Leonard Sidney Henry BILLSON

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Post War; Engineers draughtsman at BTH in Rugby (British Thompson Houston)
• Census: 1901, 68, Hydethorpe Road, Clapham
• Census: 1911, 68, Hydethorpe Road, Clapham
• Military: 1918, 68, Hydethorpe Road; Absent Voters Lists 1918 The voters details for the 1918 General Election were initially supplied by the next of kin of the household of the soldier to local voter registration officers. Once this process was completed, the names of those in the army were sent to the Adjutant General’s Department of the War Office, who then arranged to send voting cards to soldiers who were in the United Kingdom and ballot papers to men in France, Flanders and Italy. Men serving in more distant theatres of war were allowed to vote through use of a proxy voting form.

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Birth:
Description: 1901 Census - Born in Brixton Hill

Died:
Description: Cardiac arrest & Peripheral vascular disease

Just prior to his death he had to have a leg amputated.

Leonard married Adelaide Victoria May WILSON on 18 Aug 1923 in Streatham, Surrey, England. Adelaide (daughter of Joseph Frederick WILSON and Sarah Elizabeth WOOD) was born on 22 Oct 1897 in 1 Mary's Cottages, Eastcote Street, Stockwell, London.; died on 14 May 1965 in Rugby. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Sep Q 1923 1d 1167 Wandsworth

1. Joyce Olive BILLSON was born on 18 Nov 1924 in 227, Clifton Road, Rugby; died on 6 Aug 2018 in Gracewell Nursing Home, Fareham.
2. Frederick Edmund BILLSON was born on 27 Jul 1926 in Rugby, Warwickshire; died on 6 Dec 2011 in 128 Erten street , Thousand Oaks, CA 91320.
3. Ronald Henry BILLSON was born on 4 Mar 1929 in Rugby, Warwickshire; died in Mar 2006 in At home in Westlake Village, California.

Leonard married Ivy Lamburne HEMMING, nee GASKELL on 18 Mar 1967 in Registry Office, Rugby. Ivy (daughter of George GASKELL) was born on 18 Feb 1896 in Rugby, Warwickshire; died on 21 Aug 1992 in Clifton on Dunsmore Nursing Home. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: a Paper Hanger

Notes:

3 Leigham Terrace, Wells Lane, Streatham @ Birth.
Court Road, Streatham @ Marriage
Most of his married life lived at Hydethorpe Rd. Balham. Leonard Sidney Billson, possibly born there.
After his wife died LSH Billson brought him back to Rugby to Eastlands Road. It is believed that Ted didn't want to move away from London.

Birth:
Neither Leigham Terrace or Wells Lane exist in 2002.
The Leigham Arms pub used to be in Wells Lane and is still there today on Wellfield Road, between Valley Road and Streatham High Road.

Buried:
Unmarked - believed to be a pauper's grave.

Edmund married Sarah Anne HARRIS on 19 Apr 1897 in The Parish Church, Chipping Norton. Sarah (daughter of Elisha HARRIS and Phoebe HARVEY) was born on 18 Nov 1869 in Chipping Norton; died on 5 Apr 1950 in 68, Hydethorpe Road, Clapham. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1891, 6, Ruddell Crescent, Hampstead

Notes:

Spring Street, C/Norton @ Marriage

Birth:
Description: 1881 Census states she was born 1867

Census:
Description: Cook (Domestic Servant)

Died:
Description: Cerebral thrombosis

Informant LSH Billson

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Gardener
• Census: 1861, Park House, Parsons Green Lane, Fulham
• Census: 1871, 5, Beulah Terrace, Leather Bottle Lane, Croydon; Living with William Reeves & family. Recorded as a Gardener.

Notes:

Known as Sidney Henry on Marriage Cert of his son

Birth:
Mar Q 1854 1c 1[_8]0 Shoreditch

Census:
With William and Ann Reeves, recorded as Sidney Henry Reeves instead of Billson

Died:
June Q 1896 1d 451 Wandsworth

Informant - Beatrice Billson

Sidney married Emily BUTLER on 9 Mar 1874 in Lambeth. Emily (daughter of John BUTLER and Eliza BOWYER) was born about 15 Mar 1854 in Chipping Hill, Witham, Essex.; died on 7 Oct 1943 in Los Angeles, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1881; Domestic Servant
• Address: 1901; Address:
  29, Court Road, Tulse Hill, Lambeth
• Occupation: 1901; Mangle? Wash - working at home
• Address: Dec 1910; Address:
  156, Robson Road, West Norwood, S6
• Census: 1911, 56, Robson Road, West Norwood; With her were Cyril and Lily Maud, both single.
• Address: From 1920 to; Address:
  2211 Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA.
• Address: Feb 1920; Address:
  52, Knight's Hill, West Norwood, London
• Emigration: Jun 1920, America
• Census: 1930, 1939 17th St ? Santa Monica, Los Angeles

Notes:

In the 1901 Census online the transcript spells the surname with only one L and her sons and daughters birth place as Strestham.

Birth:
Mar Q 1854 4a 269 Witham

Address:
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Occupation:
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Address:
Description: according to Herberts immigration papers

Address:
Description: with her son Herbert Henry Billson

Address:
Description: according to Cyril's immigration papers

Emigration:
She sailed from Southampton bound for Ellis Island on the SS "Royal George".
Her final destination was to be with her son Herbert Henry who emigrated in 1910.

The immigration papers describe her as being 65 years old, a housewife, 5' 3" in height with normal complexion, brown hair and grey eyes.

Census:
Description: US Federal Census

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Married:
Mar Q 1874 1d 538 Lambeth

On his marriage certificate Sidney records his father as George William Billson. As Sidney was only a year old when his real father Henry died it's likely that he was brought up by George

Description: with Edmund, Beatrice and Arthur

Description: 1891 Census

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Labourer and became a Leather Grounder or Glover

Notes:

Birth could be 1832?
Possibly one other child making six.

Died:
Dec Q 1899 3a 597 Chipping Norton

Elisha married Phoebe HARVEY in 1858 in Chipping Norton. Phoebe (daughter of ? HARVEY and Grace ?) was born in 1838 in Chipping Norton; died in 1895 in Chipping Norton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
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Married:
Sep Q 1858 3a 1011 Chipping Norton

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1851, 91, Houndsditch. St Botolph's without, Bishopsgate
• Occupation: 1851; Pawnbroker
• Occupation: 1854, 52, Middlesex Buildings, Hackney Road, Shoreditch; Furniture Dealer

Notes:

Could be a Sydney in the name somewhere.

Christened:
Father recorded as a Carpenter

Census:
Description: Servant

Also present was Ann Billson recorded as a House Servant and widowed.
Could this have been his mother (Ann Allderwright?)

Died:
Description: Exhaustion

Henry married Ann WHITAKER on 26 Nov 1851 in The Parish Church of St. Marylebone, London. Ann (daughter of Stephen Philip WHITAKER and Mary HUETSON) was born on 2 Nov 1823 in St. Giles, Cripplegate, London; died on 22 May 1902 in Ellerslie, Auckland; was buried on 23 May 1902 in Purewa Cemetery, Auckland, NZ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1851, 8, New Gloucester Place, Shoreditch
• Occupation: Abt 1862; Sewing Maid to the Duchess of Devonshire at Chatsworth (according to Doris Reeves) More likely at Chiswick House near Fulham, London.

Notes:

One T on the birth cert of Sidney Henry

Her gravestone in New Zealand says she died aged 79 years.

Census:
Description: Milliner

Living with sisters Jane & Caroline

Died:
FreeFormatDate:21 Jan 1901 previously thought.

Buried:
Description: Block E, Row 37, Plot 65

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Married:
Description: in the presence of Stephen Huetson Whitaker and Jane Whitaker

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1854; Agricultural labourer

John married Eliza BOWYER in 1846 in Witham, Essex. Eliza was born about 1826 in Witham, Essex; died in 1865. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Sep Q 1865 4a 192 Witham
(Recorded as Elizabeth Butler)

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Married:
Dec Q 1846 12 581 Witham

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1881, East End, Combe, Oxfordshire

Notes:

Census:
Description: House Thatcher

Widowed by 1881. Living next door to Thomas Harris (born 1842) who was married to Eliza. Could be a son.

William + Jane (Anna?). Jane was born about 1809 in Chipping Norton; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Census:
Place transcribed as Coombe

? + Grace ?. Grace was born about 1812 in Wollsard, Ascott, Warwickshire; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Address: 1881; Address:
  Wind Mill Lane
  Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
• Address: 1891; Address:
  73, Spring Street, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire

Notes:

Widowed before 1881

Birth:
Description: 1891 Census

Address:
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Description: with Thomas Harvey (Grandson) and two lodgers; William Thomas and Ann Dodd

Address:
FreeFormatDate:with Elisha and Phoebe Harris

Description: 1891 Census