Stillborn Ash Children

Author: gambles
Date published: 20/09/2026
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Stillborn Ash Children

Buried

5th April 1936

 12th July 1937

 15th August 1938

16th March 1940

These four children’s parents were Sydney Charles Ash and Helen Hannah Spracklin.

Sydney Charles Ash was born on the 14th January 1910, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, the son of Joseph Richard Ash and Mary Jane Saunders, who were married in 1894, in Midhurst.

Helen Hannah was born on the 6th October 1907, in Brentford, Middlesex, the daughter of George Spracklin and Helen Beatrice Pummell who were married in 1901, in Brentford.

Sydney and Helen were married in 1931, in Brentford, Middlesex.

They also had 3 sons, Sydney George Ash, born in 1932, born in Brentford, Kenneth William Douglas Ash, born in 1933, in Newbury and Michael Richard Ash, born in 1935, in Newbury (Michael died age 5, in 1940, in Newbury)

In 1936 Sydney and Helen were living at 1, Rose Cottages, Cheap Street, Newbury, Berkshire.

The 1939 Register records Sydney as a Railway Porter, living at 14, St Nicholas Road, Newbury, Berkshire, with Helen and their sons Michael, Kenneth and Sydney George, who was recorded as Incapacitated

Helen Hannah Ash died aged 36, in 1943, in Reading, Berkshire.

Sydney Charles remarried in 1944. His 2nd wife was Phyllis Mary Watts.

Sydney Charles died aged 72, in 1982 in Newbury, Berkshire

Phyllis died aged 87, in 2009, in Newbury.

 

http://www.fnrcnewbury.org.uk/persondetails.asp?PersonID=12994

http://www.fnrcnewbury.org.uk/persondetails.asp?PersonID=12991

http://www.fnrcnewbury.org.uk/persondetails.asp?PersonID=12987

http://www.fnrcnewbury.org.uk/persondetails.asp?PersonID=12979

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