JACKSON-STOPS / Nurse engagement

[Richard R]

From the Times of 14 Sept 2021: MR W. A. JACKSON-STOPS AND MISS L. R. GREDLEY-NURSE The engagement is announced between William (Billy) Jackson-Stops, younger son of Mr and Mrs Tim Jackson-Stops of Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, and Lily younger daughter of the late Mr Peter Nurse and of Mrs Rowena Gredley of Dullingham, Newmarket.

William Archie b 1989 reg Q3 London s of Tim(othy) William Ashworth JACKSON-STOPS b Aug 1942 (s of Anthony Ashworth BRIGGS d 1987 (later by deed poll 1949 JACKSON-STOPS) and Jean Jackson JACKSON-STOPS 1914-2003 sometime head of that gentry family of Wood Burcote Court) by his 1987 m reg Q2 Northants (the Times 30 June) to Jennifer (Jenny) Anne V d of Capt D J MacARTHUR of Staverton Hall, Daventry, Northamptonshire.

[S R Eglesfield]

The prospective bride's full name is Elizabeth Rowena GREDLEY-NURSE; per company records, she was born on 11 March 1983. Her parents' full names were Peter Kenneth Berkeley NURSE (15 V 1941 - 22 V 1989) and Rowena Jane SUTTON (birth registered Q1 1950 - Bakewell, Derbyshire), and they were married in 1980 (registered Q3 - Cambridge); it would appear to have been her father's second marriage.

Miss Gredley-Nurse's stepfather is William Jerome GREDLEY (born 14 March 1933), and she and her elder sister took the surname of Gredley-Nurse by deed poll on 19 February 1996 - see https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/54377/page/5695/data.pdf.