Gray's Hill: father of Desire (Hugh Budington Griffiths); family spelling Hugh Buddington Griffith. NYT 4 Apr 1964: the late Hugh B. Griffiths, son of Ellen and Rev. David Baines-Griffiths.
Cemetery: Hugh Budington Griffiths. Family spelling: Hugh Buddington Griffith (Buddington with two d's; Griffith no s). Identity as Desire's father is confirmed by the cemetery transcription. Parents identified as Rev. David Baines-Griffiths and Ellen Mary Budington (NYT 4 Apr 1964: the late Hugh B. Griffiths, memorial at Edgehill Church, Spuyten Duyvil). Own birth date not found; already deceased by 1 Apr 1964. Do not confuse with physicist Robert Budington Griffiths (b. 1937), son of Walter Denison Griffiths (Hugh's brother).
Facts
- Name
- Hugh Budington Griffiths
- Died
- 1 April 1964
- Generation
- 3
- Status
- confirmed
- Sex
- Male
Parents
Spouses
Children
Sources
- Named as mother of Hazel (maiden Gardner) on cemetery entry. No independent year, place, or parent record found this pass.
Reynolds, Desire “Dizzy” ... d/o Hugh Budington & Jane (Tildsley) Griffiths
- Named as mother of Hazel (maiden Gardner) on cemetery entry. No independent year, place, or parent record found this pass.
Reynolds, Desire “Dizzy” b: July 24, 1932 NYC - d: Sept 2, 2001 - w/o Hal Frank Reynolds - d/o Hugh Budington & Jane (Tildsley) Griffiths
- NYC groom index 1915–1940 has three Hugh Griffiths marriages; none is to a Tildsley. Ruled out as this couple's NYC marriage.
Griffiths Hugh Aug 18 1917 22948 Manhattan (bride Jones, Elizabeth); Griffiths Hugh W Sep 2 1922 21747 Manhattan (bride Filler, Rose E); Griffiths Hugh W Apr 17 1937 5828 Kings (bride Rendall, Bessie)
- Possible match (not equated): NYC deaths Elizabeth Tildsley, 74y, 30 Mar 1923, Kings cert 7438. Age would imply birth ~1848–49, plausible for a mother of a man born 1867. Not proven to be this woman.
0 records found for query. Surname Griffiths GivenName Hugh
- NYT 4 Apr 1964 paid notice: died 1 Apr 1964; widow of Rev. David Baines-Griffiths; mother of Walter, Ruth, and the late Hugh B. Griffiths; sister of Mrs. Henry M. Furnald; memorial Edgehill Church, Spuyten Duyvil.
BAINES-GRIFFITHS— Ellen, on Tuesday, April 1, 1964, wife of the late Rev. David Baines-Griffiths, mother of Walter, Ruth and the late Hugh B. Griffiths, sister of Mrs. Henry M. Furnald; survived by seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Memorial service at the Edgehill Church, Spiyt Duyvil, Saturday, April 4 at 3 P.M.
- Same WikiTree index: sister Ethel Helen (Budington) Natsch d. 2 Jul 1982 Riverdale, Bronx — matches NYT 'sister of Mrs. Henry M. Furnald' once Ethel's husband Rev. Henry Natsch was adopted as Henry Furnald.
Ellen Mary (Budington) Griffiths 26 May 1870 Leyden, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States - 01 Apr 1964 Massachusetts, United States ... Ethel Helen (Budington) Natsch 19 Dec 1877 Leyden, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States - 02 Jul 1982 Riverdale, Bronx, New York, United States