Does anyone have a Mary Ellen Beer from Devon UK, on their family tree please?

Question

I am looking for Mary Ellen Beer as I know she is a direct ancestor of mine! She was from Devon, UK.  I would like to know of other member’s of the Beer family to see if there is any connection please? Kind regard’s, from Carole. Ashton-1288

Comments

There's really no such thing as 'the Beer family' ... also FreeBMD has a dozen Mary Ellen Beers alone.

The best approach is just to build up your tree here and let overlaps with other people's families happen naturally. Whenever you try to create a new profile you'll be warned about potential duplicates and given the opportunity to review the possible match.

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There are 1201 names at Wikitree of people with the name Beer. They are listed in the Find menu at upper right of this page. Look down the menu to Surnames. You can enter only the last name or both the first and last name.

Answer 1

IsBeer her LNAB or married name, approx date?

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Looks like her Husband, John Henry Beer, so I assume that Mary Ellen has a different maiden name.

Answer 2

England and Wales Census, 1911

Mary Ellen Beer, age 34 wife of John Henry Beer age 37. She was born 1877 Sinkinborne, Cornwall. Children include Millicent E C, Emily, Ida Emily.

Residence in 1911, Plymouth, Plymouth, Devonshire, England.

Answer 3

Surnamedb.com has a history of the Beer surname. It is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a locational name from any of the various places called "Beer," for example in Devonshire, Dorset and Somerset, recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Bera", and "Bere."

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Thank you to all, who have tried to help me with my ancestor Mary Ellen Beer. I know that she married a William Stanley Prince in Clovelly, Devon in 1920. I am trying to figure out where in the family tree she is. I have a photo of some information re: the family which I will try and send to you. Thank’s again, from Carole.   Ashton-1288

Answer 4

Based on your additional information that she married William Stanley Prince, the following information from the 1939 register should help:

Name: Mary E Prince
Gender: Female
Marital status: Married
Birth Date: 12 Jan 1890
Residence Year: 1939
Address: 2, Mount Pleasant
Residence Place: Bideford, Devon, England
Occupation: Unpaid Domestic Duties
Schedule Number: 2
Sub Schedule Number: 2
Enumeration District: WHEF
Registration district: 286 (1)
Inferred Spouse: William S Prince
Household Members:
Name
William S Prince
Mary E Prince
Ernest Beer 

Source: 1939 England and Wales Register The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1939 Register; Reference: RG 101/6858E https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1939UKRegister&indiv=try&h=29719423

Image (should be visible even without an Ancestry subscription): https://www.ancestry.co.uk/sharing/16003954?h=913629

The birth date for William S. Prince is given as 23 July 1889 and for Ernest Beer is 13 December 1891. I think Mary Ellen and Ernest mis-stated their years of birth by 1 year and they should actually be January 1889 and December 1890, as I believe these are the birth registrations for her and her brother Ernest, both with mother's maiden name Littlejohns:

BEER, MARY  ELLEN   LITTLEJOHNS 
GRO Reference: 1889  M Quarter in BIDEFORD  Volume 05B  Page 514

BEER, ERNEST     LITTLEJOHNS 
GRO Reference: 1891  M Quarter in BIDEFORD  Volume 05B  Page 509 

Source: GRO index search (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp)

Other possible siblings:

BEER, JAMES     LITTLEJOHNS 
GRO Reference: 1882  J Quarter in BIDEFORD  Volume 05B  Page 533

BEER, JOHN  THOMAS   LITTLEJOHNS 
GRO Reference: 1883  J Quarter in BIDEFORD  Volume 05B  Page 510

BEER, ARTHUR  WILLIAM   LITTLEJOHNS 
GRO Reference: 1885  J Quarter in BIDEFORD  Volume 05B  Page 509
 
BEER, FREDERICK     LITTLEJOHNS 
GRO Reference: 1887  J Quarter in BIDEFORD  Volume 05B  Page 512

BEER, CECIL     LITTLEJOHNS 
GRO Reference: 1893  M Quarter in BIDEFORD  Volume 05B  Page 499
 
BEER, FRANCES  MAY   LITTLEJOHNS 
GRO Reference: 1894  J Quarter in BIDEFORD  Volume 05B  Page 471
 
BEER, LEONARD     LITTLEJOHNS 
GRO Reference: 1896  S Quarter in BIDEFORD  Volume 05B  Page 476

BEER, ALFRED     LITTLEJOHNS 
GRO Reference: 1900  M Quarter in BIDEFORD  Volume 05B  Page 471
 
BEER, AUBERY  EDWARD   LITTLEJOHNS 
GRO Reference: 1901  M Quarter in BIDEFORD  Volume 05B  Page 440
 
BEER, CHARLES  HENRY   LITTLEJOHNS 
GRO Reference: 1902  J Quarter in BIDEFORD  Volume 05B  Page 459

Comments

Mary and Ernest with their parents John and Anne and their brothers James, John, Arthur and Frederick in the 1891 census: "England and Wales Census, 1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WCC5-9ZM : 10 December 2017), Mary Beer in household of John Beer, Clovelly, Devon, England; from "1891 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 12, Devon county, subdistrict, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.

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Thank you so much Paul, it does look that you have found her, also the Littlejohns family Name’s are on the photo too! It would be nice to see where she fit’s in, is she the descendant of my Susannah Ashton and William Beer married 1776. Thank’s again, kind regard’s from Carole.  Ashton-1288