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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Jesse Charles John Higgs: Birth: BET. APR - JUN 1871 in Brentford, Middlesex, England. Death: BET. JAN - MAR 1921 in Wandsworth, Greater London, England

  2. Elizabeth Mary Higgs: Birth: ABT. 1874 in Kensington, Middlesex, England. Death: AFT. 1902

  3. Louisa Eliza Higgs: Birth: 10 DEC 1874 in Kensington, Middlesex, England. Death: AFT. 1916

  4. Rose Kate Higgs: Birth: 21 MAY 1878 in Kensington, Middlesex, England. Death: 1963 in Fulham, London, England

  5. Charles George Higgs: Birth: 27 MAR 1881 in Kensington, Middlesex, England. Death: ABT. 1917 in Kensington, Middlesex, England

  6. Eliza Higgs: Birth: 11 JUN 1883 in Kensington, Middlesex, England. Death: 1968 in Kensington, London, England

  7. Ellen Violet Higgs: Birth: 12 MAR 1886 in Kensington, Middlesex, England. Death: AFT. 1906

  8. Mary Ruth Higgs: Birth: ABT. 1888 in Kensington, London. Death: BET. OCT - DEC 1907 in Fulham, London

  9. Florence Alice Higgs: Birth: 26 APR 1890 in Hammersmith, London, England. Death: AFT. 1901

  10. Harry Higgs: Birth: ABT. 1894 in Kensington, London, England. Death: AFT. 1901

  11. William George John Higgs: Birth: ABT. 1895.


Sources
1. Title:   London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 (Ancestry.com)
2. Title:   1901 British Census
3. Title:   1851 British Census
4. Title:   London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 (Ancestry.com)
5. Title:   London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 (Ancestry.com)
Page:   Daughters, Louisa & Rose's Baptismal Record
6. Title:   1871 British Census
7. Title:   IGI
8. Title:   London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 (Ancestry.com)
Page:   Daughter Ellen's Marriage Registration
9. Title:   1881 British Census
10. Title:   London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 (Ancestry.com)
Page:   Daughter, Ruth's Baptismal Record
11. Title:   1891 British Census

Notes
a. Note:   The social situation thus created was first brought to the public notice in January 1893 through the publication in the Daily News of an article entitled 'A West-End Avernus'. In this article the author denounced in the lurid language appropriate to the popular press the social conditions in St. Katherine's Road (now Wilsham Street), William (now Kenley) Street, Bangor and Crescent Streets (sites now occupied by Henry Dickens Court) and part of St. Clement's (now Sirdar) Road, and concluded that he had never seen 'anything in London more hopelessly degraded and abandoned than life in these wretched places'. The incumbents of St. James and St. Clement and the chairman of the Kensington Vestry's Works and Sanitary Committee all wrote letters to the editor, the clergy in support of the article and the chairman in bitter resentment at the 'assumption that the Vestry of Kensington are indifferent to the state of the poor people inhabiting what is known as the "Potteries" district, Notting Dale'. In face of continued public interest the Works Committee held a special meeting on 2 March, to which a number of local inhabitants were invited, and the whole party subsequently made an inspection of the area. (ref. 37) Almost all the houses within the five streets in question (fig. 90) had already been registered by the Vestry as let in lodgings or occupied by more than one family, and were therefore liable to periodic inspection. There were also eleven common lodging-houses, providing accommodation for 723 persons, which were regularly inspected twice a week by the police. The population was in fact extremely migratory in character, and the Vestry felt able to claim that most of the houses were in fair structural and sanitary condition, the streets clean and the sewerage satisfactory; but that such defects as did exist were 'of constant recurrence in houses occupied by the lowest classes, and are largely brought about by the dirty and careless or mischievous habits of the people themselves'. The remedy must therefore be increased house-to-house inspection, and a temporary extra sanitary inspector was accordingly appointed. (ref. 37)


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