Philip Highams of Loose
(1828-1913)
Mary Ann Styance
(1832-1886)
William Page
(-)
Eliza Woolley
(-)
Thomas Highams of Maidstone
(1857-1939)
Emily "Alice" Page
(1862-Bef 1939)
Rose Ellen Highams
(1887-1970)

 

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Spouses/Children:
Stephen Duke of Maidstone

  • Mabel Dorothy Duke
  • Stephen Thomas Duke of Maidstone
  • Evelyn Florence Duke
  • Rose Ellen Duke
  • George William Duke
  • Douglas David Duke

Rose Ellen Highams

  • Born: 12 Oct 1887, Maidstone, Kent, England 1
  • Married: 12 Nov 1905, St. Philip's Church, Maidstone, Kent, England 2
  • Died: 1970, Maidstone, Kent, England 3

  Research Notes:

Family name also spelled HIGHAM.

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At the time of the 1911 England Census Florence Duke, age 23, born in Maidstone Kent (mother of 3 children), husband of 5 years Stephen Duke, age 26, born in Bearsted Kent, paper coater, and children (born in Maidstone) Mable (4), Stephen (3) and Evelyn (4 months), were boarding with [Rose's sister] Florence White and her family at 13 Bower Lane Maidstone.

In the 1939 Register Rose E Duke (b. 12 Oct 1887), married, factory packer, was living at 60 Beaumont Road, Maidstone, Kent. At the same address were [sons] George W Duke (b. 21 Nov 1916), single, light general labourer and Douglas D Duke (b. 21 Jul 1919), general labourer, and [father] Thomas Highams (b. 29 Dec 1857), widowed, pensioner. Rose's husband Stephen Duke (b. 2 Dec 1884), married, labourer in paper mill yard, was at 43 Peel Street, Maidstone Kent.

  Marriage Information:

Rose married Stephen Duke, son of Stephen Duke and Ansley Andrews, on 12 Nov 1905 in St. Phillip's Church, Maidstone, Kent, England. (Stephen Duke was born on 2 Dec 1884 in Bearstead, Kent, England, christened on 22 Jan 1885 in Maidstone, Kent, England, and died in 1966 in Maidstone, Kent, England, aged 81 years.)

  Marriage Notes:

Stephen Duke, age 20, bachelor, labourer, resident of 50 Lepper Stone Street, son of Stephen Duke, labourer, and
Rose Highams, age 18, spinster, resident of 50 Lepper Stone Street, daughter of Thomas William Highams, labourer

Married after Banns

Witnesses: Charles Edwin White, Florence Adelaide White

Sources


1 England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008, Maidstone district, 4th Quarter, vol. 2a, p. 715.

2 Maidstone St. Phillip Kent Parish Registers, Marriages, p. 160, no. 320.

3 England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007, Maidstone district, 3rd Quarter, vol. 5f, p. 1135 (date of birth recorded as 12 Oct 1888: GROE birth index records that Rose's birth was registered in 1887)..


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