Ellen Bingham MFFM

[Lynn the Forest Fan]

Name - Ellen Bingham
Date and place of birth - C1842 Canterbury Kent according to census
Names of parents - John Bingham & ?
Date and place of baptism - N/K
Details of each of his or her marriages - 25 Sep 1867 St Michael Aldershot Hampshire Samuel James Stowell
Occupation(s) - Needlewoman
Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) -
1851 - Not found
1861 - Not found
1871 - Waterford Ireland
1881 - 10 Johnsons Place Lupus Street, Pimlico
1891 - 5 Johnsons Place (as above)
1901 - 52 Winchester Street, London
I realise now, that I don't have the images for these 3.
1911 - 16 Tregarvon Road Battersea
Date, place and cause of death - 19 Jan 1927 4 Canford Road Battersea Senile Decay & Syncope
Date and place of burial / cremation. - N/K
Details of will / administration of their estate - N/K
Memorial inscription - N/K

This is the first of my gg grandparents where I have information missing. I hope someone can help me.

[ElizabethHerts]

Lynn, could you give us some details from the marriage certificate? What was her father's occupation?

[ElizabethHerts]

Oh, who did she marry? :d

[Lynn the Forest Fan]

Sorry I have added the groom's name Samuel James Stowell & according to the marriage cert, her father's occupation was "deceased" :d, which was odd because her fil was also deceased, but his occupation was listed as "soldier"

[marquette]

According to 1891 census, she was in Sheffield, Yorks in 1869 where son Phillip was born and in Scotland in 1876 when daughter Marian was born. (and from 1881, in Ireland when Francis was born in 1871 and Scotland when Douglas was born in 1875).

Cannot see any freebmd entries for Ellen Bingham born in Canterbury abt 1842 - two in Sheffield, one in Nottinghamshire, but there is one for Ellen BANGHAM in Canterbury in Sep 1842. The 1851 census shows her father to be David.


Di

[Lynn the Forest Fan]

Thanks Di. Her husband was in the army & she was with him in Ireland & his battalion did travel up to Sheffield in 1868 when Philip was born. He then went to the Ayrshire Yeomanry & died in Ayr. On the birth certs for the 2 younger children, her maiden name is confirmed as being Bingham.
I have contacted Kent reg office for her birth cert, but they have no record of it. I have found an Ellen Bingham c1836 with father John in Canterbury in 1841, but can find no trace of them in 1851.
Ellen did give her birth place as Canterbury in all the censuses

[marquette]

The IGI is showing children for John Bingham and Sophia, Frances and Jane, as well as Ann, Elizabeth, Albinia, and Ann, born 1821-1831 and baptised in Fordwich. Perhaps this might give some clues to finding them.

Di

[Lynn the Forest Fan]

Thats interesting Di, I will have to have a look at that. Thanks :)

[marquette]

The IGI also shows a marriage for a Sophia Bingham in Woolwich in 1845 - no spouse is shown as its a submitted entry. I found the equivalent in freebmd, but there are lots of spouses. Perhaps John died before 1851 and the family is hiding under the new husbands name !?

[Lynn the Forest Fan]

I had already made a note of that marriage, but as you say, there are a number of possible spouses & I haven't been able to work out which was the right one. I did find Ellen Bingham 1836 in 1861 working as a nurse in Surrey, but I don't seem to have made a note of the details.

[marquette]

I found an Albinia Keen born in Fordwich about 1832 as a servant in 1851 (I think) A bit of a co-incidence and it may not be Albinia Bingham, but I have not gone any further.

Di

[Lynn the Forest Fan]

That is interesting Di, it is not exactly a common name & by all accounts Fordwich is a pretty small place. Unfortunately I don't have an ancestry sub at the moment, so can't look into it too far.
It does seem strange that Ellen should lose 6 years from her age, but it does seem the most likely solution.