Person:William Stokes (20)

William N. Stokes married Pauline M. A. Reynolds 4th qtr 1914 at St. Germans, Cornwall (bmd index). “Capt. William Noel Stokes, Royal Marine artillery, (2nd son of Henry John Stokes, late ICF of Howth, Dublin) will marry Pauline Mary Reynolds, daughter of the late Charles Henry Reynolds CIE, 20 De Vere Gdns, Kensington. The marriage will be at Saltash, Cornwall” (17sep1914,the Times). Captain William Noel Stokes R. M. A. received the Distinguished Service Cross in the Army Ordnance Dept. in France in jan1916 (the Times).

William Noel Stokes, DSC (Distinguished Service Cross) (1916), OBE (1919), Brig RAOC (Royal Army Ordnance Corps), served in WW1, Insp Army Ordnance Services, War Office 1936-38, ret 1938, re-employed in WW11 1939-41, was born 11nov1881, educated RNC Greenwich, married 1st 1910 Isabella Mary (May) Crips Villiers, of Galway (d. may1912). Brig. W. N. Stokes married 2nd 1914, Pauline Mary Alpin Reynolds (d. 9jun1965), daughter of Charles Henry Reynolds, CSI, of Oakwood Court, Kensington, London, and died 12mar1969 (Burke's Irish family records).

In 1911 William Noel Stokes (b. 1882 Howth, Co. Dublin, Church of Ireland, Captain RMA, Army Ordnance Dept., active list), wife Isabella Mary (1884 Beach Hill, Co. Galway, Church of Ireland, married 1 year) and 2 servants lived at 16 Canal Bank, New Kilmainham, Dublin, a house with 10 rooms (census).

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Burke's Irish family records.
2.   The Times. (London, England).
3.   Census Office. Ireland Census 1911. (Dublin: National Archives of Ireland).