epsom high street west, 1861 - The Epsom and Ewell History

EPSOM HIGH STREET WEST, 1861
Brief details of residential properties are included to assist in locating the businesses on the map. Properties follow the
order on the 1861 census sheets (the street was not numbered in 1861, but numbers are shown below if known). It is
not always clear whether individuals were operating their businesses from their home addresses.
Extract from the 1866 Ordnance Survey Map
NORTH SIDE, EAST TO WEST
No.
68
Proprietor
Details
Robert Burn
Master ironmonger
This shop later became Dorset’s.
Born c.1805 London. Married Eliza Stuart unknown (c.1816
Scotland-1858). Died 5 January 1878 Epsom.
Children (all born Epsom) – Agnes Hamilton (c.1841-70,
married wine and spirit merchant James Wicks); Mary Allan
(1842-59); Robert (c.1845-1910, originally an ironmonger but
became Secretary to the YMCA in Aldgate, married Mary
Elizabeth Chivers); Eliza Galdie (1846-94, unmarried);
Isabella Forsyth (1850-62); James Stuart (c.1855-90).
Virtually all of the Burns were interred at Norwood Cemetery,
Lambeth and look to have been Baptists.
70
George Snashall
Stationer and toy
dealer
Born c.1821 Yalding, Kent. Married 1847 Ann Inglefield
(c.1818 Westminster-1858 Epsom*) and then in 1858 married
Emma Twisden (c.1821 Walworth-1892 Worcester Park). By
1881 he had moved to Cheam, leaving George Junior in
charge of the Epsom business. Died 26 October 1881
Worcester Park.
Children (all born Epsom) – James Inglefield (born and died
1848); another James Inglefield (born and died 1850);
George (See Epsom Businesses 1911) (c.1852); John
(c.1854-1928 Stamford district, Lincolnshire [includes
Wittering], printer in Cheam and Epsom for some years,
married 1876 Hove Louisa Elizabeth Gray, moved to Melton
Mowbray and then Wittering, Northamptonshire); William
Twisden (1860-3).
*Buried at the Bugby Strict Baptist Chapel with her father and
two sons who died in infancy.
Grave of William Twisden Snashall in St Martin’s Churchyard.
William’s name is at the bottom. The others in the grave are
William and Martha Twisden and their daughter Mary
Elizabeth (Emma Snashall’s parents and sister).
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Henry William
Richardson
Duke of Wellington
Publican
Wellington Hotel
Image courtesy of Bourne Hall Museum
See Epsom Businesses 1911
Born c.1816 Kingswood. Married 1837 Caroline Batchelor
(c.1816 Banstead). Formerly landlord of the Surrey Yeoman in
Banstead (now demolished). Died 1867.
Children (born Banstead) – Eliza (1838); William (1840,
warehouseman, married Mary Ann Valentine Strip).
Mrs Esther Eggleton
Charwoman (widow)
Residential
Mrs Mary Puttock
Charwoman (widow)
Residential
Mrs Jane Backshall
Laundress
Nee Smither. Born 1809 Melcombe Horsey, Dorset. Married
1837 labourer James (died c.1847/8). Died 1879, then living in
Brighton with son William.
Children (all born Epsom) – James (c.1837-9); John (1839-73,
market gardener and later plasterer, married Caroline
Elizabeth Southern); William (c.1841-1906 Horley, ultimately a
lodging house keeper living Brighton, married Sarah Jane
Moffett); George Smither (1843, clerk, married Sophia
Longley); Ann (1846-78, unmarried).
Edward Churchill
Saddler and harness
Maker
Mrs Ellen Churchill
Dressmaker and
milliner
Born c.1810 Reigate. Married 1834 Ellen Wells (c.1812
Dorking-1868). Died 1875 Epsom.
Children (born Epsom) – Arthur (1835, law clerk in 1861);
Edward (1838, clerk, married Kate Elizabeth Norwood).
Grave of Mrs Ellen Churchill in St Martin’s Churchyard.
Her name is at the bottom of the stone.
Mrs Mary Hollond
Widow
Residential
Charles Frederick
Hibble
Master tailor
Born c.1817 Colchester. Married 1839 Margaret Brown
(c.1811 West Indies-1871). Died 1884 Bethnal Green, buried
Epsom.
Children (both born St Pancras) – Alphonso Frederick
Augustus (c.1841-79, tailor); Alfred Elam (1845-85, tailor,
married Emily Bennett). Alfred’s wife Emily was the last Hibble
tailor(ess) in Epsom, but had moved to Stoke Newington by
1901.
78
Mrs Lucy Welby
Andrews
Postmistress
Post Office
See The Andrews Family Part 2
and The Postal History of Epsom
Prob 78
also
Henry Andrews
Architect and surveyor
John Craddock
Andrews
Master Builder
See The Andrews Family Part 1
Grave of John Craddock and Henry Andrews in St Martin’s
Churchyard.
80
John Sheath
Master baker
See John Sheath And Family, Bakers
Thomas Miles
Market gardener,
fruiterer and
seedsman
Thomas Miles
Image courtesy of Bourne Hall Museum.
Born 1826 Epsom, son of gardener Richard Miles (died 1868)
and Mary Terrey. Married 1848 Elizabeth Otway (c.1829
Epsom-1878) and then in 1879 married Ann Teague (c.1836
Southampton-1888) and then married 1889 Tenby Mary Ann
Excell (c.1849 Cheltenham). Died 29 September 1899. Mary
Ann then went to live in Twickenham.
Children (all born Epsom) – Thomas (1848 ) Epsom
Businesses 1911 ; George (1850-1900 Epsom); Elizabeth
(1852, married stationmaster Harrison Scott); Alfred (1854 )
Epsom Businesses 1911; Jane (1856-1939 Epsom, then living
8 Park Lawn Avenue, married Arthur Gower Holland*);
Gerrard (1857 ) Epsom Businesses 1911; Lewis (1859-1916,
then living Melbourne, carter, married Clarissa Howell Male);
Frances (1861-1938, then living Woking, married bricklayer
later surveyor George James Wooldridge); Agnes (1863-9);
Robert Stephen (1866-1929 Melbourne, labourer/ice carter);
Lucy (1867-1952 Ealing, married corn and coal traveller Alfred
Burt); Annie (born and died 1870).
*son of Augustus Holland who owned Abele Grove for many
years.
George
Marten/Martin
Coppard
Bank manager
Mangles Brothers, the West Surrey Bank.
This bank was started in 1836 in Guildford as Mangles, Keen
& Co; the partners at around 1861 were Frederick Mangles of
Bletchingley, Charles Edward Mangles of Poyle Park,
Farnham and Ross Donnelly Mangles of Woodbridge Park,
Stoke Next Guildford – gentlemen all. This bank was taken
over by the English Joint Stock Bank in 1866, which failed in
that same year (having been struggling for some time). We
may feel uncomfortable about certain aspects of banking now,
but these small joint stock banks, which once issued their own
notes, went bust on a regular basis, taking the depositors
down with them.
Also see Bank Robbery where you will note that the West
Surrey Bank building did not sound very substantial either.
So, in 1861 the manager was Mr Coppard, born c.1818
Blackfriars; married 1844 Georgiana Tooloubief* Barcham
(c.1816 Great Yarmouth-1893 Epsom). Son of a grocer,
previously an officer of the Inland Revenue, living in Ewell,
and then a maltster and wine merchant at Clay Hill . Lest you
fear that his financial career was ruined when the bank went
down the pan, you will be reassured to know that he became
an agent for several insurance companies, Rate Collector for
the local Board of Health and Secretary to the Epsom Gas
Company. Died 8 August 1892 Epsom, then living at The
Parade.
*not a spelling mistake – this apparently was her name.
John Hopkins
Master tailor
Born c.1815 Epsom. Married Maria (c.1815 Epsom-1877).
Died 28 June 1874.
Children (all born Epsom) – Maria Elizabeth (1835-1912
Bristol, married bricklayer turned tailor George Edgington);
Cuthbert John (1838-1916 Epsom, then living Ashley Road,
draper and photographer locally, married Delilah Ford); Arthur
Henry (1839, married Maria Rowland); Herbert/Hubert William
Laidlaw (1841-60); Jessie (1843-1919 Bristol, married sugar
salesman Frederick Edwin Blyth); Lewis Charles (1845-1911
Philadelphia, mason, married Elizabeth Smyth and Mary,
emigrated to USA, buried Mount Peace Cemetery
Philadelphia); Christopher Edward (1846-1903, then living
Teddington, solicitor’s clerk, married Jemima Ann Keene);
George (c.1850).
John Spencer
Master grocer
Born c.1830 Clerkenwell. Married Eliza (c.1833 Chelsea).
Children – Emma (c.1854 Blackfriars); Frederick (c.1858
Islington); Harry (c.1860 Islington).
No further information found.
Charles Moore
Master plumber
Born c.1802 London. Married 1831 Sarah Chesher (1807
Hatfield, Hertfordshire-1882 Camberwell). Died 15 February
1870. After Mr Moore’s death his wife ran a fancy repository in
the High Street and then departed to Camberwell with
daughter Sarah.
Children) - James (1832 Hatfield, plumber and painter,
married Amelia John); Lydia Catherine (1834 Highgate-1909
Aston, Birmingham; married saddler John Adam Pearson);
Charles Joseph (c.1836 Epsom-1879 Islington, plumber,
married Isabella Matilda Clapham); Sarah Margaret (1838
Epsom-1920 Islington district, married 1865 engineer Henry
Thomas Mather, who died just a few weeks later, and in 1884
she married Thomas Henry John, who died in 1886); Harriet
Chesher (c.1841 Epsom-1926 Islington district, married
James Antrim).
Thomas Breeden
Farrier
Born c.1794 Reigate. Married 1817 Headley Harriett Penfold
(c.1800 Epsom-1873). Died 28 September 1876 at High
Street. Daughters Harriett and Jane took over the business
and then went to live with the Nyes (see below).
Children – Harriett (c.1819 Dorking-1910 Epsom, unmarried);
Richard Thomas (c.1820 Dorking – see South Street); William
(c.1822 Dorking, blacksmith, married Elizabeth Brown [nee
Baldwin], in Paddington Workhouse in 1881); James (c.1825
Dorking-1892 Epsom, then living East Street, blacksmith,
married Sophia Oliver, grandparents of George Oliver James
Breeden); Mary Ann (c.1831 Dorking-1906?, married local
builder and undertaker George Nye, who was later at 80 High
Street); Charles (1831 Epsom-1899 Bethnal Green, farrier in
Bethnal Green, married Sarah Ann Hopkinson); Frederic
(c.1833 Epsom-1914 Camberwell district, cabman in
Newington, married Jane Roberts); Jane (c.1835 Epsom-1923
Epsom, then living 30 Station Road, unmarried); Edward
(c.1836 Epsom-1840); Ellen (1838 Epsom-1919 Croydon
district, then living Thornton Heath, married cousin Thomas
Breedon); Eliza (1840 Epsom-1914 Reigate, married tailor
Charles Brown Yeoman).
John Barker
Schoolmaster and
dispensing chemist
Born c.1811 Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Married Caroline (c.1812
Potters Bar, Middlesex-1907 Eastbourne [then an annuitant of
the Pharmaceutical Society] ). Died 1883 Eastbourne.
Children – Emily (c.1835 Hatfield-1888 Eastbourne, married
baker Henry Hampton); Edwin (c.1837 Hatfield-1883
Eastbourne, married Maria Pocock); Caroline Harriet (1848
Walworth).
This seems a strange mixture of jobs, but perhaps neither
paid sufficiently by itself. Before moving to the High Street he
had been running a commercial day school in South Street.
The High Street establishment took boarders and there were
six lads in residence. In 1851 Mr Barker was a surgeon’s
assistant in West Ham, but had been a schoolmaster
previously. By 1881 Mr (now described as a retired chemist)
and Mrs Barker had moved to Croydon to live with their
widowed daughter Emily.
Mrs Sarah Furniss
Proprietor of houses
(widow)
Residential
Miss Mary Lacey and
Miss Louisa Lacey
Milliners
Mary - born c.1826 Epsom. By 1891 she was living in
Camberwell with an aunt. Died 1 April 1900 at Newington
Congregational Church.
This Mrs Furniss was the matriarch of the Furniss family,
widow of Thomas the tailor and mother of William Thomas.
See The Furniss Family
Louisa – born c.1835 Epsom, apparently married a Mr Miller.
Died after 1911.
By 1871 the sisters had moved to St Marylebone as
dressmakers, joined by another sister, Maria (c. 1832 Epsom).
In 1881 they were in Islington, with Louisa being described as
a widow surnamed Miller, but I can find no marriage record.
Charles Cragg
Ironmonger
Born c.1819 Petworth, Sussex. Married 1847 Mary Joyes
(c.1825 Petworth-1910 Epsom). Died 1881.
Children (all born Guildford) – Sarah Ann (c.1849 Guildford1850); Frederick Charles (or vice versa, 1850 Guildford-1898
Greenwich district, married Mary Ann Elizabeth Brown); Henry
(1852 Guildford-1932 Worthing, grocer and later bootmaker in
Worthing, married Mary Brown); Mary Jane see Epsom
Businesses 1911 (1854 Guildford, schoolmistress, married
Francis Albert Daniell); William (1856 Guildford, grocer);
Minnie (c.1860 Epsom-1929 Petworth, dressmaker, married
plumber and decorator William Joseph Cragg); Sophia
(c.1862 Epsom, married baker Arthur William Wild); George
(c.1865 Epsom-1950 Newport, Isle of Wight; warehouse
manager, married Mary Henrietta Cocks); Frank (c.1869
Epsom-1957 Epsom [then living at 13 St Martin’s Avenue],
ironmonger, married Kate Elizabeth Dix); Emily see Epsom
Businesses 1911 (1870 Epsom).
William Cowle
Weston
Master carpenter and
joiner (later builder,
undertaker and
upholsterer and then a
draper)
Born c.1835 London. Married 1856 Ellen Sarah Pollard
(c.1833 West Hoathly, Sussex-1887 Henley). The drapery
establishment was at Waterloo House. He later moved to
Henley, Oxfordshire, where he was a house furnisher and
decorator. Died 1927 Henley, aged 91.
Richard Downer
Whitesmith
Probably employed/residential
Children (all born Epsom) – William Gordon (1857-1924 New
Zealand?); Arthur John see Epsom Businesses 1911
(c.1859-96, married Rose Anna Lee); Ellen Mary (1861-72);
Frank Jonah (1863, married Mary Florence Walter, probably
emigrated to Australia); Rose Stella (1867-1945 Worthing, in
1911 she was Matron of the Hospital for Epilepsy and
Paralysis in Maida Vale, unmarried); Harriet Lily (1868); Edith
(c.1870, married merchant Christopher Thomas Harland [died
1889] and then brewery manager Arthur William Boyce);
Alfred (1874).
John Maybank
Painter and glazier
Born c.1812 Epsom. Married 1832 Hannah Hopgood (c.1814
Banstead-1887 Epsom). Died 1878 Epsom
Children (all born Epsom) – Eliza Ann (c.1832-1905 Epsom,
married labourer William Harry Humphrey); Thomas (1834-93
Epsom, painter, married Hannah Ede); Alfred (c.1836-7);
Elizabeth (1837); John Henry (1838-1916, inmate of Epsom
Workhouse, plumber/decorator, married Sarah Dewdney);
Edwin (1840-2); Frances Jane (1845-1926 Epsom district,
married gardener and later carpenter George Bailey); Robert
William (1850-98 Epsom, carpenter, married Ada Miles).
Robert Dearle
Master tallow chandler
See Robert Dearle
John Mason
Master hairdresser
Born c.1816 Doncaster, Yorkshire. Married 1847 Ruth Hart
(c.1814 Milton Ernest, Bedforshire-1880 Croydon?). Died
1879.
Children (all born St Martin in the Fields) – John (1849-54?);
Eliza (c.1850); Alfred (1852-98 Epsom, railway clerk LBSCR,
married Annie Denham – see Percy Mason).
Charles Wood
(Junior)
Master baker and
confectioner
See Chamberlain's Bakery
Born 1818 Epsom. Married Harriett Barnard (1816-1887).
Died 20 October 1880 Epsom.
Children – Charles (c.1838-42); Robert (1839 Epsom-1840);
Harriet (1841 Epsom-1870 Epsom, married Charles Piggott);
Thomas (1843 Epsom-1852).
Grave of Charles and Harriett Wood in Epsom Cemetery.
Image ©Linda Jackson 2014.
John Butcher
Master painter
Born 1823 Epsom, son of Richard and Elizabeth – see Mrs
Elizabeth Butcher below. Married 1844 Emily Moore (c.1821
Ockley, milliner-1911 Epsom, still in High Street). Died 1907
Epsom.
Children (all born Epsom) – Harry Nathan Moore (1845-1912
Croydon district, clerk turned house painter, married Julia
Grantham); Emily (1846); Emma (1848); Elizabeth (1850-65);
Martha Mary (1855-1932 Dorking, unmarried?); Agnes (1857);
Grace (1860-1934 Epsom, then living 9 Lower Court Road,
married Ewell grocer’s assistant later grocer William Clarke);
William (1862-1949 Epsom, lived Effingham, carpenter,
married Edith Taylor); Thomas (1865).
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George Treadgold
The George
Publican
Born c.1788/92 Brington, Northamptonshire. Married Mary
(c.1798 Ashtead-1866). Died 1879. Previously a groom to
Lord Arden at Banstead.
Children (all born Banstead) – Jane (1821-95 Paddington,
married Martin John Roake); Joseph (1823-95 originally a
policeman and later a labourer, married Sarah Stapenhill,
eventually lived at Prospect Place); Charlotte (1826); Thomas
(1828-1909?, coachman, married Hannah Spinks); John
(1830-1); Sarah (1833); William (1837-1915 Wiltshire,
carpenter, married Elizabeth).
120
Mrs Mary Ann
Lucock (widow)
Nee Wells. Born c.1790 Dorking. Married 1814 poulterer
William Lucock (c.1783 Reigate-10 August 1859 Epsom).
Died 1874 Epsom.
Poulterer
Children (probably all born Epsom except the first) – Emma
(c.1815 Cripplegate-1866 Epsom, married grocer William
Hailes; parents of James Hailes see Epsom Businesses 1911
); Louisa (1816-45, married farmer James Botright [?]
Cooke); Mary (c.1820, married miller Samuel Hooper);
Eleanor (c.1823-98 Epsom, unmarried); William (1824, see
below); Hannah (c.1827, married job master George Edward
Kitchen); Elizabeth (c.1828-25 October 1888 Epsom, married
William Barnard of Ye Olde House/Riddington’s); Anne
(c.1831-1908?), married James Harrowell); Harvey Woods
(1835-69 Epsom, married Caroline Wainford*).
*It looks as if she died in 1878 and that son Harvey William
ended up with Hannah Kitchen, who also took on Nellie later,
although she was initially placed in an orphanage. Harvey
William died in West Ham Borough Asylum in 1911, described
as having been a lunatic for about two years, and Nellie
married an Arthur Younger. There were a lot of waifs and
strays among the Lucocks, most of whom ended up with
William Barnard at Epsom.
Owing to the lack of house numbering in the relevant directory
I am not sure if the shop was at this building or at the
residence of Mrs Lucock’s son, William (see below). It seems
highly unlikely that they had two shops.
122
John Dalton
Apparently a cheap lodging house.
The Tun Inn
Born c.1820 Crawley, Sussex. Married 1846 Susannah Killick
(c.1819 Penshurst, Kent-1899 Epsom; she had been in the
Workhouse for her final two years). Died 1897 Kingston
Infirmary.
Publican
Children (all born Epsom) – Mary Ann (1848-54); Susannah
(1850); Fanny Killick (1852-4); William (1854, saddler, married
Ann Wise); Ellen (1857, married mineral water manufacturer
James Richard Newcomb [died 1908] and then Robert
Benjamin Banks); Agnes (1858-71); Henry Thomas (1860).
Poss 124
Henry Herrick
Appraiser
Born c.1810 Kingston. Married 1832 Ann Ayres (c.1811
Kingston-1853). It seems that Mr Herrick started a new family
from about 1858 with Elizabeth Dunford (c.1835
Fetcham/Cobham-1909?), who was living in Ewell in1851: he
never married her, although his wife had died in 1853.
Formerly a butcher. By 1871 Mr Herrick had become a
Sheriff’s Officer and moved to Southwark. Died 1881 Lambeth
district.
Children – Sarah (1834 Kingston-1835); Henry (1835
Kingston-1920, house agent and later Sheriff’s Officer,
married Emily Evans); Samuel William (1837 Kingston-1838);
Edward Charles (1843 Southwark-1915 Wandsworth, butcher,
married Mary Ann Shedd); Louisa (1845 Epsom or
Southwark); Alfred (1857 Epsom-1930 Camberwell, clerk,
married Amy Clara Jewell); Alice (c.1861 Epsom-1944 Surrey,
married Edwin Ashford); William (c.1863 Newington);
Elizabeth (c.1866 Newington); Edith Florence (c.1874
Blackfriars-1919 Camberwell, unmarried).
2 West St
John Hooper Nevill
Master butcher
These premises were later taken over by butcher Ardern
Elphick see Epsom Businesses 1911.
Born c.1803 Andover, Hampshire. Married Mary Ann (died
1837 Andover) and then in 1842 married Elizabeth Noyes
(c.1811 Longparish, Hants-1895). Died 15 January 1885, then
living South Street.
Children – Louisa (c.1830 Andover); Caroline (1833 Andover);
George Church (1834 Andover, butcher-1907 Kingston,
married Susan Graham); Matilda (1836 Andover); Emmeline
(1842 Croydon-1927 Cheltenham, married music seller Henry
John Dale); Frederick John (c.1844 Croydon); Kate (1845
Epsom-1928 Romford district, married grocer Richard
Stephings); Adeline (1846 Epsom-1873 Epsom, unmarried).
4 West St
Mrs Sarah Bentley
William Bentley (son)
The Marquis of
Granby see Epsom
Businesses 1911
Publicans
Born c.1792 Godalming. Married former carrier Charles
Bentley, who became landlord of the Marquis of Granby (died
1854). Died 25 November 1887 at the Marquis.
Children – George (1820 Merton-1892 Devon, twin, innkeeper
at West Teignmouth, Devon; married Eleanor Furneaux);
Robert (1820 Merton, twin); Mary Ann (1823 Merton-1902
Epsom, unmarried); James (1825 Merton); Charlotte (1826
Merton-1911 Epsom, married Henry Wycherley); William
(c.1832 Beddington/Wallington-1886 Epsom, unmarried);
Eliza (c.1832 Wallington-1907 Epsom, married Augustus
William Langlands Epsom Businesses 1911).
6 West St
James Careless
Wine merchant
Born c.1792 Southwark. Married 1814 Lucy Joy? (c.1790
Malmesbury, Wiltshire-1862 Epsom). Died 11 May 1861
Epsom. Formerly of the Albion Hotel.
Children (all born Southwark) – Louisa (1815); James (1818);
William (1819-57 Epsom, married Emmeline Nall); Henry
(1821); Edmund (1823-86 Redhill, GPO clerk, married Mary
Ann Weeks Tunley); Emma (1826); John (1827).
8 West St
Philip Waglan
Cordwainer
(shoemaker)
Born c.1818 Albury. Married 1854 Kitty Allfrey (c.1832
Henfield, Sussex-1912 Epsom, then at 84 East Street). Died
1888 Epsom.
Children (all born Epsom) – Mary Ann (1855-1940 Epsom,
unmarried); Arthur Sidney see Epsom Businesses 1911
(1859); Alice Jane (c.1862-1923 Battersea, married stationary
engineman George Bull); Louisa Emily (1864-7); Lucy E
(1866); Henry James (1869-1939 Epsom, gardener, married
Emily Mayoss); Jessie Matilda (1873-1932, then living Church
Road, married gardener James Charles Ottaway); Kate
Amelia (c.1877-1910, cook, unmarried).
Now at Clay Hill in census terms. The last few numbers of High Street West are on Albion
Terrace, which faces east looking down towards the Clock Tower.
Albion
Terrace
Charles Robinson
Master grocer
See Charles Robinson
Albion
Terrace
John Tucker Geen
Master watch and
clock maker
Born c.1831 Barnstaple, Devon. Married 1853 Jane Ackland
(c.1830 Barnstaple-1909 Staines district). Died 1905 Staines
district. The family had moved away from Epsom by 1881.
Children – Elizabeth/Bessie (c.1854 Barnstaple); Amy (c.1856
Barnstaple-1941 Kent, unmarried); Grace Ackland (1858
Shaftesbury, Dorset-1935 Bethnal Green, married Joseph
Forrest); Lily* (c.1860 Shaftesbury, married Charles Hare
Cheater); Minnie (c.1862 Epsom); Rosalie J (c.1865 Epsom);
John William (1871 Epsom).
*Poor Lily had three daughters with Mr Cheater in the period
from about 1883-7 but in 1891 was to be found in Islington
Workhouse described as a schoolteacher and a lunatic. The
girls lived with their Geen grandparents thereafter. Lily (as LC)
looks to have been in the Manor Asylum, Epsom in 1911,
described as having been a lunatic for 27 years, and might
have died in 1918 in Watford district.
Albion
Terrace
Frederick Hoffmann
(John Frederick
Andreas Starck
Hoffman)
Professor of music and
musical instrument
seller etc (see advert)
Born 1794 Oxford Street, London. Married 1817 Elizabeth
Bowen Wilson (c.1800 Lambeth-1879 Epsom). Mrs Hoffman
carried on the business after her husband died on 20 August
1871.
Children (all born London) – Frederick (1821); Henry (1824);
Harriet Purcell (c.1826); Sophia (1826-c.1847); William
Paganini (1828-1905 New Zealand, music teacher, married
1847 Sophia Jackson – they emigrated in 1860); Amelia
(1830); Alfred (1833-1906, licensed victualler, married Sarah
Margaret Hore [died 1884] and Elizabeth Davies).
Albion
Terrace
Edwin Piff
Saddler and harness
maker
Born c.1825 Epsom. Married 1861 Charlotte Gaston (c.1832
Ewell-1871 Epsom), daughter of publican John Gaston and
niece of James, who kept the King’s Head Hotel. Died 1880
Epsom.
Child – Edwin George (1862 Epsom-1923 Brighton, but lived
Guildford; sometime publican at the George Inn, married
Sarah Edwards).
134 High
St
Robert Wood
Albion Hotel
Albion
Terrace
Hotel keeper
This is Robert Steward Wood, younger brother of Charles the
baker. See Chamberlain's Bakery
SOUTH SIDE. EAST TO WEST
No
Proprietor
John C Morris
Proprietor of
houses
Details
Residential
I am not sure exactly where this person was but the enumerator has him
between the Spread Eagle Hotel and the White Hart.
Timothy Barnard
Junior
White Hart Hotel
Publican
Image courtesy of Bourne Hall Museum
Son of Timothy Barnard Senior. Unmarried. Committed suicide on 18
March 1869 by cutting his throat. Newspapers commented that he was
a well-known local sporting character (his death did not get much
coverage as it occurred on the same day as that of Squire Heathcote)
and it is to be presumed that this involved horse racing and betting,
which several Barnards were involved with - it was the financial
ruination of at least two of them. I believe that the Barnard family owned
the White Hart for some years.
Timothy Barnard
Senior
Corn merchant
See The Barnards of Epsom
Thomas Tompson
Draper
Born c.1802 Hemel Hempstead. Married 1830 Alice Buggs (c.1802
Epsom-1867). Died 1883.
Soon became Tompson & Murrell, in partnership with James Murrell
(see below).
William Cox
Groom
Residential
Stephen Blake
Labourer
Residential
Thomas Cook
Servant
Residential
John Goff
Road labourer
Residential
William Henry
Miller
Stationer and
newsagent
Born c.1810 Finsbury Square, London. Married Sarah (c.1813 Epsom1853) and then in 1854 married Elizabeth Sparks (c.1828 Epsom-1873),
daughter of a former licensee of the Duke of Wellington. Formerly a
hairdresser. Died 1896 Leatherhead.
Children (all born Epsom) – Mary Ann (1832); Sarah (c.1836); Emily
(1839-45); Alice (1846, married James Hooker?); Alfred Henry (1849,
hairdresser and tobacconist in Leatherhead and then Enfield, married
Elizabeth Jane Webb).
James Murrell
Draper
Born c.1820 Alcester, Warwickshire. Married 1849 Mary Ann Wilson
(c.1824 Lambeth-1891 Epsom). Previously in partnership with John
T(h)ompson Wilson (probably his brother-in-law) in High Street,
Stratford on Avon. Died 5 August 1896, then living Hemel Hempstead.
Children – Mary Ann Alice (1850 Clerkenwell-93 Bedfordshire, address
given as the Stotfold County Asylum, unmarried*); Susan Elizabeth
(c.1851 Stratford on Avon-1937 Southborough, Kent; unmarried); Kate
(1853 Stratford-63 Epsom); Harriett (1854 Stratford-62 Epsom); Edith
Maria (1858 Epsom-63 Epsom); Sarah (1861 Epsom-63 Epsom).
Soon became Tompson & Murrell, in partnership with Thomas Tompson
(see above).
*Mary Ann Alice had been living with her parents until at least 1891 and
I imagine that Mr Murrell moved to Hemel Hempstead with her after his
wife died in that year and then had to place her in an institution.
John Nelson
Collingwood
Bookbinder and
stationer
He also had a sideline in tea.
Born c.1810 St Catherines, London. Married 1838 Lucy Lipscombe
(died 1849 Epsom) and then in 1852 married Martha Holder (c.1820
Kinnersley, Herefordshire-1910, then living at Harborne, Birmingham).
By 1871 the Collingwoods had retired to Egham and lived in ‘Villa
France House’. Died 10 March 1886 Hursley House, Egham, where he
then lived.
Children (all born Epsom) – John Nelson (1840-99 Beckenham, Kent;
glove warehouseman; married Isabel Ford Hunt, daughter of Cornelius
Hunt of the Spread Eagle); William Holder (1853, advertising agent,
married Ellen Standing (divorced*) and Annie Holmes); Susannah Jane
Upton (1855-6); Mary Elizabeth (1859-1948?, married the slightly
notorious Rev Charles Tucker Eland**).
*On the grounds of his abuse, both physical and verbal, adultery and
desertion. In 1901 he was no longer with his second wife and was living
with a woman called Annette from Croydon; in 1911 it was a woman
called Kate from Newick, Sussex.
** see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burston_Strike_School
John Adds
Master Butcher
Born c.1810 Epsom. Married 1837 Elizabeth Terry (c.1813 Epsom1892). Died 22 December 1877 Epsom.
Children (all born Epsom) – Mary (1838-73, probably died in Cheam
where she was living with brother George in 1871, unmarried); Elizabeth
(1839-58, unmarried); John Elden 1840-1917, then living Wallington;
butcher, married Fanny Corbet); Louisa (born and died 1842); Albert
(1844-1910 Croydon, butcher, married Frances Furniss); George (184597?, butcher, married Jane Boots); William (1847-9); Alfred Thomas
(1849 ) see Epsom Businesses 1911; Caroline (1850-1932 Epsom, then
living at 9A High Street; married butcher Edwin Smart, formerly
apprenticed to her father*); Robert (1853-55).
*it looks as if this did not work out, since at every census except 1881
(the marriage took place in 1880) Caroline was in Epsom with the
children, whilst her husband was elsewhere.
William Barnard
Confectioner
One of the legion of offspring of Timothy Barnard Senior, who may well
have been Epsom’s most prolific sire. See The Barnards of Epsom
This was the establishment known as Ye Olde House, and later
Riddington’s, although you would scarcely recognise it from the drawing
above. Here it is in the photo below (extreme right) with the Barnard
sign on the left hand end of the roof.
Charles Collett
Field
Stove dealer
Born c.1812 Hoxton/Southwark. Married 1836 Jane Parsons (c.1813
Rochester, Kent). Died 1886 Croydon district.
Children – Jane (c.1835 Hackney); Isabella Ann (1841 Hackney); Anne
(c.1844 Haggerston, London; married greengrocer Frederick Wellings);
Charles (1844 Haggerston, schoolmaster turned clerk, married Harriet
Martha Wellings, sister of Frederick Wellings); Frederick (1847
Haggerston, married 1871 Eliza Sarah Elliot, daughter of James Elliott
the Epsom Beadle; Sergeant Major in the Army at the time of his
marriage); Isabella (1851 Epsom-1929 Portsmouth, married
schoolmaster Francis James Boait [died 1922] and in 1929 John
Warner Kimber).
Since, as mentioned in the introduction, domestic gas supply was still in
its infancy, Mr Field was probably dealing in solid fuel cast iron range
cookers (along the lines of an AGA). My great aunt and grandmother
both still had these, burning solid fuel, in the 1950s. By 1871 the Fields
had moved to Hornchurch, Essex, where Mr Field became a gardener
(which may have had something to do with the relentless march of
domestic gas) and his wife was a schoolmistress. In between 1861 and
1871 he had been described as a bailiff and a farmer. Originally he was
a shoemaker.
William Lucock
Poulterer
Born 1824 Epsom, son of William and Mary Ann (see above). Married
1860 Emily Martin (c.1840 Croydon – between 1871 and 1881). Died 15
July 1863 Epsom. Emily remarried 1867 to hosier turned publican
Thomas Seymour Thomas and had several more children; after Emily’s
death Mr Thomas turned his hand to shirt and collar manufacture and
then became a commercial traveller.
Children – William (1860 Clapham-1863 Epsom); Emily (1861 Epsom,
married Ernest Coventry Baynton); Edward Martin (1862 Epsom-63).
Owing to the lack of house numbering in the relevant directory I am not
sure if the shop was at this building or at the residence of Mr Lucock’s
mother, Mary Ann (see above). It seems highly unlikely that they had
two shops.
Grave of William, Edward Martin and William Junior in St Martin’s
Churchyard.
Edward Parker
Grocer
Born c.1826 Kings Worthy, Hampshire. Married 1856 Emma Blandford
(c.1831-ish [date varies by census] Southampton). Died 1873 Epsom.
Mrs Parker returned to Hampshire and lived with her sisters.
William Henry
Lumley
The King’s Head
Hotel keeper
Born c.1796 Norfolk. Married 1828 Holborn Charlotte Gaston (c.1806
Epsom-1861 Epsom, sister of James Gaston [see immediately below]).
No children. Mr Lumley was also a racehorse trainer in Epsom. After his
wife’s death he went to live with James Gaston and family in East
Grinstead and looks to have moved to Tunbridge Wells with James’
widow. Probably died Tonbridge district 1878.
James Gaston
The King’s
Shades
Publican
Called The King’s Head Stores (I think – bad handwriting) in the census
– this would be the King’s Shades.
Born c.1818 Sutton. Married 1846 Sarah Grace Porter (c.1825 Kingston
– 1903 Tonbridge district). Originally a whitesmith; by 1871 he was
running the Station Hotel in East Grinstead. Died 1871 East Grinstead.
Brother of Mrs William Lumley (see immediately above).
Children (all born Epsom) – James (1847-1925?, clerk, married Emma
Staniford); Robert (c.1849-86 Tunbridge Wells, married Ellen Salmon,
ran the Harp Hotel in Tunbridge Wells); William (1861-1935 Croydon?,
clerk, married Mary Ann Gordon); Charlotte (c.1867-1920 Tonbridge
district, married clerk Charles Joseph Norton).
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William Harsant
Chemist and
druggist
See Epsom Businesses 1911.
Born 1818 Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Married Sarah Wilkerson
(1825 Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire-1887). Mr Harsant’s brother
Theophilus was assisting in the business in 1851 but then emigrated to
Australia, where he died in 1898. Died 29 May 1901 Epsom.
Children (all born Epsom) - Alice Emma (1848-1915 Epsom, then living
at The Pines, The Parade; married wholesale stationer Thomas Henry
Norman); William Henry (1850-1933 Bristol, married Margaret Evans);
Frank Worsley (c.1852, took over the business, see link directly above);
Mary Jane (1853-1942 Newbury, Berkshire, married produce dealer
Edgar Herbert Lee*); Sarah Kate (c.1855-1931 Thornton Heath,
unmarried); Joseph George (1861-1914 Christchurch, Hampshire,
physician, lived Bournemouth, unmarried).
*The business later became Harsant & Lee, the latter being Frank
Arnold Lee, son of Mary Jane Harsant and Edgar Herbert Lee.
Prob
129
Mrs Theresa
Gardner (widow)
Clothier and shoe
warehouse
Nee Muggridge. Born c.1815 Sutton. Married 1838 Epsom pawnbroker
James Gardner (probably died 1840). Died 1887 Wandsworth district.
Her widowed mother, Susannah Seaman (she remarried a John
Seaman in 1826), was with her in Epsom, as were her siblings, John
and Elizabeth Muggridge.
Prob
also
129
Mrs Elizabeth
Butcher
Cutler
Born c.1786 Reigate. Mrs Butcher’s husband was cutler Richard
Butcher (c.1776 Epsom-1860). Soon after the 1861 census most of the
family moved to Hook. Died 1865.
Children (all born Epsom) – Richard (1802-64, married Mary Ann);
Thomas (1804); George (1805, deaf, gunsmith, died 1870); Elizabeth
(c.1808, dressmaker, deaf and dumb, died 1865); Jane (1809,
dressmaker, deaf and dumb, died 1862); Charles (1812, painter, deaf
and dumb, died Epsom Union Workhouse 1877); Samuel Lewis (1815,
deaf and dumb, died Epsom Union Workhouse 1869); Mary (1816);
Sarah (1819); John (1823 – see above).
Prob
131
Alfred Miles
Chadband
Tailor and draper
See Epsom Businesses 1911
Born 1821 Epsom, son of local tailor William Chadband (died 1854) and
Sarah (died 1832). Married 1849 Sarah Ellis (c.1830 Reigate-1854) and
then married 1857 widow Jane Elizabeth Bavestra (nee Ellis, sister of
first wife, c.1830 Puttenham-1909 Epsom). Died 18 June 1886 Epsom.
Children (all born Epsom) – Edward Alfred (1850-1939 Michigan,
emigrated to Michigan, USA c.1867; married 1900 Jane Burk [born
c.1850 Ohio]; Mary Jane (1851-4); Alfred Francis (1852, disappeared
after 1871, possibly emigrated); Arthur (1853); Jane Elizabeth Bavestra
(step-daughter, c.1853 Horton); Frank Charles (1858 – see link above);
Ralph (1860 – see link above); Minnie Clara (1861-1954, married
James Bradley Furniss see Furniss Family; James (1863-1949, hosier
and hatter in Heene, Worthing; married Frances Sarah Furniss,
daughter of George Furniss and Frances see Furniss Family); George
(born and died 1865); William (1866, no trace, possibly died in infancy in
another district); Thomas (1868-88, draper’s assistant); Augustus Albert
(1873-96).
Grave of Alfred Miles, Jane Elizabeth and Thomas and
Augustus Albert Chadband in Epsom Cemetery.
Image ©Linda Jackson 2014.
James McMillian
Master painter
Mrs Susannah
McMillian
Confectioner
Born c.1803 New Cross. Married 1829 Susannah Elsey (c.1811 Epsom1884, then living at Ash Cottage, Epsom Common). Died 1872 Epsom.
Children (all born Epsom) – Alexander (c.1830-54, buried Epsom); Eliza
(1832-1900?, probably married widower Young* Joseph Coale);
Susannah (c.1834-1904 Great Yarmouth, married John Fryer Nobbs –
they kept a lodging house in Yarmouth for many years but never
seemed to have any lodgers in the censuses); Rebecca (1836, married
publican later butler Jonathan William Woods); Charlotte (c.1838-1906
Islington?, married carpenter John Wright); Emma (c.1839, married tin
plate worker James Frederick Blackmore); Mary Ann (1841-probably
1921 Bournemouth, unmarried); Ellen (1849-1914 Islington?, married
engraver Eli Wright, brother of John Wright who married Charlotte
McMillian); Emily (1853-1900 Bournemouth, unmarried, lived with sister
Mary Ann).
*this does seem to have been his first name rather than an adjective.
Lawrence
Langlands
Builder and
upholsterer
Also see Epsom Businesses 1911
Born 1796 Epsom, son of John and Sarah. Married 1820 Rebecca Cole
(died1834, aged 33). Died 19 March 1867 High Street.
Children (all born Epsom) – Mary Ann (1821, married commercial
traveller Alfred Browne); Charles John Lawrence (1823-89, married
Elizabeth Hands); Emily Rebecca (1825-64, unmarried); Augustus
William (1829-75, married Eliza Bentley); Julia Sarah Elizabeth (18317); Edwin Richard (1833-6).
Mrs Ann Young
Grocer (widow)
Born c.1797 Glascomb, Radnorshire (now in Powys). Married
nurseryman Peter Young (died 1845). In 1861 Charles, Emily and
Sidney were all helping in the business. Died 1866 and Charles took
over the business. Peter Young was one of the family who owned a
nursery in East Street (later taken over by the Morses).
Children – Charles (c.1825 Radford, Nottinghamshire-1903 Epsom,
then living Ashley Road, married Matilda Jane Dearsley); Alfred
(c.1827); Emily (c.1829 Epsom); Henry (c.1831); Sidney Maclean
(c.1833 Epsom, brewer’s traveller and later coal merchant, became
semi-blind and returned to Epsom after living in Fulham for some years,
died 1909 Epsom, unmarried); Isabella (c.1835 Epsom-1893 Barnet
district – lived with brother Charles and family until shortly before her
death, when she moved to Finchley, unmarried).
William George
Steer (Haggard)
Master painter and
letter carrier
Born c.1816 Epsom. Married Elizabeth Saines/Sims (?) (c.1821
Shalford-1892 Epsom). Died 19 May 1878. Mr Steer was the son of
George and Ann Haggard; Mr Haggard died in 1817 and Ann then
married plumber William Steer.
Children (all born Epsom) – William George [or vice versa] (1843-1906,
sometime painter, ended up in Epsom Workhouse); Francis Thomas
(1845); Elizabeth Margaret (c.1846, married local butcher Charles
Jones); Ann (c.1850-7); Emily (born and died 1851); Mary Ann (1853-4);
Sarah Frances (1855-7); Catherine Mary* (c.1861-1923 Epsom,
unmarried).
*Catherine also seems to have been in the Workhouse on a number of
occasions.
James Barnard
Master butcher
Another of Timothy Barnard’s children. See The Barnards of Epsom
Thomas Hulbert
Master tailor
Born c.1813 Chippenham, Wiltshire. Married 1840 Epsom hatter’s
daughter Emma Ellis (c.1815 Epsom-1865). Died 1896. Towards the
end of his life Mr Hulbert lived on Albion Terrace with daughters Emily
and Mary.
Children (all born Epsom) – Ernest William Brown (1841-98, tailor,
Epsom High Street; married Emily Butcher); Walter (1844-5); Kate
(1846-61); Frank (1848, married Alice Grove Lawford); Edwin (18501925?, grocer, married Mary Ann Edwards); Bertha (born and died
1852); Emily (1853-1943, dressmaker, late of 82 Upper High Street,
unmarried); Harry (1855, married Clara Lucy Stevens); Mary (18571943, then of Netherne Hospital, Coulsdon; unmarried).
John Bailey
Draper
See John Bailey
Now at South Street
STRAYS
There seems to have been a perennial issue with old censuses as to where the High Street ended and South Street
began. The enumerator has the following two establishments in the High Street but directories suggest that they were
regarded as being in South Street at the time.
James Hills*
Master shoemaker
Born c.1781 Angmering, Sussex. Married Sarah (possibly
nee Hawkins and married 1806, died 1816 Epsom, aged 38)
and then in 1819 married Frances Hawkins (c.1787 Essex1875 Epsom). Died 1864.
Children (all born Epsom) – James (c.1808, shoemaker in
Ewell, married Mary); Henry (c.1810-67); William (1811-95
Epsom, shoemaker, married Mary, described as blind in the
1891 census); George (1814-84 Epsom, shoemaker,
married Caroline Seaman); Ann (1815-79 Wonersh?,
married shoemaker Richard Brett**); Sarah (c.1820);
Frances (1827-88 Epsom, unmarried).
I did mention in the Introduction that there seemed to be an
inordinate amount of shoemakers around at this period and
it appears that a large proportion of them belonged to the
Hills family.
*Trade directories give the address as South Street.
**The Bretts started another dynasty of shoemakers, but this
time in Wonersh.
George Augustus Ibbetson
FRCS practising as dentist (it
says)
Born c.1815 Marylebone. Described as a ‘visitor’ but there
was also a Mr Matthew Bloxam ‘acting as assistant
surgeon’. However, in medical registers his address is given
as St George, Hanover Square before and after 1861 and
he was fairly eminent, so this does look to be a visit (he may
have been lending a hand to George Keeling, who had been
having issues with the administration of anaesthetic).
Unmarried at this point. Married Eleanor Gale Broun (died
1882, aged 32). Died 20 June 1894, then living Anerley,
London.
Child – George Broun Ibbetson (1877-1959 Valparaiso,
Chile). In 1907 George Junior inserted an announcement in
The Times saying that he would in future be known as Sir
George Broun Ibbetson, claiming that he was the rightful
heir to a Yorkshire baronetcy. Apparently he had made no
official claim and it is presumed that he did not actually
inherit.