Gertrude ASTON

1887 - 1973  (85 years)

• Name	Gertrude ASTON
  Birth	24 Sep 1887	Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK
  	England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 Name: Gertrude Aston Registration Year: 1887 Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec Registration district: Bury St Edmunds Volume: 4a Page: 698
  Gender	Female
  Census	1891	Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK
  Census	1901	111 Queen's Cross, Dudley, Worcestershire, England, UK
  Census	1911	72 Oxford St, Bilston, Staffordshire, England, UK
  Census	1921	3a Leslie Place, St Bernard, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  Death	16 Jun 1973	Fairmile Nursing Home, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, UK
  	https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ FERGUSON, GERTRUDE, aged 85, F, year 1973, ref 746 / 463, at NEWINGTON 1973 death in the district of Newington, Edinburgh Gertrude Ferguson, female, widowed, born 24 Sep 1887, aged 85. Widow of John Clark Ferguson, baker Died: 16 Jun 1973 at 3am at Fairmile Nursing Home, Edinburgh. Usual residence 3a Leslie Place, Edinburgh. Dau of William Aston, photographer, deceased and Emily Aston, M.S.Nunn, deceased. Cause: Carcinoma of bladder. Informant: E.Ferguson, daughter-in-law, 4 Market St, Edinburgh.
  Person ID	I6395	Warren Nunn's family tree
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	William ASTON,   b. Abt 1832, Scotland, UK d. 19 Nov 1888, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Emily NUNN,   b. 19 Feb 1850, Chevington, Suffolk, England, UK d. 10 May 1928, 4 Rosetta Rd, Peebles, Scotland, UK (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	14 Nov 1869	St Mary, St Georges in the East, Middlesex, England, UK
  	1869 marriage solemnized at the parish church of St Mary, St Georges in the East, Middlesex. No 211, 14 Nov 1869, William Ashton, of full age, widower, photographer, of 11 Lucas St, son of James Ashton, farmer and Emily Nunn, of full age, spinster, of 11 Lucas St, dau of George Nunn, carpenter. Witnesses John Hillier, Emma Bedford Hillier. NOTE: There are some questions about details on this if this is the same couple who set up a photographic business in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. If so, William Ashton then dropped the "h" from his surname and becomes known as William Aston. Also note that Emily Nunn gives her father's name as George Nunn, carpenter, which is a puzzle because her mother was Sarah Nunn, daughter of Samuel Nunn and Susan Gilby. Emily is found with her grandfather Samuel Nunn on the 1851 census (along with her mother Sarah) and, on the 1871 census, Samuel Nunn is with her and William in Bury St Edmunds. As to Emily's parentage, it's possible she simply made up her father's name to avoid the shame that she was a base child. The other possibility is that a George Nunn was in fact her father. But the available records for Emily Nunn born 1850 in Chevington, or nearby, point to the fact that this Emily Nunn is the base child of Sarah Nunn. Another fact is that both woman died at the same address in Peebles, Scotland, Sarah aged 82 in 1911 and Emily aged 78 in 1928. On top of that, Sarah was housekeeper to John Ferguson, who was married to her granddaughter Edith Aston!
  Family ID	F1904	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Clark FERGUSON,   b. 21 Dec 1876, Stobo, Peebles, Scotland, UK d. 27 Feb 1967, Eastern General Hospital, Leith, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, UK (Age 90 years)
  Marriage	29 Jan 1916	34 Chambers St, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, UK
  	1916 marriages in the district of Saint Giles, Edinburgh 29 Jan 1916 at 34 Chambers St, Edinburgh, by declaration in presence of Emily Pickerell, wife of commercial traveller and Jane McDonald, widow. John Clark Ferguson, baker, bachelor, aged 34, of 23 Elcho St, Peebles, son of Thomas Ferguson, gardener, and Margaret Ferguson, M.S.Clark and Gertrude Aston, spinster, aged 28, of 18 Rosetta Rd, Peebles, dau of William Aston, photographic artist (deceased) and Emily Aston, subsequently Pickerell.
  Children	1. Gertrude Aston FERGUSON,   b. 6 Feb 1918, Raeburn Place, Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland d. UNKNOWN
  Family ID	F3070	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2026

  
  

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