NOTES: Anne Agnes TOLMIE
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b. 25 Feb 1877, London, England.
d. Ocean Grove, Monmouth Co., NJ
bu. Newark, Essex Co., NJ
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- I'm guessing that Anne's middle name must have been borrowed from her
grandmother, AGNES Fisher.
- Found wrapped around a wooden dowel (described in notes for
Robert Tolmie Jr.) was Anne Tolmie's Birth Registration Certificate
printed with the following words in red:
o On the front:
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NOTICE
This Certificate, when duly filled up by the Registrar, is to be given _on demand_ to the
INFORMANT at the time of Registering the Birth, on payment of a Fee not exceeding Three-
pence. (_See_ Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1874, Section 30)."
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o On the back:
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BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION ACT, 1874.
CERTIFICATE of REGISTRY of BIRTH.
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I, the undersigned, Do hereby Certify that the Birth of Anne Agnes Tolmie
born on the 25th day of February, 1877, has been duly Registered by me.
Witness my hand, this 7 day of April 1877.
/ Registrar of
Thomas East \ Births and Deaths.
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Church-Bethnal (G?)reen, (Sul?)-District.
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o Printed sideways, on the left-hand side, reading bottom-to-top,
was the following:
London: Printed by Authority of the Registrar General, by
Ford and Tilt, 52, Long Acre.
- Anne Tolmie letters found in Grammy's (Murial E. [Gregory] Sterner's)
boxes -- boxes which she was going to throw away and which I by lucky
chance, rescued before it happened:
LETTER #1
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o Envelope front - stamped: LONDON S.W. AP 27 '96
Mrs. Tolmie
16 FitzClarence St.
Everton
Liverpool
o Envelope back - stamped: LIVERPOOL AP 27 '96
emblem : all blue; crown w/four jewels;
below, a ribbon with "FREDDIE"
o Letter, folded four times - (same blue emblem in header top)
________front________ ____next page-back____
Lady North begs to to offer his thanks to
thank Mrs. Tolmie for Mrs. Tolmie for same.
her letters with par-
ticulars of her dear 16 Arlington St.
Mr. Fisher's death S.W.
Lady North had April 26th
only seen the notice
of it in the news-
paper -- Lord North
is very glad to have
the pictures of his
Father back + wishes
NOTE: I've not been able to find anything in the Lancashire Reg-
istries (a book I'd found in the local LDS FHC Library) yet about
any Norths. I don't know who they were -- whether they were des-
cendants of the same Norths who were close consorts to the insane
King George III (prior to the post-Revolutionary War era), or some
different Norths altogether. My feeble extent of knowledge on "Lords"
is that they were supposedly granted relatively large pieces of land
as a gratuity from a King for some loyal acts or deed(s).
Jan. 15, 1996: from Phil M. Connolly , "According to
COMPLETE PEERAGE, Lord North was William Henry John North, Lord North
(b. 1836 d. 1932). He married in 1858 Frederica Cockrell, daughter of
Richard Howe Cockrell, a captain in the Royal Navy. She was born in
1839 and died in 1915. The fact that her name was Frederica should
explain the "Freddie" on the stationery."
Re: "Mr. Fisher's death" - I think one possibility could be that "Mr.
Fisher" was the father of Anne's grandmother, Agnes (Fisher) Tolmie
or, Anne's great-grandfather. Anne would have been twenty years old
in the year of this letter, so I guess that theory could work out.
On the other hand, I could be reading the letter *wrong altogether*.
The other theory is that "Mr. Fisher" could also be the relative of
LADY NORTH who, the theory then goes, might also happen to be related
to Anne through her great-grandmother, Agnes (Fisher) Tolmie. But
this is grasping at straws -- and is also probably on the "nearly
impossible" side of things, and nothing sounder than wishful thinking.
LETTER #2 (5 months after the above letter)
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o Envelope front - stamped LONDON S.W. 5:15PM '96
Mrs. Annie Tolmie
32 Stanley Road
Bootle
A. Bigge
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Note that Anne's street address is the same as that of the GLASGOW
BAKERY in Liverpool. Leaves the questions: 1) Could the TOLMIE
family have been living in or atop the bakery in quarters upstairs?
But Grammy said that the TOLMIE family *worked for* the bakery, and said
she didn't think they owned it. Regardless, I believe this a good
possibility; Or, 2) Did the family indeed own the bakery? 3) Could
the family just work there and would the employer yet allow using his
business address for the receiving of his employees' personal mail?
o Envelope back -
Some sort of a Palace stamp: PRIVY PURSE OFFICE BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Postal stamp: Liverpool BD*A OC 3 96 21
Note: more strange letterings in this postal stamp. A stamp die/
cast serial number perhaps (the "BD*A"; and what's the "21" for)?
I assume "OC 3 96" to mean "October 3, 1896" here.
o Letter inside -
The Private Secretary has
recieved the Queen's commands
to thank [ Miss Annie Tolmie ]
for the kind + loyal expressions
conveyed in [ her ] communication
of the
[ 2 October 1896 ]
Buckingham Palace
NOTE: I inserted the brackets. They are meant to show that this hand-
written letter appears to still be of a "boilerplate" type of letter...
Anne's name, the word "her", and the date being slightly separated from
the rest of the words of the letter, and in slightly different colored
ink.
- Found in some boxes of papers and pictures in the possession of
Murial Gregory Sterner was this business card for Anne (Tolmie)
Gregory:
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
| MRS. ANNE GREGORY |
| SOCIAL INVESTIGATIONS |
| |
| NEW JERSEY STATE BOARD OF |
| CHILDREN'S GUARDIANS |
| |
| COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING |
| 15 EXCHANGE PLACE JERSEY CITY, N.J. |
| |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
* Interesting address for Children's Guardians: "Exchange Place."
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- See also:
o Notes for Robert TOLMIE (Jr.).
o Notes for Lydia Smallwood SMITH.
o Notes for Allan Hall GREGORY.
o Notes for Lilias FISHER.
o Book by Jay W. Sterner, 1956, THE STERNERS;
chapter on ALLAN HALL GREGORY (Monm. Co. Hist. Assn. Lib.,
Lydia Sterner Sherman, Jane Sterner Jones, Muriel Gregory
Sterner have copies).
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