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George Woods Calver & Emily mary Stokes
 

Ancestors of
Emily mary Stokes

George samuel calver
1876-

(Emily) Alice Calver
1880-1973

harry calver
1883-

emma calver
1885-

kate elizabeth calver
1889-1916

fanny calver
1892-1982

Photographs from
Mary Tritton's collection

1852-1902

1852-1932

George Woods Calver & Emily Mary Stokes were married on 13 November 1875, in Eastbourne, Sussex.  The witnesses at the Wedding were Alfred Nicholas and Jane Henley.

George was born c1852 in Earl Soham, Suffolk and was the son of Samuel Calver and Emma Downing .  Emily was the daughter of Henry Stokes and was born c1852 in Dover, Kent.

After their Wedding the couple lived in Eastbourne, where their first four children were born.  By the time of the 1891 census the couple had moved to 3 Victoria Road, Godalming, Surrey, where their last two children were born.

An extract from 'A Canterbury Girl', written by their Grand-daughter, Mary Tritton (nee Nicholls) reads:

Some time after my mother (Emily Alice Calver) was born the family moved to Godalming, Surrey, where Grandfather Calver worked as a tailor.  He made clothes for Charter House School and Mum told me that he sat cross-legged on a table to sew, as tailors did in those days. 

George died on 13 December 1902 at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford.  After his death Emily moved to Canterbury, where she lived in a bed-sitting room near her daughter, Emily Nicholls.  We believe that Emily later moved to live with her other daughter, Emma Smith, at Rusthall, Tunbridge Wells, where she died on 5 May 1932.  Emily was buried in the cemetery at Rusthall.