Records of Gwen Sterry on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Gwen Sterry in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Gwen Sterry and the Sterry Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Sterry Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Sterry family tree.

Check out Parish Records for Gwen Sterry at Find My Past.

Investigate for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Gwen Sterry using the FreeBMD database.

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Study the LDS Database for records about Gwen Sterry.

Research the Sterry surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Sterry Military records.

ukDid you know that there are currently 964 people with the Sterry surname in the UK? Sterry is now ranked number 3136 for popularity in the UK.

Sterry Family Tree Databases

Another way to build your tree quickly is to use the research other people have already done. This can help to confirm or refute your own deductions - however, be wary of taking this data at face value as other researchers may not have been as meticulous as you. Always try to back up deductions with some definitive sources rather than relying too heavily on others.

Search the WikiTree database for user contributed records for Gwen Sterry.

Study MyTrees for information on the Sterry family and people looking to contact living Sterry relations.

Search One Great Family for Sterry records submitted by people who are already researching the Sterry Family Tree.

Find Gwen Sterry from Ireland on findmypast.ie

Sterry Forums

There are a number of forums which are dedicated to rearching particular surnames. These can be good places to share your findings and also to tap into the knowledge that others may already have. These can sometimes be a good way of finding living relations as these tend not to show up on the other sources of information for privacy reasons.

Research the Sterry surname using Genealogy.com forums .

Miscellaneous Sterry Databases

Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Gwen Sterry. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.

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Some Famous People called Gwen Sterry

Gwen Sterry

Gwendolyne Reingale Sterry Simmers (1905–?) was an English tennis player who was active in the 1920s and 1930s.

In 1922 she won the Junior Singles British Championship.

She competed eight times in the singles event at Wimbledon, reaching the fourth round in 1931 which she lost to fourth-seeded Hilde Krahwinkel. Sterry lost in three sets to Helen Wills during the first round of the 1927 Wimbledon Championships and is one of only three players who were able to win a set against Wills during her eight-year reign as Wimbledon champion.

She won the doubles title at the 1926 British Hard Court Championships in Torquay partnering Betty Nuthall. With Kitty McKane Godfree she was runner-up in the doubles event in 1932 when the tournament was held in Bournemouth. That same year she won the singles title at the Surrey Championships.Sterry was part of the British team that lost the Wightman Cup in 1927 to the United States but won her doubles match partnering Betty Hill.

Source: Gwen Sterry, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Sterry

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

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