Folker One-Name Study

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Family of
Mary Ann Folker and Robert John Balding

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Family chart

1871 census

1881 census

1891 census

Family index

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Robert George Button Folker was born out of wedlock on Snettisham on 10 March 1870 and baptised in the Parish Church on 6 November. He died of Congestion of the Lungs on 30 April 1871 and was buried at Snettisham Church on 3 May. His name at death was registered as Robert John.

Sarah Elizabeth Balding, known as Elizabeth, was born in Dersingsham in 1876. The last reference to her is in the census of 1891.

Helen Louisa Balding was born in Dersingsham in 1881. The census of 1901 shows her employed as a Domestic Servant in the household of John R Fitzmaurice at Westcotes Drive in Leicester. In 1911 she was similarly employed at 42 North Brink in Wisbech St.Peter, Cambridgeshire, the household of John Leach. Her life thereafter is unknown.

Anna Elizabeth Balding was born in Dersingsham about 1882. In 1901 she was employed as a Housemaid at Barton School in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. She married John Anthony Pitts in Wisbech in 1905 and their only son John Leonard, known as Leonard, was born the following year. The census of 1911 shows the family living at 8 Whitby Street in Wisbech. John was a Private in the 3rd Batallion Suffolk Regiment in World War 2 but had been transferred to 714 Company of the Labour Corps when he was killed at Somme in France on 26 September 1918. He was buried at Brie British Cemetery. Anna died in the Cambridge area in 1940.