East Street Businesses, 1861 - The Epsom and Ewell History

EAST STREET BUSINESSES 1861
Some guesswork is necessary here. There are several lanes and streets leading off East Street and the census
enumerator meanders about. He has numbered some of the buildings but the numbers are not sensible for our
purposes, so I have ignored them. Fortunately, we have a few pubs and other landmarks that tell us roughly where
buildings are, so I will mention them as he gets to them. Some of the residents may have been in the same dwelling,
but are listed as separate households on the census, so it is impossible to tell if we are dealing with one building or
two. In some instances I have had to guess whether an individual is employed or self-employed (carpenters, for
example), as the census usually does not say: therefore, in general, I have treated them as a business only if they are
listed in the trade directory of the period (although I have treated laundresses as businesses – they were presumably
considered too lowly to be mentioned in the directory).
NORTH SIDE, RUNNING WEST TO EAST
No.
Proprietor
William Brooke
Master farrier
Details
Born c.1817 Warlingham. Married 1848 Harriet Bennett (c.1821
Banstead-1887). Died 1888.
Children (all born Epsom) – William (c.1851-30 November 1882;
coal merchant, later beer house keeper at The Rifleman in East
Street; married Sarah Coldman); Harriet (c.1853, married 1885
Arthur Wright*); Alice (1857-67).
*The Wrights lived in Lambeth. In 1891 Mr Wright had ‘no
occupation at present’ (he had died by 1901) and his wife was a
tobacconist. In 1911 she was a piano teacher. Her nephew, Ernest
William Brooke (son of William Junior), was living with the Wrights in
1891 and he remained with Harriet in her widowhood: he had been a
traveller for a varnish manufacturer, but by 1911 he was
‘disengaged’. Ernest died in 1922, leaving his small estate to Harriet.
Edward Hope
Butcher
Employed/residential
James Easton
Bricklayer
Residential
Mrs Mary Oliver
Charwoman (widow)
Residential
Henry Jukes
Cabinet maker
Born c.1833 Leintwardine, Herefordshire. Married Jane (c.1835
Croydon-1919 Croydon). They had moved to Croydon by 1871. Died
23 August 1894 Croydon.
Children – Mary Jane (1860 Epsom-1946 Croydon, schoolteacher,
unmarried); Alexander Henry (c.1862 Epsom-1923 Croydon,
assistant schoolmaster, married Eliza Pilgrim Jackson); Emily Sarah
(1863 Croydon, married farmer John Thomas Burren); Kate Alice*
(c.1867 Croydon-1952 Surrey South Eastern, unmarried); Clara
Esther (1869 Croydon-1961 Croydon, unmarried); Helen/Ellen Edith
(1870 Croydon, married porter John Sawyer).
*In 1901 Kate, formerly a domestic servant, was in an institution in
Fisherton, Wiltshire, described as a pauper lunatic.
Mrs Ann Beall
Mistress baker (widow)
Nee Hill? Born c.1824? Epsom. Married 1847 baker Frederick Beall
(died 1859 Epsom). Died 1914 Brentford district (lived with her
daughter in Twickenham), allegedly aged 98 – her birthday was ever
a movable feast*.
Children (all born Epsom) – William Sevanrum/Seranium/Sevarum
(1852, soldier); Sarah Ann Lucy (1854-1927 Isleworth, Middlesex;
lived Twickenham, married publican Albert Ridgley); Richard
Frederick (1856-1907 Portsmouth, became High Bailiff Epsom
Court, later a boiler maker, married Harriett Elizabeth Galley).
*Mrs Beall was another example of eternal youth. In 1861 she was
37, had progressed to 40 by 1871 and was 45 in 1881.
Charles Smart Junior
Road contractor
Born c.1831 Epsom. Married 1849 Caroline Beall (c.1833 Epsom1863). Formerly a farmer. Died 5 June 1879, inmate of Epsom Union
Workhouse. Son of Charles Smart Senior, below.
Children (all born Epsom) – Emily (1851-1921, unmarried); Caroline
(1852-1912?, married railway clerk Alfred James Belcher); William
(1854-1910 Farnham, butcher and publican, married Alice Ellen
Jordan); Annie (1856-1908, then living Thornton Heath, unmarried);
Fanny* (1858,kitchenmaid, married Thomas James Wilkins ); Henry
(1861-1945 Caulfield, Victoria, Australia).
*There were a number of spells in the workhouse for some members
of this family and even in her very early teens poor Fanny found
herself there, having lost her servant’s job on two or three
occasions, but someone usually found her another.
Charles Smart Senior
See Smart Family
Retired farmer
Residential
Father of Charles Smart Junior, above.
Dwelling unoccupied
Benjamin Braithwaite
High Bailiff, County
Court and Collector of
Rates
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Hope Cottage
Residential
Plough and Harrow
Philip Ockenden
Publican (and
bricklayer)
Born c.1807 Ashtead. Married 1838 Elizabeth Townsend (c.1820
Walton-1880). Possibly died 1883 Reigate district.
Miss Jane Dodwell
Schoolmistress
Albert Cottage
This was a very small business (total pupils = 2) but it was listed in
the commercial section of the directory.
Born c.1812 Cleve Piper, Wiltshire. Died 1880 Kingston district. Miss
Dodwell seems to have moved to Epsom from Little Coxwell,
Berkshire, where she was companion to her cousin, Miss Henrietta
Dickens, and had one nine-year-old pupil. Miss Dickens died in 1855
and left her estate to Miss Dodwell.
Thomas Roberts
Retired confectioner
Residential
Here is the Gas Works
George Richard
Ratcliff
Master chimney sweep
(employing 2 men)
Born c.1811 St George, Hanover Square. Married Frances (c.1808
Merstham-1859). Died 22 February 1863.
Child – George Richard (1839 Epsom-1901 Pancras district,
accounts/merchant’s clerk and latterly under-manager at a colliery,
married Elizabeth Hobbs, divorced 1879*).
*They had been married in 1857 and had had three children. Mrs
Ratcliff claimed that after one year her husband began to use coarse
language towards her and strike and kick her; he had also
committed adultery with various women and was currently living with
one of them. By 1881 he had married an Annie Wheeldin (twice – he
originally made the error of marrying her before his divorce became
absolute) and was living in Nottingham. It looks as if, after four more
children, he left his family. In 1901 he was living in a large working
men’s ‘hotel’ in the Gray’s Inn Road, claiming that he was a
widower, which he was not (Annie died in 1928). In 1858 George
had been sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment at the Old Bailey for
some hanky-panky with cheques at his workplace. And in 1890 a
notice appeared in the newspapers offering a ‘liberal reward’ for a
death certificate for one George Richard Ratcliff, also known as
Willson. The enquirer’s name was not given but the Greenwich
address suggests that it may have been connected with the former
Mrs Ratcliff, who was in that area.
Richard Rogers
Gardener
Residential
William Wren
Carpenter
Probably employed/residential.
Joseph Rogers
Gardener
Residential
Miss Hannah Gittings
(and children)
Housekeeper
Garden House
Charles Young
Nurseryman
Residential
John Bowrah
Railway guard
Residential
William Pincott
Railway porter
Residential
Mrs Mary Cook
Lodging house keeper
(widow)
Technically this is a business but many people took in lodgers so
they have not been treated as businesses.
John Sanders
Gardener
Residential
Residential. Mistress of Timothy Barnard Senior.
George Smith Dods
Nurseryman and
seedsman
Born c.1825 Scotland, came from Stainton, Prestonkirk, East
Lothian. Married 1857 Mary Ann Lewis (c.1824 Dilwyn,
Herefordshire). Died 26 July 1864 Epsom. I don’t know what
happened to Mrs Dods, apart from the fact that in 1871 she was a
lodger in Lambeth.
Grave of George Smith Dods in St Martin’s Churchyard.
Joseph Ransley Tanton, who landscaped Epsom Cemetery, took
over these premises and, when he died, the Morse family (see
below) moved in.
Samuel Mather
Resident engineer
Waterworks
Charles Reeve
Dairyman
Rose Cottage
Not listed as a business.
Mrs Catherine
Brooks
Former cow keeper
(widow)
Residential
Here are Linton’s Lane and East Lane (called Middle Lane on the map) and then the enumerator
returns to East Street via Linton’s Lane.
79
(in
1900)
Richard Buckland
The Locomotive
Butcher and publican
Born 1815 Reigate. Married 1850 Mary Ann Ottaway (c.1816
London). Died 1862.
Children (all born Epsom) – Robert (c.1852-probably 1903, inmate of
Epsom Workhouse, labourer); Eliza (c.1854); Emily (c.1856); Henry
(1859, in the Workhouse by 1871).
Emily was also in the Workhouse a couple of times and Robert and
Henry were frequent inmates. I cannot find a definite death record
for Mrs Buckland but I imagine that she died before the children
grew up and they were left on their own.
Richard Middleton
Railway engine driver
Residential
Richard Fillery
Coal and wood
merchant
Born 1804 Morden. Married Harriet (died 1850, aged 43) and then
married 1851 widow Charlotte Neal (c.1800 Petersfield, Hampshire1879). They had moved to Kingston by 1871, but returned to Epsom,
living in Linton’s Lane. Died 1881.
Children – Richard (born and died 1836); Harriet Emily (1845
Epsom-1916 Epsom, unmarried, sometime inmate of Workhouse).
Thomas Rose
Bricklayer’s labourer
Residential
Mrs Caroline Dodd
Laburnum Cottage
Residential
Miss Caroline A
Davies
Annuitant
Residential
James Gillam
Currier and leather
cutter
Born c.1785 Odiham, Hampshire. Married Mary (c.1782 Molesey1867). Died 1870. Both buried at the Bugby Chapel, Prospect Place.
Samuel Cropper
Lace and ribbon
merchant
Eagle Cottages
Born c.1832 Nottingham. Married Sarah Ann Wright (1833
Nottingham-1970 Epsom) and then married 1871 her sister Decima
(1844 Nottingham-1937 Hendon). By 1881 they had moved to
Hackney and Mr Cropper was calling himself an ‘American
Merchant’. Ultimately ran a box manufacturing company. Died 1
April 1907 Horsham, Sussex.
Children – Sarah Jane (1856 New York-1914 New South Wales,
married William Henry Ullmann); Horace John (1857 Nottingham1945 Weybridge, architect, married Annie Murray); William
Singleton (c.1860 Nottingham-1885 Petersham, NSW); Shirley
Wright [male] (1861 Epsom-1947, then living Hove; married
Gertrude Annie Smith); Digby Leopold (1863 Epsom-1953, then
living Hove, cardboard box manufacturer, married Amy Florence
Cropper); Samuel Clement (1865 Epsom-1936 Manly, NSW of
cancer and tuberculosis; married Louisa Jane Seymour [born
Sydney] ); Claude Worthington (c.1866 Epsom-1876 Hackney); Alice
Daphne (c.1869 Epsom-1914 Horsham, unmarried); Leonard
Ambrose (born and died 1870); Decima Mary (c.1873 Addiscombe1953 London, married Frank M Jarrett); Ada (c.1874 Addiscombe);
Constance (c.1874 Addiscombe-1960, then living Frinton-on-Sea,
Essex; unmarried); Beatrice Julia (1875 Addiscombe-1955 Alameda,
California; married Welshman Arthur C Bright); Gertrude Agnes
(1879 Islington-1963 Malvern, Worcestershire; married Ernest
Leggott Stockall) .
In 1911 Samuel Junior described himself as Coveyancer of the
Supreme Court of New South Wales, although he was living in
Sutton at the time.
Mrs Sarah B
Macdonald
Annuitant (widow)
Eagle Cottages
John Bleaden
Keeper of The
Monument, London
Eagle Cottages
Mr Bleaden was getting on in age and one wonders if his duties
included climbing the 311 steps of The Monument to inspect the
viewing platform!
SOUTH SIDE, RUNNING WEST TO EAST
At this stage the shops immediately adjacent to the East Street railway bridge had not been built, so that the first
buildings shown on the census were Railway Cottages (later Clayton Road), running at right angles to East Street.
The first building in East Street proper was Clayton House.
William Finch
Schoolmaster (private)
Clayton House (later Mittendorff House)
Born c.1799 Tonbridge, Kent. Married Sarah (c.1802 East
Grinstead). By 1871 they had retired to East Grinstead, with Mr
Finch stated as suffering from chronic disease. Died 1881 East
Grinstead.
Child – Eliza (c.1823 Godstone or East Grinstead-1902 Edmonton
district, married joiner William Gedge – their son, Charles, then
aged 13, was a pupil teacher at Mr Finch’s school in 1861).
John Wild
Coach smith
Born c.1819 Leatherhead. Married 1845 Elizabeth Hannah
Stevens (1822 Leatherhead-1914 Epsom district [probably
Leatherhead], became a dressmaker after her husband’s death
and then remarried in 1875 to coachman Robert Beaumont). Died
between 1861 and 1871.
Children (all born Epsom) – Mary Stovell (1848-53; there were two
others of this name, both of whom died in infancy); Louisa Ann
(c.1850 Epsom-1900 Brighton?, married omnibus driver Herbert
James Wood); Elizabeth Caroline (c.1852-1948 Wandsworth
district, married her step-brother, ship’s steward Robert John
Beaumont); Sarah Ann (1853); Kate Stovell (1858-65 Camberwell
district); Emma Amelia (1865 Brixton-1914 Guildford district,
married chimney sweep Thomas Adsett).
Thomas Kingsnorth
Whitesmith
Born c.1804 Cheam. Married 1830 Mary Ann Lucas (c.1807
Compton-1878). Died 1867 Epsom.
Children (all born Epsom) – Ann Elizabeth (1831-1901 Epsom,
then living Linton’s Lane, married sawyer John Greentree);
Susannah (1835); Catharine Sarah (c.1839-1908 Kensington
district?, married local policeman James Rourke).
Henry Fleetwood
Shoemaker
Born c.1810 Epsom or Ashtead. Married 1829 Eliza Tullett (c.1803
Carshalton-1891, then living Carshalton). Died 1877 Epsom.
Children (all born Tooting) – John William (1831-81 Epsom,
married Rose Anna Woodhouse, railway station master at
Belmont); Henry Thomas (1831-32); Elizabeth Anne (1832-1908
Epsom, married groom Thomas Ding); Matilda Frances (c.18351919 New Zealand, married John Levett Hobden, emigrated to
New Zealand); Charles Thomas (1837-1913 London, Post Office
engineer, married Eliza Brooke,); Clara Mary Anne (c.1839-1911
Epsom, unmarried).
George Beams
Gardener
Residential
James Goddard
Bricklayer’s labourer
Residential
42
(in
1900)
Henry Morden
Groom
Residential
James Drewett
Agricultural carter
Residential
Thomas Terry
Groom and gardener
Residential
Mrs Ann Wicks
Laundress (widow)
Nee Rose. Born c.1798 Walton-on-the-Hill. Married 1827
cordwainer David Wicks (died 1861, aged 63). Died 1873 Epsom.
Miss Emma Wicks
Dressmaker
Children – Alfred (1828 Morden); Benjamin (1828 Morden); William
(1829 Morden); Ann (1831 Epsom-1850, unmarried); Robert
(c.1833 Epsom-1896 Farnham; grocer, baker and butcher, married
Jane Shiers); Emma (1834 Epsom, ultimately lived in 2 rooms in
Hove, where she died in 1923; unmarried).
James Ansell
Ex-publican
Residential, formerly kept The Spread Eagle Tap in the High
Street.
Daniel Razzell
Master bootmaker
Born c.1832 Charlwood. Married 1855 Sarah Wild (c.1823
Leatherhead-1894 Epsom). Died 1909 Epsom.
Children - Elizabeth Ann (1856-1927 Dorking?, married railway
clerk Fred Dudley); James William (1858-1921 Epsom district,
railway clerk LB&SCR, married Emma Randall).
Joseph Jeal
Master bricklayer,
plasterer and slater
(builder)
Born c.1826 Warnham/West Grinstead, Sussex. Married 1856
Sarah Hardwick (c.1820 Biggleswade, Bedfordshire-1867) and
then in 1867 married .Elsey/Elcey Osbourn (c.1832 Kirdford,
Sussex-1912, then living Horsham). Died 1 November 1888 at his
home in Worple Road.
Children (both born Epsom) – Joseph Alfred (1858-1951, then
living 42 Worple Road, builder, married 1883 Susannah Hester
(divorced 1887*), then married 1888 Melinda Wilkinson Warington
[died 1889] and then married 1890 Hannah Webster (c.1857
Brentford, Middlesex); Jane (1860-61).
*on the grounds of her adultery with a Thomas Luckett, who was a
witness at the wedding. The marriage took place on 30 January
1883 and on 25 April of that same year Mrs Jeal decamped with
the household furniture and set up home with Mr Luckett.
Charles Wood
Carpenter
Residential. Not listed as a business.
Mrs Charlotte Swan
(widow)
Miss Charlotte Swan
(daughter)
Grocers
Probably nee Hall, born c.1791 Trotton, Sussex and probably
married 1815 Bramshott, Hampshire . Husband George (died
1849, aged 58) was running a confectionery business from the
same premises as the grocer’s shop in 1841. Died 7 July 1874
Epsom.
Child - Charlotte (c.1815 Liphook, Hampshire-2 February 1884
Epsom).
All three were buried at the Bugby Strict Baptist Chapel.
John North
Agricultural labourer
Residential
John Nevill
Railway engine stoker
Residential
John Bird
Greengrocer
Born c.1797 Dorking. Married Sarah (c.1795 Epsom-1854). Died
1863.
Child – Sarah (c.1821 Cheam, married James Bridges).
Reese Davies
The Red Lion
Publican
Born c.1833 Welshpool, Montgomeryshire. Married 1859 Sarah
Graves (c.1837 Hackbridge, Beddington-1911). Returned to
Hackbridge and took on The Old Red Lion. After his death his
widow ran the Hackbridge pub with her sons for a time and then
came back to Epsom with Reese Junior and lived at 63 Miles
Road. Died 6 June 1900 Croydon district.
Children (both born Hackbridge) – James Charles (1860-1901
Croydon district, married Annie Louisa Dixon); Reese Edward
(1862-1916 Croydon Infirmary, still living Miles Road, unmarried).
Charles Russell
Tailor
Born c.1791 Ripley/Ockham. Married Rebecca (c.1798 Epsom1865). Died 1865.
Child – Charles (c.1823 Epsom, baker).
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Mrs Elizabeth Cox
Laundress
Born c.1805 Watlington, Oxfordshire. Married Edward Cox, waiter
and butler (died 1865). Died 1895 Epsom.
Children (all born Epsom) – Walter (c.1827); John Thomas
(c.1830-92, shoemaker later fly driver, married Sarah Charlotte
Preston and then Sarah Ransom); Henry (1838); Ellen (1841,
dressmaker).
Thomas Goward
Plasterer
Residential. Not listed as a business.
Edward Morse
Master nurseryman
and seedsman
Born c.1819 Long Newton, Wiltshire. Married 1842 Ann Cook
(c.1816 Marston, Bedfordshire-1884). Died 21 April 1898.
Children – Annie Maria (c.1843 Butleigh, Somerset-1857); Edward
(c.1845 Butleigh-1936 Epsom, then of 53 East Street, married
Louisa Mary Lover); Helen (c.1847 Albury/Shere-1877, married
Sutton draper Richard Bennett Arthur); Wallace (1849-50); William
Wallace (1851 Albury/Shere-1914 Epsom, married Maria Murray);
Evaline Fanny (c.1854 Albury-1932 Epsom, lived Rothesay, West
Hill; unmarried); Marion (1856 Epsom-1935 Epsom, also lived at
Rothesay; unmarried).
After Edward Senior died the nursery was run by Edward Junior
and William Wallace as Morse Brothers.
John Jameson
Silk and woollen
manufacturer’s agent
Residential
Henry Dale
City missionary
Residential
72
(in
1900)
William Burton
Lemon
Baker
Born 1807 Dorking. Married 1835 Sarah Harrison (c.1809 East
Molesey-1885 Epsom). Died 1880.
Children (all born Epsom) – James Harrison (c.1836-1900, still in
East Street, baker, married Esther Eliza Borrer); Catherine Emma
(1839-1926 Epsom, married carpenter Frederick Wilson); Elizabeth
Amelia (c.1846-1923 Portsmouth, married bricklayer later civil
engineer Thomas Hall); Mary Ann (c.1850-55).
This business was established in 1833. Esther Borrer was an
assistant in the bakery and married James Lemon in 1886. They
had no children together, but Esther had an illegitimate daughter,
Kate Mary (1872-1933). When James died in 1900 Esther
continued to run the bakery with the help of William Henry Webb
and they were still doing so in the 1911 census. Esther died in
1937.
Cuthbert John
Hopkins
Tailor and later draper
and photographer as
well
Son of tailor John Hopkins – see High Street West, North side.
Born 1838 Epsom. Married 1859 Delilah (christened Delia) Ford
(1837 Pimperne, Dorset-1921, then living Ashley Road). Died 4
February 1916, then living Ashley Road.
Children (all born Epsom) – Frederick Edward John (1860); Ernest
William Charles (c.1862-1911 Portsmouth district; lived Southsea;
photographer, married Jane Harriet Hendy); Walter (1863-1923 at
sea); Florence Jessie (1865-1936 Kingston, married police
constable Charles Arthur Masters); Bertha Maria (c.1867-1943,
then living The Parade; unmarried); John Cuthbert (1869-1931,
th
then living Dublin; Army Sergeant in the 10 Hussars in 1911,
married Charlotte Jane).
William Hooker
Greengrocer
Born c.1837 Wootton. Married 1860 Louisa Ann Brooke (c.1840
London-1868) and in 1868 married Elizabeth Dyke Burfitt (c.1841
Caundle Marsh, Dorset-1913, then living 44 Lower Court Road).
By 1881 the family had moved to Chiddingfold, where they were
farming and then they retired (‘living on means’) to Merrow. By
1901 they had returned to Epsom, living in Middle Lane off East
Street. Died 1920, then living 10 Hook Road.
Children (all born Epsom except the last) – William Edward John
(1861-1900 Southampton, railway porter/guard/clerk); Ada Lydia
(1863-1936 Brighton, married Thomas Arnold); Alice Louisa
(c.1865-84 Hambledon district, unmarried); Charles James 18678); Annie (c.1870-97* Guildford district, married coachman John
Cawte, who was a lodger with the Hookers in 1891); Rose (c.1872,
married Epsom house decorator James Rutley – see War
Memorials - Rutley HT); Ernest Albert (1874, professional golfer,
married Alice Annie Cufley); Walter Henry (1876-1959 Surrey, golf
greenkeeper later Metropolitan Police Constable, married Ellen
Emily Selina Wright); Elizabeth Harriett (1879-1962, then living
Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex; married George Furniss**); Maud Romola
(c.1884 Chiddingfold-1932 Eastbourne district, married golf
professional Arthur Edward Baggs).
*very probably childbirth-related
**this was George Furniss Junior, son of George, of the building
branch of the Furniss family
Mrs Winifred Finch
Fundholder (widow)
Residential
Edward Ford
Groom
Residential
Mrs Maria Ridge
Charwoman (widow)
Residential
Mrs Louisa Durant
Residential
Frederick Prince
Civil engineer
Mordan Villa
Residential
Henry James
Graham
Master grocer
Born c.1831 Reigate. Married 1855 coachman’s daughter Emily
Anne Harrington (1833 Epsom-1921 probably Sutton). Died 4
October 1899, then a wine merchant in Sutton.
Children (all born Epsom) – Isabel (c.1856-1938, unmarried, lived
Sutton); George Harrington (1859-1935, still in Sutton, wine and
spirit merchant, married 1897 widow Jessie Robertson [nee
Paisley]); Rosalie (1861-1943 Surrey, unmarried).
George Rhodes
Railway carman
Residential
George Mason?
Ladies’ bootmaker
Born c.1838 Godalming. Married Clara M (c.1839 Moreton, Essex).
Nothing further found.
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(in
1900)
William Winslet(t)
Painter and glazier
Born c.1834 Richmond. Married 1854 Emma White (c.1837
Cheam-1890). Died 1902.
Children (all born Epsom) – Charles William (1855-1930, engine
driver LB&SCR, married Josephine Dora Store); William Thomas
(1857-9); Frederick Henry (1858-63); Adelaide Harriet (1860-61);
Kate (1862-1926 Greenwich district, unmarried); Ellen Annie
(1864-5); Francis Albert (1866-1940 Deptford district, engine
driver, married Esther Burt); Henry George (1868-1932 Epsom,
house decorator, married Ellen Razzell); Alice Maud Mary (186970); Arthur Walter (1872-1949 London, fish dealer in 1911, married
Alice Louise Crockford); Egbert Reginald (1875-1951 Surrey, cab
driver, married Catherine Louisa Flint); Alfred Edgar (1877-8);
Percival Edwin (1878-1954 Surrey, grocer’s shop assistant,
married Ellen Sophie Ogilvie).
I mentioned in the Introduction that the rate of infant mortality was
very high in 1861 and this family illustrates the point. Six of their
thirteen children died at age 5 or under.
Mrs Ann Kingaby
Retired boarding
house keeper (widow)
Residential
Charles Greagg?
Railway engine driver
Residential
William Skinner
Railway porter
Residential
William H Humphrey
Carpenter
Residential. Not listed as a business.
Richard Boulden
Carpenter
Residential. Not listed as a business.
Francis Cox
Coal merchant’s
labourer
Residential
William C Finch
Painter and glazier
Residential. Not listed as a business.
James Finch
Brewer’s labourer
Residential
Henry Hudson
Bricklayer
Residential
George Etheridge
Carpenter
Residential. Not listed as a business.
George Fillery
Greengrocer
Residential, probably employed. Not listed as a business.
Jesse Cox
Shoemaker
Born c.1805 Ardingly, Sussex. Married Charity (c.1807 Elstead1856). Died 1870,
Children – Jesse William (1827 Epsom-1853 Epsom); Thomas
Alfred (1829 Epsom, dairyman, married Charlotte); Sarah Ann
(1831 Epsom-1842); Harriet (1833 Epsom); Charles James (183540 Epsom); Henry (1838 Epsom); William (1841 Epsom); Emily
(c.1844 Epsom); Mary Ann (c.1846 Epsom-1864); Eleanor/Ellen
(c.1849 Leatherhead).
Charles Stovell
The King’s Arms
Born 1820 Great Bookham. Married 1855 Hannah Thompson
Gresham (1835 Bamburgh, Northumberland-1902 Croydon). Had
retired by 1871 (he said) but by 1881 he was running The Prince of
Wales in Croydon. Died 29 September 1886, still in Croydon.
Publican
Child – Anna Alice (1863 Epsom-1928, married Croydon builder
David Waller).
John Cottrell
Groom
Residential
James Hurst
Bricklayer
Residential
William Woods
Agricultural labourer
Residential
Walter Collins
Painter and glazier
Residential. Not listed as a business.
Charles Ansell
Boot and shoe maker
Residential. Not listed as a business.
Charles Alexander
Brickmaker
Residential
Charles Burt
Gardener
Residential
George Holt
Brewer
Residential/employed.