Wade & Webb Family History

Frank Marritt1866–?

Loughton

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Open questions
  4. Searches made
  5. Sources
  6. Notes

Birth

  1. 1866 Loughton, Essex, England, United Kingdom

Marriages

Not recorded.

Death and burial

  1. Date unknown Death: place not recorded

Family

Parents
William Marritt 1826–?
Eliza Keel 1840–1925

Line of descent Wade line

  1. Frank Marritt
  2. Brother of Ellen Mathilda Marritt
  3. Frank Edward Wade, son
  4. William Albert Webb Wade, son

Granduncle of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Frank Marritt was born at Loughton, Essex, England, in 1866, according to the FamilySearch tree, which gives the year and place without an attached source; he was a son of William Marritt and Eliza Keel.1 The census of England and Wales taken in 1871 lists him, as Frank Merritt, in the household of William Merritt at Loughton.2 He was not in his mother's household at Easton Cottage, Loughton, when the census of 1881 was taken, and nothing in hand shows where he was then or whether he followed his mother and sisters to Brooklyn, New York, in the 1880s.3 A search of the Chronicling America newspaper collection for "Frank Marritt" between 1881 and 1947 found nothing.4 Inference Six Marritts cited as heirs at law of his sister Elizabeth Jane Marritt in 1942, Nellie Marritt Rogers, Arthur, Edith Marritt Skerman, Mabel Marritt Stewart, Leslie and John, may include children of Frank or of his brother Frederick, but no record yet connects them with either man.5

Open questions

  • Did he emigrate? Born 1866 at Loughton, Essex; same question as for his brother Frederick (P912-T4L). English censuses 1871–1911 first.

Searches made

  1. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: "Frank Marritt", 1881–1947no matches
  2. 2026-11-08Assessment: Chronicling America: "Frank Marritt", 1881–1947No matches. As for his brother Frederick, nothing places Frank (b. 1866 Loughton, Essex) in the United States; whether he emigrated is an open question.

Sources

Every FamilySearch record attached to Frank Marritt.

  1. 1871Frank Merritt, "England and Wales, Census, 1871"

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile P912-G1X: birth 1866, Loughton, Essex, no source attached; parents William Marritt and Eliza Keel back to the text
  2. "England and Wales, Census, 1871", FamilySearch, Frank Merritt in entry for William Merritt, 1871. Record: Frank Merritt in entry for William Merritt, 1871 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile P912-G1X: residence 1871, Loughton, Essex back to the text
  3. 1881-census-eliza-marritt-household: Eliza Marritt household: Catherine Alice, Ada Eliza, Edith Alice and Ellen Mathilda only Research log, searches made: open question: did he emigrate? back to the text
  4. Research log, searches made: Chronicling America, Frank Marritt, 1881-1947: no matches back to the text
  5. 1942-08-03-william-h-wade-notice-of-will: NELLIE MARRITT ROGERS, ARTHUR MARRITT, EDITH MARRITT SKERMAN, MABEL MARRITT STEWART, LESLIE MARRITT, JOHN MARRITT; notes: presumably children of her brothers Frederick and Frank back to the text