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WHITLOCK, Francis Marshall
1872 - 1956 (83 years) Has no ancestors and no descendants in this family tree.
1873 - 1902 (29 years)-
Name WHITLOCK, Francis Marshall Birth 15 Apr 1872 Syresham, Northamptonshire, England 
Gender Male Death 1956 St. Austell, Cornwall, England Person ID I2670 Edgoose Last Modified 30 Jan 2026
Family TAYLOR, Lucy Mary, b. 1873, Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire, England d. 1902, Brackley, Northamptonshire, England (Age 29 years) Marriage 8 Apr 1901 Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire, England Family ID F1113 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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FRANCIS MARSHALL WHITLOCK 1872-1956
Francis Marshall WHITLOCK was born in 1872. According to the 1939 Register he was born on 15 April 1872. His father James WHITLOCK married a Mary WEST in 1855.
(GRO December Q 1855 Brackley 3b 27)
(GRO June Q 1872 Brackley [which includes Syresham] 3b 12)
From the 1881 census of Bell Lane, Syresham, Northamptonshire:
James WHITLOCK, head, widowed, aged 50, agricultural labourer, born at Syresham, Northamptonshire;
Charity Rebecca WHITLOCK, daughter, unmarried, aged 21, pillow lace maker, born at Syresham, Northamptonshire;
Edith Maud WHITLOCK, daughter, aged 18, general domestic servant, born at Syresham, Northamptonshire;
*Francis Marshall WHITLOCK, son, aged 8, scholar, born at Syresham, Northamptonshire;
Laura West WHITLOCK, daughter, aged 5, born at Syresham, Northamptonshire.
(RG11/1533/130/14)
From the 1901 census of Broad Street, Syresham, Northamptonshire:
*Francis Marshall WHITLOCK, boarder, single, aged 28, house painter, worker, born at Syresham, Northamptonshire.
He was boarding with Leonard and Caroline Louisa PAYNE and their three children.
(RG13/1407/39/19)
Francis Marshall WHITLOCK, a 28 year old bachelor, a painter from Syresham, Northamptonshire, and son of James WHITLOCK, labourer, married Lucy Mary TAYLOR, a 27 year old spinster from Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire, and daughter of George TAYLOR fisherman, at Sutton Bridge on 8 April 1901. Witnesses were George TAYLOR and Martha Ellen TAYLOR.
(PR)
Lucy Mary WHITLOCK died aged 28 in 1902.
(GRO March Q 1902 Brackley 3b 1)
The marriage between Francis Marchall [sic] WHITLOCK and Grace HESTER was registered in 1906.
(GRO September Q 1906 Brackley 3b 23)
From the 1939 Register of 12 Cope Street, Coventry C.B., Warwickshire:
*Francis WHITLOCK, born 15 April 1872, house decorator, married;
Grace WHITLOCK, born 20 September 1886, unpaid domestic duties, formerly cook supervisor woman cleaner, married.
(RG101/5661A/011/23)
NOTES & QUERIES:
The death of a Francis M. WHITLOCK aged 83 was registered in 1956.
(GRO March Q 1956 St. Austell 7a 208)
NOTE: He and his wife were living in Coventry in 1939 and she died in Coventry in 1971. Was Francis M. WHITLOCK on holiday in St. Austell, or is the above death registration the record of someone else's death?