Percy Robert Burroughes

[lozaras]

Name -
Percy Robert Burroughes

Date and place of birth
2nd June 1877 in Cley next the Sea

Names of parents
Stephen Barnabus Burroughes & Rebecca Mary Randall

Date and place of baptism - if applicable


Details of each of his or her marriages
9th October 1905 St Peter's Church, Lowestoft, to Gertrude Mary Eastaugh
Witnesses were the bride's parents & her sister

Occupation(s)
Bank Clerk at the birth of his children but later manager of Barclays Bank in Norwich

Military service
no idea

Addresses where they lived
1881 Custom House, Cley
1891 High Street, Cley
1901 Wiveton
1911 184 College Road, Norwich
1916 137 Earlham Rd
1933 9 Corton Road
1952 25 Eaton Road, Norwich

Date, place and cause of death
23rd November 1952 at home :25 Eaton Road, Norwich
Broncho-pneumonia & Cardiac failure

Date and place of burial / cremation.
no idea - guess Norwich

Details of will / administration of their estate -
to be looked up on Probate Calendar & then will ordered (if there is one!)
EDIT: I've got the will now - a couple of lines to say that he left everything to his wife. :(

Memorial inscription -

I just blew £35 on GRO certs... I think TOGG is going to be an expensive pastime:D

[lozaras]

How can I check for baptism records? I can't find any on line for Cley.

And how do I go about looking for military records? - I've never ventured there...

This is a great idea btw - I had got back to the point of not knowing where to carry on...
I won't be buying 5 certs for each GG but at least that's 5 more to the collection of 'facts'.

[Scatty Jan]

He seems to be listed in the Kellys directory in 1912 he is at the same address as 1911
1916 137 Earlham Rd
and in 1933 at 9 Corton Road

[Margaret in Burton]

There are WW1 records on Ancestry Sarah

Just had a look, I can't see anything for him

[lozaras]

oo thanks Jan!

Thanks Margaret - I never heard that he'd been in the forces

[Scatty Jan]

Not sure if you have seen but there are a couple of trees on ancestry with him in

[Phoenix]

How can I check for baptism records? I can't find any on line for Cley.


Well, I went to the church and Miss Sprott unlocked the vestry for us:p

What's online is too early for you - but did you see the link I put on your other thread for wills & admons?

[lozaras]

ooo Lucky you Phoenix...:p

I think I'll have to wait for retirement to visit Norfolk...(I'm 45 and at the rate things are going, that will be another 30 years away)

Thanks for the other link

[lozaras]

Marriage cert arrived today!! :)

[lozaras]

Birth & death certs arrived on Saturday :):)

[lozaras]

The will just arrived...

disappointment - it's just a couple of lines to say that he left everything (about £3000) to his wife...

[kiterunner]

Oh, isn't it annoying when you get one of those?

[lozaras]

I'd never had one like that Kite
The wills I've ordered before were a lot older and pages & pages long, difficult to decipher but worthwhile... ho hum.... can't strike lucky every time....