Percy (Pat) Walter Filbee ALSTON [6029]

  General Notes:

Percy Walter F Alston
Registration Year: 1881
Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar
Registration district: Sudbury
Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District
Inferred County: Suffolk
Volume: 4a
Page: 555

Percy Walter F Alston
Registration Year: 1902
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration district: Croydon
Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District
Inferred County: Surrey
Volume: 2a
Page: 693

Percy was a partner in the family business "Alston Bros. of Sudbury", and a dealer in furniture. He was councillor for over 41 years, Mayor of Sudbury 1934 -35, 1936 - 37 and Alderman, admitted Honorary Freeman of the Borough of Sudbury in April 1967. Church Warden of St Gregory's Sudbury, Master of Priory Masonic Lodge.

1939 Register
8 Old Market Place , Sudbury M.B., Suffolk, England
Percy W Alston 24 Dec 1879 married House Furnisher
MaryAlston15 Dec 1879 married Ladies Outfitter

Death Registration April Qtr 1969 aged 88 Bury St Edmonds SFK Ref: 4b 2632

Percy Walter F Alston
Death Age: 88
Birth Date: 24 Dec 1880
Registration Date: Apr 1969
[May 1969]
[Jun 1969]
Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun
Registration district: Bury St edmunds
Inferred County: Suffolk
Volume: 4b
Page: 2632

Alston Percy Walter Filbee of 26 Melford Rd Sudbury SFK died 30 Apr 1969 Probate Ipswich 28 Aug 1969 £8488 0s 0d
National Probate Calendar

  Research Notes:

Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch:
SUDBURY BOROUGH RECORDS
Catalogue Ref. EE 501
BOROUGH SURVEYOR
New buildings and alterations to buildings
FILE - Plans - ref. EE 501/9/27 - date: 1928-
item: Extensions, 2 Newton Rd, for P. Alston - ref
. EE 501/9/27/109 - date: 1933
item: Loading shed, King St, for Alston Bros - ref. EE 501/9/27/285 - date: 1938

Images Courtesy Roy Alston 2010

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 3 Apr 1881, Sudbury St Peter SFK. Percy is described as a son aged 3 months born Sudbury.

2. Census: England, 5 Apr 1891, Sudbury SFK. Percy is recorded as a son aged 10 a scholar born Sudbury.

3. Pat Alston: Life in photos: Sudbury SFK.

4. Lionel Cresswell: Letter to P W F Alston Mayor of Sudbury, 24 Jul 1935, Crackenthorpe Hall, Near Appleby, Westmorland.
Liveing Archive

Telephone and Telegram No 6 Appleby
Rail: L.M.S. & L.N.E.R. Appleby.

CRACKENTHORPE HALL.
NEAR APPLEBY.
WESTMORLAND.
July 24th 1935.
It was with no small interest that I read in Tuesday's Daily Mail of the Meeting called by you which resulted in the bathing in the River Stour being closed.
For two reasons.
First that in view of what has happened elsewhere in times of drought and shortage of flow I think the decision wise but secondly that I am glad to find an Alston occupying the Mayoral Chair of Sudbury, a town that is the central one of a district in Suffolk where Alstons have been settled and prominent as far back at least as the 14th century.
Many years ago I spent a great deal of time and money in research into the history of the Alston baronets of Chelsea (from whom I am maternally descended) and the Alston baronets of Odell in Co. Bedford. Both these baronetcies became extinct by failure of male heirs over a hundred years ago. But I found the pursuit of their genealogy so fascinating that I scoured the counties of Suffolk (principally) and other counties East Anglia and the South (Essex Norfolk Bedford and Surrey) through and through. In 1905 I had the results of my research printed and published in a large quarto volumes of over 400 pages with illustrations of places and persons under the title "Stemmata Alstoniana" Copies were bought by Alstons in all parts of the world.
Among the earliest Alstons in Suffolk of whom I trace were a John Alston and his wife of Belchamp of 1381/82 and a Thomas Alston of Sudbury of whom I found in in 1469: respectable length of about 500 years. The most remote ancestor in the direct connected line was John Alston of Newton near Sudbury. From him there sprang numerous descendants. Whether you are one I do not know without knowing more of your particular family history but I think it highly probable. In the Parish registers of Newton I found about 80 Alston baptisms 25 marriages and about 80 burials recorded all before the year 1800. Sudbury Churches, Edwardstone Boxford Marlesford Parham Assington Polstead Groton Great Cornard Hadleigh Great Waldingfield and other places yielded many more. There are copies of my book in the British Museum Oxford (Bodleian) and Cambridge libraries deposited for copyright purposes so that if at any time if you are near one of them and curious as to your ancestry you might find much of interest Although no Alston has risen to eagle like heights:
"The States whole thunder born to wield
And shake alike the Senate and the Field"
yet a number have played their part in parliamentary add diplomatic life the learned profession the service
of the church and a great number whilst engaged in their administration of their lands and businesses have like yourself have taken part in the public life of their localities and counties.
I hope I have not wearied you.
I am,
Yours very truly,
Lionel Cresswell
B.L. J.P. (W.R. Yorks) & C.A. (W.R. Lanks)

The Worshipful,
The Mayor of Sudbury,
(Councillor P.W.F.Alston)

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5. Alderman Pat Alston: Made Freeman of Sudbury SFK, 3 Apr 1967.
To be Freeman of Sudbury.
The Borough of Sudbury is to make Alderman Pat Alston (85), who last week announced he is to retire from the local council after 42 years service, a Freeman of the Borough
The recommendation has been made by the Councils General Purposes Committee who feel Alderman Alston should be honoured for his distinguished service to the council.
A member of the Council since 1925 and an Alderman since 1935 he has twice been Mayor and at its meeting next week the Council will formally draft a resolution that he be made an Honorary Freeman.
A special meeting of the Council will probably be called to confer the honour.
East Anglian 3 April 1967.

Percy married Mary Ann (Poppy) PLAYSTED [6031] [MRIN: 2010], daughter of Henry PLAYSTED [6694] and Lydia Smith TAPNER [11771], on 30 Aug 1902 in Methodist Church Croydon SRY. (Mary Ann (Poppy) PLAYSTED [6031] was born about 1878 and died Jul Qtr 1951 in Sudbury SFK.)