Hello Anne,

It was very exciting to receive your message. It was wonderful to find out about George Phipps and Isabella James.

I traced that Elijah went to work in the Sheffield area, but know nothing more about his life after that. I understand that he was baptised 20 January, 1867 at the Wesleyan Chapel. It seems he was boarding at Boarding at 62 Cricket Inn Road, Sheffield in 1901 although it seems he was married at the time. I don´t know who he married or anything about his children and life etc. As you are the gt. gt. granddaughter of George Phipps and Charlotte Kear, we are obviously related. I´d love to know more about your line and where are you based now ?. Perhaps you have some family photos, which I would love to see. Perhaps you can let me have your email address.

Maybe someone will pick up on our messages and know some information about Rennie Phipps of Stone Cottage.

Did you take a look at the website I am trying to create concerning my four family trees (grandparents) which, of course, include the Phipps family. : http://jamesel1.tripod.com/

As for myself, after being born near Neath in South Wales… I went to art collage and on to teachers ´college. I was the Head of Art in S.E. London and then moved to East Anglia before moving to Spain in 2001. Now I concentrate on my painting and am known as James Selway in the art world and some of my work can be seen on several web pages under that name.

I am really looking forward to hearing more about yourself and family and if I can help you in any way with your search, please let me know.

All best wishes,

Geoff Selway (Geoffrey James Selway)

Hi Janet
My name is Bill Stratton, Geoff Selway was my cousin, his mother and mine were sisters, Geoff passed away quite a few years ago now, I do not remember the date. As I live in Australia, we only get snippets of news about the family remaining in the UK.
My grandparent were, William George Phipps and Elizabeth Ellen Lee, both of the Forest of Dean. They lived in Tonmawr, Neath in South Wales, where Geoff Selway was born. All of my relatives live local to that area to this day.
My wife Betty and I emigrated to Australia in 1966 and have visited UK a few times, we are now both retired. Betty has been doing the family tree, and is investigating the Stratton and Smart trees, and does a bit now and again.
If we can help you in any way just ask.
Regards
Bill Stratton

Hello Geoffrey

Its now two years since your posting and I am wondering if you have discovered in the meantime where Rennie Phipps, husband of Freda Morse fits in. Rennie Phipps was born on 24 April 1904 and died in 1973. Rennie was the son of Samuel Phipps and Mercy Kear of Pillowell. Samuel Phipps was a stonemason and was born in 1862 Pillowell and was the son of another Samuel Phipps born 1832 in West Dean, also a stonemason. His wife was Emma Bayliss. In 1901 he was a Lunatic at Gloucester Second County Asylum where he died on 30 January 1902. Probate was granted to his son Phillip on 5 January 1903. Effects £651 12s. 1d. Emma died on 26 October 1900 in Yorkley and was buried on 31 October at St. Paul's, Parkend.

A brother of Samuel Phipps born 1862 was Thomas born 1857. His second wife was Elizabeth Jane Gifford who he married in 1908. Elizabeth was the daughter of Mark Gifford and his first wife Harriet Jones. Mark Gifford's second wife was Phoebe Morse, my great grandmother so Elizabeth Jane's half sister was my grandmother Damaris Gifford.

Freda Morse's grandfather Frederick Morse is the brother of my great grandmother Phoebe Morse. The Phipps family have many connections to the Morse family, which I have been researching for many years. I have the 1911 census entry for Rennie and his parents and siblings.

If you already have this information I'm sorry to be repetitive!

Janet Rigby

PHIPPS Rinnie
PHIPPS KEAR
1904 Forest of Dean Monmouth, Coleford 61 39

1911
Samuel Phipps 49
Mercy Phipps 41
Aline Phipps 15
Gladys Phipps 9
Dorris Phipps 10
Elsie Phipps 12
Gwenie Phipps 4
Ronald Phipps 8
Rennie Phipps 6 Pillowell

Name:Rennie Phipps
Birth Date:24 Apr 1904
Date of Registration:Jun 1973
Age at Death:69
Registration District:Forest of Dean
Inferred County:Gloucestershire
Volume:7b
Page:972

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Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster & Hereford Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>

Name:William G Phipps
Birth Date:abt 1888
Date of Registration:Mar 1962
Age at Death:74
Registration District:Neath
Inferred County:Glamorganshire
Volume:8b
Page:521

1911 19 Scott St Treherbert Glamshire South Wales
William George Phipps 25 Whitecroft
Elizabeth Phipps 30 Yorkley
Ralph Phipps 1 Treherbert
Bert Trollope 20
Bert Quick 22

1901
William Phipps abt 1847 Whitecroft W Dean, Gloucestershire, England Head West Dean, Gloucestershire
Pheobe Phipps abt 1851 Whitecroft W Dean, Gloucestershire, England Wife West Dean, Gloucestershire
Thomas Phipps abt 1872 Whitecroft W Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son West Dean, Gloucestershire
Elizabeth Phipps abt 1877 Whitecroft W Dean, Gloucestershire, England Daughter West Dean, Gloucestershire
Charles Phipps abt 1880 Whitecroft W Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son West Dean, Gloucestershire
Albert Phippsabt 1883 Whitecroft W Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son West Dean, Gloucestershire
William Phipps abt 1885 Whitecroft W Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son West Dean, Gloucestershire
Archie Phipps abt 1893 Whitecroft W Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son West Dean, Gloucestershire
Raymond Phipps abt 1900 Whitecroft W Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son West Dean, Gloucestershire

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Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster & Hereford Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>