Jones Family
Origins
The ubiquitous surname Jones - the second most common in England - derives from the Hebrew name Johanan, meaning "Jehovah has favoured", which was usually latinised to Johannes in early documents. In England this became John, a name which rivalled William in popularity by the 14th century. The feminine form Joan (latinised as Johanna) was equally popular and at the time was pronounced in the same way as John, so the surname may come from either. When the Authorised Version of the Bible was translated into Welsh, the form Ioan was used, which accounts for the frequency of Jones as a Welsh patronymic: 5.75% of the popuation share the surname, as opposed to 0.5% in England.
Multiple surnames share the same origin, including Johns, Joynes, Johnson, Jennings, Jakes, Jackson, Fitzjohn, Hancock and Jacklin.
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William Jones
The starting point of our Jones family at present is the marriage of William Jones to Sarah Hoffman at St Swithin’s Church, Walcot on 25 August 1788.
William and Sarah had at least four sons:
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(1789-1853)
(1790-?)
(1791-1870)
(1799-?)
m. Mary Greenaway, 1819
m. Harriet Gibbs, 1813
m. Harriet
Comparatively little is known about William: his son Charles’ second marriage indicates that he was a harness maker, while John’s second marriage records William as a coach builder. The sons all followed related trades, becoming a carpenter, a saddler/harness maker and a coach trimmer.
Sarah was probably baptised at St Mary's Church, Rotherhithe on 12 February 1766, the daughter of Lewis Hoffman and his wife Ann Berriman. Although this is quite a long way from Bath, the surname Hoffman was very uncommon in England at the time, and rarely found outside the London area. (The unusual middle name "Luderwick" given to William and Sarah’s oldest son is a variation of Lewis.)
There are a number of possible burial records at St Swithin’s for both William and Sarah, but as the parish register gives no details of age or occupation of those buried during this time period, it is impossible to know for certain when they died. They do not appear on the 1841 census.
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Charles Luderwick Jones
Charles Luderwick Jones, oldest son of William Jones and Sarah Hoffman, was baptised at St Swithin's Church, Walcot on 29 September 1789 and his unusual middle name (also found as "Lewdewick" on some records) is a variation of his maternal grandfather's name. He became a carpenter, and married Mary Greenaway in St Swithin's Church on 5 January 1819. Mary was baptised in St Swithin’s Church on 1 June 1788 and was the daughter of Francis Greenaway, a mason from Wiltshire, and his wife Edith Davis.
Charles and Mary had three children:
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2.
3.
James Greenway Jones
Elizabeth Jones
Ellen Jones
(1820-?)
(1823-?)
(1826-?)
m. Charles Tyrrell, 1849
Mary died at the age of 41, and was buried at St Swithin’s on 18 November 1827. Twelve years later, Charles married Elizabeth Gullick in St Swithin's Church on 7 November 1839. Elizabeth born in Farmborough near Bath in about 1800 and was the daughter of William Gullick, a labourer. She was a widow whose previous married name was Clark.
Charles had four more children with Elizabeth, but only one survived past infancy:
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Mary Jones
Charles Jones
William Jones
Martha Jones
(1840-1841)
(1843-1848)
(1846-1848)
(1849-1930)
Charles died at the age of 63 and was buried at St Swithin's Church on 17 July 1853. Elizabeth died in Bath in 1873.
John Jones
John Jones, son of William Jones and Sarah Hoffman, was baptised in St Swithin's Church, Walcot on 12 April 1791 and learned the trade of a saddler. According to census returns, his wife Harriet Gibbs was born in the nearby market town of Midsomer Norton in about 1786. They were married on 6 September 1813 at St Peter’s Church in Bristol and had five children:
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(1814-1870)
(1815-?)
(1817-1887)
(1819-1883)
(1821-?)
m. George Norman, 1844
m. Constantina Lear, 1839
m. Edward Sylvanus Appleby, 1855
The 1841 census records John and Harriet living at 4 Bridge Street, Bath with the three younger children. The family remained at this address until John's retirement in the late 1850s, when he moved to 12 Hays Belle Vue, Lyncombe, Bath and another saddler took over the Bridge Street address.
Harriet died at Belle Vue Cottage on 28 January 1864 and a coroner’s inquest concluded that her death was due to “Visitation of God from Apoplexy”. The following year John married Harriett Spillman in Widcombe on 15 June 1865. Harriett was a widow who had previously been married to Edmond Adams: she was born in Berkeley, Gloucestershire in 1816.
John died in Bath on 16 December 1870, leaving his personal property to his wife absolutely and his real estate in trust to her for her lifetime: following her death it was to be sold and the proceeds divided equally among his living children and the spouses or offspring of any deceased children. However, after Harriett died in 1902, having outlived all John's children, the surviving executor of John's will appears to have encountered some problems in contacting the beneficiaries, and newspaper advertisements were placed asking them to get in touch. One of the advertisements refers to his son John, who "is believed to have been a Saddler Serjeant in the Cape Mounted Rifles and at Cape Corps Camps Grahams Town Cape Colony South Africa in 1855."
William Jones
William Jones, youngest known son of William Jones and Sarah Hoffman, was baptised in St Swithin's Church, Walcot on 8 December 1799. He followed a similar trade to his father, becoming a coach trimmer and by the mid 1820s he had moved to London. He married a woman from Norfolk named Harriet and had at least three children:
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2.
3.
Frederick Henry Jones
John Jones
(1826-1860)
(1827-1904)
(1829-?)
m. Jemima Eliza Baddock, 1846
m. Elmina Waterfield, 1850
In 1851, William and Harriet were living in Marylebone with their youngest son John, but all three seem to have died before the following census in 1861.
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Elizabeth Jones
Elizabeth Jones was baptised in St St Swithin's Church, Walcot on 15 June 1823 and is the only child of Charles Luderwick Jones and Mary Greenaway known to have survived to adulthood. She moved to London, probably to work, and had a daughter there whose father is unknown:
1.
Mary Ann Jones
(1845-1921)
Elizabeth then married Charles Tyrrell, a porter, in St George's Church, Bloomsbury on 4 March 1849. Charles was baptised in Isleworth on 2 April 1817 and was the son of Robert Tyrrell and his wife Sarah Baxter.
The couple had four children:
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3.
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5.
James Charles Tyrrell
Emma Ellen Tyrrell
Elizabeth Sarah Tyrrell
(1849-1919)
(1851-1925)
(1853-1943)
(1860-1945)
m. Maria Clay, 1870
m. Charles Parsons, 1898
m. Charles Edward Goodall, 1876
m. John Bird Bassil, 1881
Charles died in Marylebone in 1879, and Elizabeth soon afterwards.
Esther Jones
John Jones and Harriet Gibbs’ oldest daughter Esther (or Hester) Gibbs Jones was baptised in Bath Abbey on 14 June 1814 and married George Norman, a travelling salesman, there in 1844. George was baptised on 30 May 1814 in Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire, the oldest son of another George Norman and his wife Sarah.
George and Esther had seven children:
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7.
Emma Elmore Norman
Female Norman
George John Norman
Alfred Harold Norman
George Ward Norman
William Matthew Norman
Harriet Norman
(1845-1933)
(1847-1847)
(1848-1850)
(1849-1858)
(1851-1936)
(1853-1957)
(1855-1906)
m. Maria Elizabeth Simpson, 1879
m. Caroline Jane Marsh, 1877
m. Francis Kenyon Parker, 1880
The family lived in London until the early 1850s when they moved to Oxford, where the 1861 census records them at 14 Museum Terrace: George is picturesquely described as a “Traveller in Tailoring”.
Esther and George lost two children in infancy and their oldest surviving son Alfred Harold drowned at the age of 9 at a popular bathing spot in the River Cherwell.
Harriet Norman married Francis Kenyon Parker, an architect from Sheffield, in Bath in 1880, but was left a widow at the age of 40 and went to live with her unmarried sister Emma in Portsmouth.
Esther died suddenly on 22 June 1870 and an inquest was held, but concluded that she died from natural causes. George only survived Esther by five months, dying in Radcliffe Infirmary on 20 November 1870.
Frederick Jones
Frederick Jones was baptised in Bath Abbey on 7 September 1815 and like his father John Jones followed the trade of a saddler. He married Constantina Lear at St Mary Redcliff, Bristol on 6 January 1839. Constantina was baptised in Lyncombe, Bath on 13 December 1818, the daughter of a hairdresser named Thomas Lear and his wife Constance Bryant.
Frederick had a daughter, whose mother was presumably Constantina Lear:
1.
(1839-1890)
m. William John Higgs, 1866
However, Frederick and his wife are never shown living together on census returns, and their daughter's birth does not seem to have been registered. (Civil registration only started in England in 1837, and although it was theoretically obligatory, not all births were registered in the early years.) From Constantina Mary's age on various records, it appears that she was born either just before her parents' marriage or immediately afterwards
On the 1841 census, Frederick’s wife “Constantia Jones” is recorded in her parents’ household at Cornwell Buildings, Bath, but Frederick and Constantina Mary are not with her.
Frederick was certainly living and working in Bath in 1850, because there are references to him as a witness in newspaper accounts of two minor court case concerning his father’s shop. However, he is not on the 1851 census with his parents (or anywhere else, apparently!), and when his father retired in 1853, the business was taken over by an unrelated saddler, which seems a little surprising.
In 1861, Frederic Jones (sic), a Bath-born saddler of approximately the right age, is living with his wife Jane Lusinda (born in Bath in about 1834) in the parish of St Clement Danes, Westminster. The same man is a widower in 1871 and disappears after that census. It is, of course, a common name, but it seems relatively unlikely that there were two saddlers named Frederick Jones born in Bath at roughly the same time.
Constantina is a little easier to trace, and in 1851 she is living alone in St Dunstan, Stepney, listed as Constantine Jones, a married dressmaker. Ten years later, on the 1861 census, she is shown living in Tower Hamlets with her "husband" Thomas H Jones, a bonnet maker. (His surname here is probably an error.) She actually married Thomas Henry Trye much later, on 25 July 1871 at St James the Great, Bethnal Green, and the marriage certificate states that she was a widow. A little earlier in 1871, however, the couple was already listed on the census under the name Trye. Thomas was a bonnet presser, born around 1823 in Whitechapel, son of Hardwick Shakespear Trye.
The 1881 census shows Constantina and Thomas Henry rather sadly as inmates of Mile End Old Town Workhouse, living separately in the male and female sections. Constantina died there in 1884 and Thomas Henry in 1898.
It seems likely, therefore, that Frederick and Constantina's marriage broke down fairly quickly and the couple separated. Divorce in England at this time was not only complicated, but prohibitively expensive, so subsequent relationships were inevitably unofficial, regularised only if (and when) the former partner died; in 1871, therefore, we presume that Constantina either knew or believed herself to be a widow.
Harriet Louisa Jones
Harriet Louisa Jones, the third child of John Jones and Harriet Gibbs, was christened in Bath Abbey on 2 July 1817. She had a long-term and somewhat mysterious relationship with Edwyn Dowding, a solicitor whom she named as her husband on her children's birth certificates. Edwyn was christened on 28 April 1811 in Dodington, Gloucestershire, the youngest son of landowner John Dowding and his wife Sarah Chapman.
Harriet and Edwyn did not live together openly and Harriet left Bath for the births of her first two children. On censuses and street directories she is listed as Harriet James, a widow, while the children's marriage certificates give their father's name as either Edwyn Jones or Edwyn James, solicitor. However, Edwyn seems to have provided for the family, and remained single until his death, so perhaps it was the Victorian class system which made a saddler's daughter an unacceptable wife for someone of his social standing.
They had five children:
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2.
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Helen Jones Dowding
Geraldine Jones Dowding
Louisa Jones Dowding
Florence Jones Dowding
(1849-1907)
(1852-1932)
(1853-1912)
(1856-1906)
(1858-1860)
m. Eliza Pople, 1878
m. Richard Brodribb Harding, 1875
m. John Robert Jennings, 1875
Harriet went to London for the birth of her first child and aparently left him there in the care of a foster-family. In 1851 she was living with her parents under the name Jones, but within a short time she had her own home in Lyncombe, Bath, where she brought up her daughters. According to the 1861 census, she had a private income ('fundholder") and until Edwyn's death, none of the children worked for a living.
Edwyn died of a stroke on 16 May 1872 and during the following decade Harriet and her three surviving daughters all moved to Manchester. Harriet is recorded as a visitor in her daughter Louisa's household in Chorlton on Medlock in 1881, and although she was photographed in a Bath studio in the early 1880s, she died of chronic bronchitis in Thomson Grove, Ardwick, on 20 December 1887. Her daughter Helen, who registered the death, was living at the same address.
James William Jones
James William Jones, oldest known son of William Jones and Harriet, was born in London in about 1826 and became a shoemaker. On 21 December 1846 he married Jemima Elizabeth Baddock, daughter of Henry Baddock and Mary Ann Jackson, in St Mary's Church, Paddington.
They had eight children:
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Frederick Henry Jones
Mary Ann Jones
Mary Ann Frances Jones
Henry William Jones
Daniel Jones
William John Jones
James Jones
Alice Jones
(1847-1849)
(1849-1849)
(1850-1943)
(1852-1916)
(1854-1854)
(1855-?)
(1857-?)
(1859-?)
m. William Frederick Makepeace, 1875
m. Eliza Potipher, 1876
m. Sophia Armsworth, 1876
James died of consumption in Marylebone on 31 July 1860, and after eight years of widowhood, Jemima married Joseph Marks, a saddler, in 1868 and had two more children. She died in Marylebone in 1875.
Frederick Henry Jones
Frederick Henry Jones, son of William Jones and Harriet, was born in London in about 1827 and married Elmina Waterfield at St Matthew's Church, City Road on 16 June 1850. At the time of his marriage he was a mercantile clerk, but he later worked as a grocer, and finally as a druggist's assistant. Frederick and Elmina raised a family of ten children:
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Maria Bessie Jones
Elmina Jones
Harriet Jones
Mary Jane Jones
Frances Jones
Ellen Jones
Elizabeth Kate Jones
Frederick William Jones
George Waterfield Jones
Ruth Clara Jones
(1851-1935)
(1852-1897)
(1854-1891)
(1857-1947)
(1860-?)
(1862-1940)
(1864-1952)
(1866-1934)
(1868-1944)
(1872-1908)
m. John William Smith, 1880
m. Henry Boutland, 1881
m. George William Lawrance, 1882
m. James Forsyth, 1883
m. William John Crowe, 1888
m. Ada Louisa Gordon, 1896
m. Annie Andrews, 1894
m. Alfred Dwarber Dodson, 1896
Elmina died in Bow in 1880 and Frederick died in Rotherhithe in 1904.
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Elizabeth Sarah Tyrrell
Elizabeth Sarah Tyrrell, daughter of Charles Tyrrell and Elizabeth Jones, was born in Westminster on 5 October 1853 and baptised in St Martin in the Fields on 21 December 1856. She married Charles Edward Goodall, a porter, in St Pancras Old Church on 13 August 1876. Charles was born in Leamington, Warwickshire on 25 July 1852 and was the son of Edward Goodall and his wife Sarah Goodall.
Charles and Elizabeth had thirteen children:
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Eveline Annie Eliza Goodall
Charles Edward Herbert Goodall
Lily Emily Goodall
Ernest Henry Goodall
Arthur James Goodall
Stanley Percival Goodall
Sidney Tyrrell Goodall
Gladys Ellen Elizabeth Goodall
Mabel Ethel Goodall
Harold Albert Goodall
Dorothy Violet Goodall
Winifred Amy Goodall
Hugh Gerald Goodall
(1877-1888)
(1879-1962)
(1881-1962)
(1883-1883)
(1885-1964)
(1887-1917)
(1889-1951)
(1890-1891)
(1892-1957)
(1893-1974)
(1895-1929)
(1896-1969)
(1898-1968)
m. Gertrude Helen Weatherley, 1902
m. Edward Tibbles, 1904
m. Ethel Emily May Dickens, 1911
m. Elizabeth Chubb, 1915
m. Horace William Wenham, 1920
m. Gladys Emily Swinbourn, 1918
m. Edward J Brookes, 1919
m. Gertrude Brooks, 1922
Stanley Percival Goodall was killed in action in Flanders on 26 October 1917 while serving in the Royal Fusiliers.
Arthur James Goodall served briefly in the Labour Corps in 1917, but was discharged as unfit for active service. According to his Army record, he previously suffered from a tubercular condition of the tibia which had confined him to bed for the best part of three years.
Charles died in Harlesden on 17 December 1925, and Elizabeth died in Hillingdon on 5 December 1943.
Jessie Eliza Tyrrell
The youngest child of Charles Tyrrell and Elizabeth Jones, Jessie Eliza Tyrrell, was born in Marylebone on 7 February 1860 and married commercial traveller John Bird Bassil in 1881. John was born in Sheffield in 1861 and was the son of George Bassil and his wife Catherine Ann Bird.
John and Jessie had six children:
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2.
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Reginald John Bird Bassil
George William Charles Bassil
Emmeline Jessie Louise Bassil
Victoria Florence Bassil
Mildred Violet Bassil
John Bird Bassil
(1881-1961)
(1882-1923)
(1884-1961)
(1887-1973)
(1888-1967)
(1891-1978)
m. Nellie Logan, 1910
m. Annie Emma Hearn, 1907
m. John Williams, 1916
m. Rosalind Elsie Bullock, 1920
Reginald John Bird Bassil emigrated to Canada in 1905, and served with the 11th Canadian Mounted Rifles during the First World War. He later moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming.
John, Jessie and their two unmarried daughters moved at some point to Windsor, Berkshire, where John died on 31 December 1942 and Jessie on 3 December 1945.
George Ward Norman
George Ward Norman, son of George Norman and Esther Gibbs Jones, was born in Oxford in May 1851 and baptised at St Mary the Virgin’s Church, Oxford on 29 September 1851, at the same time as his older brother Alfred. When the 1861 census was taken, he was boarding in Jermyn Street, Westminster with James Thomas Snow, a butcher, and his wife Mary Ann Weeden. The Snows do not appear to be related to the Normans, so possibly George was living there while to attend school locally.
In 1871, George was an apprentice tailor, living in the household of (presumably) his employer, William Biffen, a reasonably affluent tailor, in Eagle Place, Westminster. He was still living at this address when he married Maria Elizabeth Simpson in St Marylebone’s Church on 25 August 1879. Maria was born in Marylebone on 4 September 1853, and was the daughter of Joseph Simpson, another tailor, and his wife Eliza Maria Poppy
George and Maria had two daughters:
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2.
Edith Clarissa Norman
Florence Alice Norman
(1880-1983)
(1883-1949)
m. James McBride Robbins, 1907
m. Archibald Sharman, 1943
By 1911 George was a foreman tailor in Clapham and he died there in 1936. Maria died in Croydon in 1943 at the age of 90.
William Matthew Norman
William Matthew Norman, son of George Norman and Esther Gibbs Jones, was christened in North Hinksey, near Oxford on 3 May 1853. He became a clerk, and moved to London, marrying Caroline Jane Marsh in Camberwell in 1877. Caroline was born in Coventry in 1850 and was the daughter of William John Marsh and his wife Mary Ann.
William and Caroline started their married life in London, before moving to Walthamstow for several years, and finally returning to Lambeth. They had five children:
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2.
3.
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Maud Ethel Norman
Car Harold Norman
Horace William Norman
Muriel Norman
Stanley Norman
1878-1941)
(1880-1957)
(1882-1965)
(1884-1982)
(1888-?)
m. Edith Mabel Sage, 1909
m. Mabel Mildred Lane, 1913
Strangely, Stanley Norman seems to have been christened twice: firstly on his own on 20 January 1889 at St Michael and All Angels Church, Walthamstow, and then in the same church on 16 March 1891 along with his older siblings Horace and Muriel. It is possible that the first christening was a private one (perhaps performed hastily because he was not expected to live) and the second a formal reception into the church: there was only one child named Stanley whose birth was registered to these parents.
William died in Herne Hill on 26 February 1919 and Caroline died in Norwood on 14 November 1949, not far short of her centenary.
Constantina Mary Jones
Constantina Mary Jones, daughter of Frederick Jones and Constantina Lear, was born in Bath in 1838 or 1839 (although one census gives her birthplace as Bristol). She was apparently brought up by her paternal grandparents, John and Harriet Jones and is shown with them on the 1851 and 1861 censuses, recorded once as "Constance" and once as "Mary". She married William John Higgs, a carpenter, at St Mary’s Church in Lambeth on 31 March 1866.
William was born in Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire on 19 September 1841, the son of Moses Higgs, a farmer, and his wife Hester Barton. He and Constantina had 3 children, all born in London:
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2.
3.
William John Higgs
Elizabeth Rose Higgs
Mary Esther Higgs
(1866-1937)
(1868-1914)
(1875-1954)
m. Jane Caukwell, 1891
m. George Edward Cordell, 1892
Constantina died in Kensington in 1890 at the age of 52. William later lived with his married daughter Elizabeth for a time and died in Wandsworth in early 1911
Edwyn Jones Dowding
Edwyn Dowding and Harriet Jones' first child, Edwyn Jones Dowding (also known as Edwyn Dowding James or Edward Wynter James), was born in Vauxhall, Surrey on 12 August 1849. His mother returned home to Bath after his birth, while Edwyn apparently remained with what would now be called a foster-family, appearing as a "nurse child" on the 1851 census under the name Edwin Jones. Later, he possibly attended Weston Academy, a boarding school for boys aged about 8-16 on the outskirts of Bath, which lists an “E James” aged 11 among its pupils in 1861, although this boy’s place of birth is given as Bath, not Surrey.
Having been brought up as a “gentleman”, presumably at his father’s expense, Edward apparently had no need to work for a living after leaving school. However, his relationship with his family became strained: he had some minor brushes with the law for being drunk and disorderly, but was also charged at least twice with threatening behaviour towards his mother. He left home in the 1870s and started work as a sherrif's officer.
Edwyn was living in Kingsmead St, Bath when he married Eliza Pople in Bath Register Office on 3 October, 1878. Eliza was born in Bath in 1859, the youngest child of George Pople, a labourer, and his wife Ann Bullen.
Eliza and Edwyn had four children, all born in Bath:
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2.
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Edwyn Thomas James
Edwyn Charles James
Sydney James
Amy Louisa James
(1879-1884)
(1888-1891)
(1891-1916)
(1892-1971)
m. William Henry Chambers, 1918
Around 1880 Edwyn started working as an auctioneer's porter and continued in this line of work for the rest of his life. Sadly, his two oldest children died young, and his wife Eliza died of pneumonia on 11 June 1894, aged just 35. A year later, Edwyn married Elizabeth Emily Hutchings at St John's RC Church, Bath on 24 August 1895. Elizabeth was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset in about 1853, and her father, William, was a cooper. She was in a similar position to Edwyn, having been left a widow with several young children when her first husband William Harding died in 1894.
Edwyn had another daughter with Elizabeth:
(1896-?)
Ellen Florence James
5.
Elizabeth died in 1901 and Edwyn found himself a widower once again. It proved too difficult for him to look after his three surviving young children, so Amy and Ellen were sent as boarders to a convent, while Sydney remained with his father. Ellen is believed to have died in childhood, but Amy remained in the convent for several years. She learned to repair lace, and went to the houses of the local aristocracy to mend their lace curtains, always remaining close to her brother Sydney.
Edwyn died of cancer of the tongue in Bath on 20 October 1907, having apparently lost touch with his mother and sisters since they moved to Manchester. His survivng children had never known their aunts and cousins and believed themselves to be alone in the world. The Manchester branch of the family seems to have been equally unaware they still had relatives in Bath.
Sydney James joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in World War I and became a corporal. His battalion was sent to Belgium in October 1914 and participated in the first battle of Ypres as well as the battles of Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Festubert and Loos. Sydney died of wounds at La Neuveville on 1 April 1916, just before he was due to return home on leave to be married. He is buried in Corbie communal cemetery near Amiens.
Geraldine Jones Dowding
Geraldine Jones Dowding was born in Beechen Cliff, Lyncombe on 2 October 1853 and was the first of Edwyn Dowding and Harriet Jones' children to be born in Bath. She grew up with her mother and sisters in fairly comfortable circumstances, and married Richard Brodribb Harding, a chemist, in Bath on 25 November 1875. On the marriage certificate, her maiden name is given as Jones, and her father as Edwin Jones (deceased), a solicitor. The couple were married in the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel, Vineyards, a chapel belonging to a Calvinistic Methodist denomination founded by Selina, Countess of Huntingdon in the second half of the 19th century, which is now home to the Bath Museum of Building.
Richard was born in Bath in 1848, the only child of chemist Richard Osman Harding from Bristol and his wife Anna Maria Brodribb. The Hardings were apparently a dynasty of chemists, as Richard Osman’s brother, Thomas Tuck Harding, is variously recorded as a “chymist”, druggist, and manufacturer of soda water in contemporary directories and census returns. Another brother, John Alfred Harding, was also a chemist and druggist before attending medical school and becoming a surgeon.
On the 1911 census Geraldine stated that she had given birth to eight live children, but only the names of five are known at present:
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Anna Florence Harding
Lily Maria Harding
Frederick Osman Harding
Sydney Charles Harding
Alice Maud Brodribb Harding
(1876-1964)
(1877-1877)
(1879-1879)
(1881-1900)
(1884-1886)
In the early 1880s the family moved from Bath to New Cross, Manchester, where Geraldine worked as a dressmaker. Anna Florence (known as Florence) was not with her family on the 1891 census: she was living as a boarder in Wiltshire, probably at a small private school. Richard died in Manchester in 1897 at the early age of 49, and Sydney Charles died in Manchester three years later, aged just 19.
Geraldine died of pulmonary tuberculosis on 11 April 1912 in Prestwich Union Workhouse Infirmary, Crumpsall. The death was registered by her daughter Florence, and she is buried in Philips Park Cemetery, Manchester. Geraldine was not a permanent workhouse resident at the time (her address on the death certificate is 30 Long Street), but either she could not afford treatment elsewhere, or the workhouse infirmary was the only local hospital for infectious diseases. The Prestwich Workhouse Infirmary was built in about 1868, and the architect was Thomas Worthington, a Salford Unitarian committed to social reform and improvement. Unlike earlier workhouse infirmaries, Prestwich was designed to provide plenty of light and ventilation for the patients, so Geraldine was luckier than many working class invalids of the time.
Louisa Jones Dowding
Louisa Jones Dowding, youngest surviving daughter of Edwyn Dowding and Harriet Jones, was born in Beechen Cliff, Bath on 14 March 1856. Like her mother and sisters, she is recorded with the surname James on censuses, but gave her maiden name as Jones when she married John Robert Jennings, a musician, in the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel, Bath on 13 October 1875. The witnesses at the wedding were Louisa's sister Geraldine and future brother-in-law Robert Brodribb Harding. John was born in Bath in 1853, the son of John Jennings, a boot maker, and his wife Mary Hawkins.
The couple left Bath very soon after their wedding, and two months later were living in Mornington Street, Chorlton on Medlock where their daughter was born.
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Amy Louisa Jennings
(1875-1893)
Unfortunately Louisa and John's marriage did not last and by 1881 they had separated: Louisa continued to live in Chorlton on Medlock (and later Hulme) with Amy, while John set up home with his second wife Mary Kelly in Salford. After Amy's early death in 1893, her orphaned daughter Alice Maud lived with Louisa, and is wrongly listed as Louisa's daughter on the 1901 census.
Louisa died of acute gastritis on 12 September 1905 in Plymouth St, Manchester. The death was registered by her sister, Helen, and she is buried in Southern Cemetery.
Henry William Jones
Henry William Jones, son of James William Jones and Jemima Eliza Baddock, was born in Marylebone on 14 August 1852 and baptised there on 10 October 1852. As a young man he worked as a druggist's assistant and by the mid 1870s he had moved to Brighton, where he married Eliza Potipher on 22 November 1876. Eliza was born in Brighton on 22 March 1858 and was the daughter of George Potipher and his wife Eliza Parrish.
Henry and Eliza had four children:
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4.
William Henry George Jones
Elizabeth Alice Jones
Ada Jones
Maud Ellen Jones
(1877-1937)
(1879-?)
(1881-1883)
(1883-1960)
m. Rosalind Emily Constable Funnell, 1896
m. James William Wright, 1903
m. Harry Warman, 1908
By 1891, Henry had become a house painter, and followed this trade for the rest of his working life.
He died in Brighton on 2 January 1916 and Eliza died there in 1926.
William John Jones
William John Jones, son of James William Jones and Jemima Eliza Baddock, was born in Marylebone on 11 July 1855 and baptised there on 2 September 1855. He became a butcher and married Sophia Armsworth in St Matthew's Church, Marylebone on 5 March 1876. Sophia was born in Marylebone on 6 July 1857 and was the daughter of William Armsworth and his wife Sarah Winters.
The couple had one child:
1.
Dorothy Louisa Jones
(1888-1921)
m. Walter E Smith, 1917
Sophia died in Wandsworth in 1955 at the age of 98.
Maria Bessie Jones
Maria Bessie Jones, oldest child of Frederick Henry Jones and Elmina Waterfield, was born in St Pancras on 3 January 1851 and baptised there at the age of three weeks. She worked as a furrier before her marriage to John William Smith at Christ Church, Spitalfields on 30 September 1880. John was born in St Brides, Middlesex in about 1850 and was the son of William and Mary Ann Smith. He worked as a railway clerk.
John and Maria had two children:
1.
2.
John William Smith
Lilian Bessie Smith
(1880-?)
(1886-1987)
m. Annie Summerfield Groves, 1909
m. Francis Cyril Hayles, 1913
John died in Bermondsey in 1931 and Maria died in Camberwell in 1935.
Harriet Jones
Harriet Jones, daughter of Frederick Henry Jones and Elmina Waterfield, was born in Horton, Middlesex on 25 November 1854 and was baptised in St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch on 12 August 1860 at the same time as her younger sisters Mary Jane and Frances. Like her older sister Maria, she worked as a furrier for at least ten years prior to her marriage.
Harriet had an illegitimate daughter in 1876, whose birth was registered with what was presumably the father's surname:
1.
Clara Bessie Yull
(1876-?)
Harriet then married Henry Boutland at St Boltolph's Church, Aldergate on 13 October 1881. Henry was born in Shoreditch on 26 December 1856, and was the son of William Boutland and his wife Sophia Howe. He was in business with his brother Charles as "Bonded Carmen, Carriers and Contractors", but was declared bankrupt on 15 November 1881, very shortly after his marriage.
The couple moved to Baughurst, Hampshire, and had two children:
2.
3.
William Henry Edgar Boutland
Violet Gertrude Sophia Boutland
(1884-1935)
(1888-1988)
m. Florence Annie Merritt
m. Harold Wilfrid Sidney Jermy, 1920
By the time the 1891 census was taken, Harriet had gone blind and she died later the same year in Tadley.
Henry returned to his old occupation of horse contracting and moved to Berkshire where he married Amelia Hartridge in 1898. He had another daughter with his second wife and died in Romford in 1925.
Mary Jane Jones
Mary Jane Jones, daughter of Frederick Henry Jones and Elmina Waterfield, was born in Hackney on 28 May 1857 and was baptised along with two of her sisters in St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch on 12 August 1860. She married George William Lawrance, a clerk, in Holy Trinity Church, Mile End Old Town on 3 June 1882 and had five children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
George Alfred Lawrance
Maud Louisa Lawrance
Kate Bessie Lawrance
Edith May Lawrance
Violet Gertrude Lawrance
(1883-1909)
(1885-1886)
(1887-1888)
(1889-1984)
(1892-1974)
m. Daisy Elizabeth Payne, 1909
m. William Henry Norkett, 1912
m. William George Wade, 1926
Census returns after their marriage show George working as a process server and bailiff to Clerkenwell County Court.
Mary Jane died in Hackney in 1947 at the age of 90.
Ellen Jones
Ellen Jones, daughter of Frederick Henry Jones and Elmina Waterfield, was born in Hackney on 30 August 1862 and was baptised in St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch on 21 September 1862. She married James Forsyth, a tailor, in St Mary Magdalene's Church, Bermondsey on 14 July 1883 and had six children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Ellen Rosina Forsyth
James Frederick Forsyth
Arthur Richard Forsyth
Isabella Elizabeth Forsyth
Albert Percival Forsyth
Frances May Forsyth
(1884-1975)
(1886-1966)
(1888-1909)
(1890-1892)
(1892-1956)
(1893-1970)
m. Charles Horace Edwards, 1909
m. Ellen Greenfield, 1910
m. Lilian Annie Mindenhall, 1922
m. Cyril Roderick Harold Park, 1917
James died in Forest Hill on 26 March 1930 and Ellen died in Wandsworth in 1940.
Elizabeth Kate Jones
Elizabeth Kate Jones, daughter of Frederick Henry Jones and Elmina Waterfield, was born in Hackney on 10 December 1864 and was baptised in St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch on 15 January 1865. She married William John Crowe, a shipping clerk, in All Saints Church, Haggerston on 5 March 1888 and had five children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Florence Kate Crowe
William Ramsey Crowe
Edmund Charles Crowe
Walter Alfred Crowe
Cecil Leslie Crowe
(1889-1954)
(1893-1962)
(1896-1969)
(1901-1955)
(1907-1969)
m. Montague Froud, 1921
m. Ethel Mildred Burtenshaw, 1928
m. Emily Beatrice Brown, 1939
Census returns after their marriage show George working as a process server and bailiff to Clerkenwell County Court.
William Ramsey Crowe joined the Army Service Corps on 10 October 1914, a few weeks after the beginning of the First World War, and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps on 4 September 1915, becoming a sergeant clerk.
Edmund Charles Crowe enlisted in the London Regiment on 23 August 1915 and was later transferred first to the Leinster Regiment and finally to the Royal Engineers, where he acted as a locomotive fireman and driver on the military railways in France. He was wounded in action twice, spending six months in hospital after a shell wound in September 1916.
William died in Hackney in 1928 and Elizabeth died in Essex in 1952.
Frederick William Jones
Frederick William Jones, the eighth child and first son of Frederick Henry Jones and Elmina Waterfield, was born in Holborn on 28 November 1866 and baptised in St Luke's Church, Finsbury on 31 March 1867. He worked among other jobs as a silk tie cutter, and married Ada Louisa Gordon in St James' Church, Hatcham on 19 September 1896 . They had two children:
1.
2.
Frederick Gordon Jones
Ada Ethel Jones
(1897-?)
(1900-1968)
m. Edith Florence Essex, 1923
m. William Edwin Catlin, 1927
Frederick died in Earls Court on 26 June 1935.
George Waterfield Jones
George Waterfield Jones, son of Frederick Henry Jones and Elmina Waterfield, was born in St Lukes, Middlesex on 5 October 1868 and baptised in St Luke's Church, Finsbury on 15 November 1868. He became a publican and married Annie Andrews at St Saviour Southwark in 1894. They had two children:
1.
2.
George Frederick Waterfield Jones
Winifred Rose Clara Jones
(1894-1950)
(1896-1996)
m. Clara Burke, 1913
m. William Ernest Wedlock, 1924
George died in Southwark in 1944.
Ruth Clara Jones
Ruth Clara Jones, tenth and youngest child of Frederick Henry Jones and Elmina Waterfield, was born in Bow on 9 March 1872 and baptised in St Mark's Church, Dalston on 16 January 1901. As a young woman she worked as a draper's assistant before marring Alfred Dwarber Dodson in All Saints Church, Islington on 28 March 1896. Alfred, a publican, was born in London on 2 March 1874 and was the son of Thomas Blossom Dodson and his wife Elizabeth Dwarber.
Alfred and Ruth had two daughters:
1.
2.
Doris Elizabeth Dodson
Sybil Doris Blossom Dodson
(1896-?)
(1898-1955)
m. Arthur Held, 1917
Doris and Sybil appear to have boarded with relations or friends of the family as children.
Ruth died in Islington on 25 May 1908 aged 36 and Alfred then married Barbara Annie Latham in 1914. He died in Romford in 1935.
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Charles Edward Herbert Goodall
Charles Edward Herbert Goodall, oldest son of Charles Edward Goodall and Elizabeth Sarah Tyrrell, was born in Chelsea on 4 February 1879 and baptised in St Jude's Church, Kensall Green on 11 May 1879. He worked as a jewel case maker and married Gertrude Helen Weatherley in All Souls Church, Harlesden on 26 June 1902.
The couple had two daughters:
1.
2.
Stella Lily Goodall
Katherine Helen Goodall
(1903-2002)
(1909-1982)
m. Harold George Jaeger, 1928
m. James Francis Ratcliff, 1936
Gertrude died in Wandsworth in 1941 and Charles died in Worcester Park, Surrey on 18 March 1962
Lily Emily Goodall
Lily Emily Goodall, daughter of Charles Edward Goodall and Elizabeth Sarah Tyrrell, was born in Marylebone on 19 April 1881 and baptised there on 3 July 1881. As a young woman, she worked as a jewel case liner before marrying Edward Tibbles, a commercial traveller, in Hendon on 11 June 1904. Edward was born in Willesden on 17 September 1879 and was the son of George Tibbles and his wife Ann Meeds.
George and Lily had five children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Leslie Edward Tibbles
Jack Eric Tibbles
Gerald Ernest Tibbles
Ronald Charles Goodall Tibbles
Joan Olive Lily Tibbles
(1904-1966)
(1905-1994)
(1908-1956)
(1912-1957)
(1919-2005)
m. Miriam Agnes Jackson, 1929
m. Olive Muriel Gillam, 1928
m. Edith Miriam Brook, 1932
m. Elsie Minnie Leopold, 1934
m. Herbert Arthur Stanley Thomas, 1939
Edward served in the Motor Transport section of the Army Service Corps during the First World War and was stationed in Italy from 1917 to 1919.
Lily died in Surrey in 1962 and Edward died three years later in Stockport, where their oldest son was living.
Sidney Tyrrell Goodall
Sidney Tyrrell Goodall, son of Charles Edward Goodall and Elizabeth Sarah Tyrrell, was born in Willesden and baptised in St John the Evangelist's Church, Kensall Green on 12 May 1892 at the same time as his older brother Arthur John and younger sister Mabel Ethel. He enlisted in the Navy on 3 April 1907 for a period of twelve years, but was discharged on 8 August 1912 on account of his eyesight. He became a postman and married Elizabeth Chubb in St Mary's Church, Willesden on 13 February 1915.
Sidney and Elizabeth had three children:
1.
2.
3.
Sydney Ernest Goodall
Reginald Edwin Goodall
Albert Alfred Goodall
(1916-1971)
(1917-1997)
(1922-2014)
m. Peggy Fielder Watts, 1942
Sidney re-enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service on 8 January 1917 and served until April 1919, becoming a corporal mechanic. (The RNAS was merged with the Royal Flying Corps in 1918 to create the Royal Air Force.)
He died in Ealing on 30 March 1951 and Elizabeth died in 1963.
Mabel Ethel Goodall
Mabel Ethel Goodall, daughter of Charles Edward Goodall and Elizabeth Sarah Tyrrell, was born in Willesden and baptised in St John the Evangelist's Church, Kensall Green on 12 May 1892 along with two of her older brothers. She seems to have been brought up by her maternal uncle, James Charles Tyrrell and his wife Maria Clay, who had no children of their own.
In 1920 Mabel married Horace William Wenham and had four children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Stanley William Wenham
Charles Herbert Wenham
James Wenham
Lionel Desmond Wenham
(1920-1999)
(1921-1984)
(1924-1985)
(1931-2014)
Horace died in Kensington in 1956 and Mabel died in Uxbridge the following year.
Harold Albert Goodall
Harold Albert Goodall, son of Charles Edward Goodall and Elizabeth Sarah Tyrrell, was born in Willesden and baptised in St John the Evangelist's Church, Kensall Green on 15 June 1893. He served in the Royal Flying Corps (and later the RAF) during the First World War and married Gladys Emily Swinbourn in Emmanuel Church, Paddington towards the end of the war, on 27 July 1918.
Gladys and Harold had one daughter:
1.
Gwendoline Goodall
(1921-2007)
m. Frederick H Alexander, 1945
Gladys died in Exmoor in 1968 and Harold in 1974.
George William Charles Bassil
George William Charles Bassil, second son of John Bird Bassil and Jessie Eliza Tyrrell, was born in Kentish Town in 1882 and married Annie Emma Hearn in Basingstoke in 1907. The couple moved to Coventry, where George worked as a shop assistant, and had two daughters. (This branch of the family adopted a different spelling of their surname from 1911 onwards.)
1.
2.
Greta Edith Bassile
Yvonne Jessamine Bassile
(1908-1999)
(1914-1996)
m. Reginald Johnson, 1929
m. Harry Davis, 1940
George died in Coventry on 23 January 1923 at the age of 40 and Annie died in Brighton in 1954.
Mildred Violet Bassil
Mildred Violet Bassil, daughter of John Bird Bassil and Jessie Eliza Tyrrell, was born in Camden Town in 1888 and married John Williams in Windsor in 1916. They had one daughter:
1.
Mary Jessie Violet Williams
(1916-?)
Mildred died in Windsor in 1967.
John Bird Bassil
John Bird Bassil, youngest son of John Bird Bassil and Jessie Eliza Tyrrell, was born in Portsmouth on 3 October 1910 and married Rosalind Elsie Bullock in Wolverhampton in 1920. The couple had two children:
1.
2.
Brenda Bird Bassil
John Bird Bassil
(1921-2017)
(1924-1994)
m. George Ambrose Jeffries, 1943
Rosalind died in Wordsley on 28 February 1962 and John died in Himley on 26 December 1978.
Edith Clarissa Norman
Edith Clarissa Norman, older daughter of George Ward Norman and Maria Elizabeth Simpson, was born in St Pancras on 4 July 1880 and baptised there three weeks later on 25 July. She worked as a dressmaker before her marriage to James McBride Robbins at St Saviour's Church, Clapham on 24 August 1907. James was born in Hilsea, Hampshire in 1874 and was a soldier in the Royal Engineers. He was a widower with a daughter from his previous marriage to Elizabeth Deakin.
James and Edith had four children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Kathleen Florence Robbins
Norman James Bickley Robbins
Marjorie Eileen Robbins
Hilda Edith Robbins
(1908-1963)
(1910-1997)
(1913-1971)
(1919-2001)
m. Frank Albert Hulcoop, 1937
m. Ada Ivy Maud Baker, 1939
m. Victor Albert Banham, 1942
James died in Paddington in 1934 and Edith outlived him by nearly fifty years: she died in Bath in 1983 aged 103.
Car Harold Norman
The strangely-named Car Harold Norman, son of William Matthew Norman and Caroline Jane Marsh, was born on Christmas Day 1879 in St Martin in the Fields, Middlesex and spent most of his childhood in Walthamstow before moving to Lambeth with his family. He worked as a wholesale farrier's salesman and married Edith Mabel Sage in Lambeth in 1909. Edith was born in Walworth on 16 May 1883 and was the daughter of William John Sage, a commercial traveller, and his wife Clara Hems.
Car and Edith had one daughter:
1.
Margaret Edith Beryl Norman
(1914-2002)
m. Raymond Boxall, 1941
Edith died in Thornton Heath, Surrey on 5 April 1951, and Car died in Croydon on 31 December 1957.
Horace William Norman
Horace William Norman, son of William Matthew Norman and Caroline Jane Marsh, was born in Walthamstow on 21 November 1881 and moved to Lambeth with his family as a small child. He became a commercial traveller and married Mabel Mildred Lane in Lee, London on 18 July 1913. Mabel was born in Shoreham, Kent on 9 October 1986
The couple had two sons:
1.
2.
Basil Lane Norman
John W Norman
(1914-1987)
(1920-?)
m. Eva Page, 1943
Horace joined the East Surrey Regiment on 24 November 1916, but there is no record of him serving overseas with this regiment. He appears to have transferred to the Royal Flying Corps at some point: he is recorded as a pay clerk in the RAF from its inception in April 1918.
Horace died in Haywards Heath on 28 July 1965 and Mabel died in Cuckfield in 1970.
William John Higgs
William John Higgs, oldest child of William John Higgs and Constantina Mary Jones, was born in Kensington in 1866 and followed his father's trade as a carpenter and joiner. He married Jane Caukwell in Chelsea in 1891 and the couple spent their married life in the London area. Jane was born in Chelsea in 1865 and was the daughter of cab driver Frederick Caukwell and his wife Sarah Carter.
William and Jane had two children, one of whom died in infancy:
1.
2.
William John Higgs
Lilian Sarah Higgs
(1892-1892)
(1898-1966)
m. John Thomas Alexander Waddell, 1921
Jane died in Wandsworth in 1928 and William died in Chelsea in 1937.
Elizabeth Rose Higgs
Elizabeth Rose Higgs, daughter of William John Higgs and Constantina Mary Jones, was born in Brompton, Middlesex in 1868 and learned the trade of a dressmaker. She married George Edward Cordell, a widower, in Kensington in 1892. George was born in Shoreditch on 26 September 1854, the son of plumber Thomas Cordell and his wife Ann. He was an oilman and colourman - someone who sold oils, paints, candles, hardware, brushes, cleaning materials, and so forth.
George and Elizabeth had two children, but only one survived past infancy:
1.
2.
George William Cordell
Thomas Cordell
(1893-1944)
(1898-1898)
m. Hilda Muriel Smith, 1916
George died in Chelsea on 11 September 1909 and Elizabeth died in Putney on 6 December 1914.
Amy Louisa James
Amy Louisa James, daughter of Edwyn Jones Dowding (or James) and Eliza Pople, was born in Bath in 1892 and spent part of her childhood as a boarder in a convent after her stepmother Elizabeth Emily Hutchings died in 1901. While she was in the convent Amy learned to mend lace, and this skill stood her in good stead later when she started to earn her living: she worked as a housemaid in London and repaired curtains and other lace for different families.
Amy married William Henry Chambers in Chelsea on 2 September 1918. William was born in Birmingham on 10 March 1886 and was the son of Robert Chambers and his wife Sarah Ann Bernice Dixon. The Chambers family had been gunsmiths for several generations and Robert started out in the family trade, but by 1881 he was working as an iron works labourer and later became a tool setter. He died when William was six years old and much of William’s childhood was spent in children’s homes: on the 1901 census, he is recorded as an “inmate” in the Coleshill District Cottage Homes, which housed children removed by the Board of Guardians from the Birmingham workhouse.
William and Amy had seven children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Sydney John Chambers
Dorothy Elizabeth Chambers
Eileen Winifred Chambers
Robert Henry Chambers
Marion Josephine Chambers
James Chambers
Bertha Patricia Chambers
(1919-1977)
(1920-2004)
(1921-2009)
(1924-1926)
(1928-?)
(1929-1981)
(1930-1999)
m. Phyllis May Oickle, 1943
m. Wesley Fraser Mitchell, 1946
m. Donald Bernard Bell, 1942
Shortly after the birth of their first child, the family emigrated to Canada, where William died in 1966 and Amy in 1971.
Amy Louisa Jennings
Amy Louisa Jennings, only child of John Robert Jennings and Louisa Jones Dowding, was born in Chorlton-on-Medlock on 3 December 1875. Her parents separated when she was a young child and for a while her aunt and maternal grandmother lived with her and her mother.
Amy was just 17 years old when she gave birth to a daughter:
1.
Alice Maud Jennings
(1893-1927)
m. David Jackson, 1921
Alice's birth certificate states that her father was Reginald Jennings, a mercantile clerk, but there is no record of a marriage between him and Amy. The young mother died of acute peritonitis on 1 April 1893, when Alice was less than three months old, and her death certificate refers to her as the "widow" of Reginald Jennings, although there is no record of a death for a man of this name in the correct time-frame.
Alice was therefore brought up by her grandmother Louisa, and is wrongly recorded as Louisa's daughter on the 1901 census. Louisa died in 1905, and Alice went to live with her great-aunt Helen James, and later with Helen's son Charles and his wife.
Like many women of her generation, Alice suffered the heartbreak of losing a fiancé in World War I, but she later met and married David Jackson, a nephew of Charles' wife Sarah Ellen Potts.
William Henry George Jones
William Henry George Jones, oldest son of Henry William Jones and Eliza Potiphar, was born in Brighton in 1877 and worked as a printer's machinist. He married Rosalind Emily Constable Funnell in the Church of the Annunciation, Brighton on 12 December 1896 and had eleven children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
William George Henry Jones
Rosalind Emily Eliza Jones
Maud Jones
May Jones
Albert Edward Jones
Alice Dorothy Jones
Winifred Jones
George Jones
Christopher Jones
Arthur Jones
Beatrice B Jones
(1897-1919)
(1898-1899)
(1900-1922)
(1901-1901)
(1902-1973)
(1903-?)
(1905-1905)
(1906-?)
(1912-1986)
(1917-?)
(1921-?)
m. Harry Frank Hadfield, 1919
m. Marjorie Olive Warman, 1933
m. Winifred Sharman, 1955
m. Thomas H Newton, 1942
William died in Brighton in 1937 and Rosalind in 1957.
Elizabeth Alice Jones
Elizabeth Alice Jones, daughter of Henry William Jones and Eliza Potiphar, was born in Brighton in 1879 and married James William Wright, a house painter, in Hendon in 1903. They had one daughter:
1.
Doris Edna Wright
(1904-1982)
m. Clifford Firbank, 1929
Maud Ellen Jones
Maud Ellen Jones, daughter of Henry William Jones and Eliza Potiphar, was born in Brighton on 20 May 1883 and married Harry Warman in Willesden in 1908. Harry was born in Folkestone in 1886 and was the son of Thomas Hall Warman and his wife Emma Cuthbert. He was recorded on the 1911 census as a billiard cue maker, but later became a hairdresser.
Harry and Maud had five children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Cissie Maud Warman
Ronald Harry Warman
Leonard Arthur Warman
Marjorie Olive Warman
Peggy Joan Warman
(1908-2008)
(1910-2000)
(1912-1913)
(1914-2000)
(1921-1981)
m. John Charles Cook, 1930
m. Violet Lilian Graimes, 1931
m. Albert Edward Jones, 1933
m. Arthur J Wood,
The couple divorced and Maud married Arthur Albert William Plaine in Brighton in 1948. She died in Hackbridge, London in 1960.
William Henry Edgar Boutland
William Henry Edgar Boutland, son of Henry Boutland and Harriet Jones, was born in Pamber, Hampshire on 14 August 1884. He married Florence Annie Merritt, daughter of William Merritt and Mary Ann Annison, who was born in Corsham, Wiltshire in 1883. She was a widow who had previously been married to William Hudd.
They emigrated to Australia in 1910, settling in Brisbane, where William worked as a butcher. Their youngest son died on the voyage and three daughters were born in Australia:
1.
2.
3.
4.
William Frederick Victor Boutland
Marjorie Bertha Boutland
Vera Florence Boutland
Violet Mary Isobel Boutland
(1910-1910)
(1911-?)
(1916-1930)
m. James Bolton Clark, 1935
m. John Roy Gilbert, 1935
Florence died in Brisbane on 18 September 1922 and William died on 1 February 1935 in a boating accident while on holiday in Manley, shortly before a planned trip back to the UK with his two surviving daughters.
Violet Gertrude Sophia Boutland
Violet Gertrude Sophia Boutland, daughter of Henry Boutland and Harriet Jones, was born in Tadley, Hampshire on 25 August 1888 and married Harold Wilfrid Sidney Jermy in West Ham in 1920. Harold was the son of James Walter Jermy and his wife Sophia Guymer and was born in Bethnal Green on 18 January 1897, but he added three years to his age when he joined the Army in September 1914, claiming to be 20 rather than 17.
Harold and Violet had one son:
1.
Harold Wilfred Sidney Jermy
(1921-?)
Harold died in Battersea in 1944, but Violet lived to the age of 100 and died in Bromley in 1988.
Edith May Lawrance
Edith May Lawrance, daughter of George Wiliam Lawrance and Mary Jane Jones, was born in Hackney on 20 May 1889 and married William Henry Norkett, a pianoforte finisher, in St Mark's Church, Dalston on 6 April 1912. The couple had five children, including two sets of twins:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
John William Norkett
Jean Norkett
Mollie Norkett
Edie Norkett
May Norkett
(1913-1994)
(1920-2011)
(1920-1990)
(1923-2016)
(1923-2000)
m. Frederick Dingle, 1951
m. Robert Attree, 1948
m. Frank A Smith, 1947
m. Gordon Stanley, 1946
William died in Hackney on 26 March 1947 and Edith died there in July 1984.
Violet Gertrude Lawrance
Violet Gertrude Lawrance, daughter of George Wiliam Lawrance and Mary Jane Jones, was born in Hackney on 15 April and married William George Wade in Chelsea in 1926. The couple had one daughter:
1.
Audrey Violet Wade
(1929-2011)
Violet died in Chatham in 1974 and William died in Bromley in 1977.
Ellen Rosina Forsyth
Ellen Rosina Forsyth, oldest child of James Forsyth and Ellen Jones, was born in Finsbury on 8 April 1884 and worked as a tailoress before her marriage in 1909 to Charles Horace Edwards, a tram conductor. Charles and Ellen had five children:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Horace Arthur James Edwards
Frances Mary Edwards
Rosina Lily Edwards
Phyllis Marguerite Edwards
Grace Georgina Edwards
(1913-1994)
(1920-2011)
(1920-1990)
(1923-2016)
(1923-2000)
m. Mabel Ada Brown, 1939
m. John W Edwards, 1933
m. Clifford B Kelley, 1941
Charles served in the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) during the First World War and was killed in action on 7 July 1916 at the end of the first week of the Battle of the Somme. He has no known grave, but is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme.
Ellen never remarried, and died in Hove in 1975.
James Frederick Forsyth
James Frederick Forsyth, son of James Forsyth and Ellen Jones, was born in Bermondsey on 30 July 1886 and worked in the fur manufacturing trade. He married Ellen Greenfield in Camberwell in 1910, and had three children:
1.
2.
3.
Violet Ellen Forsyth
William Frederick Forsyth
Doris Margaret Forsyth
(1912-1977)
(1915-1980)
(1922-2003)
m. Arthur G Prescott, 1936
m. Charles E Grinsteed, 1948
James died in Wandsworth on 3 October 1966.
Albert Percival Forsyth
Albert Percival Forsyth, son of James Forsyth and Ellen Jones, was born in Bermondsey on 1 March 1892 and served in the 16th Lancers during World War I. He married Lilian Annie Mindenhall in Lewisham on 1 June 1922, and had two children:
1.
2.
Norman Percival Forsyth
Audrey Barbara Forsyth
(1922-2002)
(1924-1961)
m. Beryl Joan Martin, 1953
m. Tom Geoffrey Allison, 1944
Albert died in Taunton in 1956 and Annie on 1 September 1981.
Frances May Forsyth
Frances May Forsyth, youngest daughter of James Forsyth and Ellen Jones, was born in Camberwell on 17 May 1893 and worked as a tailoress before her marriage to Cyril Roderick Harold Park, an architect, at Christ Church, Lewisham on 5 May 1917. Cyril was born in Brixton on 13 August 1891 and at the time of their marriage was training in an officer cadet battalion, having previously served in the ranks in the London Regiment. He went on to gain a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the East Surrey Regiment.
Frances and Cyril had two children:
1.
2.
Basil Keith Roderick Park
(possibly living)
(1920-2017)
Cyril died in Paddington on 15 August 1963 and Frances died in Croydon in 1970.
Florence Kate Crowe
Florence Kate Crowe, oldest daughter of William John Crowe and Elizabeth Kate Jones, was born in Hackney on 31 December 1888 and worked as a typist before her marriage to Montague Froud, a fitter, in Hackney in 1921. Montague was born in Hackney on 5 March 1887 and served in the Royal Flying Corps (later the RAF) during World War I, becoming a sergeant mechanic.
Montague and Florence had two daughters:
1.
2.
Pauline Winifred Mary Froud
(possibly living)
(1922-2012)
Montague died in Romford in 1942 and Florence in 1954.