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William Docking Folker and Susannah Giles
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William Docking Folker had married Susannah Giles in Kings Lynn on 3 August 1854. They had no children and he died on 28 May 1860. Susannah subsequently had three children before marrying John Fysh in 1871.
Emma Astaler Flood Jane Folker was born on 11 October 1863 in Checker Street, Kings Lynn. She lived with her mother until she married George Edward Giles in St.Nicholas Chapel in Kings Lynn on 5 August 1889. She was a Milliner and he was a Whitesmith working in the town. They had daughter Elsie Astaler was born in 1891 and the family were living at 10 Weston Square in Holt according to the census of that year. Daughter Emma died in 1892 and her parents had moved to Lower Sheringham by the time that her mother died of a wasting disease on 2 October 1894. George married Isabel Sarah Olley in 1997 and they were living in 1901. Daughter Doris was born in 1908 and by 1911 the family were living in Railway Road in Sheringham and George was Manager of a Hardware Store. He died in 1937 aged 72 and Isabel remained in Sheringham and lived until 1932.
Alice Gertrude Folker was born in Gaywood on 29 August 1866. In 1881 she was living with her mother and earning income as a Dressmaker. She can not be found in the 1891 census but by 1901 she was at the household of Walter Fuller at 4 Whitefriars Road in South Lynn, engaged as a Sick Nurse. In 1911 she was employed as a Housemaid in the home of Mrs Beedon at 5 Kings Avenue in Ealing, Middlesex. Alice was a Cook living at 31 Aspinall Road in New Cross, Kent when, on 4 August 1917, she married Charles Richard Barton at the The Parish Church of St.Catherine Laboure in Woolwich, Surrey. Nothing more is known of either of them.
Edward Walter Folker was born on 31 July 1868 at Extons Road, South Lynn. He was a Mariner when he married Alice Grace Pishorn in the Parish Church of St.Margaret's in Kings Lynn on 14 July 1903. Their home was in Union Lane, Kings Lynn, but they were living at 9 Whincop Place the following year when son Edward Walter was born. Daisy Astaler M was born in 1906 and William Frank in 1908. Edward was at sea in the Merchant Navy when the census of 1911 was taken, but it shows Alice and the children living at 3 East Street in Kings Lynn. That same year, son Frank Josiah was born but he died the following year. Gladys Sylvia was born in 1912, Alice Grace in 1915, Maud F in 1920, Elsie M in 1922 and Doris E in 1925. They were still at 3 East Street when Edward died on 14 May 1936. Alice died in Norwich in 1952, aged 71.
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