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Birth21 Apr 1886, The Vale, Shortlands, Bockenham, Bromley, Kent
Death14 Feb 1963, Nightingale Annexe, Beach Road, Littlehampton, Sussex
General2nd s. Solicitor. Lt & act capt with London Regt in WW1.
MotherKatherine Isabella Patteson (ca1852-1939)
Notes for Stuart Ernest Trotter
In 1919 this marriage is to be found in Truro:

Surname First name(s) Spouse District Vol Page

Marriages Sep 1919
Buck Constance A M S Trotter Truro 5c 281   
Trotter Stuart E Buck Truro 5c 281

Looks very like him.  Buy it?

No births to this marriage up to 1920, as at Mar 2008 on FreeBMD.

See the Marriage Notes for confirmation of the above.
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TFPL: April 2008: His birth cert says he was born on 21 Apr 1886 at The Vale, Shortlands, Beckenham, Bromley, Kent, that his parents were Ernest Balfour and Katherine Isabella, née Patteson, Trotter, his father was a solicitor, his mother was the informant of the birth address on the 29th May 1886.
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His death certificate agrees with the data on his admon and says he was of Merrivale, Station Road, Angmering and a retired solicitor.  He died of Brnchial Carcinoma, certified by Dr WB Heywood, MB.  The informant on 15th Feb 1963 was his son, HSS Trotter of 80c Eccleston Square, London SW1.
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In the 1901 census he and his brother Meyrick were both in Byron House of Harrow School, aged4 and 16 respectively.
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On the TNA medals database site, he was a 2/Lt then Lt with the London Regt in WW1, entering France on 1.3.17.  He had the Victory and British Medals.

In the London Gazette:

  24 jan 1918: 2nd Lt S E Trotter to be Lt.  11th Jan 1918
  21 Sept 1918: Lt SE Trotter relinquishes the actg rank of Capt on ceasing to command a Co. 9th Sept 1918.
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Will notes for Stuart Ernest Trotter
In the probate Office in High Holburn, London, the index gives his date and place of death and says that he was of Menivale, Station Road, Angmering, Sussex. Probate was granted in London on 16 April 1963 to Hugh Stuart Stucley Trotter [his son], solicitor and Angelica Margaret Keers [his daughter] (wife of Robert Young Keers) for £32,927-19-0.

In his will he listed:
His son, Hugh Stuart Stucley Trotter,
His daughter, Angelica Margaret Keers,
His wife, Constance Angelica Mary (Trotter),
His goddaughter Marion Sinclair,
His goddaughter Jane Prescot,
His goddaughter Elizabeth Beale
Elisabeth Margaret Towley,
A step-granddaughter, unnamed.

His will left his estate in trust for his wife and then divided equally between hi sson and his daughter.  It sounds very strongly that he only had the two children.
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Notes for Stuart Ernest & Constance Angelica Mary Stucley (Family)
Their marriage cert no 6 of Kenwyn parish church is for Stuart Ernest Trotter, aged 33 [correct], bachelor, solicitor of All Saints Vicarage, South Acton, Middlesex, son of Ernest Balfour T, also a solicitor and for Constance Angelica Mary Slukely Buck, of full age [she was 26], a spinster of Rosego, Kenwyn, dua. of Richard Eustace Slukely Buck, a clerk in holy orders.  The witnesses were Mary G S Buck [I guess her mother], R E S Buck [her father almost certainly], K I Trotter [his mother] and E B Trotter [his father].  The celebrant was R S Foassard, sub-dean of Truro cathedral.
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Last Modified 16 Jun 2008Created 14 May 2022 by Tim Powys-Lybbe
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