KEAR, PHIPPS, LEE, WINTLE, HOOK, MORSE

by jerigby , Thursday, October 20, 2011, 22:03 (4855 days ago) @ GeoffreyJamesSelway

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