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1891 cencus
source       
Place      Driffield
dwelling             28 Market place,

James      Elgey    age 75 Widower
James Wm.  Elgey    age 36 son            
Mary Eliz  Elgey    age 35 son's wife    
William J. Elgey    age  5 grandson
Edith Mary Elgey    age  3 grand daughter


1911 census
source               RG14, piece 28863  district 525  ed 08
place                Great Driffield
dwelling             schedule 88, Lockwood Street

James    william  Elgey  head  56   Grocer                  Gt Driffield   
Mary   elizabeth  Elgey  wife  55  mar 27yrs 2 children     Spalding lincs.
William thornhill Elgey  son   25  Ag Auctioneers Clerk     Gt Driffield    
Edith   Mary      Elgey  dau   23                           Gt Driffield
Clare isabel Hyde        ser   19   domestic                Kirkburn 
Mable elizabeth Bing     ser   17   domestic                Gt Driffield




Leeds Mercury Thursday 10th July 1913 page 4
Yesterday Miss Nora Searby the second daughter of of Mr. and Mrs Searby of Norwood, Broad Street, Spalding, and Mr W. Thornhill Elgey of Copestanding, Cranswick, Beverly, East Yorkshire, only son of Mr. and Mrs J. Elgey of Driffield.

Friday 11th
ELGEY - SEARBY on July 9th at the parish Church, Spalding, by the Rev. Cannon Bullock. Mr. W. Thornhill son of Mr and Mrs J.W. of Lockwood Stret Driffield to Norah second daughter of Mr and Mrs S. H. Searby, of Norwood Spalding.



RIP

James and Elizabeth's daughter Edith mary (Molley)d.1884 is remembered on her uncle John Thornhill's Gravestone, Great Driffield
In memory of
ALICE
the beloved wife of
JOHN ELGEY of Kilnwich Percy
who departed this life July 30th 1882
Aged 24 years

also of
MARGARET
daughter of the above
who died March 19th 1880,
Aged 2 years and 5 months

Also of ALICE GRACE
daughter of the above
who died Sep 1st 1882
Aged 6 weeks

Also of the above named
JOHN THORNHILL ELGEY
who died at Neswick
July 24th 1914
Aged 65 years

EIDTH MARY ELGEY*
beloved daughter of
JAMES and ELIZABETH
died 22nd June 1984
aged 96 years
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Photo source; GENUKI.org.uk

*Edith Mary, niece of John Thornhill and Alice
PROBATE 1927
ELGEY. Mary Elizabeth of 216 Beverley Road, Great Driffield, Yorkshire wife of James William Elgey , died1st May 1927, Administration with WILL , YORK 13th August to Edith Mary Elgey, spinster.
Effects; £ 426 6s


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