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On 20th May 1875 Florence Harriet Young was born at Rushall, Staffordshire.
On 12th August 1899 Harold St George Gray (age 27) and Florence Harriet Young (age 24) were married at St Mary's Church, Motcombe. The witnesses were her sister Elizabeth, and the bride and groom's fathers.
On or before 10th February 1901, the date he was baptised at St Mary's Church, Iffley, [her son] Lionel St George Gray was born to [her husband] Harold St George Gray (age 29) and Florence Harriet Young (age 25).
Keiller Collection Photos. 1908. West Kennet Avenue. Probably Florence Harriet Young (age 32).
1911. Census. [her husband] Harold St George Gray (age 38), Florence Harriet Young (age 35) and [her son] Lionel St George Gray (age 9) at Castle House, Taunton.
Keiller Collection Photos. May 1911. Two figures, thought to be [her husband] Harold Gray's (age 39) wife Florence (age 35) and their son [her son] Lionel (age 10), with two stones of Avebury's Northern Inner Circle.
Avebury North Circle Cove [Map]. 13th May 1911. Photograph by [her husband] Harold St George Gray (age 39) of (presumably) his wife Florence (age 35) and their son [her son] Lionel (age 10).
Keiller Collection Photos. April 1914. A photo of Avebury's bank and ditch. The figures on the bank are thought to be [her husband] Harold Gray's (age 42) wife Florence Harriet Young (age 38) and their son [her son] Lionel St George Gray (age 13).
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Archaeologia Volume 84 1935 Section VI. 28th April 1914. Plate XXXI. Fig. 2. The E. and SE. earthworks at Avebury, looking NE. With Florence Harriet Young (age 38) and [her son] Lionel St George Gray (age 13).
In July 1923 [her son] Lionel St George Gray (age 22) died.
Diary of WEV Young. 23rd September 1930. Pages 129-131.
[her husband] Mr Gray (age 58) called me into the hut at five o'clock and paid me off, remarking as he did so that funds this time were very short (I hope he will get enough for his own "honorarium"). Mrs Gray (age 55) also joined in with a few well chosen remarks, plainly intended for my edification, although addressed to her spouse – "Really dear: I cannot keep on making up the expenses of the excavations, my purse will not allow it. I had to make up five pounds for the Ham Hill work." … In the presence of Sir Joseph and Lady Bowley, I listened meekly to all this … behaving myself with that gruelling humility one should do, in the presence of their superiors, then touching my ragged cap I backed away, and took my leave.
Archaeologia Volume 84 1935 Section VI. With one exception the other ‘finds' in the chalk rubble were of little value as evidence of date. But that exception was an important one, viz. the finding of nine red deer antler picks (nos. 89, 90, 91, 94, 95, 131, 133, 135, and 136), for the most part fractured and incomplete, but capable of considerable repair,1 resting on the solid chalk floor of the fosse—thrown away when they became useless as tools (pl. XXXVI, fig. 1, and p. 150). Some of these picks proved to be excellent specimens, and nos. 89, 90, 133, 135, and 136 are figured in pls. XLVII and XLVIII. It is difficult to realize how this stupendous fosse was excavated out of the solid chalk by means of antler picks only. There can be no doubt that the hardest chalk must have been loosened, at least to some extent, by the blows ol flint hammers and mauls. The other appliances used in this work would probably be wooden and bone shovels, and baskets and ropes to haul the chalk to the surface. Close to the bottom a fragmentary shoulder-blade bone was found in a very bad state of preservation, and it was uncertain whether it had been used as a shovel.2
Note 1. All the picks and other antler and bone implements found in the Avebury excavations were restored by Mrs. St. George Gray (age 58).
Note 2. Three bone shovels, described on pp. 115-116, were found at the bottom of the fosse in Cutting II.
On 28th February 1963 [her husband] Harold St George Gray (age 91) died.
On 5th June 1970 Florence Harriet Young (age 95) died at Martock, Somerset.