George Holden

  General Notes:

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George Holden Family written by Joan Peck, granddaughter

Ancestor of Joan Peck:
By Joan Peck:George Holden was born in Creeting St Mary on the 29th March 1864.He married Emma Button of Coddenham in 1882. A son Arthur Ernest was born in 1883 and a daughter Emma Elizabeth in 1884. George was a horseman earning 12/- a week and lived in a tied cottage across a field from the Norwich Road When Emma was born on 15th January he had to fetch the doctor from Needham Market and the snow was up to the horse's tummy. The wage was not enough for George with two young babies so he went to Ipswich and joined the Police Force, where he was number nineteen. The year was 1886. Then he was paid a guinea a week, had a boot allowance, rent allowance and uniform. The family first lived in Ann Street and the children went to Bramford Road School, now the Record Office. They moved to 127 Wherstead Road Stoke sometime before 1899 when another daughter was born. This was Ethel Ida born on the 1st of November;

In 1906/07 the family moved to 117 Wherstead Road and this was known as the Police Station This was when George became Sergeant and his son Arthur, who had worked as a gardener for the Paul family of Wherstead, joined the Borough Force and took his father's number 19.
George retired from the Police in 1919. In 1923 Emma, his wife died from cancer
About 1926 George married Harriet Mary Chandler, a widow, at St Mary at Stoke church. They lived at 163 Wherstead Road until she died in 1935 and he in1936.


Christmas, my grandfathers nephew, turned up at my grandfather's funeral. It was quite a big affair
as the Ipswich Borough Police formed a Guard of Honour . I stayed at the house where grandfather lived with Uncle Arthur and Emma my aunt. Someone came to the door, a big,quite corpulent gent, who said to Auntie" I'm Christmas" she was a little taken aback and felt like saying "and I'm good Friday" but luckily refrained in time realising that it was one of her Uncle John's sons. Christmas had several children. There may be one of them in Stowupland today.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Alt. Birth: Alt. Birth, 29 Mar 1864, Creeting St. Mary, Sfk.

• Alt. Death: Alt. Death, 13 Jun 1936, 163 Wherstead Rd, Ipswich, Sfk.

• Baptism, 1 May 1864, Creeting All Saints, Sfk.

• Census 1871 (Apr 2), 1871, Creeting All Saints, Sfk 7.

• Census 1881 (Apr 3), 1881, Farm House, Creeting All Saints, Sfk 17 Um.

• Census 1891 (Apr 5), 1891, ?.

• Census 1901 (Mar 31), 1901, St Mary Stoke, Ipswich, Sfk 37 Policeman.

• Occupation, Between 1886 and 1919, Police Constable No 19/Sergent , Ipswich, Sfk.

George married Emma Button\Hearn in 1882 in Coddenham, Sfk. (Emma Button\Hearn was born about 1862 in Pettaugh, Sfk and died in 1923 in Ipswich, Sfk Of Cancer.)

  Marriage Notes:

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Probably married Q4/1882 (FreeBMD)

George next married Harriet Mary Chandler in 1926 in St Mary At Stoke, Ipswich Sfk. (Harriet Mary Chandler died in 1935 in Ipswich Hospital, Sfk.)

  Marriage Notes:

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George and Harriet Mary were both widowed at time of marriage