Richard Deeks: Minnie Violette Clark & Eliza Reynolds
Minnie was the second wife of Richard Deeks.
She was born in the second quarter of 1862 at Nowton,
Suffolk.
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Richard Deeks was born on 18 October 1834 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. His parents were George Deeks and Ann Catling. He died on 10 December 1903 and was buried in Bury on 15 December 1903.
In the 1861 census he is listed as a bricklayer and after various house moves in Bury he is in the 1891 census, age 56, as an 'Inspector of Nuisances'. He did contractual building work for the Thingoe Union.
He married twice. The first time was to Eliza Reynolds with whom he had the following six children - Alexander Deeks, George Richard Deeks, Colleen Catherine Deeks, Richard Deeks, Henry Deeks, and Edward Walter Deeks.
His second marriage in December quarter of 1886 was to Minnie Violette Clark
Chilren:
Finella Deeks was born 15 Nov 1887 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and appears in the 1891 census, age 3 and is 13 in the 1901 census where she appears with her parents and her younger sister Leonora.
In her early years she emigrated to Canada and married Peter McVean on 1 October 1913 in Westmount, Quebec. She died on 1 July 1969.
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Leonora Harriet Deeks was born 4 January 1890 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and appears in the 1891 census, age 1 and is 11 in the 1901 census.
She died in the first quarter of 1977 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. She appears not to have married.