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THE ANCESTRY OF LIZ TRUSS
1 Mary
Elizabeth Truss
b 26
Jul 1975, Oxford
Parents
2 John
Kenneth Truss of Leeds, professor of mathematics
b 19
Apr 1947, Watford
m 6
Sep 1969, Bradshaw, Lancashire
3 Priscilla
Mary Grasby, nurse and teacher
bap
28 Dec 1946, Belmont, Lancashire
Grandparents
4 Clifford
Owers Truss of Watford, clerk
b 23
Jul 1903, Willesden
d 12
Feb 1992
m 23
Jul 1938, Somercotes, Derbyshire
5 Joyce
Mary Birtwistle, teacher
b 31
May 1906, Hasland
d
21 Aug 1959, London
6 George
Raymond Grasby of Bolton, teacher
b 7
Jan 1918, Driffield
d 22
Jan 2004
m 4
Apr 1942, Redcar
7 Joan
Lovell Spencer, teacher
b 20
Jul 1909, Belmont
d
12 May 1994
Great-grandparents
8 Sydney
Horace Truss of Willesden, commercial traveller
b 20
Aug 1878, Abingdon
d 31
Mar 1913, Maida Vale
m 21
Jul 1902, Hampstead
9 Emily
Annie Owers
b
15 Sep 1878, Paddington
d 2
Oct 1972
10 Richard Ernest Birtwistle of Somercotes,
clergyman
b 5
Dec 1871, Goodshaw, Lancashire
d 19
Mar 1940, St Anne’s on Sea
m
1901, Crawshawbooth
11 Mary Jane Driver
b 14
Jul 1872, Crawshawbooth
d 7
Jan 1930, Nottingham
12 George Grasby of Driffield, boot repairer
b 23
Nov 1890, Langtoft
d
11 Sep 1951, Driffield
m 21
Apr 1917, Bainton
13 Mary Wardell
b 24
Aug 1895, Driffield
d
17 Apr 1980, Bolton
14 Harold Robert Samuel Spencer of Sharples,
paper manufacturer
b 22
Jun 1874, Kings Sutton
d
12 Mar 1952
m 23
Oct 1902, Walmsley
15 Lucy Slater
b 28
May 1878, Sharples
d
20 Aug 1956, Lostock
Great-great-grandparents
16 Charles Truss of Abingdon, bootmaker
b ca
1834, Reading
d 4
Jul 1891, Reading
m 12
Jun 1859, Abingdon
17 Emily Drewett
b ca
1839, Abingdon
bur
14 Jan 1918, Reading
18 Charles Henry Owers of Paddington,
ironmonger
b 24
Jul 1847, Islington
d
16 Jan 1923
m 29
Jul 1877, Bermondsey
19 Emily Ann Cotsford
b ca
1844, Ratcliff
d 22
May 1896, Loughton
20 Benjamin Hartley Birtwistle of Goodshaw,
cloth looker
b 17
Oct 1846, Higher Booths
d
16 Oct 1890, Goodshaw
m 1
Sep 1869, Goodshaw
21 Mary Pickup
b ca
1849, Higher Booths
d
22 Benjamin Driver of Crawshawbooth, clogger
and postmaster
b 4
Jan 1848, Crawshawbooth
d 17
Aug 1881, Crawshawbooth
m 21
Dec 1871, Goodshaw
23 Alice Pickup, postmistress
b 5
Mar 1849, Newchurch
d 21
Apr 1917
24 William Grasby of Langtoft, shepherd
bap
18 May 1856, Brandesburton
bur 23
Jan 1929, Langtoft
m
22 Mar 1884, Langtoft
25 Hannah Maria Gossop
bap
10 Dec 1854, Atwick
bur
21 Oct 1924, Langtoft
26 Harry Scott of Wetwang and Driffield,
labourer
b
Tibthorpe, bap 15 Feb 1870, Kirkburn
bur 17
Jul 1935, Driffield
m
19 Oct 1895, Driffield
27 Sarah Jane Wardell
b 13
Apr 1875, Driffield
d
23 Nov 1941, Driffield
28 Robert Orrell Spencer of Sharples, paper
manufacturer
b
Longworth, bap 22 May 1839, Turton
d
11 Jun 1908, Belmont
m 9
Jan 1871, Kings Sutton
29 Sarah Elizabeth Lovell
b 18
Apr 1840, Kings Sutton
d
13 Dec 1925, Belmont
30 William Slater of Dunscar, master bleacher
b
Turton, bap 23 Apr 1845, Walmsley
d
14 Aug 1896, Clitheroe
m
30 May 1866, Walmsley
31 Mary Jane Isherwood
b ca
1845, Sharples
d 9
May 1926
Sources
Who’s
Who
The
Times, 15
Dec 1925, 16 Mar 2019, 2 Sep 2022
Berkshire Chronicle,
11 Jul 1891
Bolton Evening News,
12 Jun 1908
Derby Evening Telegraph,
23 Jul 1938
The Derbyshire Times,
29 Mar 1940
The Driffield Times, 29 Nov 1941, 11 Apr 1942
The Yorkshire Post, 12 Sep 1951
The Daily Mail (Hull), 22 Apr 1980
John
Barcroft and Martin Butler Booth, A Register of Admissions to King's
College, Cambridge, 1945-1982 (Cambridge, 1989), 304
1939
register
Will
of Clifford Owers Truss (proved 2 Jul 1992)
Will
of Joyce Mary (Birtwistle) Truss (proved 20 Oct 1959)
National probate calendars
Langtoft
parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Brandesburton parish registers (online
at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Atwick parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Bainton parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Wetwang parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Great Driffield parish registers (online
at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Kirkburn parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
St James, Bermondsey, parish registers
(online at www.ancestry.com)
Walmsley parish registers
(online at www.ancestry.com)
Kings Sutton parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
St Cuthbert, Hampstead, parish registers
(online at www.ancestry.com)
Goodshaw parish registers
(online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Turton bishop’s transcripts (online at www.ancestry.com)
Belmont parish register abstracts
Berkshire
Burial Index (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Transcription of monumental
inscription at Belmont
Lancashire
BMD (www.lancashirebmd.org.uk)
Driffield Board School register (online
at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Beethoven Street School, Westminster,
register (online at www.ancestry.com)
Marriage certificate for Harry Scott and
Sarah Jane Wardell
Marriage certificate for Charles Truss
and Emily Drewett
Birth certificate for Sydney Horace
Truss
Birth certificate for Charles Henry
Owers
1881 census returns, Little Bolton (National
Archives, RG 11/3832, fol. 123)
1881 census returns, Fulham (National
Archives, RG 11/70, fol. 101)
1851 census returns, Turton (National Archives, HO
107/2208, fol. 285)
1851 census returns, Ratcliff (National Archives, HO
107/1551, fol. 179)
1911 census returns, Tibshelf (National Archives, RG
14/20300)
1851 census returns, Higher Booths
(National Archives, HO 107/2249, fols 48, 80)
1881 census returns, Higher Booths
(National Archives, RG 11/4133, fol. 7)
1871 census returns, Higher Booths
(National Archives, RG 10/4137, fol. 132)
1911 census returns, Willesden (National Archives,
RG 14/7005)
1881 census returns, Abingdon (National Archives, RG
11/1281, fol. 17)
1881 census returns, Sharples (National Archives, RG
11/3832, fol. 141)
1891
census returns, Langtoft (National Archives, RG 12/3957, fols 7-8)
1911
census returns, Langtoft (National Archives, RG 14/28879)
1921 census returns, Driffield (National
Archives, RG 15/23850)
1901 census returns, Wetwang (National
Archives, RG 13/4520, fol. 71)
1911 census returns, Sharples (National
Archives, RG 14/23379)
1901 census returns, Crawshawbooth
(National Archives, RG 13/3846, fol. 88)