Christ's Hospital, House 4

1911

By Geoffrey Cordingley

View of girls on the playing field with some of the houses in the background
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

Annie Whitridge Thomas, 38, from Oswestry, Salop, was a ward matron.  In 1901 she was one of 5 assistant mistresses at High School, 117 St. Owen Street, Hereford.  This was a public school.  In 1891 she had been a student at a boarding school at 6, College Hill, Atcham, Shrewsbury.  Her parents were John W, from Oswestry, and Flora, from Kettering.  In 1871, John, then 32 and following in the footsteps of his father, Edward, had been a draper in Cross Street, Oswestry with nine assistants and three servants. Flora was 30 then.  By 1881 he was running a grocer’s shop in Picton Street, Oswestry with two assisants and just one genreal domestic servant.

Alice Willson was 21 and a ward maid from Strubby in Linconshire, approximately 15 miles SE of Lough.  in 1901 William, her father, born in 1859 was an agricultural engine driver in Strubby and her mother was Eliza, born in 1863.  William died in 1903.

The girls in the house are listed in the following table:

NameForename(s)age in 1911Where bornfatherage in 1911motherage in 1911father’s occupation in 1911notes
AnsellMarjorie Constance11Henley, OxonReginald46Eva Carolinedied in 1902 aged 40private Secretary – domestic
ArnoldEdith May14Banff Banffshire
ArnoldMuriel Kate16   “
BagleyLucy10Kentish Town LondonWilliam36Lucy Harriettdied in 1907 aged 33printer’s overseer letterpress machine department
CarterNorah Crain11Bishop’s Cannings WiltshireLawrence31 in 1901Alice28 in 1901Living on own means in 1901note 1
ChristieYvonne Fairgray12Napton warwickshireFairgraydied in 1909 aged 42Hilda Mary Randall38physician & surgeon
CooperKathleen May11Richmond SurreyHarolddied in 1909 aged 40Emma46civil engineer & photographer
DanbreyEdith11Islington London
DavisLoma Mary12Ilkley YorksAlfred Herbert46Ethel Harriet36assistant master & preparatory housemasterIn 1901 he was head master of a school in Ilkley
DennisMaria Minnie16Regent’s Park London
HaywardIrene Dorah M.13Reading BerksThomas57Ellen L.54elementary schoolmaster with Ellen as assistant
HarrysMargarette Rosa14NottinghamJohn RolandDied in 1898 aged 48Kate47lace designer. Kate was a nurse in 1901 & 1911
InghamGladys May13Clapton LondonWilliam Charles45Annie Elizabeth45relieving officer
IsherwoodHilda11Isle of ManWilliam Slater54Mary Ada38priest (C of E)
JacksonMay13WarwickJames Thomasdied in 1906 aged 44Alice Marydied in 1908 aged 49designer and manager, cabinet works
JonesEthel Florence11Walworth LondonCharles R?39Ethel M?40hop factorys salesman
JonesDorothy12Twickenham MiddxAlfred55Mary Janedied on 1903 aged 42blacksmith having been a farrier
LansdallAmelia Ethel13Shoreditch LondonCharles F64Emma Lydia56glass and china dealer
LakemanFlorence Kathleen10Stoke Newington LondonNote 2
MaunderDoris Ruth12Watlington OxonPhilip55Ruth49tailor
MayPhyllis Margaret11Roborough DevonEdward Henry Fox43Annie Augusta43clergyman of Established Church
McKaultyNorah16Dalston London
NyeNora Emily15Stoke Newington LondonHarry56Harriet C50hop merchant’s clerk
PeckElsie Sarah13Wallingford BerksGeorge54Rhoda54grocer and baker
PeckKathleen Fanny16      “     “     “       “
ReynoldsWinifred12Smithfield LondonAlfred William?58Ellen Hannah?died in 1911 aged 48provision salesman
RobertsMabel Grace13East Dulwich London
SladeOlive Alison13Curry Mallet SomersetSydney56Lucy H50Farmer
TuthillAlice May15NorthamptonEvelyn Villiers?Beatrice Maud40Note 3
TylerElsie Gladys16Shoreditch LondonArthur Henry51Margaret48cloth cap manufacturer

Note 1.  Lawrence Carter and his wife Alice, parents of Norah Craine, cannot be found in the 1911 census, so perhaps they have returned to India where Lawrence was born.

Note 2.  In the 1901 census Florence Kathleen Lakeman was 3 months old living with James Saunders, 50, a decorator; Emily, 40, his wife and Gladys E., their 12 years old daughter.  Emily was a sick nurse, so perhaps she had come across the baby through her work and taken Florence in.

Note 3.  Beatrice Maud Tuthill, then 40, married Walter John Clist, 47, in 1907 and they were living in 1911 in Wandsworth where John was a bookseller and newsagent.  Also living with them was  Beatrice’s other daughter Evelyn May Most Tuthill, 11, who was at school.  Evelyn Villiers Tuthill married Muad Henwood in Leicestershire in 1895.  Whether this is the same Maud cannot be established as Evelyn Villiers does not appear in other censuses.

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