 22, unmarried, dressmaker, with parents Edward and Isabella, living at 71 Stanhope Street, Westgate, Northumberland, England;
1891 Census age 32, born Newcastle; age 30, living at 71 Sandyford Road when married;
1901 Census, listed as Anabel Davison, age 43, living at 1 Douglas Terrace in Wstgate, ocupation: licensed vitualler, head of family with daughter Doris, age 11 and five Atkinson Children (cousins) of Annabel's living in home;
Death record, age 73; buried in Jesmond Cemetery, Ward 8, Section 4c, Grave # 4; beside husband, son and mother-in-law
Birth record Sidney Davison Spens 1891 Jun Q. Newcastle T. 10b. 15 Death
record Sydney Davison Spens 1891 Sep Q. Newcastle T. 10b. 1, age three months, lived at 1 Douglas Terrace, Spens epitaph at Newcastle General Cemetery (also known as Jesmond Old Cemetery); 1891 Census, Sidney Davison, age 1 month;
IGI Christening record St. Andrew's Parish Reg. and Nonconf.
Found in IGI, Printout: 0820670
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birth record from Scottish Records Office, Registry House, Edinburgh;
Age 1 in 1881 Census, Govan, Lanark, Scotland;
Death in General Registry, 685/2 #46 St.Andrews, Edinburgh
Name and death date provided by dau Diana
age 8 months five days
Mary Elizabeth Borthwick Spens
Birth record, Registry House, Edinburgh, Scotland; 10 Coats, Crescent, Edinburgh
!Mary went to Glasgow Art school before the last war, but trained to be an
ambulance driver with the American Ambulance Great Britain in Leeds, according to sister, Diana.
Worked at Linwood Factory where Berndmores were making naval guns. After the
war, Diana and Mary were both medical secretaries at the Veteran Infirmary in
Glasgow (Diana was on the pathological unit and Mary was on the medical and
surgical wards. Later Mary was in private practice.) Neither sister married.
Diana "spent the last thirty years--up to 1982--in a chartered accountants'
office--boring."
Baptism date seems to have been lost and redone, he was rebaptized 13 Feb in American Fork, prior to going to the Endowment House with his wife and parents;
Film 1851 Census, 103,684 Oakley Village, page 17;
1861 Census, Fm 103,919 Bo'ness Parish #57 South Street, page 10-11,
Death certificate; TIB;
Civil Registration, 1864Births of Bathgatge, Entry # 82; Film 292,692
Baptism Fm 177,843, Proxy was Jenny (Jane), her sister (#13).
Death records Fm 026553; 1848-1890 Salt Lake City entry #6641 page 167;
Death Certificate, State of Utah, buried in Plat E Block Single, died of inflamed
bowels, burried immediately while parents were in American Fork visiting
relatives; sealed to brother-in-law, William Burnside 27 May 1907 in Manti
Major;
Infomation from William David Ralph Spens born 1943: Major late The Buffs,J.P. Sussex;
according to dau Maud's birth record, the family lived at 3 Walking Street, Canterbury subdistrict, city of Canterbury, county of Canterbury, England, Lientenant 1st Battalion, 3rd Buffs;
born Eliza Margaret Blake, listed on Maud's birth record as Eliza Margaret
Alsayer Spens formerly Blake; 1881 Census, age 30, with her father and his 33-year old wife.
born at 3 Walking Street, St Mary, Bredin, Canterbery;
1881 Census, age 4, visiting grandfather, Willm W. Blake in Hartford, Cheshire, England;
Ancestoral file; Fm 095014, 09515, Also married Jane Lamb
Ancestoral file; Fm 095014, 09515;
FM# 87033 Sunderland Branch LDS records for birth and baptism (87035); also
recorded in South Shields Branch records (87033); baptized in Hendon Bay;
Christened F#095014 and 095015; Married a second time to Nicholas Boak;
Elisabeth is the first of eight children, all in IGI 1995 edition;
Ancestoral file;
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