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Note: Births Jun 1869 WESTBROOK Alice Alton 2c 139
there is no christening listed in wield regs
the pages covering 1863 to 1872 of the mitcheldiver primitive methodists (andover cuircit) are non eisistant. i have looked at the original parish records both for st james church and the above mentioned. there are no more christenings after 1865 for any of james and charlottes children in st james. the mitcheldiver primitive methodists (andover cuircit) which i have also seen has an entry in 1863 which is imeditly followed by an entry for 1872 with no sign of pages missing from the book itself. the first christening for james and charlottes children in the mitcheldiver primitive methodists (andover cuircit) was urbans so this means that 3 christenings, amy, alice and arthurs, have to date remained elusive.
******************** 1871census
Name Age in 1871 Birthplace Relationship Civil Parish County/Island
Robert S Knight 10 Wield, Hampshire, England Son Wield Hampshire
Alice Westbrook 2 Wield, Hampshire, England Daughter WieldHampshire
Amy Westbrook 4 Wield, Hampshire, England Daughter Wield Hampshire
Annie Westbrook 8 Wield, Hampshire, England Daughter Wield Hampshire
Arthur Wm Westbrook 1 Wield, Hampshire, England Son Wield Hampshire
Charlotte Westbrook 30 Wield, Hampshire, England Wife Wield Hampshire
Elizh Westbrook 6 Wield, Hampshire, England Daughter Wield Hampshire
Jas Westbrook 31 Wield, Hampshire, England Head Wield Hampshire
******************** 1881census
Name Estimated Birth Year Birthplace Relationship Residence
Alice Westbrook abt 1865 Wield, Hampshire, England Daughter Wield
Arthor Westbrook abt 1871 Wield, Hampshire, England Son Wield
Charlotte Westbrook abt 1842 Wield, Hampshire, England Wife Wield
James Westbrook abt 1841 Wield, Hampshire, England Head Wield
Kate Westbrook abt 1877 Wield, Hampshire, England Daughter Wield
Urben Westbrook abt 1874 Wield, Hampshire, England Son Wield
Walter Westbrook abt 1880 Wield, Hampshire, England Son Wield
******************** Marriages Mar 1889
Francis Christopher Croydon 2a 399
WESTBROOK Alice Croydon 2a 399
******************** 1891census
Name Age in 1891 Birthplace Relationship to head-of-house Civil parish County
Phillips, Ada 22 Lambeth, London Daughter Croydon Surrey
Phillips, Mary 46 St Georges, London Wife Croydon Surrey
Phillips, Thomas 85 Sonning, Berkshire Head Croydon Surrey
Phillips, Thomas E 50 Camberwell, London Son Croydon Surrey
Thompson, Emma 21 Bow, London Visitor Croydon Surrey
Westbrook, Kate 16 Hampshire / Hantshaving Servant Croydon Surrey
Francis, Alsie 22 Hampshire / Hantshaving Servant Croydon Surrey
******************** 1901census
Name Age in 1901 Birthplace Relationship Civil Parish County/Island
Edith Cutting 21 Stowupland, Suffolk, England Servant St Margaret Suffolk
Alice Faux 32 Upper Wield, Hampshire, England Wife St Margaret Suffolk
Arthur V Faux 3 Thornton Heath, Surrey, England Son St Margaret Suffolk
Francis C Faux 35 Basingstoke, Hampshire, England Head St Margaret Suffolk
William Faux 11 Croydon, Surrey, England Son St Margaret Suffolk
******************** 1911 CENSUS
FAUX ALICE F 1869 42 Ormskirk Lancashire
FAUX ARTHUR VERNON M 1898 13 Ormskirk Lancashire
FAUX FRANCIS CHRISTOPHER M 1866 45 Ormskirk Lancashire
FAUX FRANCIS REGINALD M 1903 8 Ormskirk Lancashire
******************** England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005
Name: Alice Faux
Death Registration Month/Year: Apr-May-Jun 1953
Age at death (estimated): 83
Registration district: Liverpool South
Inferred County: Lancashire
Volume: 10d
Page: 482
29 / 8 / 03 the entry on familysearch 1881 census has Alice as age 16 .I have checked the entry in the GRO and it says she is aged 12 who ever done the transcribing made a mistake.
17 / 2 /2004
I found her marriage in March 1889 to a Christopher Francis.
It turns out this must have been without consent as I then checked the 1891 /1901 but could not find them but a Alice faux came up with a Francis age 35 and a William aged 11 born in Croydon in the 1901. So I looked for both in the 1891.francis faux was listed as SINGLE aged 25 living with his parents and siblings in new Malden surrey. I then found William listed as a Francis aged 1 with Robert knight Alice’s oldest brother at Queen's road Croydon. The conformation came when I found Alice as a Francis living with her sister Kate and both servants and she listed as married in Woodside Croydon just down the road from her son.
June 2005
Have confirmed the marriage with Alice’s great grandson christopher jary who writes.................
One of their servants was a maid called Alice Westbrook. Alice had been born in March 1869, the fourth child of a woodman's laborer, in Wield, near Alresford in Hampshire. Neither her father, James, nor her mother, Charlotte, could read or write. Alice was the one of the first village children to receive an elementary schooling before entering domestic service in her teens. In 1888 the reaction at Fairmead to their (FRANCIS) twenty-two-year-old son's love for one of their maids was predictably savage. The self-educated Fauxes were still close enough to their own undistinguished origins to be rawly sensitive to the prospect of regression. Their horror would have been increased because their steady social and economic progress had been built on literacy: their own and that of the readers of the books they sold (at w.h.smiths). Their oldest son should not be allowed to marry into the family of an illiterate laborer.
But they failed. Kit (FRANCIS) left Fairmead, installed Alice in a terraced house in Union Road, Croydon, and, under the assumed name of Christopher Francis, married her in March 1889. Bill was born nearly six months later. Curiously in the circumstances, they christened him William James Christopher, commemorating first the grandfather who had exiled them and only then his other grandfather and father.
words by christopher jary cmandl.jary@btinternet.com
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