[Desc of Walter Dore.FTW]
1881 Census
RG11
Piece 1499
Folio 91
Page 30
1901 census noted as Mailey
1851, living with mother.
1881 census, James identified as Francis. with birth loction of Warwick, which
was the birthplace of his wife.
Something not quite right here, needs further
investigation.
Noted on the birth certificate of son William Frederick as Jane Catherine Bund,
however birth registered as Jane Catherine Band.
[Desc of Thos Chapman.FTW]
Does not appear in the 1881 Census.
[Desc of Thos Chapman.FTW]
1881 Census
Public Records Office Reference RG11
Piece / Folio 1251 / 5
Page Number 4
Location 16 dwellings after his mother towards the station on the Cove Road.
1901 Census
Public Records Office Reference RG13
Piece / Folio 1074 / 15
Page Number
22
[Desc of Thos Chapman.FTW]
Source Information:
Dwelling Near Station
Census Place Farnborough, Hampshire, England
Family History Library Film 1341306
Public Records Office Reference RG11
Piece / Folio 1251 / 6
Page Number
6
Noted as Mary Ann Chapman in the 1851 census.
The following appeared in the Aldershot News on 10th January 1941
FARNBOROUGH CENTENARIAN
DEATH AND FUNERAL
Farnborough's oldest resident, Mrs Mary Ann Weatherhead, of 22, High View
Road, passed away on Saturday evening at the great age of 100. She would have
been 101 next April, and passed away peacefully. She leaves one son, Mr
Albert Weatherhead, who lives in York Road, Farnborough, and is 71, and a
daughter of 69, Mrs Mary Gould of 13, Coleman Road, Aldershot. She also had
17 grandchildren, one of whom is in the Army and 22 great-grandchildren, with
three serving in the three branches of the forces.
Born in Farnborough-Street, Mrs Weatherhead learnt at an early age to groom
and harness her father's coach horses. She and her brother were very proud
when they acted as postillions for Queen Victoria, then a young married woman.
One of her most vivid childhood memories was the building of the railway
station in Farnborough-Street, on the Reading-Guildford line, almost at their
front door.
At the age of 15, when soldiers were beginning to return from the Crimean War,
she left her home and went into service, earning a shilling a week. Several
years later, while employed at the officers' mess at Shornecliffe, she met her
future husband, a Private in the 1st Battalion of the 24th Foot, now the South
Wales Borderers. They were married when she was 22, and when the regiment was
sent abroad she travelled with her husband to Malta, Gibraltar, Capetown and
King William's Town. Most of their seven children were born while they were
in different parts of the Empire, one of them aboard ship, but only five
survived to return to England. Her husband, then a corporal, was killed in
the Zulu War of 1879, where the 24th suffered great losses, only two months
before he would have completed his 21 years service. Mrs Weatherhead then
found employment with the Empres Eugenie at Farnborough Hill, where she
remained for over 40 years.
Mrs Weatherhead was a wonderful old lady, and lived alone after the death of
her brother, three years ago. She was able to do all her own work until quite
recently. Her son and daughter and several of her grandchildren visited her
regularly.
There is some contemporary discrepancy as to her birth year.
Noted as 6 years old in 1851 census (correct)
Noted as 21 years old at marriage, Dec 1864 (should be 20)
Noted as 37 years old in 1881 census (should be 36)
Noted as 57 years old in 1901 census (should be 36)
Therefore, probable birth year is 1843, making her 97 when she died in January
1941, three years younger than published above.
Now known (09-12-2004) that she was born in April 1844.
Now in possession of birth certificate (30-12-2004) which shows her as being
born on 14th April 1844, thus only 96 when she died.
[Desc of Thos Chapman.FTW]
1851 Census
HO 107
Piece 1596
Folio 168
Died before 1881
Census
1881 census named as Alice CLARLIDG, boy did that give me problems, yet ANOTHER
differenct spelling!
Cannot find in 1901 census, daughter Rose is living with Grandma Sarah. Check
for death in childbirth.
IGI has Alice Emma CLARIDGE christened 26/11/1861 Batch No
C011799
Births Dec 1891
Claridge Annie Ethel Lambeth 1d 515
Wife Hannah remarried after his death in 1892