1878 - 1952 (73 years)
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James Bartlett ("Bert") HAMBLING
1906 - 1970 (64 years)
Has 778 ancestors and 4 descendants in this family tree.
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Name James Bartlett ("Bert") HAMBLING Nickname Bert Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born 14 Mar 1906 Elm Cottage, Stoke Fleming, Devon, England 
- Born at 6.15pm; time and place from his father's "Birthday Book"
Gender Male Occupation Electrician - 1939 registration shows him as 'Master(?) Electrician Instalation Dept'
Occupation Proprietor of an electric shop 1936 Kirton, Boston, Lincolnshire, England Died 26 Jul 1970 Notes - lived in Boston, then in Scotland ("of Musselburgh near Edinburgh" at time of marr) then back in Boston - Oak Lodge, Hall Lang, Frampton by Boston, Lincs.
Like some other Hamblings, Uncle Bert was too found of a drink, this nearly ending the marriage at one point.
Person ID I203 All | The descendants of Charles Court and Frances née Tapner Last Modified 1 Jan 2018
Father James Bartlett ("Bert") HAMBLING, b. 6 May 1876, 34, Delamere Crescent, Paddington, London, England , d. 4 Nov 1952, 55, West Street, Boston, Lincolnshire, England (Age 76 years) Mother Minnie Ann COURT, b. 25 Aug 1878, Brentford, Middlesex, England , d. 26 Feb 1952, The Gables Hospital, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England (Age 73 years) Married 21 Oct 1899 St. Mary’s Church, Ealing, Middlesex, England - My great grandmother was married first to Timothy Longland. My understanding is that he was a close friend of my great grandfather, who lodged with them. When dying TL asked JBH to take care of his wife (pregnant when he died). After TL died JBH did the respectable thing and moved out, waited until the year of mourning was up, and then married TL's widow - what better way of taking care of her?! Sadly in the intervening year or so between being widowed (aged 19) and remarrying my great grandmother had given birth to her second child, lost it and then a few months later her first born had also died, aged 2½.
She must have been in need of comfort! Hopefully too the birth of a child who survived, my grandmother, some 8½ months after her second marriage brought her comfort.
I have a copy of a letter my great grandfather wrote to his father after my grandmother got engaged complaining about the way his father was treating her - referring to it being like the way he had been treated (something that was news, but not a total surprise, to the family when we came across this after my grandfather's death). Not a total surprise due to my great grandmother's family history (17 years before the marriage my great grandmother's uncle had died in goal. He had been there at the time of both the 1871 and 1881 censuse, with another uncle and his family in the workhouse at the earlier date. At the same time, their mother had been in and out of the lunatic asylum and continued to be until her death in 1916. And had knowledge of an ancestor's brother in the C18th being a vicious smuggler survived?)
Clearly, though, my great grandfather had not been disowned in the way my grandmother was, as before her first birthday my grandmother along with both her parents and grandparents had moved from Brentford to Stoke Fleming, where they contined to live close to each other for some years, my great grandmother working in her father-in-law's shop / tea rooms.
The marr cert says "The Parish Church" - in Brentford district, no indication of which, so I assumed Brentford. But Golden Wedd newspaper article says St Mary's, Ealing (which is in B. district) (Vicar was W. (C/E.) Oliver)
Certificate for the marriage of James Bartlett Hambling to Minnie Ann Longland (nee Court) Wedding Anniversary Golden 21 Oct 1949 Boston, Lincolnshire, England Children3 children Photos Family ID F5 | Family Chart
Family Dorothy ("Dorye") SHARP, b. 28 Jul 1912, Boston Reg Dist, Lincolnshire, England , d. Abt 1993 (Age 80 years) Married 23 Sep 1932 Frampton Church, Boston, Lincolnshire, England Children + 1. Living Last Modified 3 Jan 2011 Family ID F133 | Family Chart
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Married - 23 Sep 1932 - Frampton Church, Boston, Lincolnshire, England 
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Photos 
The Hambling Family, Easter 1922
James Bartlett (1876) and Minnie Ann Hambling and family, standing from left to right: Florence Minnie (age 21), James Bartlett (age 16) and Ivy May (age 18).
Easter Day fell on 16 April in 1922.
By 1922 Bert and Minnie had moved to Surrey, but their daughter Flo was still living in Stoke Fleming, with her grandparents, and working in the Tuck Shop, so presumably she was enjoying a holiday with them when this photo was taken.
(See the family page of Bert and Minnie Hambling for more photos…