Reverend Guy Stephenson (David) Long ° & Ivy Marion (Edward) Gilson °

Family Group Sheet

NameReverend Guy Stephenson (David) Long °, Grandfather

Birth1878, Croydon, Surrey, England

Death1970, Rosemary Cottage, 151 Lower Blandford Road, Broadstone, Dorset, England

MemoNatural

Residence1950-70, Rosemary Cottage, 151 Lower Blandford Road, Broadstone, Dorset, England

MemoMay have settled in Broadstone in 1948.

OccupationClergyman and engineer. Curate at St Paul's Church, Herne Hill, London (?-1909). Rector of Aldington, Kent (1920-42). Vicar at Broadway.

EducationWeymouth College. Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Note 1Spent much of his retirement using his engineering skills to build a number of superb scale models of well-known steam locomotives (see: http://www.christopherlong.co.uk/per/gsllocos).

Note 2He must have met his future wife as a result of an old family friendship, his father the Rev’d David Long having held the living at St Andrew’s Church, Croydon, at the same time that Edward Gilson and his family were living there.

Flags***, Denn, Filby, Long, Poole, Sanderson

FatherReverend David (David) Long (1832-1910)

MotherClara Elisabeth (John) Poole (1842-1923)

Marriage4 Feb 1904, Broadwey, Near Weymouth, Dorset, England

SpouseIvy Marion (Edward) Gilson °, Grandmother

Birth1877, Croydon, Surrey, England

Death1965, Rosemary Cottage, 151 Lower Blandford Road, Broadstone, Dorset, England

Residence1950-65, Rosemary Cottage, 151 Lower Blandford Road, Broadstone, Dorset, England

Note 1Unclear whether her family (or that of her husband) were the original owners of a mid-C19th Staffordshire pottery dinner service which was in everyday use at Aldington and elsewhere during her marriage.

Note 2In 2011 the remains of this dinner service (originally for 24 people) was passed to CAL via Mary Macnutt (née Long) from the estate of her sister Elizabeth Long.

Flags***, Desormeaux, Gilson, Le Noble

FatherEdward Rowell (Thomas) Gilson (1836-1891)

MotherMarianne (Daniel) Roberts (1843-1897)

Children