It All Begins With Annie

My ALDRIDGE link to the past begins with my Gran PLIMMER, Annie Leay (previously NUGENT, nee ALDRIDGE).

I hate to repeat myself but here are some of the facts extracted from my PLIMMER blog.

She was born in 1897 at 8 Rankin Street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool to William John ALDRIDGE, a carter and Elizabeth ALDRIDGE (nee BURNETT)

In 1901 I find her with her parents and older siblings, Florence and William at 5 House, 3 Court, Beresford Road, Toxteth Park, Liverpool.

In 1920 she was married at St Cleopas, Liverpool to Thomas William NUGENT, able seaman; witnesses: Francis RICE and Elizabeth Jane McCALLAGN. Both Annie and Thomas where resident at the address of Annie's birth.

She had her first child, a son, named William Thomas NUGENT in 1922 (died 2009) and a long while after came the second child, another son, in 1927.

Stanley Reginald NUGENT was born in 1928 (died about 1997) and then came the sisters, one born in 1931 and another registered in March qua 1933.

Sadly for my Gran her husband died aged 35 and the death was registered in the March qua 1933 also. I wonder how did she cope on her own at that time with such young children.

In 1938 she married Harold Edward PLIMMER at Christ Church, Norris Green, Liverpool; witnesses: Stanley BAKER and Florence Adelaide BAKER. He is listed as a labourer and was living in Faresham Road, Norris Green, Liverpool. My Gran was living in Kingsland Crescent, Norris Green, Liverpool.

My father followed soon after!

I arrived in 1973 and have some happy if too few memories of her.

She died in 1979 aged 81 from breast cancer.

Her Siblings:

Facts about her siblings are very vague at the moment and I am in the process of researching them, so any help out there would be most welcome.

Florence Adelaide ALDRIDGE, I have as being born in Dec qua 1894. Her marriage to Stanley BAKER I have as 1914 at St Matthew's, Toxteth Park, Liverpool. I am unaware of her death details at this time.

Willliam ALDRIDGE, I have no information at all except born either 1895 or 1896, when money allows I will send off for a birth certificate.

A younger sister, Mary (Elizabeth) ALDRIDGE was given a birth-date of 03rd November 1906 and I did find a (GRO) ref. in Dec qua 1906. Her marriage puzzles me though, I was told she married a Patrick (Paddy) MILLER but my search so far has only found a marriage to a Hercules MILLER in 1934 at St Cleopas, Toxteth Park, Liverpool.

There are nine years between my Gran's birth and her sister Mary's birth. I have discovered there were many more that didn't survive much beyond toddler years.