18 Aug 2023                   
                Wife: Mary Racher    
          Birth name: Mary Ann Racher 1
                Born:  2 Jun 1884          in Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire  1,2 (see note 1)
              Census: 1891                 in Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire   (see note 2)
              Census: 1911                 in London   (see note 3)
          Occupation: 1911                 General Servant  
             Resided: 1920                 at Putney, Shelford Road, Trumpington  3
              Census: 1921                 in Cambridge   (see note 4)
             Resided: 1939                 in Orwell, Cambridgeshire  2 (see note 5)
          Occupation: 1939                 Housekeeper  2
                Died: 1968                 in Cambridge  4 (see note 6)
              Father:
              Mother:
Notes 
             Husband: William Robert Iles     
             Married: 1911                 in London  5 (see note 7)
                Born: 1886                 in London  1 (see note 8)
              Census: 1891                 in London   (see note 9)
              Census: 1911                 in London   (see note 10)
          Occupation: 1911                 Fishmonger  6
             Resided: 1918                 in Trumpington  7
                Died:  1 Apr 1918          in France  8 (see note 11)
              Father: William Iles   (1835 -     ) 
              Mother: Elizabeth _____   (1857 -     ) 
          Media link: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/2040624
          Media desc: Lives of the First World War

Sources:
(1) FreeBMD website. 
(2) 1939 Register. 
(3) Electoral Register. 
(4) Index on ancestry.co.uk. 
(5) Ancestry Select Marriages. 
(6) Marriage record. 
(7) Soldiers Died in the Great War. 
(8) Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. 


Event Notes
Note (1) Mary Ann Racher: Sep 1884 Royston 3a 448
Note (2) Age 6, born Bassingbourn, with family (father Stephen, mother Edith)
Note (3) Age 24, born Bassingbourn.  General Servant with John and Lilian
Dacie
Note (4) Age 35, born Bassingbourn, widow, on her own
Note (5) Widow, with son Horace
Note (6) Mar 1968 Cambridge 4a 348   age 83
Note (7) William Robert Iles, age 25, Fishmonger, father William Iles (Court
Usher!).
Mary Racher, age 25, father Stephen Racher (Ag Lab).  Both resident
Putney
Note (8) Mar 1886 Kensington 1a 180
Note (9) Age 5, born Kensington, with family
Note (10) Age 25, born Kensington.  Fishmonger, lodger with John and Caroline
Cheshire
Note (11) ILES, WILLIAM ROBERT
Rank:  Private
Service No:  52649
Date of Death:  01/04/1918
Age:  32
Regiment/Service:  Manchester Regiment  12th Bn.
Grave Reference:  VI. F. 25.
Cemetery:  DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION NO.1
Additional Information:  Son of William Robert and Elizabeth Iles, of Walham
Green, London

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