Various Victorians: Part II

 

Well, I definitely got a mixed bag today!  

I always like to have a crack at the Australian and New Zealand ones, when possible. And this one was.

Doesn't look wholly happy, does he?  The ebay vendor says he is Mr Comock.  Not quite. 

Edward Henry CORNOCK (b Dursley, Gloucs 1843; d Unley, Adelaide 15 March 1871). Son of Thomas Unley of Dursley and his wife Ann née Wilkins, who were formerly inkeepers in Britain. They emigrated in the 1840s and Thomas (9 September 1809; d 20 April 1875) tried his hand at running a drapery business. But in 1856, he chucked it in and went back to public-housing at the Gresham Hotel, King William Street. Eldest son, Thomas, succeeded him at the bar, latterly the Clarence Hotel and the Bell Inn in Gilbert Street, and after his death aged 37 (9 October 1871), his wife, Emma Tanzan née Garlick took over and married a Mr Hill...

Australia did not smile on the Cornock family. Sister Sarah Wilkins Cornock, the wife of William Henry Webb, was drowned on a river steamer in 1860. Thomas jr died at 34, and Edward Henry at 27. I wonder why. He had impaired his health by experimenting with chemicals and the making of oxygen ..

There's just one puzzle remaining. Who is the Thomas Cornock of Dursley, Gloucs who was sentenced to death for highway robbery 'for violently assaulting N McDonald at Dursley and stealing from his person upwards of 14L in money and a miniature picture'. In 1824. He was reprieved and sent for life to Australia, where, in 1834 he was granted a pardon ...  maybe there is more than pubs and gas to this story ..

Next, Mrs Emily Peveril RUNDLE (b Galway 1849; d 13 Clarence Parade, Southsea 4 May 1936)

Born as Emily Peveril Davis, and married Charles Rundle, 'Manchester warehouseman' from Plymouth in 1867. Charles was the son of Plymouth draper, Richard Rundle, and initially followed in his father's footsteps, but by his marriage and in 1881 he was a warehouseman. I don't know when he died, but he left Emily a widow with four children and apparently well enough provided for.  The situation may have been helped when eldest son Wilfred Charles (b Plymouth 17 June 1869; d 25 April 1955) became a solicitor. Sisters Alice Dorothy (d 4 February 1936) and Emily Beatrice (b Plymouth 15 September 1877; d Windlesham 16 September 1948) and the unmarried Wilfred seemingly stayed at home with mother, while second so Frank Peveril Rundle (b Plymouth 13 October 1871; d 119 Westbourne Terrace 4 April 1924) joined the Royal Engineers, became a Lt-Col, served in India ...     So it seems the branch of the Rundle family tree ends here. Mother and four children lie together in Windlesham cemetery. Anyone live near Windlesham?

Next up ... well, he was easy

His smile (?) is wonky, his dicky bow is wonky ... I don't think I'd buy a used car from him!

Arthur Wood JONES (b Larkfield, Wavertree 1854; d Derwent Rd, Stonycroft 21 November 1906). Son of James Fisher Jones, ropemaker and his wife Elizabeth née Garnock. Married Fanny Griffiths and after her swift demise, Anne Louise Deveson.  Daughters Gladys Helen and Marguerite (!) Muriel. Made ropes to good enough effect as to have four servants in the 1891 census.  Sorry, couldn't get enthused by him. So let's move on to the next ...

Way down in 'class' but way up in interest. I spent several hours on these two ladies!  Once I'd guessed that they belonged together ..

Mother and daughter. Washerwoman and servant girl.

Happily, a granddaughter of (a) had inscribed the back of the photo of (b) as follows

So (a) is Mrs Harriet Tom née Watts (d 1886), who married John Tom, agricultural labourer ...

I see that she could not write her name, and he had difficulty.

Jane was their third daughter. I have Elizabeth (b St Cuby 16 August 1836), Catherine, Jane, John, William. Martha Mary ...

It's Elizabeth to whom we owe this photo. She married farmer and coal merchant John Grose (1844-1919) and had six surviving children amongst whom one named Amy (1886-1970). I think the 'A Grose' in the inscription may be she.

Cocktail time, so just one more ... we've touched on Indian army .. there must be a Rev somewhere! And here he is.

Oxford? That hairdo and er ... poise ...  oh, that's an Oxford University man. J N Hubb?  No way. This is John Matthew GLUBB (b Brompton 21 March 1865; d Stoke Poges 26 March 1939). Son of JMG Captain in the Bengal army (you can't escape them!) and his wife Mary Sarah Catherine née Whittington, the widow Wriford ... grandson of the Rev JMG of Shermanbury, Sussex .. 

Educated at Bedford Grammar School where he was stroke of the school boat, then at Exeter College, Oxford. Pillar of the Oxford University rugby team ... and an honours student in the Theological School. BA. MA. What for? To be deacon at Aylsham before moving to St Mary's Islington, then to be vicar at Gerards Cross. Married Adelaide Sophia Henrietta Kühner ... who died just weeks before he did (19 January). No issue.

And another Oxford man. Brasenose, this time. Well, pre-Oxford. In this photo he is only eleven and at Harrow. Henry George WEDD (b Sutton 1 December 1870;  d Curry Tivel, Somerset 14 May 1942).

Son of Henry Arthur Wedd 'gentleman' and his wife Lydia Mary.  Solicitor. Married Phoebe Kathleen Cotter, daughter of Colonel Edmond Cotter 22 May 1907. Lived at Langport, Somerset. Children Kathleen Mary (b Langport 15 June 1908; d Ladysmith, Canada 21 June 1989, Mrs Ryan, Mrs Renwick), George Lewis Pattison Wedd, John Anthony Dunkin Wedd, Elaine Wedd ...

One more, then it's time to go marketing.

Edith CONNING (b Whitston 10 August 1888; d 1941) daughter of Thomas Conning (carter) and his wife Ellen née Poole. Married young (1905) to Joseph Almond, and had three children before her husband's death in 1910 aged just 27.
Wilfred Almond 27 September 1905 (m Elsie Scotson) truck driver et al died Merseyside 1983
Hilda Almond 6 April 1907 (Mrs McEllin) mental nurse died Widnes 30 November 1984
Marion Almond 28 June 1909. Died unmarried 1990.
Remarried 1914 a widowed collier by name John Robert Swift
Son Harold Swift 1 November 1915 ... died 1995 Merseyside ..

I wonder what happened to Joe. 

Omigod!  Wendy's trapped a peahen!!!!  Signing off.

One more! Easy one ... because the pertinent facts are there ...

Emma Jane LEVETT (b 19 November 1876; d Worthing 1974) was the daughter of Clement Morris Levett, silversmith and his wife Elizabeth Ann née Wall.  Her mother died when she was nine, and her father the following year, and she was brought up in an orphans' school in Bristol until of an age to be taken into the home of bachelor uncle Arthur Edward LEVETT (b 2 May 1854; d Ashley Down, Bristol 4 December 1924). Arthur was a solicitor's book-keeper, Emma went to work as a draper's assistant, and his live-in mother, Jane née Jones completed the Islington household in 1901.

This photo shows Emma aged nineteen, Arthur at forty-two.

But later that year, Arthur married, Mary Preston, and latterly became a hosier ...

Emma married 27 November 1909 a widowed accountant, Leonard Treherne Crippen (d 40 Huron Rd, Balham 2 November 1928), and gave him one more daughter, Irene Maud (b 5 December 1910; d Shoreham 7 May 1989, unmarried), to add to his roster of children -- Leonard, Ruby Elizabeth, Lilian, Kathleen, Marie.