The Houghton Regis Anstees

by Gary. M. Anstey, chief researcher of the Anstey story project.

• Houghton Regis Anstees Overview
• HR 1. Edward Anstee (b 1684 Newton Longville)
• HR 2. Joseph Anstee (Junior) (b 1729 Prittlewell)
• HR 3. Benjamin Anstee (b 1717 Houghton Regis)
• HR 4. William Anstee (b 1756 Leigh)
• HR 5. John Anstee (b 1766 Houghton Regis)
• HR 6. Benjamin Anstee (b 1783 Houghton Regis)
• HR 7. Joseph Anstee (b 1804 Houghton Regis)
• HR 8. William Anstee (b 1808 Houghton Regis)
• HR 9. Alfred Anstee (b 1812 Houghton Regis)
• HR 10. John Anstee (b 1810 Houghton Regis)
• HR 11. John Bloys Anstee (b 1840 Flamstead)
• HR 12. William Alexander Anstee (b 1843 Flamstead)
• HR 13. John Anstee (b 1867 Houghton Regis)
• HR 14. William Anstee (b 1840 Houghton Regis)
• HR 15. William Anstee (b 1849 Luton)
• HR 16. Harry Edward Anstee (b 1868 Luton)
• HR 17. Joseph Anstee (b 1841 Houghton Regis)
• HR 18. Sydney William Anstee (b 1871 Luton)
• HR 19. John Anstee (b c1813 Dunstable)
• HR 20. Robert George Anstee (b 1834 Staines)
• HR 21. James John Anstee (b 1842 Southwark)
• HR 22. Robert George Anstee (b 1854 Bermondsey)
• HR 23. John Anstee (b 1865 Islington)
• HR 24. James John Anstee (b 1869 Southwark)
• HR 25. Samuel Anstee (b 1871 Southwark – served during World War One)
• HR 26. William Stephen Anstee (b 1878 Brixton – served during World War One)
• HR 27. Thomas George Anstee (b 1882 Bermondsey – fought in the Second Boer War and served during World War One)
• HR 28. Harry (Henry) Anstee (b 1886 Walworth – served during World War One)
• HR 29. John Anstee (b 1887 Camberwell – served during World War One)
• HR 30. Edgar Elliot Anstee (b 1889 Southwark – served during World War One)
• HR 31. Edward Thomas Anstee (b 1894 Wood Green – served during World War One)
• HR 32. Alfred Henry Anstee (b 1895 Wood Green – served during World War One)
• HR 33. Samuel Sydney James Anstee (b 1897 Lambeth – served during World War One)
• HR 34. Sydney Charles Anstee (b 1898 Holborn – served during World War One)
• HR 35. William Stephen John Anstee (b 1898 Ocford – served during World War One)
• Further Details on Houghton Regis Anstees

Houghton Regis Anstees Overview

The Houghton Regis Anstees are a sub-branch of the Swanbourne Anstees via the Prittlewell Anstees. Even though the first patriarch of the Houghton Regis Anstees is Edward Anstee (HR 1), who was in Houghton Regis by c1715, that line became Anstey-extinct. Hence the patriarch of the modern day Houghton Regis Anstees is Joseph Anstee Junior (HR 2) who arrived in Houghton Regis in c1760 from Prittlewell.

Also see ‘Anstey: A Complete History From the Norman Invasion to World War One‘.

Further Details on Houghton Regis Anstees

#1. William Anstee (SW 23) who married Rebecca Parkins in Houghton Regis in 1766 is a Swanbourne Anstee.

#2. Bedford Marriage Licenses 1747-1790 and Bedford Marriage Licenses 1791-1812 involving Houghton Regis Anstees, by Marsha Stringer.

#3. Bedford Archive References involving Houghton Regis Anstees, by Marsha Stringer.

#4. Anstee BMD in Houghton Regis by Marsha Stringer.

#5. Anstee Non-Conformist BMD Houghton Regis/Hitchen by Marsha Stringer

#6. There is an Anstee Road in Luton – it is almost certainly named after a Toddington Anstee (a sub-branch of the Houghton Regis Anstees).

#7. Surely of this sub-branch Sidney Alfred Anstee was born in q4 1865 (some sources say 30 October 1866) in Luton to mother Maria Anstee (b 1849 Luton). In 1881 Maria was a “married” draper living with her son at 5, Hw Road, Chelsea. After this we lose track of them (certainly we cannot locate him in the 1911 Census) until as far as we know in 1939 he was an ‘unmarried‘ builder’s handyman and inmate at 129 The Lolington Institution St John’s Road, Islington. He may have married Bridget A Doherty in 1941 in Lambeth and he died in Islington in 1951 “age 84“- all of the above needs verification.

Also see ‘Anstey: A Complete History From the Norman Invasion to World War One‘.

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