Horace BILLSON

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Milkman
• Address: 1901; Address:
  29, Court Road, Tulse Hill, Lambeth

Notes:

Married Nellie ?

Birth:
Mar Q 1892 1d 800 Wandsworth

Christened:
Recorded twice on the same day at two different churches.
Holy Trinity, Tulse Hill and All Saints, West Dulwich

Occupation:
Joyce remembers he had to be up at 4am to fetch the horse & cart before he went on his rounds

Address:
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Died:
Mar Q 1962 5c 1366 Lambeth

Horace married Ellen ETHERINGTON in 1911. Ellen was born in 1890. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Mar Q 1911 1d 369 Lambeth

1. Philip Sidney BILLSON was born in 1911 in Lambeth.
2. Reginald Horace BILLSON was born on 1 Jul 1914; died in Jun 2002 in Isle of Wight.

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

Notes:

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:

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

Notes:

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]

Notes:

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

Notes:

Married:
Dec Q 1846 12 581 Witham

Other Events and Attributes:

• Address: 1841; Address:
  26, King Street, Golden Square, London
• Occupation: 1841; Cabinet Maker

Notes:

Birth:
Name: George Bilson
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 31 Jan 1792
Christening Date: 26 Feb 1792
Christening Place: Westminster, London, England
Christening Age: 0
Father: John Bilson
Mother: Hannah

Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:

Address:
from 1841 PO Directory

Died:
Possible death Jun Q 1841 St. Jas Westr.

George married Ann ALLDERWRIGHT on 3 Nov 1816 in St. James, Westminster, London. Ann was born about 1795 in St. James, Westminster, London; died in 1857. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1851, 91, Houndsditch. St Botolph's without, Bishopsgate

Notes:

Census:
Description: House Servant

With her son Henry

Died:
Possible death - 15 Nov 1857 Burial - South Hackney- St John of Jerusalem

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1814, Widegate Street; Shopman to Mr Perkins, Pawnbroker
• Census: 1851, No.6 Pawnbrokers Alms Houses, Forest Gate, West Ham

Notes:

Occupation:
From transcript of Old Bailey sessions

Census:
Description: Retired Pawnbroker

Living with them was Alice M Borton (or Barton) a Grand Daughter born about 1845 in St. John's Clerkenwell.

Died:
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Stephen married Mary HUETSON in 1817 in St. Giles, Cripplegate, London. Mary was born about 1791 in Lambeth. St Mary; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1851, No.6 Pawnbrokers Alms Houses, Forest Gate, West Ham

Notes:

Married:
From Pallotts Marriage Index

Census:
Also living with them - Alice Borton, Grand Daughter