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Birthca May 1869, Kelvington House, St Mary's Cray, Kent-
Death30 Dec 1933, Kevington, St Mary Cray, Kent
General5th s.
ParentRichard Benyon Berens (1834-1916)
MotherFanny Georgina Park (1839-1924)
Notes for Cecil Berens
His birth index:

Name:                    Mother's Maiden Surname:
BERENS, CECIL            PARK  
GRO Reference: 1869  J Quarter in BROMLEY UNION  Volume 02A  Page 329
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His baptism transcrit in on FindMyPast but not an image of the register.  Nor is the image on Ancestry.
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In 1905 a Cecil Berens marriad one of Mildred Turnour Blackwood, Eric Sydney Williams, Dorothy Helen Jarvis.  It will need the 1911 census to identify which was his wife, if any.  She was the first of these.
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In 1911 they were living at Fairtrough, Chelsfield, Orpington, Kent.  She had the extra information that they had been married for 5 years with 2 children who were both living:
I have put in a correction for the mis-spelling of ‘Berens’ and ‘Herbert’, their son:

First name(s)  Last name  Relationship  Marital status  Sex  Age  Birth year  Occupation  Birth place
Cecil                Borens    Head      M  M  42  1869  Estate Agent          St Mary Cray Kent
Mildred Turner       Borens    Wife      M  F  25  1886  -                     Pinner Middlesex
Violet Cecil Turner  Borens    Daughter  -  F   3  1908  -                     Chelsfield Kent
Malort Cecil         Borens    Son       -  M   2  1909  -                     Chelsfield Kent
  recte ‘Herbert’
Minnie               Lea       Servant   S  F  31  1880  Nurse Domestic        Meopham Kent
Sarah                Moore     Servant   S  F  53  1858  Cook Domestic         Newport Paynell Bucks
Mary                 Robinson  Servant   S  F  23  1888  Parlourmaid Domestic  Foots Cray Kent

Ref: RG14PN3689 RG78PN139 RD42 SD3 ED2 SN13
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They may, of course have had other children after 1911.  These will be found by searches on the birth indices.

The four children are:

Violet Cecil T Berens, b. Q3 of 1907, Bromley dist, Vol 2A, p. 579

Name:                             Mother's Maiden Surname:
BERENS, HERBERT CECIL BENYON      BLACKWOOD  
GRO Reference: 1908  D Quarter in BROMLEY  Volume 02A  Page 530

Richard J Berens, Q3 of 1911, mother=Blackwood, Bromley dist, vol 2A, p. 1147

Rita S Berens, Q4 of 1913, Mother=Blackwood, Bromley dist, vol 2A, p. 1059

I have told the GRO of the missing three records from the new index.

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His death index:

First name(s)  Cecil
Last name      Berens
Gender         Unknown
Birth year     1870
Age            64
Death quarter  1
Death year     1934
District       Bromley
County         Kent
Volume         2A
Page           966
Country        England
Record set     England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007
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A search on the new GRO index gives these four births:
Will notes for Cecil Berens
His probate index:

1934
BERENS Cecil of Kevington St Mary Cray Kent died 30 December 1933  Probate (save and except settled land) London 26 February to Mildred Turnour Berens widow and the reverend George Berens-Dowdeswell clerk.  Effects £13056 16s. 11d.  Further Grants P.R. 19 March 1934.

1934
BERENS Cecil of Kevington St Mary Cray Kent died 30 December 1933  Probate (limited to settled land) London 19 March to the reverend George Berens-Dowdeswell clerk and Julia Brenchley Rosher solicitor.  Effects  £128267  14s. 7d.  Former Grant P.R. 26 February 1934.
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Another case of George Berens-Dowdeswell clerk.
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Notes for Cecil & Mildred Turnour (Family)
Their marriage index:

First name(s)     Cecil
Last name         Berens
Marriage quarter  3
Marriage year     1905
MarriageFinder    Cecil Berens married one of these people
                  Mildred Turnour Blackwood, Eric Sydney Williams, Dorothy Helen Jarvis
District          Kensington
County            London
Country           England
Volume            1A
Page number       279
Record set        England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005

Other documents give her second forename as Turner.
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Last Modified 4 May 2021Created 14 May 2022 by Tim Powys-Lybbe
Re-created by Tim Powys-Lybbe on 14 May 20220