See also
1939, 1939 Register for Household of Horace Richmond
Husband:
Wife:
Marriage:
14 Dec 1938
Address: Lambeth, London
Harriet (Ett) was Alice's sister and Edward (Will) Ett's husband. Whether anyone else was present is not known.The marriage was one of convenience undertaken by Alice to 'give her son (Jack) a name'. It was certainly not for financial reasons. Alice was financially secure by reason of her job with the London County Council as a domiciliary midwife. Her marriage to Horace Richmond brought no financial advantage. Indeed Alice supported Horace who became, to use a modern term, a househusband and also created a wonderful garden. Horace was much older than Alice. Although he gives his age as 59 he was in fact 13 years older having been born in 1866.
How they met is not known - probably though an introduction agency. Although Alice had hoped to marry when Jack was sufficiently young not to remember his entry into their lives and so to accept him as his real father he does remember their first meeting. As he was only 4 he would probably not have remembered the visit except that Jack remembers Horace upsetting the teapot – probably due to nervousness – and trying to scrape up the tealeaves from the tablecloth with a knife. Whether this was also Horace's and Alice's first meeting is not known - it probably was.
After they were married Horace came to live at the house which Alice rented at 8 Allen Edwards Road. It must have been winter because Jack remembers that it was dark and he was still up. How much Horace brought with him is not known but Jack remembers a fireside chair with curved wooden arms and a backrest which could be adjusted by moving a round bar into one of three slots. Jack thought it was a new toy as it was possible, when the back was not in place, to roll the bar down the arms to where it could lodge in one of the three slots or, if it was pushed it hard enough, roll off the end of the arms – rather like a simple game of bagatelle.
1939 Register (Household):
29 Sep 1939
London, S.W.83
Address: 8 Allen Edwards Road
The household consisted of Horace and his wife Alice, Alice's brother William and her adopted sister Louise Fippen. Just before the register was compiled 3 other members of the household – William and Harriet Mackellow, and Jack Richmond (Harriet was Alice's sister and Jack was her son) moved to Brighton to live with William’s brother and his wife (Harry & Francis Mackellow) as part of the voluntary evacuation from London.
1866, Certified Copy of an Entry of Birth for Joseph Richmond (9)
1871, 1871 Census for Household of John Richmond in Haddingham, Buckinghamshire
1881, 1881 Census for Household of Charles Smith in Pottern
1947, Certified Copy of an Entry of Death for Horace Richmond
Name:
Horace Richmond
Sex:
Male
Father:
Joseph Richmond (1837-1886)
Mother:
Mary Anne Shepherd (1837-1867)
Birth:
18 Jul 1866
There are two official documents which give his age - the Marriage Certificate for his marriage to Alice Dowell in 1938 which gives his age as 59, i.e. born in 1879, and his Death Registration which in 1947 gives his age as 80, i.e. born in 1867. Fortunately Horace Richmond is a relatively unusual name and a search of death registrations between January 1860 and December 1880 produced a record of a Horace Richmond born in the quarter ending September 1866. From this it was possible to obtain a copy of his Birth Certificate.
Birth Registration:
15 Aug 1866 (age 0)
the Register Office
Address: Biggleswade, Bedford
She signed with he mark which indicates that she was illiterate.
Census:
2 Apr 1871 (age 4)
Haddenham, Buckinghamshire9
Address: Church Way
as a member of the household of John Richmond who was his Uncle. Judging from the fact that John is described as landowner and the house was on the edge of the village it may have been a farm. The other members of the household were John's nieces Elizabeth who was the housekeeper and Ann E. Richmond who was going to school. It is not known whether they had the same father or were cousins. Judging from the Elizabeth's age (35) and Horace's age it is more likely that they were cousins. Ann who was 10 may have been Horace's sister but they were born about 40 miles apart.
Census:
3 Apr 1881 (age 14)
Address: Devizes Road
He was a boarder with Charles and Elizabeth Smith. He had moved from Haddenham, a distance of some 70 miles, to be near to his father Joseph Richmond who was the Chief Male Attendant at the Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum in Devizes and lived in. Although Joseph is shown as married it is not know where his wife was living as the list of asylum staff does not include a woman with the surname Richmond. Horace probably attended the village school. Sometime he played truant!
Occupation:
frm 1882 to 1931 (age 15-65)
There are a number of conflicting sources for his occupation. In the 1901 Census he is shown as a parcel sorter for the Post Office; in the 1911 Census he is shown as a civil servant working for the Post Office but it does not say in what capacity; the 1921 Census says he is a postman; and his Death Certificate confirms that he had a Post Office pension which means that he must have worked for the Post Office for at least 30 years presumably retiring at the age of 65, i.e. in 1931. However on his Marriage Certificate for his marriage to Alice Dowell in December 1938 he is described as a retired horticulturist and he certainly grew magnificent flowers and vegetables. Alice also told her son Jack that at some stage in his career he had, in a fit of temper, destroyed a tomato which he was hybridising and left his employer. Where he had learned his skills and at what stage of his life he was a horticulturist and for who he worked for is not known. The best explanation is that he was apprenticed after leaving school probably at the age of 16 (according to the 1881 Census he was still at school and there is no record of him in the 1891 Census) as a gardener and worked his way up to the position of a head gardener but that after he fell out with with his employer could not get a reference and so was forced to join the Post Office. He also told his adopted son Jack that he had been in the army and that the marks on his nose were powder burns from firing a rifle. On reflection this seems bit far fetched and there is no record of him being in the army.
Parent:
btw Sep 1896 and Dec 1896 (age 30)
Birth of son Joseph Charles
Religion:
frm 1903 to 1947 (age 36-81)
Spiritualist; Spirituralist Church, Clapham18
When he became a Spiritualist is not known. Perhaps it was the death of his son Joseph in 1903 at the age of six followed by the death of his first wife Caroline in 1921. After moving to the Stockwell area on his marriage to Alice in December 1938 he attended the Clapham Spiritualist Church which was near Clapham North Underground Station. His step son Jack accompanied him with his mother to some of the services and remembers the medium conveying messages from the dead.
Although Horace was not a medium he would sometimes have a premonition about the future and undoubtedly saved his own life and the lives of those who were living in the same house by insisting on the family moving - see entry on residences between 1939 and 1947. His wife would consult him over important decisions and he would go into a trance before giving an answer.
parent:
1903 (age 36-37)
Death of son Joseph Charles
spouse:
1921 (age 54-55)
Death of spouse Caroline
Residence:
bef 14 Dec 1938 (age 72)
which was shown as his residence on the Certificate for his marriage to Alice Dowell. After their marriage he moved to Alice's house. How long he had lived at Hassocks Road is not known. Alice's son, Jack, who he later adopted remembers being taken to tea there.
Residence:
btw 15 Dec 1938 and Feb 1947 (age 72-80)
Before their marriage Horace was living in rented house at 3, Hassocks Road, Mitcham. Alice and her son Jack were living in a rented house at 8 Allen Edwards Road, Lambeth which she shared with her sister Harriett (Ett), Ett's husband Edward (Will) Mackellow, her brother William (Will) and her sister by adoption Louisa (Lou) Fippen.
After their marriage Horace moved to Allen Edwards Road because Alice, who was domicilary midwife, needed to stay in the area.
The whole family moved to 25, Rhodesia Road just before the house in Allen Edwards Road was destroyed by a direct hit in the Blitz.
They moved once again to 55 Binfield Road just before the house at 25 Rhodesia Road was destroyed in a bombing raid - just as the house in Allen Edwards Road had been.
On each occasion the reason for moving was that Horace, who was a Spiritualist, had a premonition that the houses would be destroyed.
Horace died in February 1947 at Binfield Road but Alice continued the tenancy.
Adoptive Father:
31 Jan 1939 (age 72)
Adopted Jack Peter William Ward
Death:
7 Mar 1947 (age 80)
Cause: cancer of the small intestine
Address: 55 Binfield Road
During his final illness he was nursed by his wife Alice and her sister Ett who lived in the same house. His step-son Jack remembers that he was confined to his bed and was eating bread and milk because his tongue was so swollen. Until he saw the Death Certificate he thought that his step-father had died from cancer of the throat.
Death Registration:
10 Mar 1947
Address: Lambeth
Alice Eleanor Dowell, c. 1950, age 54
1896, Register Entry for Baptism of Alice Eleanor Dowell
St Mary the Virgin, Limpley Stoke
Gravestone
Name:
Alice Eleanor Dowell26
Sex:
Female
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
31 May 1896
Address: 43 Felton Street
Although her Birth Certificate gives her birth date as 13th May she always celebrated her birthday on the 31st May as did her twin William. They had always done so as long as she could remember and she thought that the Registrar had accidentally reversed the two figures when her mother registered her birth. Her mother was illiterate so she would not have been aware of the mistake. The probability that it was a mistake is reinforced by her baptismal record which give the date of her birth as 30th May. Her Birth Certificate shows that she was born at 5 p.m., half an hour before her twin brother William. She was very much taller than her brother and in her latter years put on weight which her brother didn't. He always looked very wiry. Alice always said when asked about their disparity in size that their sizes should have been reversed!
Baptism:
21 Jun 1896 (age 0)
St Saviour's Church30
Address: Hoxton, London
Her twin brother William was baptised immediately after her. As well as her parents her siblings Rebecca, Caroline, Thomas, Charles, Louisa and Harriet would have been at the service but the names of the God Parents (if any) are not known.
Religion:
frm 21 Jun 1896 to 17 Jun 1987 (age 0-91)
member of the Church of England
Christian She was a firm believer in God and within the memory of her son Jack attended church whenever she could. She had brief flirtations with Spiritualism and Christian Science. The former because her first husband Horace Richmond was a Spiritualist and the second because her son Jack was sent to a Christian Science Sunday School when he was evacuated to Brighton and became a Christian Scientist until about the age of 16 or 17.
Present (sibling):
21 Jun 1896 (age 0)
Present at Baptism of her brother William John
William was Alice's twin and was biptised immediately before him.
Birth Registration:
23 Jun 1896 (age 0)
the Register Office27
Address: Shoreditch, Middlesex
Her mother registered her twin brother William's birth at the same time
Present (sibling):
16 Oct 1898 (age 2)
Present at Baptism of her brother Arthur Herbert
Census (living with parents):
31 Mar 1901 (age 4)
1901 Census - living with parents
Sister's marriage:
2 Nov 1902 (age 6)
Marriage of sister Caroline to Thomas Fippen
Brother's marriage:
18 Apr 1903 (age 6)
Marriage of brother Thomas to Elizabeth Alice Anderson
Brother's marriage:
24 Jul 1904 (age 8)
Marriage of brother Charles to Jane Elizabeth Cox
Sister's marriage:
14 Apr 1907 (age 10)
Marriage of sister Louisa to Edward Charles Kelly
Occupation:
btw 1911 and 1912 (age 14-16)
cracker maker; Bethnal Green, London31
She probably started as soon as she left school at 14. It seems strange that should she should be working at an unskilled job when her mother apprenticed all her other children to skilled jobs. Perhaps she was showing already showing a religious inclination and was only filling in time until she could enter St Margaret's convent at the age of 16. Although the return does not say so she was almost certainly working at Tom Smiths at 67 Watson Street, Finsbury which is where she was working at the time of the 1921 Census. There is an interesting film on cracker making from the BFI archive on YouTube. Making Christmas Crackers (1910) although it is not from the Tom Smith factory.
In her reminiscences she never mentioned working as a cracker maker.
Census (living with parents):
2 Apr 1911 (age 14)
1911 Census - living with parents
She was working as a cracker maker. Why she had nor been apprenticed like her siblings is not known. Perhaps she was already showing an inclination towards the religious life.
Occupation:
frm 1914 to 1918 (age 17-22)
novice nun; in St Margaret's Convent32
Address: East Grinstead, Kent
The reason for her entry are unclear but she would have had to be very religious and felt she had a vocation to do so. Almost certainly the arrangements would have been made through her parish priest. In the early 1900s the family attended St Saviour’s Church in Hoxton and several members of the family were baptised, presumably were confirmed and were married there. St Saviour was very High Church and was associated with the Catholic Revival within the Church of England, despite opposition from the Bishop of London, which resulted in an episcopal ban on the parish following a Corpus Christi procession in August 1917. St Saviour's became the focus for the movement for reunion with Rome known as the Confraternity of Unity when its secretariat was established at St Saviour's in 1929. The Church was badly damaged during the 2nd World War and never reopened. It is possible that the High Church ritual may have turned her thoughts towards entering a convent which was no doubt encouraged by her parish priest who almost certainly made the arrangements for her to do so. Later he became a Minor Canon at St Paul’s Cathedral. Alice's son Jack cannot remember his name but remembers meeting him when he was about 12 after a commemoration service at St Paul’s. To Jack he appeared to be very old.
Alice rarely spoke about her life in the convent but Jack had the impression that it was regimented, strict and hard. As she was not able to bring a dowry she was employed on domestic duties. Those who could bring a dowry undertook more gentile tasks such as needlework. Alice told Jack that she slept in a cell which in winter was bitterly cold; if she woke up feeling snug and warm in bed she was supposed to get out, kneel on the cold floor and say a prayer. When he asked her if she did, she replied “Of course.”
When her sister Louisa became ill with the Spanish ‘flu her father insisted that she left the Convent to help with the care of her sister’s children. Jack gathers there was an argument between her father and the Mother Superior over her leaving. She never returned to the convent and eventually trained as a midwife. Jack has been unable the determine the exact dates of her entering and leaving the Convent. He wrote to the Mother Superior on two separate occasions asking for information but never received a reply so he has had to estimate the dates from other sources. Her sister Louisa died on 28th October 1918 so she must have left the Convent around this time (she was 22 at the time). When she entered is more difficult. According to the 1911 Census (taken when she was 14) she was employed as a cracker maker. It is unlikely that the Convent would have accepted her before she was 18 and then only on the recommendation of her parish priest and with her parents’ permission; it could have been as late as when she was 21 if she entered against her parents’ wishes.
Census (living with mother):
19 Jun 1921 (age 25)
1921 Census. Living with mother
Alice is working as cracker maker for the firm of Tom Smith
Occupation:
frm 1922 to 1950 (age 25-54)
She was registered with the Central Midwives Board on 9 April 1925 after sitting the CMB examination. It is thought that she trained at St Thomas' Hospital in London and on the assumption that training took 3 years she probably started in 1922.
Qualification:
1925 (age 28-29)
a midwife; probably at the Bermondsey & Rotherhithe Hospital37
Address: Lower Rd, London, S.E.16
Alice’s Registration Number was 65746 and she qualified by CMB Examination. However, it is not known where she trained. She talked a lot about St Thomas’ Hospital and initially it was thought that she trained there. However, she also talked about her experiences as a midwife working in Rotherhithe. As none of the residential addresses given in the rolls put her within cycling distance of Rotherhithe it is more likely that she trained at the Bermondsey & Rotherhithe Hospital and her experiences related to her final year of training or shortly after she was trained when she was still resident at the hospital or its staff accommodation. The National Archives do not hold information on where individual midwives trained.
Sister's marriage:
29 Jul 1933 (age 37)
Marriage of sister Harriet to Edward William Mackellow
Mother:
29 Mar 1934 (age 37)
Birth of son Jack Peter William
Mother:
6 May 1934 (age 37)
Alice was present at the Baptism of her child Jack Peter William
Mother:
9 May 1934 (age 37)
Reported her son Jack's birth to the Registrar
Probably attended:
18 Aug 1934 (age 38)
Alice probably attended the marriage of Edward Charles Kelly and Joyce Snowden
may have attended:
8 Sep 1934 (age 38)
Alice may have been present at the marriage of Stanley Pritchard and Ethel Maud Kelly
As she was instrumental in bringing Ethel up she would have alsmost certainly been invited and would have made every effort to attend despite living in Ramsgate
Residence:
btw Dec 1938 and Feb 1947 (age 42-50)
Before their marriage Horace was living in rented house at 3, Hassocks Road, Mitcham. Alice and her son Jack were living in a rented house at 8 Allen Edwards Road, Lambeth which she shared with her sister Harriett (Ett), Ett's husband Edward (Will) Mackellow, her brother William (Will) and her sister by adoption Louisa (Lou) Fippen.
After their marriage Horace moved to Allen Edwards Road because Alice, who was domicilary midwife, needed to stay in the area.
The whole family moved to 25, Rhodesia Road just before the house in Allen Edwards Road was destroyed by a direct hit in the Blitz.
They moved once again to 55 Binfield Road just before the house at 25 Rhodesia Road was destroyed in a bombing raid - just as the house in Allen Edwards Road had been.
On each occasion the reason for moving was that Horace, who was a Spiritualist, had a premonition that the houses would be destroyed.
Horace died in February 1947 at Binfield Road but Alice continued the tenancy.
Married Name:
14 Dec 1938 (age 42)
Alice Eleanor Richmond
Adoptive Mother:
31 Jan 1939 (age 42)
Adopted Jack Peter William Ward
spouse:
7 Mar 1947 (age 50)
Death of spouse Horace
Wife:
10 Mar 1947 (age 50)
Reported spouse's death
Married Name:
28 Oct 1948 (age 52)
Alice Eleanor Ward
Guest:
24 Dec 1957 (age 61)
Guest at marriage of Jack Peter William Ward and Joan Elizabeth Hodge
Assisted:
7 Feb 1965 (age 68)
Assisted at Alison Mary Ward's birth
Spouse:
c. 25 Apr 1985 (age 88)
Her husband William was buried in St Mary's Churchyard
Will:
4 Aug 1985 (age 89)
Waterhouse38
Address: Monkton Combe, Bath, Avon
Her husband had died intestate and although his estate was very simple obtaining probate would have been simpler had he made a will. Her son Jack who had helped his mother to obtain probate on her husband's estate suggested that she should make a will. To avoid the expense of a solicitor Jack wrote out a simple holographic will (he probably obtained the wording from a book on making a will borrowed from the library) which he read out to his mother and she signed. Because she was virtually blind she would have been unable to read the document for herself but she trusted her son.
Death:
17 Jun 1987 (age 91)
Cause: broncho-pneumonia, cerebral haemorrhage and diabetes mellitis
Address: Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire
Her son, Jack, had visited her the day before and found that she had been moved to her old room and was sleeping peacefully having suffered a stroke a few days before. During the visit he talked to her doctor who told him that his mother was seriously ill with pneumonia; he explained that he could administer antibiotics to cure the pneumonia but the prognosis after her stroke was not good and on his advice Jack agreed that antibiotics should not be given. In arriving at this decision he took into account her probable quality of life. After her husband's death she had expressed a wish to join him on a number of occasions. She had a strong faith and was convinced that they would be reunited in heaven. In addition her almost total blindness (as a result of taking the heart drug Eraldin) meant that she could not read or watch television and, as her mind was still active, this was a source of frustration. Virtually her only contact with the outside world were her son's visits and her only source of entertainment was her radio; most of the time she listened to Radio 4 and occasionally complained about programme repeats but more often she would want to discuss something which she had heard on the radio. I think that her son's first wife, Joan, visited her occasionally but his second wife, Heather, would not accompany him on visits because she said that his mother smelt of ‘old people’.
Death Registration:
19 Jun 1987
the Register Office
Address: Trowbridge
Burial:
24 Jun 1987
the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin40
Address: Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire
Her burial service was held at the church of St Mary the Virgin in the village of Limpley Stoke and she was buried with her husband William. There were few mourners; just her son Jack, his wife Heather,and his ex-wife Joan; her grandson Richard (Jack & Joan's son) and his wife Ruth; her granddaughter Alison (Jack & Joan's daughter) and a few of the staff from Waterhouse. Jack wanted to give an address on the life of his mother but Heather forbade it presumably because of the address he had given after Dad’s funeral had made it obvious that he had a good relationship with his parents whereas Heather had a poor relationship with hers. The fact that Jack was unable to give an address was a source of internal sadness as he thought so much of his mother who had been through so much for him. It was just another example of the relationship between Heather and Jack, and the extent to which he would go to keep the peace.
A few years later after jack and Heather had been divorced and Jack had married Pat, Pat encouraged him to have an inscription referring to his mother added to the headstone. The added inscription reads:
Also his wife Alice Eleanor
Born 13th May 1896
Died 17th June 1987
Her life a precious memory
Too dearly loved
to be forgotten
Probate:
30 Jul 1987
Her will left everything to her only son, Jack Peter William Ward. However, as she only had her state retirement pension and a small pension from the London County Council all her capital had been exhausted by topping up the rest home fees.
General Register Office, Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage for Horace Richmond and Alice Eleanor Dowell, (Issued by General Register on 6 Aug 2007 in reponse to Application No COL330700). Custom Id: MXD350327; Cit. Date: 14 December 1938. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
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Marriage of Horace Richmond (13) and Alice Eleanor Dowell (7)
Registration District: Lambeth
Application No: COL330700
Issued By: General Register Office
Issue Date: 6 August 2007
Certificate No: MXD350327
Place |
the Register office |
District |
Lambeth |
County |
Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth |
Date of Marriage |
14 December 1938 |
Groom's Name |
Horace Richmond |
Groom's Age |
59 |
Groom's Condition |
Widower |
Rank or Profession |
Horticulturist (retired) |
Groom's Residence |
Hassocks Road, Mitcham |
Groom's Father |
Joseph Richmond (deceased) |
Rank or Profession |
Attendant (Mental Hospital) |
Bride's Name |
Alice Eleanor Dowell |
Bride's Age |
42 |
Bride's Condition |
Spinster |
Rank or Profession |
Maternity Nurse |
Bride's Residence |
8 Allen Edwards Road, Lambeth |
Bride's Father |
Thomas Dowell (deceased) |
Rank or Profession |
Caterer's Traveller |
Married in |
Register Office |
by |
Licence |
before |
me |
Groom's Signature |
H. Richmond |
Bride's Signature |
A. E. Dowell |
Witness 1 |
E. W. Mackellow |
Witness 2 |
H. E. Mackellow |
Signed |
R. Hargreaves Registrar T. H. Edwards Superintendent Registrar |
H.E. Mackellow (née Harriett Dowell) was the Bride's sister.
E. W. Mackellow was Harriett's husband
Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage for Horace Richmond and Alice Eleanor Dowell
J P W Ward, As I Remember It, (Not published). Chapter 1 - Early Years 1934-1939. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
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As I Remember It
Autobiography of Jack Ward (aka Jack Dowell and Jack Richmond)
Introduction
Chapter 1Early Years 1934-1939
Chapter 2Evacuation 1939-1944
Chapter 3A Boy in London 1944 - 1951
Chapter 4The Navy – Under Training
Chapter 5The Surface Fleet
Chapter 6Polaris and Tident
Chapter 7Retirement
Accessing the book
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1939 Register for Household of Horace Richmond, (FMP website). Custom Id: RG101; Cit. Date: 29 September 1939. National Archives.
1939 Register for Household of Horace Richmond (9)
Reference: RG101/
Enumeration Date: 29 Sep 1939
County: London
Borough: Lambeth
Registration District and Sub-District 22/3
E D letter code: ANEL
Schedule: 87
Address: 8 Allen Edwards Road, London, S.W.8
Other Info:
Id |
Name of person |
Date of Birth |
Occupation |
Marital Status |
Sub-Schedule |
Remarks |
9 |
Horace Richmond |
18 Jul 1866 |
Postal Servant Retired |
Married |
1 |
|
7 |
Alice Eleanor Richmond |
31 May 1896 |
Midwife L.C.C. |
Married |
2 |
|
13 |
William John Dowell |
31 May 1896 |
Upholsterer |
Single |
3 |
|
98 |
Louisa Mary Fippen |
19 May 1897 |
Dress Machinist |
Single |
4 |
|
1The register has been annotated to show that Alice Eleanor re-married on 3 Mar 1949 and changed her surname to Ward
2William was Alice’s brother and Louise her adopted sister.
3Just before the register was compiled 3 other members of the household – William and Harriet Mackellow, and Jack Richmond moved to Brighton to live with William’s brother and his wife (Harry & Francis Mackellow) as part of the voluntary evacuation. (Jack Ward’s autobiography, As I remember It, Chapter 1 -The Early Years). Harriett was Alice’s sister and Jack her son.
1939 Register for Household of Horace Richmond
Birth certificate of Horace Richmond, 18 July 1866, Jack Ward.
Birth of Horace Richmond (9)
Registration District: Biggleswade
Application No: 11674421-1
Issued By: General Register Office
Issue Date: 19 March 2021
Certificate No: BXCJ 226265
Registration District |
Biggleswade |
Sub-district |
Biggleswade |
County |
Bedford |
Date of Birth |
18 July 1866 |
Place of Birth |
Arlsey |
Name |
Horace |
Sex |
Boy |
Father's Name |
Joseph Richmond |
Mother's Name |
Mary Richmond |
Maiden Surname |
Shepherd |
Father's Occupation |
Attendant at a Lunatic Asylum |
Informant's Signature |
x The Mark of Mary Richmond |
Informant's Description |
Mother |
Informant's Residence |
Arlsey |
Date Registered |
15 August 1866 |
Registrar |
Alfred Self, Registrar |
Name after registration |
--- |
Certified Copy of an Entry of Birth for Joseph Richmond (9)
General Register Office, Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage for Horace Richmond and Alice Eleanor Dowell, (Issued by General Register on 6 Aug 2007 in reponse to Application No COL330700). Custom Id: MXD350327; Date of Marriage14 Dec 1938Groom's NameHorace RichmondGroom's Age59. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
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Marriage of Horace Richmond (13) and Alice Eleanor Dowell (7)
Registration District: Lambeth
Application No: COL330700
Issued By: General Register Office
Issue Date: 6 August 2007
Certificate No: MXD350327
Place |
the Register office |
District |
Lambeth |
County |
Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth |
Date of Marriage |
14 December 1938 |
Groom's Name |
Horace Richmond |
Groom's Age |
59 |
Groom's Condition |
Widower |
Rank or Profession |
Horticulturist (retired) |
Groom's Residence |
Hassocks Road, Mitcham |
Groom's Father |
Joseph Richmond (deceased) |
Rank or Profession |
Attendant (Mental Hospital) |
Bride's Name |
Alice Eleanor Dowell |
Bride's Age |
42 |
Bride's Condition |
Spinster |
Rank or Profession |
Maternity Nurse |
Bride's Residence |
8 Allen Edwards Road, Lambeth |
Bride's Father |
Thomas Dowell (deceased) |
Rank or Profession |
Caterer's Traveller |
Married in |
Register Office |
by |
Licence |
before |
me |
Groom's Signature |
H. Richmond |
Bride's Signature |
A. E. Dowell |
Witness 1 |
E. W. Mackellow |
Witness 2 |
H. E. Mackellow |
Signed |
R. Hargreaves Registrar T. H. Edwards Superintendent Registrar |
H.E. Mackellow (née Harriett Dowell) was the Bride's sister.
E. W. Mackellow was Harriett's husband
Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage for Horace Richmond and Alice Eleanor Dowell
General Register Office, Civil Registration Index (England & Wales) for Birth of Horace Richmond, (Period, Jul-Sep 1866). Quarter and YearJul-Sep 1866SurnameRichmondGiven NamesHoraceRegistration DistrictBiggleswade. General Register Office. Call Number: Births.
CRI(E&W) for Birth of Horace Richmond
Transcribed from Ancestry image
Quarter and Year |
Jul-Sep 1866 |
Surname |
Richmond |
Given Names |
Horace |
Registration District |
Biggleswade |
Volume |
3b |
Page |
335 |
Note
Civil Registration Index (England & Wales) for Birth of Horace Richmond
General Register Office, Civil Registration Index (England & Wales) for Death of Horace Richmond, (Ancestry website). Custom Id: Deaths 1947 Q1 Lambeth, Vol. 5c, Page 1851; Quartre & YearJan-Mar 1947SurnameRichmondGiven NamesHoraceAge80. General Register Office.
CRI(E&W) for Death of Horace Richmond (9)
Transcribed from Ancestry website
Quarter and Year |
Jan-Mar 1947 |
Surname |
Richmond |
Given Names |
Horace |
Age |
80 |
Registration District |
Lambeth |
Volume |
5c |
Page |
1851 |
Note
Civil Registration Index (England & Wales) for Death of Horace Richmond
1871 England Census for John Richmond in Haddening, Buckinghamshire, (Ancestry image of National Archives RG10/1410; Folio 23; Page 2 ). Custom Id: RG10/1410; Folio 23; Page 2; Schedule 9; Horace Richmond age 4 born Arlsey, Buckinghamshire. National Archives.
1871 UK Census for Horace Richmond (9) in Household of John Richmond
Place: Haddenham, Buckinghamshire
Address: Church Way
Reference: RG10/1410; Folio 23; Page 2; Schedule 9
Enumeration Date: 2 April 1871
Other Info: The family had the house to themselves
Id |
Name |
Relation |
Condition |
Age |
Occupation |
Where Born |
Infirmity |
|
John Richmond |
Head |
Widower |
74 |
Landowner & Annuitant |
Great Harley, Oxfordshire |
|
|
Elizabeth Richmond |
Niece |
Unmarried |
35 |
Housekeeper |
Haddenham, Buckinghamshire |
|
|
Ann E. Richmond |
Niece |
|
10 |
Scholar |
Haddenham, Buckinghamshire |
|
9 |
Horace Richmond |
Nephew |
|
4 |
Scholar |
Arlsey, Buckinghamshire |
|
1871 Census for Horace Richmond in Household of John Richmond in Haddingham, Buckinghamshire
Ibid. Cit. Date: 2 April 1871. National Archives.
1871 UK Census for Horace Richmond (9) in Household of John Richmond
Place: Haddenham, Buckinghamshire
Address: Church Way
Reference: RG10/1410; Folio 23; Page 2; Schedule 9
Enumeration Date: 2 April 1871
Other Info: The family had the house to themselves
Id |
Name |
Relation |
Condition |
Age |
Occupation |
Where Born |
Infirmity |
|
John Richmond |
Head |
Widower |
74 |
Landowner & Annuitant |
Great Harley, Oxfordshire |
|
|
Elizabeth Richmond |
Niece |
Unmarried |
35 |
Housekeeper |
Haddenham, Buckinghamshire |
|
|
Ann E. Richmond |
Niece |
|
10 |
Scholar |
Haddenham, Buckinghamshire |
|
9 |
Horace Richmond |
Nephew |
|
4 |
Scholar |
Arlsey, Buckinghamshire |
|
1871 Census for Horace Richmond in Household of John Richmond in Haddingham, Buckinghamshire
1881 England Census for Charles Smith in Potterne, Wiltshire, (Ancestry image of National Archives RG11/2043; Folio 4; Page 1). Custom Id: RG11/2043, Folio 4, Page 1, Schedule 4; Cit. Date: 3 April 1881. National Archives.
1881 UK Census for Horace Richmond (9) in Household of Charles Smith
Place: Potterne, Wiltshire
Address: Devizes Road
Reference: RG11/2043, Folio 4, Page 1, Schedule 4
Enumeration Date: 3 Apr 1881
Other Info: The family had the house to themselves. The size is not known.
Id |
Name |
Relation |
Condition |
Age |
Occupation |
Where Born |
Infirmity |
|
Charles Smith |
Head |
Married |
33 |
Boot maker |
Devizes, Wiltshire |
|
|
Elizabeth Smith |
Wife |
Married |
40 |
|
Devizes, Wiltshire |
|
7 |
Horace Richmond |
Boarder |
|
14 |
Scholar |
Haddenham, Bucks |
|
The household consisted of Charles Smith, his wife Elizabeth and Horace Richmond (9) who was boarding with them.
1881 Census for Household of Charles Smith in Pottern
J P W Ward, As I Remember It, (Not published). Chapter 2 - LondonOne day he ahd his freinds played truant. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
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As I Remember It
Autobiography of Jack Ward (aka Jack Dowell and Jack Richmond)
Introduction
Chapter 1Early Years 1934-1939
Chapter 2Evacuation 1939-1944
Chapter 3A Boy in London 1944 - 1951
Chapter 4The Navy – Under Training
Chapter 5The Surface Fleet
Chapter 6Polaris and Tident
Chapter 7Retirement
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General Register Office, Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage for Horace Richmond and Alice Eleanor Dowell, (Issued by General Register on 6 Aug 2007 in reponse to Application No COL330700). Custom Id: MXD350327; Rank or ProfessionHorticulturist (retired). Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
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Marriage of Horace Richmond (13) and Alice Eleanor Dowell (7)
Registration District: Lambeth
Application No: COL330700
Issued By: General Register Office
Issue Date: 6 August 2007
Certificate No: MXD350327
Place |
the Register office |
District |
Lambeth |
County |
Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth |
Date of Marriage |
14 December 1938 |
Groom's Name |
Horace Richmond |
Groom's Age |
59 |
Groom's Condition |
Widower |
Rank or Profession |
Horticulturist (retired) |
Groom's Residence |
Hassocks Road, Mitcham |
Groom's Father |
Joseph Richmond (deceased) |
Rank or Profession |
Attendant (Mental Hospital) |
Bride's Name |
Alice Eleanor Dowell |
Bride's Age |
42 |
Bride's Condition |
Spinster |
Rank or Profession |
Maternity Nurse |
Bride's Residence |
8 Allen Edwards Road, Lambeth |
Bride's Father |
Thomas Dowell (deceased) |
Rank or Profession |
Caterer's Traveller |
Married in |
Register Office |
by |
Licence |
before |
me |
Groom's Signature |
H. Richmond |
Bride's Signature |
A. E. Dowell |
Witness 1 |
E. W. Mackellow |
Witness 2 |
H. E. Mackellow |
Signed |
R. Hargreaves Registrar T. H. Edwards Superintendent Registrar |
H.E. Mackellow (née Harriett Dowell) was the Bride's sister.
E. W. Mackellow was Harriett's husband
Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage for Horace Richmond and Alice Eleanor Dowell
1901 England Census for Family of Horace Richmond in South Norwood, Croydon, Surrey, (Ancestry image of RG13/649: Folio 50; Page 40). Custom Id: RG13/649: Folio 50; Page 40; Schedule 237; Horace Richmond G.P.O. sorter. National Archives. Call Number: 1901 Census.
1901 UK Census for Household of Horace Richmond (9)
Place: Croydon, Surrey
Address: "Uptons", Bungalow Road
Reference: RG13/649: Folio 50; Page 40; Schedule 237
Enumeration Date: 31 March 1901
Other Info: The family occupied what is assumed from the street name to be a small bungalow. There were similar properties with only names in the road.
Id |
Name |
Relation |
Condition |
Sex |
Age |
Occupation |
Employment Status |
At Home |
Where Born |
Infirmity |
9 |
Horace Richmond |
Head |
Married |
M |
34 |
G.P.O. Sorter (Parcel Post) |
Worker |
|
Arlsey, Somerset |
|
543 |
Caroline Richmond |
Wife |
Married |
F |
41 |
|
|
|
Upton, Norfolk |
|
570 |
Joseph Richmond |
Son |
|
M |
4 |
|
|
|
South Norwood, Croydon, Surrey |
|
|
Frank Etherington |
Boarder |
|
M |
6 mo |
|
|
|
Amerley, Surrey |
|
The census provides evidence of Horace Richmond's first marriage
1901 Census for Household of Horace Richmond page 1
1901 Census for Household of Horace Richmond page 2
1911 Census for Household of Horace Richmond in Croydon, Surrey, (Ancestry image of National Archives RG14/3381; Registration District 39; Schedule 311). Custom Id: RG14/3381; Registration District 39; Schedule 311; Occupation. Cit. Date: 2 April 1911. National Archives.
1911 UK Census for Household of Horace Richmond (9)
Place: Croydon, Surrey
Address: 28 Bungalow Road, South Norwood, S.E.
Reference: RG14/3381; Registration District 39; Schedule 311
Enumeration Date: 2 April 1911
Other Info: The property had 6 rooms
Id |
Name |
Relation |
Sex |
Age |
Married |
Years |
Chd Born |
Chd Living |
Chd Died |
Occupation |
Industry |
Employ Status |
At Home |
Where Born |
Nationality |
Infirmity
|
9 |
Horace Richmond |
Head |
M |
43 |
Married |
16 |
|
|
|
Civil Service |
Post Office |
Worker |
|
Arlsey, Somerset |
|
|
543 |
Caroline Richmond |
Wife |
F |
52 |
Married |
16 |
1 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
Upton, Norfolk |
|
|
1911 Census for Household of Horace Richmond
1921 England, Wales & Scotland census, 28 Bungalow Road, South Norwood, Surrey, RG15/03496, Schedule 84, head of household: Horace Richmond, National Archives.
1921 UK Census for Household of Horace Richmond (9)
Reference: RG15/03496, Schedule 84
Enumeration Date: 19 June 1921
Registration District: Croydon
Registration Sub-District: North Croydon
Enumeration District: 20
Civil Parish: Croydon
Address: 28 Bungalow Road
Signed: Horace Richmond
Other Info:
Id |
Name |
Relation |
Years |
Months |
Condition |
Birthplace |
Nationality |
Education |
Occupation |
Employment |
Place of Work |
Children under 16 |
Age |
Language |
9 |
Horace Richmond |
Head |
53 |
11 |
Married |
Arsley Somerset |
|
|
Postman |
Post Office |
South Norwood Sorting Office |
None |
|
|
543 |
Caroline Walter Richmond |
Wife |
61 |
2 |
Married |
Upton Norfolk |
|
|
Home duties |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Charlotte Emma French |
Visitor |
47 |
3 |
Married |
Greenwich Kent |
|
|
Home duties |
|
|
None |
|
|
|
Vera Evelyn French |
Visitor |
23 |
2 |
Single |
Hull Yorks. |
|
|
Telephonist |
Post Office |
Telephone Exchange New Cross, London |
|
|
|
Filled in by Enumerator |
Males |
Females |
Persons |
Rooms |
1 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
1921 Census for Household of Horace Richmondin Norwood, Surrey
1921 Census for Household of Horace Richmond - Address
J P W Ward, As I Remember It, (Not published). Chapter 2 - London. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
EX16 9NR. Tel: 01398332458, Email: familyhistory@blackwithies.demon.co.uk.
As I Remember It
Autobiography of Jack Ward (aka Jack Dowell and Jack Richmond)
Introduction
Chapter 1Early Years 1934-1939
Chapter 2Evacuation 1939-1944
Chapter 3A Boy in London 1944 - 1951
Chapter 4The Navy – Under Training
Chapter 5The Surface Fleet
Chapter 6Polaris and Tident
Chapter 7Retirement
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General Register Office, Certified Copy of an Entry of Death for Horace Richmond, (Issued 18 January 2009 by General Register Office Application No. 882072-1). Custom Id: DYC190323; Occupation Postman Sorter G.P.O. (Retired). Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
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Death of Horace Richmond (9)
Registration District: Lambeth
Application No: 882072-1
Issued By: General Register Office
Issue Date: 28 January 2009
Certificate No: DYC190323
Registration District |
Lambeth |
Sub-district |
Lambeth Central |
County |
Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth |
Date of Death |
7 March 1947 |
Place of Death |
55 Binfield Road |
Name |
Horace Richmond |
Sex |
Male |
Age |
80 |
Occupation |
Postman Sorter G.P.O. (retired) |
Cause of Death |
1a Neoplasm of the small intestine |
Certified by |
George Stoddard M.B. |
Informant's Signature |
A. E. Richmond |
Informant's Description |
Widow of the deceased. Present at the death |
Informant's Residence |
55 Binfield Road, Clapham, S.W.4 |
Date Registered |
10 March 1947 |
Registrar |
E. G. Davies |
Certified Copy of an Entry of Death for Horace Richmond
J P W Ward, As I Remember It, (Not published). Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
EX16 9NR. Tel: 01398332458, Email: familyhistory@blackwithies.demon.co.uk.
As I Remember It
Autobiography of Jack Ward (aka Jack Dowell and Jack Richmond)
Introduction
Chapter 1Early Years 1934-1939
Chapter 2Evacuation 1939-1944
Chapter 3A Boy in London 1944 - 1951
Chapter 4The Navy – Under Training
Chapter 5The Surface Fleet
Chapter 6Polaris and Tident
Chapter 7Retirement
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General Register Office, Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage for Horace Richmond and Alice Eleanor Dowell, (Issued by General Register on 6 Aug 2007 in reponse to Application No COL330700). Custom Id: MXD350327; Groom's Residence3 Hassocks Road, Mitcham. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
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Marriage of Horace Richmond (13) and Alice Eleanor Dowell (7)
Registration District: Lambeth
Application No: COL330700
Issued By: General Register Office
Issue Date: 6 August 2007
Certificate No: MXD350327
Place |
the Register office |
District |
Lambeth |
County |
Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth |
Date of Marriage |
14 December 1938 |
Groom's Name |
Horace Richmond |
Groom's Age |
59 |
Groom's Condition |
Widower |
Rank or Profession |
Horticulturist (retired) |
Groom's Residence |
Hassocks Road, Mitcham |
Groom's Father |
Joseph Richmond (deceased) |
Rank or Profession |
Attendant (Mental Hospital) |
Bride's Name |
Alice Eleanor Dowell |
Bride's Age |
42 |
Bride's Condition |
Spinster |
Rank or Profession |
Maternity Nurse |
Bride's Residence |
8 Allen Edwards Road, Lambeth |
Bride's Father |
Thomas Dowell (deceased) |
Rank or Profession |
Caterer's Traveller |
Married in |
Register Office |
by |
Licence |
before |
me |
Groom's Signature |
H. Richmond |
Bride's Signature |
A. E. Dowell |
Witness 1 |
E. W. Mackellow |
Witness 2 |
H. E. Mackellow |
Signed |
R. Hargreaves Registrar T. H. Edwards Superintendent Registrar |
H.E. Mackellow (née Harriett Dowell) was the Bride's sister.
E. W. Mackellow was Harriett's husband
Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage for Horace Richmond and Alice Eleanor Dowell
J P W Ward, As I Remember It, (Not published). Chapter 1 - Early DaysI remember being taken to tea presumable so that he could meet me. Whether this was also the first meeting with my mother I have no idea. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
EX16 9NR. Tel: 01398332458, Email: familyhistory@blackwithies.demon.co.uk.
As I Remember It
Autobiography of Jack Ward (aka Jack Dowell and Jack Richmond)
Introduction
Chapter 1Early Years 1934-1939
Chapter 2Evacuation 1939-1944
Chapter 3A Boy in London 1944 - 1951
Chapter 4The Navy – Under Training
Chapter 5The Surface Fleet
Chapter 6Polaris and Tident
Chapter 7Retirement
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General Register Office, Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage for Horace Richmond and Alice Eleanor Dowell, (Issued by General Register on 6 Aug 2007 in reponse to Application No COL330700). Custom Id: MXD350327; Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
EX16 9NR. Tel: 01398332458, Email: familyhistory@blackwithies.demon.co.uk.
Marriage of Horace Richmond (13) and Alice Eleanor Dowell (7)
Registration District: Lambeth
Application No: COL330700
Issued By: General Register Office
Issue Date: 6 August 2007
Certificate No: MXD350327
Place |
the Register office |
District |
Lambeth |
County |
Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth |
Date of Marriage |
14 December 1938 |
Groom's Name |
Horace Richmond |
Groom's Age |
59 |
Groom's Condition |
Widower |
Rank or Profession |
Horticulturist (retired) |
Groom's Residence |
Hassocks Road, Mitcham |
Groom's Father |
Joseph Richmond (deceased) |
Rank or Profession |
Attendant (Mental Hospital) |
Bride's Name |
Alice Eleanor Dowell |
Bride's Age |
42 |
Bride's Condition |
Spinster |
Rank or Profession |
Maternity Nurse |
Bride's Residence |
8 Allen Edwards Road, Lambeth |
Bride's Father |
Thomas Dowell (deceased) |
Rank or Profession |
Caterer's Traveller |
Married in |
Register Office |
by |
Licence |
before |
me |
Groom's Signature |
H. Richmond |
Bride's Signature |
A. E. Dowell |
Witness 1 |
E. W. Mackellow |
Witness 2 |
H. E. Mackellow |
Signed |
R. Hargreaves Registrar T. H. Edwards Superintendent Registrar |
H.E. Mackellow (née Harriett Dowell) was the Bride's sister.
E. W. Mackellow was Harriett's husband
Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage for Horace Richmond and Alice Eleanor Dowell
General Register Office, Certified Copy of an Entry of Death for Horace Richmond, (Issued 18 January 2009 by General Register Office Application No. 882072-1). Custom Id: DYC190323; Cit. Date: 7 March 1947. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
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Death of Horace Richmond (9)
Registration District: Lambeth
Application No: 882072-1
Issued By: General Register Office
Issue Date: 28 January 2009
Certificate No: DYC190323
Registration District |
Lambeth |
Sub-district |
Lambeth Central |
County |
Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth |
Date of Death |
7 March 1947 |
Place of Death |
55 Binfield Road |
Name |
Horace Richmond |
Sex |
Male |
Age |
80 |
Occupation |
Postman Sorter G.P.O. (retired) |
Cause of Death |
1a Neoplasm of the small intestine |
Certified by |
George Stoddard M.B. |
Informant's Signature |
A. E. Richmond |
Informant's Description |
Widow of the deceased. Present at the death |
Informant's Residence |
55 Binfield Road, Clapham, S.W.4 |
Date Registered |
10 March 1947 |
Registrar |
E. G. Davies |
Certified Copy of an Entry of Death for Horace Richmond
J P W Ward, As I Remember It, (Not published). Chapter 3. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
EX16 9NR. Tel: 01398332458, Email: familyhistory@blackwithies.demon.co.uk.
As I Remember It
Autobiography of Jack Ward (aka Jack Dowell and Jack Richmond)
Introduction
Chapter 1Early Years 1934-1939
Chapter 2Evacuation 1939-1944
Chapter 3A Boy in London 1944 - 1951
Chapter 4The Navy – Under Training
Chapter 5The Surface Fleet
Chapter 6Polaris and Tident
Chapter 7Retirement
Accessing the book
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General Register Office, Certified Copy of an Entry of Death for Horace Richmond, (Issued 18 January 2009 by General Register Office Application No. 882072-1). Custom Id: DYC190323; Death of Horace Richmond (9)DistrictLambethCountyMetropolitan Borough of LambethDate of Death7 Mar 1947Place of Death55 Binfield RoadNameHorace RichmondAge80Cause of Death1a Neoplasm of the smallCertified by George Stoddard M.B.Informant's SignatureA.E. RichmondInformant's DescriptionWidow of the deceased. Present at the deathInformant's Residence55 Binfield Road, Clapham, S.W. 4. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
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Death of Horace Richmond (9)
Registration District: Lambeth
Application No: 882072-1
Issued By: General Register Office
Issue Date: 28 January 2009
Certificate No: DYC190323
Registration District |
Lambeth |
Sub-district |
Lambeth Central |
County |
Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth |
Date of Death |
7 March 1947 |
Place of Death |
55 Binfield Road |
Name |
Horace Richmond |
Sex |
Male |
Age |
80 |
Occupation |
Postman Sorter G.P.O. (retired) |
Cause of Death |
1a Neoplasm of the small intestine |
Certified by |
George Stoddard M.B. |
Informant's Signature |
A. E. Richmond |
Informant's Description |
Widow of the deceased. Present at the death |
Informant's Residence |
55 Binfield Road, Clapham, S.W.4 |
Date Registered |
10 March 1947 |
Registrar |
E. G. Davies |
Certified Copy of an Entry of Death for Horace Richmond
General Register Office, Civil Registration Index (England & Wales) for Death of Horace Richmond, (Ancestry website). Custom Id: Deaths 1947 Q1 Lambeth, Vol. 5c, Page 1851; Quarter and YearJan-Mar 1947SurnameRichmondGiven NamesHoraceAge80Registration DistrictLambeth. General Register Office.
CRI(E&W) for Death of Horace Richmond (9)
Transcribed from Ancestry website
Quarter and Year |
Jan-Mar 1947 |
Surname |
Richmond |
Given Names |
Horace |
Age |
80 |
Registration District |
Lambeth |
Volume |
5c |
Page |
1851 |
Note
Civil Registration Index (England & Wales) for Death of Horace Richmond
General Register Office, Certified Copy of an Entry of Birth for Alice Eleanor Dowell, (Issued on 6 Aug 2007 in response to Application No COL330700). Custom Id: BXCC 641846; Child's Name Alice EleanorMother's Name Rebecca DOWELLMaiden Name THORNTON. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
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Birth of Alice Eleanor Dowell (7)
Registration District: Shoreditch
Application No: COL330700
Issued By: General Register Office
Issue Date: 6 August 2007
Certificate No: BXCC 541846
Registration District |
Shoreditch |
Sub-district |
Hoxton Old Town |
County |
London |
Date of Birth |
13 May 1896 5p.m. |
Place of Birth |
43 Felton Street |
Name |
Alice Eleanor |
Sex |
Girl |
Father's Name |
Thomas Dowell |
Mother's Name |
Rebecca Dowell |
Maiden Surname |
Thornton |
Father's Occupation |
Carman Journeyman |
Informant's Signature |
X The mark of Rebecca Dowell |
Informant's Description |
Mother |
Informant's Residence |
43 Felton Street. Hoxton Old Town |
Date Registered |
23 June 1896 |
Registrar |
E. J. Pearce, Registrar |
Name after registration |
--- |
Twin
As Alice was the twin of William her time of birth was recorded as 5 p.m.
Certified Copy of an Entry of Birth for Alice Eleanor Dowell
Ibid. Cit. Date: 23 June 1896. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
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Birth of Alice Eleanor Dowell (7)
Registration District: Shoreditch
Application No: COL330700
Issued By: General Register Office
Issue Date: 6 August 2007
Certificate No: BXCC 541846
Registration District |
Shoreditch |
Sub-district |
Hoxton Old Town |
County |
London |
Date of Birth |
13 May 1896 5p.m. |
Place of Birth |
43 Felton Street |
Name |
Alice Eleanor |
Sex |
Girl |
Father's Name |
Thomas Dowell |
Mother's Name |
Rebecca Dowell |
Maiden Surname |
Thornton |
Father's Occupation |
Carman Journeyman |
Informant's Signature |
X The mark of Rebecca Dowell |
Informant's Description |
Mother |
Informant's Residence |
43 Felton Street. Hoxton Old Town |
Date Registered |
23 June 1896 |
Registrar |
E. J. Pearce, Registrar |
Name after registration |
--- |
Twin
As Alice was the twin of William her time of birth was recorded as 5 p.m.
Certified Copy of an Entry of Birth for Alice Eleanor Dowell
Rev. A. G. Evans, Register Entry for Baptism of Alice Eleanor Dowell, (Ancestry image of LMA Reference Number: p91/sav/010). Custom Id: Baptisms 1896 Page 94 No. 749; Date of birth. Cit. Date: 21 June 1896. London Metropolitan Archives.
Baptismal Register Entry for Alice Eleanor Dowell (7)
Church: St Saviour
Parish: Hoxton
Denomination: Church of England
County: London
Page |
94 |
Entry No. |
749 |
Date of Baptism |
21 June 1896 |
Date of Birth |
30 May 1896 |
Child's Christian Name |
Alice Eleanor |
Parents' Christian Names |
Thomas & Rebecca |
Parents' Surname |
Dowell |
Abode |
43 Felton Street |
Quality, Trade, or Profession |
Carman |
Minister |
A. G. Evans |
Her twin brother William John was baptised just after her.
Register Entry for Baptism of Alice Eleanor Dowell
General Register Office, Civil Registration Index (England & Wales) for Birth of Alice Eleanor Dowell, (FreeBMD website). Custom Id: Births 1896 Vol. 1c Page 82; General Register Office.
CRI(E&W) for Birth of Alice Eleanor Dowell (7)
Transcribed from FreeBMD website
Quarter and Year |
Apr-Jun 1896 |
Surname |
Dowell |
Given Names |
Alice Eleanor |
Registration District |
Shoreditch |
Volume |
1c |
Page |
82 |
Note
The birth of her twin brother William John is recorded on the same page.
Civil Registration Index (England & Wales) for Birth of Alice Eleanor Dowell
Rev. A. G. Evans, Register Entry for Baptism of Alice Eleanor Dowell, (Ancestry image of LMA Reference Number: p91/sav/010). Custom Id: Baptisms 1896 Page 94 No. 749; Date of baptism. Cit. Date: 21 June 1896. London Metropolitan Archives.
Baptismal Register Entry for Alice Eleanor Dowell (7)
Church: St Saviour
Parish: Hoxton
Denomination: Church of England
County: London
Page |
94 |
Entry No. |
749 |
Date of Baptism |
21 June 1896 |
Date of Birth |
30 May 1896 |
Child's Christian Name |
Alice Eleanor |
Parents' Christian Names |
Thomas & Rebecca |
Parents' Surname |
Dowell |
Abode |
43 Felton Street |
Quality, Trade, or Profession |
Carman |
Minister |
A. G. Evans |
Her twin brother William John was baptised just after her.
Register Entry for Baptism of Alice Eleanor Dowell
1911 England Census for Household of Thomas Dowell in Bethnal Green, (Find My Past website). Custom Id: RG14/1452 RG78PN50 RD17 SD2 ED35 SN50; Occupation. Cit. Date: 2 April 1911. National Archives. Call Number: RG14/1452.
1911 UK Census For Household of Thomas Dowell (11)
County: London
Registration District: Bethnal Green
Sub-District: Bethnal Green South West
Parish: Bethnal Green
Reference: RG14/1452
Enumeration Date: 2 April 1911
Address: 26 Baroness Road
Number of Rooms: 5
Signature: Thomas Dowell X
Other Info:
Id |
Name |
Relation |
Sex |
Age |
Condition |
Years |
Chd Born |
Chd Living |
Chd Died |
Occupation |
Industry |
Employ Status |
At Home |
Where Born |
Nationality |
Infirmity
|
11 |
Thomas Dowell |
Head |
M |
55 |
Married |
32 |
|
|
|
Carman |
for Contractor |
Worker |
|
Hoxton |
British |
|
12 |
Rebecca Dowell |
Wife |
F |
49 |
Married |
32 |
9 |
9 |
|
|
|
|
|
Whitechapel |
British |
|
16 |
Harriett Dowell |
Daug |
F |
18 |
|
|
|
|
|
Printer |
Printing trade |
Worker |
|
Bethel Green |
British |
|
7 |
Alice Dowell |
Daug |
|
14 |
|
|
|
|
|
Cracker maker |
|
Worker |
|
Hoxton |
British |
|
15 |
William John Dowell |
Son |
|
14 |
|
|
|
|
|
Upholsterer |
|
Worker |
|
Hoxton |
British |
|
25 |
Arthur Herbert Dowell |
Son |
|
12 |
|
|
|
|
|
School |
|
|
|
Hoxton |
British |
|
98 |
Louise Fippen |
G/Daug |
|
13 |
|
|
|
|
|
School |
|
|
|
Hoxton |
British |
|
Although Louise Fippen is shown as the granddaughter of Thomas Dowell technically she was his step-granddaughter. Louise was the daughter of Thomas Fippen (46) and Louise Jane Dorsett (126) whose death was registered in the quarter ending Sep 1901. Thomas Fippen then married Caroline Emma Dowell (30) one of Thomas and Rebecca’s daughters on 2 Nov 1902.
In her reminiscences Alice Dowell (7) says that Louise was ‘adopted’ by Thomas and Rebecca Dowell when her mother became too ill to look after her. The Census would lend credence to this although where Louisa's brother Thomas (127) was is not known as a search of the Census failed to find him. Her other brother, Henry’s (125) death was registered in the quarter ending June 1901.
Thomas Dowell could not write (he signed the Census form with his mark X), neither could his wife Rebecca so who filled in the form is not known - probably the eldest child living at home who was Harriett.
1911 Census for Household of Thomas Dowell in Bethnal Green
J P W Ward, Reminiscences of Alice Eleanor Dowell, (Created 2007 with subsequent additions). Paragraph 3. Cit. Date: 7 June 2017. Dowell-Lauderdale Database.
Reminiscences of Alice Eleanor Dowell (7)
By her son, Jack Ward
1Introduction
My mother never wrote anything down about her own life. The only documents which survive are a few photographs, one of her case books which she kept as a midwife and a telephone numbers book from the late 1940s. Thus this memoir is based entirely on my recollection of what she said when she talked about her past.
I always called her Mum and although she died in 1987 I still think of her in this way. In places I have supplemented Mum's reminiscences with some of my own memories or material gleaned from researching my family history in order to make a more coherent memoir. This means that some of the material is also repeated in my autobiography As I Remember It. In these notes I refer to my mother as Alice when recording her reminiscences or supplementary information from research, and my mother or Mum when recording my own reminiscences. A similar distinction is made when referring to other people.
2Childhood
2.1Her Father
Her father, Thomas, was a carrier (carman) who drove a horse and cart. As a little girl she was taken to the stables to see the horses which were probably shires as she recalls walking underneath them. Walking under them seems improbable but obviously under her father's supervision she came close to them and they were very docile. Almost certainly the stables were fairly close to where they lived as it has been noted from census returns that some of their neighbours were also carmen. Given his background he was an almost certainly an employee; this view is reinforced by Alice's birth certificate which gives journeyman carman as his occupation.
One of his jobs was delivering vegetables to London hotels and, when there were banquets, Mum and her sisters, could earn extra pocket money (½d.) preparing vegetables at home such as tiny beans. The children's regular pocket money was a halfpenny given to them by their father on Saturday and a farthing given to them by their mother on Sunday. Mum said they spent it on sweets and perhaps saved for a small toy which could be bought from a local shop for a few pence.
I never knew my Grandfather as he died of a heart attack in 1919. Towards the end of his life he had a variety of other jobs so it seems that the rise in motor transport spelt the end of most horse drawn delivery and put many carmen who could not drive a motor vehicle out of work.
2.2Her Mother
Her mother, Rebecca who I called Grandma, could not read or write but was very good at mental arithmetic. She could beat the shopkeeper with the speed with which she added up the bill and frequently challenged the shopkeepers total. Inevitably she was right.
I have two memories of my Grandmother. The first was someone in a black dress which came down to the ground carrying a black Dorothy Bag. Mum said that she doted on me and would give me fruit which she had in her Dorothy Bag. The second was her lying on a chaise lounge with her eyes closed and me trying to wake her up. Later Mum confirmed my memories and told me that she had had a stroke and was unconscious for three days before she died. She died on Christmas Day in 1936. As I was only 2¾ at the time I am surprised that I have any memories of her at all.
2.3Her Siblings
Alice had 9 brothers and sisters and one adopted sister, Louisa Fippen. On her mothers instance all the children (including the girls) were apprenticed to a trade. With such a large family the children had to help with the household chores. It is almost certain that the older ones had to help with the younger ones although Mum never specifically said that they did. Mum's and her adopted sister's job was to help with turning the mangle on wash day which was traditionally a Monday. If it was Monday I can't help wondering what happened in term time when the children went to school. Did her mother get up very early to light the copper, boil the water and wash the clothes in time for the girls to mangle them before they went to school? Maybe if she wanted to get them dry possibly in time for some of the other girls to help with the ironing when they came home from school or, after the age of 12, work.
Rebecca.
Louisa (Fippen). Adoption was not formalised until the 1920s and Louisa (or Aunt Lou as I knew her) was simply taken in when her own parents were unable to look after her. Why this was is not clear but Mum said that Aunt Lous mother became terminally ill and asked Mums mother to take care of Louisa. Adoption was not legalised until the 1920s; The date of her adoption is uncertain. She is not recorded as living in the Dowell household at the time of the 1901 Census but she and Alice shared a bedroom, played together and had to turn the mangle together on washdays. Alice greatly admired Louisas hair which was thick and coarse and could be easily curled with rag ties and for special occasions the addition of a solution of sugar and water. Alices hair was very fine and straight and was almost impossible to curl even with the addition of sugar solution. As a girl Louisa had a temper and would pull Mums hair.
William, her twin brother. Uncle Bill (or Big Will as I knew him) was born half an hour after Mum and according to Mum was much smaller. If she ever told me their respective weights I dont remember them but certainly the difference in their physical attributes was marked. Mum was tall and Uncle Bill was short although they were both slim until Mum gave up riding a bicycle in 1950 when she put on weight.
In 1914 when World War I broke out he was 18. At the time there was great patriotic fever and young men rushed to join up. Young men who didnt were usually given a white feather (mostly anomalously) by young girls. Mum said that after receiving a white feather Uncle Bill lied about his age in order to join up. He was subsequently gassed and was invalided out. The Germans were the first to use chlorine gas as an offensive weapon. Initially our soldiers did not have gas masks and after the first attacks had had devastating results they were instructed to urinate on a cloth and tie it over their nose and mouth. This would have prevented or mitigated damage to their lung but their eyes must have been serious affected. What little I knew about Uncle Bills war service was told to me by Mum. He would never talk to me about it. When I asked him he would say, “You dont want to hear about it,” or words to that effect and it wasnt until many years later when I read Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by the historian Ronald Blythe that I appreciated why he didnt wish to talk about his experiences. From his Medal Card in the National Archives I have been able to find out some details of his war service.
He joined the 4th Battalion of the London Regiment whose headquarters was at Shoreditch which is where the family were living at the time. As his other military records appear to have been destroyed in the fire at the War Office in 1940 there is no way of knowing exactly when he joined up or when he was discharged. However, his first (of three) regimental numbers was 4205 which was issued between 5th May 1915 which was when 4110 was allocated and 15th June 1915 when 4486 was allocated. When the battalion was re-numbered in March 1917 men were allocated numbers within the range 280001 to 300000; Uncle Bills was 281670. The Battalion was sent to France in August 1914 so Uncle Bill would, after a period of initial training, been sent to France probably in July or August 1915 and was still there in 1917. His third regimental number was 6549702. This entry is TF (Territorial Force) and is explained by a note on the back of the card referring to a letter dated 26.2.21 from the GOC (General Officer Commanding) 56th London Division submitting the roll of individuals entitled to medals. It would therefore appear that he was transferred to the 56th London Division when it was reformed in January 1916 in France. It began to concentrate in the Hallencourt area on 5 February and was largely completed by 21 February. It then remained in France and Flanders and took part in the following engagements:
The diversionary attack at Gommecourt (1 July)*The Battle of Ginchy (9 September)* The Battle of Flers-Courcelette (15 -22 September)*The Battle of Morval (25-27 September)* in which the Division captured ComblesThe Battle of the Transloy Ridges (11 - 9 October)* * the battles marked * are phases of the Battles of the Somme 1916
One of the puzzles was that he was only awarded the Victory Medal and the British Medal. He was not awarded either the 1914-18 Star which was issued to all (approximately 2,336,000) who saw service in any theatre of conflict between 5 August 1914 and 31 December 1915, or the 1914 Star which was only awarded to members of the British Expeditionary Force. Was this an oversight? It would certainly appear so and in view of his attitude to the war he almost certainly had no interest in applying for it.
He never married which is slightly surprising as he survived WW1 and after the war there were many more girls of marriageable age than men. Alice said that he had been engaged and had even bought 'the home' by which she meant furniture when he discovered that his fiancée was seeing someone else. He broke off the engagement, sold all the furniture he had bought and continued to live with his mother.
Later he took his sister by adoption, Louisa, out but nothing came of it as he said that, 'She hadn't two words to rub together'. After they fell out over a hot water bottle he never spoke to her again unless it was absolutely essential although they lived in the same house.
He was an upholsterer by trade having served a full apprenticeship before WW I. He returned to the trade after the war but the dust affected his breathing badly especially as he had been gassed during the war. He also smoked which would have also contributed to his breathing problems but at that time it was not appreciated the deleterious effect that smoking had on health. Indeed at times it was positively encouraged as being beneficial in calming the nerves and most men smoked. He had to give up the upholstery trade and through the good offices of the Rev. Dalton who had been the vicar of the church he attended as a boy and was now a Minor Canon at St Pauls cathedral was able to obtain a job as a guide at St Pauls. The exact date is not known but it was probably in the early 1930s.
In WW2 his job as a guide was considered non-essential and he was directed to work on the London Underground. His first job was manning the floodgates where the Northern Line ran under the Thames. Later he had a job as a ticket collector and then as a ticket inspector. However, he did not serve his links with St Paul's Cathedral completely as at night he was a fire watcher and helped to put out an incendiary bomb which came through the roof. He returned to his old job as a guide in 1946. His favourite job was a guide in the Whispering Gallery and he made a recording of the talk he used to give to visitors. However, as he grew older he found the climb to the whispering gallery a bit too much and he was employed on the bookstall. He was able to get tickets for national events held at the cathedral such as the service of thanksgiving held at the end of WW II which was attended by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. I had an aisle seat for that service. He could also get a viewing position overlooking Ludgate Hill to see the Lord Mayor's Procession and once he took me all the way up to the cylinder under the cross on top of the dome in which there were small windows; the view was tremendous.
Louisa Alice. See Paragraph 4 Looking After Louisa's Children
2.4The Goat Cart
The children had a small cart drawn by a goat. I dont know where the goat was kept but apparently it was quite a pet and Arthur was responsible for its care. However, the children fed it so much that its belly nearly touched the ground!
3Time as a Novice Nun
She entered St Margarets Convent, East Grinsted, which is a Church of England convent, as a novice. The reason for her entry are unclear but she would have had to be very religious and felt she had a vocation to do so. Almost certainly the arrangements would have been made through her parish priest. Research has shown that in the early 1900s the family attended St Saviours Church in Hoxton and several members of the family were baptised, presumably were confirmed and were married there. St Saviour was very High Church and was associated with the Catholic Revival within the Church of England, despite opposition from the Bishop of London, which resulted in an episcopal ban on the parish following a Corpus Christi procession in August 1917. St Saviour's became the focus for the movement for reunion with Rome known as the Confraternity of Unity when its secretariat was established at St Saviour's in 1929. The Church was badly damaged during the 2nd World War and never reopened. It is possible that the High Church ritual may have turned her thoughts towards entering a convent which was no doubt encouraged by her by her parish priest who almost certainly made the arrangements for her to do so. Later became a Minor Canon at St Pauls Cathedral. I cannot remember his name but remember meeting him when I was about 12 after a commemoration service at St Pauls. To me he appeared to be very old.
Mum rarely spoke about her life in the convent but I had the impression that it was regimented, strict and hard. As she was not able to bring a dowry she was employed on domestic duties. Those who could bring a dowry undertook more gentile tasks such as needlework. She told me that she slept in a cell which in winter was bitterly cold; if she woke up feeling snug and warm in bed she was supposed to get out, kneel on the cold floor and say a prayer. When I asked her if she did, she replied “Of course.”
When her sister Louisa became ill with the Spanish flu her father insisted that she left the Convent to help with the care of her sisters children. I gather there was an argument between her father and the Mother Superior over her leaving. She never returned to the convent and eventually trained as a midwife. I have been unable the determine the exact dates of her entering and leaving the Convent. I wrote to the Mother Superior on two separate occasions asking for information but never received a reply so I have to infer the dates from other sources. Her sister Louisa died on 28th October 1918 so she must have left the Convent around this time (she was 22 at the time). When she entered is more difficult. According to the 1911 Census (taken when she was 14) she was employed as a cracker maker. I don't think the Convent would have accepted her before she was 18 and then only on the recommendation of her parish priest and with her parents' permission; it could have been as late as when she was 21 if she entered against her parents wishes.
4Looking After Louisa's Children
By all accounts Louisa's husband was a neer-do-well who was either a philanderer or a drunkard - perhaps both! Although Mum said she looked after her sister's children (and I had the impression there were two) she only talked about Eddie. I know she was proud of Eddie who became a Lieutenant Colonel in the army. Given their circumstances he must have worked his way up rather than entering the army as a cadet. However, I remember a cousin called Ethel who I called Aunt Ethel as she was much older than I was. She called Mum Aunt Alice. As a boy we saw a lot of Aunt Ethel and her family and she was obviously close to Mum and I have since found out that she was the other child of Louisa. Mum almost certainly looked after Louisa's children at her parents' house as there would certainly not have been any additional income to do so. I do not know how long she looked after them; presumably until they left home.
Alice Elenor Dowell never wrote anything down about her own life. The only documents which survive are a few photographs, one of her case books which she kept as a midwife and a telephone numbers book from the late 1940s. The memoir is based entirely on her son Jack's recollection of what she said when she talked about her past supplemented by his family history research.
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Trobridge Register Office, Certified Copy of an Entry of Death for Alice Eleanor Ward, (Original Certificate issued by D. R. Hollis, Deputy Registrar). Custom Id: IX 554772; OccupationDomiciliary Midwife (retired). Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
EX16 9NR. Tel: 01398332458, Email: familyhistory@blackwithies.demon.co.uk.
Certified Copy of an Entry of Death for Alice Eleanor Ward (7)
Registration District: Trowbridge
Application No: Original certificate
Issued By: D. R. Harris
Issue Date: 19 June 1987
Certificate No: IX554772
Registration District |
Trowbridge |
Sub-district |
Trowbridge |
Administrative Area |
County of Wiltshire |
Date of Death |
17 June 1987 |
Place of Death |
Waterhouse, Limpley Stoke, Wilts |
Name |
Alice Eleanor WARD |
Sex |
Female |
Maiden Name |
DOWELL |
Date of Birth |
13 May 1896 |
Place of Birth |
Hoxton, London |
Occupation |
Domiciliary Midwife (retired) Widow of William Charles John WARD, Schoolmaster (retired) |
Usual Address |
Waterhouse, Limpley Stoke, Wilts |
Name of Informant |
Jack Peter William WARD |
Qualification |
Son |
Usual Address |
Blackwithies, Bere Aller, Langport, Somerset |
Cause of Death |
1a Bronchopneumonia b Cerebral haemorrhage 2 Diabetes Mellitis |
Certified by |
J Heber M.B. |
Informant's signature |
J. P. W. Ward |
Date Registered |
19 June 1897 |
Registrar |
D. R. Harris Deputy Registrar |
Certified Copy of an Entry of Death for Alice Eleanor Ward
General Register Office, Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage for Horace Richmond and Alice Eleanor Dowell, (Issued by General Register on 6 Aug 2007 in reponse to Application No COL330700). Custom Id: MXD350327; Date of Marriage14 Dec 1938Rank or ProfessionMaternity Nurse. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
EX16 9NR. Tel: 01398332458, Email: familyhistory@blackwithies.demon.co.uk.
Marriage of Horace Richmond (13) and Alice Eleanor Dowell (7)
Registration District: Lambeth
Application No: COL330700
Issued By: General Register Office
Issue Date: 6 August 2007
Certificate No: MXD350327
Place |
the Register office |
District |
Lambeth |
County |
Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth |
Date of Marriage |
14 December 1938 |
Groom's Name |
Horace Richmond |
Groom's Age |
59 |
Groom's Condition |
Widower |
Rank or Profession |
Horticulturist (retired) |
Groom's Residence |
Hassocks Road, Mitcham |
Groom's Father |
Joseph Richmond (deceased) |
Rank or Profession |
Attendant (Mental Hospital) |
Bride's Name |
Alice Eleanor Dowell |
Bride's Age |
42 |
Bride's Condition |
Spinster |
Rank or Profession |
Maternity Nurse |
Bride's Residence |
8 Allen Edwards Road, Lambeth |
Bride's Father |
Thomas Dowell (deceased) |
Rank or Profession |
Caterer's Traveller |
Married in |
Register Office |
by |
Licence |
before |
me |
Groom's Signature |
H. Richmond |
Bride's Signature |
A. E. Dowell |
Witness 1 |
E. W. Mackellow |
Witness 2 |
H. E. Mackellow |
Signed |
R. Hargreaves Registrar T. H. Edwards Superintendent Registrar |
H.E. Mackellow (née Harriett Dowell) was the Bride's sister.
E. W. Mackellow was Harriett's husband
Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage for Horace Richmond and Alice Eleanor Dowell
J P W Ward, Reminiscences of Alice Eleanor Dowell, (Created 2007 with subsequent additions). Dowell-Lauderdale Database.
Reminiscences of Alice Eleanor Dowell (7)
By her son, Jack Ward
1Introduction
My mother never wrote anything down about her own life. The only documents which survive are a few photographs, one of her case books which she kept as a midwife and a telephone numbers book from the late 1940s. Thus this memoir is based entirely on my recollection of what she said when she talked about her past.
I always called her Mum and although she died in 1987 I still think of her in this way. In places I have supplemented Mum's reminiscences with some of my own memories or material gleaned from researching my family history in order to make a more coherent memoir. This means that some of the material is also repeated in my autobiography As I Remember It. In these notes I refer to my mother as Alice when recording her reminiscences or supplementary information from research, and my mother or Mum when recording my own reminiscences. A similar distinction is made when referring to other people.
2Childhood
2.1Her Father
Her father, Thomas, was a carrier (carman) who drove a horse and cart. As a little girl she was taken to the stables to see the horses which were probably shires as she recalls walking underneath them. Walking under them seems improbable but obviously under her father's supervision she came close to them and they were very docile. Almost certainly the stables were fairly close to where they lived as it has been noted from census returns that some of their neighbours were also carmen. Given his background he was an almost certainly an employee; this view is reinforced by Alice's birth certificate which gives journeyman carman as his occupation.
One of his jobs was delivering vegetables to London hotels and, when there were banquets, Mum and her sisters, could earn extra pocket money (½d.) preparing vegetables at home such as tiny beans. The children's regular pocket money was a halfpenny given to them by their father on Saturday and a farthing given to them by their mother on Sunday. Mum said they spent it on sweets and perhaps saved for a small toy which could be bought from a local shop for a few pence.
I never knew my Grandfather as he died of a heart attack in 1919. Towards the end of his life he had a variety of other jobs so it seems that the rise in motor transport spelt the end of most horse drawn delivery and put many carmen who could not drive a motor vehicle out of work.
2.2Her Mother
Her mother, Rebecca who I called Grandma, could not read or write but was very good at mental arithmetic. She could beat the shopkeeper with the speed with which she added up the bill and frequently challenged the shopkeepers total. Inevitably she was right.
I have two memories of my Grandmother. The first was someone in a black dress which came down to the ground carrying a black Dorothy Bag. Mum said that she doted on me and would give me fruit which she had in her Dorothy Bag. The second was her lying on a chaise lounge with her eyes closed and me trying to wake her up. Later Mum confirmed my memories and told me that she had had a stroke and was unconscious for three days before she died. She died on Christmas Day in 1936. As I was only 2¾ at the time I am surprised that I have any memories of her at all.
2.3Her Siblings
Alice had 9 brothers and sisters and one adopted sister, Louisa Fippen. On her mothers instance all the children (including the girls) were apprenticed to a trade. With such a large family the children had to help with the household chores. It is almost certain that the older ones had to help with the younger ones although Mum never specifically said that they did. Mum's and her adopted sister's job was to help with turning the mangle on wash day which was traditionally a Monday. If it was Monday I can't help wondering what happened in term time when the children went to school. Did her mother get up very early to light the copper, boil the water and wash the clothes in time for the girls to mangle them before they went to school? Maybe if she wanted to get them dry possibly in time for some of the other girls to help with the ironing when they came home from school or, after the age of 12, work.
Rebecca.
Louisa (Fippen). Adoption was not formalised until the 1920s and Louisa (or Aunt Lou as I knew her) was simply taken in when her own parents were unable to look after her. Why this was is not clear but Mum said that Aunt Lous mother became terminally ill and asked Mums mother to take care of Louisa. Adoption was not legalised until the 1920s; The date of her adoption is uncertain. She is not recorded as living in the Dowell household at the time of the 1901 Census but she and Alice shared a bedroom, played together and had to turn the mangle together on washdays. Alice greatly admired Louisas hair which was thick and coarse and could be easily curled with rag ties and for special occasions the addition of a solution of sugar and water. Alices hair was very fine and straight and was almost impossible to curl even with the addition of sugar solution. As a girl Louisa had a temper and would pull Mums hair.
William, her twin brother. Uncle Bill (or Big Will as I knew him) was born half an hour after Mum and according to Mum was much smaller. If she ever told me their respective weights I dont remember them but certainly the difference in their physical attributes was marked. Mum was tall and Uncle Bill was short although they were both slim until Mum gave up riding a bicycle in 1950 when she put on weight.
In 1914 when World War I broke out he was 18. At the time there was great patriotic fever and young men rushed to join up. Young men who didnt were usually given a white feather (mostly anomalously) by young girls. Mum said that after receiving a white feather Uncle Bill lied about his age in order to join up. He was subsequently gassed and was invalided out. The Germans were the first to use chlorine gas as an offensive weapon. Initially our soldiers did not have gas masks and after the first attacks had had devastating results they were instructed to urinate on a cloth and tie it over their nose and mouth. This would have prevented or mitigated damage to their lung but their eyes must have been serious affected. What little I knew about Uncle Bills war service was told to me by Mum. He would never talk to me about it. When I asked him he would say, “You dont want to hear about it,” or words to that effect and it wasnt until many years later when I read Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by the historian Ronald Blythe that I appreciated why he didnt wish to talk about his experiences. From his Medal Card in the National Archives I have been able to find out some details of his war service.
He joined the 4th Battalion of the London Regiment whose headquarters was at Shoreditch which is where the family were living at the time. As his other military records appear to have been destroyed in the fire at the War Office in 1940 there is no way of knowing exactly when he joined up or when he was discharged. However, his first (of three) regimental numbers was 4205 which was issued between 5th May 1915 which was when 4110 was allocated and 15th June 1915 when 4486 was allocated. When the battalion was re-numbered in March 1917 men were allocated numbers within the range 280001 to 300000; Uncle Bills was 281670. The Battalion was sent to France in August 1914 so Uncle Bill would, after a period of initial training, been sent to France probably in July or August 1915 and was still there in 1917. His third regimental number was 6549702. This entry is TF (Territorial Force) and is explained by a note on the back of the card referring to a letter dated 26.2.21 from the GOC (General Officer Commanding) 56th London Division submitting the roll of individuals entitled to medals. It would therefore appear that he was transferred to the 56th London Division when it was reformed in January 1916 in France. It began to concentrate in the Hallencourt area on 5 February and was largely completed by 21 February. It then remained in France and Flanders and took part in the following engagements:
The diversionary attack at Gommecourt (1 July)*The Battle of Ginchy (9 September)* The Battle of Flers-Courcelette (15 -22 September)*The Battle of Morval (25-27 September)* in which the Division captured ComblesThe Battle of the Transloy Ridges (11 - 9 October)* * the battles marked * are phases of the Battles of the Somme 1916
One of the puzzles was that he was only awarded the Victory Medal and the British Medal. He was not awarded either the 1914-18 Star which was issued to all (approximately 2,336,000) who saw service in any theatre of conflict between 5 August 1914 and 31 December 1915, or the 1914 Star which was only awarded to members of the British Expeditionary Force. Was this an oversight? It would certainly appear so and in view of his attitude to the war he almost certainly had no interest in applying for it.
He never married which is slightly surprising as he survived WW1 and after the war there were many more girls of marriageable age than men. Alice said that he had been engaged and had even bought 'the home' by which she meant furniture when he discovered that his fiancée was seeing someone else. He broke off the engagement, sold all the furniture he had bought and continued to live with his mother.
Later he took his sister by adoption, Louisa, out but nothing came of it as he said that, 'She hadn't two words to rub together'. After they fell out over a hot water bottle he never spoke to her again unless it was absolutely essential although they lived in the same house.
He was an upholsterer by trade having served a full apprenticeship before WW I. He returned to the trade after the war but the dust affected his breathing badly especially as he had been gassed during the war. He also smoked which would have also contributed to his breathing problems but at that time it was not appreciated the deleterious effect that smoking had on health. Indeed at times it was positively encouraged as being beneficial in calming the nerves and most men smoked. He had to give up the upholstery trade and through the good offices of the Rev. Dalton who had been the vicar of the church he attended as a boy and was now a Minor Canon at St Pauls cathedral was able to obtain a job as a guide at St Pauls. The exact date is not known but it was probably in the early 1930s.
In WW2 his job as a guide was considered non-essential and he was directed to work on the London Underground. His first job was manning the floodgates where the Northern Line ran under the Thames. Later he had a job as a ticket collector and then as a ticket inspector. However, he did not serve his links with St Paul's Cathedral completely as at night he was a fire watcher and helped to put out an incendiary bomb which came through the roof. He returned to his old job as a guide in 1946. His favourite job was a guide in the Whispering Gallery and he made a recording of the talk he used to give to visitors. However, as he grew older he found the climb to the whispering gallery a bit too much and he was employed on the bookstall. He was able to get tickets for national events held at the cathedral such as the service of thanksgiving held at the end of WW II which was attended by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. I had an aisle seat for that service. He could also get a viewing position overlooking Ludgate Hill to see the Lord Mayor's Procession and once he took me all the way up to the cylinder under the cross on top of the dome in which there were small windows; the view was tremendous.
Louisa Alice. See Paragraph 4 Looking After Louisa's Children
2.4The Goat Cart
The children had a small cart drawn by a goat. I dont know where the goat was kept but apparently it was quite a pet and Arthur was responsible for its care. However, the children fed it so much that its belly nearly touched the ground!
3Time as a Novice Nun
She entered St Margarets Convent, East Grinsted, which is a Church of England convent, as a novice. The reason for her entry are unclear but she would have had to be very religious and felt she had a vocation to do so. Almost certainly the arrangements would have been made through her parish priest. Research has shown that in the early 1900s the family attended St Saviours Church in Hoxton and several members of the family were baptised, presumably were confirmed and were married there. St Saviour was very High Church and was associated with the Catholic Revival within the Church of England, despite opposition from the Bishop of London, which resulted in an episcopal ban on the parish following a Corpus Christi procession in August 1917. St Saviour's became the focus for the movement for reunion with Rome known as the Confraternity of Unity when its secretariat was established at St Saviour's in 1929. The Church was badly damaged during the 2nd World War and never reopened. It is possible that the High Church ritual may have turned her thoughts towards entering a convent which was no doubt encouraged by her by her parish priest who almost certainly made the arrangements for her to do so. Later became a Minor Canon at St Pauls Cathedral. I cannot remember his name but remember meeting him when I was about 12 after a commemoration service at St Pauls. To me he appeared to be very old.
Mum rarely spoke about her life in the convent but I had the impression that it was regimented, strict and hard. As she was not able to bring a dowry she was employed on domestic duties. Those who could bring a dowry undertook more gentile tasks such as needlework. She told me that she slept in a cell which in winter was bitterly cold; if she woke up feeling snug and warm in bed she was supposed to get out, kneel on the cold floor and say a prayer. When I asked her if she did, she replied “Of course.”
When her sister Louisa became ill with the Spanish flu her father insisted that she left the Convent to help with the care of her sisters children. I gather there was an argument between her father and the Mother Superior over her leaving. She never returned to the convent and eventually trained as a midwife. I have been unable the determine the exact dates of her entering and leaving the Convent. I wrote to the Mother Superior on two separate occasions asking for information but never received a reply so I have to infer the dates from other sources. Her sister Louisa died on 28th October 1918 so she must have left the Convent around this time (she was 22 at the time). When she entered is more difficult. According to the 1911 Census (taken when she was 14) she was employed as a cracker maker. I don't think the Convent would have accepted her before she was 18 and then only on the recommendation of her parish priest and with her parents' permission; it could have been as late as when she was 21 if she entered against her parents wishes.
4Looking After Louisa's Children
By all accounts Louisa's husband was a neer-do-well who was either a philanderer or a drunkard - perhaps both! Although Mum said she looked after her sister's children (and I had the impression there were two) she only talked about Eddie. I know she was proud of Eddie who became a Lieutenant Colonel in the army. Given their circumstances he must have worked his way up rather than entering the army as a cadet. However, I remember a cousin called Ethel who I called Aunt Ethel as she was much older than I was. She called Mum Aunt Alice. As a boy we saw a lot of Aunt Ethel and her family and she was obviously close to Mum and I have since found out that she was the other child of Louisa. Mum almost certainly looked after Louisa's children at her parents' house as there would certainly not have been any additional income to do so. I do not know how long she looked after them; presumably until they left home.
Alice Elenor Dowell never wrote anything down about her own life. The only documents which survive are a few photographs, one of her case books which she kept as a midwife and a telephone numbers book from the late 1940s. The memoir is based entirely on her son Jack's recollection of what she said when she talked about her past supplemented by his family history research.
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Jack Ward, Central Midwives Board: Midwives Roll. Entries for Alice Eleanor Dowell (subsequently Richmond and Ward), (This database). Custom Id: DV7 series; Cit. Date: from 1924 to 1947. National Archives.
Central Midwives Board (CMB)
1, Queen Anne’s Gate Buildings
Westminster, S.W.1
The CMB was responsible for the training, certification and conduct of midwives in England and Wales. It was set up by the Midwives Act 1902, whose provisions prohibited unqualified and unregistered women from practising midwifery. The aims of the act were 'to secure the better training of midwives and to regulate their practice'. Only midwives certified under this act could practice in England and Wales.
A midwife could be certified under section 2 of the 1902 Act, provided that she held a certificate in midwifery from "the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, or from the Obstetrical Society of London or the Coombe lying-in Hospital and Guiness's Dispensary, or the Rotunda Hospital for the Relief of the Poor lying-in Women of Dublin, or such other certificate as may be approved by the Central Midwives Board", or that "at the passing of the Midwives Act, 1902 she had been for at least one year in bona fide practice as a midwife, and that she bears a good character".
Section 6 of the 1902 Act stated that 'there shall be a roll of midwives, containing:-
(1) The names of those midwives who have been certified under section two of the act;
(2) The names of all other midwives who have been certified under this act.'
The secretary of the CMB was charged with the custody of the Midwives Roll and its publication.
On the passing of the Midwives Act, 1902, local councils of counties and county boroughs became "local supervisory bodies", and were charged with the supervision of midwives within the areas of their jurisdiction. Midwives intending to practice (and certified under the act) had to give notice in writing of their intention to do so to their local supervisory body by January of the year preceding that during which they intended to practice. Local supervisory bodies were responsible for investigating cases of malpractice and negligence, discipline of midwives, and for supplying the secretary of the Central Midwives Board with the names and addresses of all midwives in their area who had notified them of their intention to practice. These notifications were then compiled by the Central Midwives Board to form the Midwives Roll.
The Board also had powers in England and Wales to provide training and examination as a prerequisite to enrolment, and to draw up rules of conduct both for themselves, and for those practising as midwives.
Under the 1902 Act, the following institutions each appointed a registered medical practitioner to the Board: the Royal College of Physicians of London; the Royal College of Surgeons of England; the Society of Apothecaries; and the Incorporated Midwives. The Association of County Councils, the Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses and the Royal British Nurses Association each appointed a member; whilst the Lord President of the Council appointed two further members, one of whom was to be a woman. The Privy Council had general supervisory powers over the Board.
When the Ministry of Health was set up in 1919, the minister took over the powers of the Privy Council and the Lord President relating to the Board.
In 1983 the Central Midwives Board ceased to exist, under the provision of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979, which established a United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting.
CMB Midwives Roll
The Roll was published annually as a hard cover book. The Rolls give the Registration Number, Name, Address, Date of Enrolment, Qualification and whether the midwife intends to practice. They also contain ancillary information such as the names of board members, approved training institutions, the names of examiners and the text of the Midwives Act. Unlike the Nursing Council registers they do not give the place where the midwife trained and DV8 - Central Midwives Board: Training and Examination Files are not held by the National Archives.
Approved Training Institutions in the London Area where Alice is known to have worked are:-
St Thomas’ Hospital, Lambeth, S.E.1
London Hospital, Whitechapel, E.1
Poor Law Institutions
Bermondsey & Rotherhithe Hospital, Lower Rd, S.E.16
Shoreditch St Leonard’s Hospital, Hoxton St, N.1
Alice’s Registration Number was 65746 and she qualified by CMB Examination. However, it is not known where she trained. She talked a lot about St Thomas’ Hospital and may have trained there although initially she worked in Rotherhithe which was covered by the Bermondsey & Rotherhithe Hospital. Strangely the annual Rolls do not all agree on her Date of Enrolment.
The Rolls held by the National Archives appear to have come from a variety of sources and some years are missing. The following transcripts from the Rolls held at the National Archives are relevant to Alice Eleanor Dowell:-
DV7/22 1924
Midwives admitted up to September 30 1924. She is not listed
DV7/23 1925 Not held by the National Archives
DV7/24 1926 – Notification of Intention to Practice
Number: 65746
Name: Dowell, Alice Eleanor
211, Hackney Road, E.
Date of Enrolment: October 30 1925
DV7/25 1927 Not held by the National Archives
DV7/26 1928
Number: 65746
Name: Dowell, Alice Eleanor
Address: 30, Surrey Square, Walworth, S.E.
Date of Enrolment: 9 April 1925
DV7/27 1929 Not held by National Archives
DV7/28 1930 Not held by National Archives
DV7/30 1931 Available – not transcribed
DV7/31 1932 Not held by National Archives
DV7/32 1933 This was the CMB’s copy of the Midwives Roll containing printed corrections up to 17 March 1933 and then amended in manuscript using red ink up to 31 December 1933.
Number: 65746
Name: Dowell, Alice Eleanor
Original printed entry
Address: 65 Fawcett Road, Bermondsey, S.E.
Crossed out in red ink and address amended to:
119, Newington Road, Ramsgate, Kent
Crossed out in red ink and amended to:
26, Manston Road, Ramsgate, Kent
DV7/34 1934 Not held by National Archives
As the last address for 1933 and the address for 1935 was 26, Manston Road, Ramsgate, Kent it is assumed that she was there in 1934
DV7/35 1935
Address: 26, Manston Road, Ramsgate, Kent
Date of Enrolment: February 23 1925
Qualifications: CMB Examination
DV7/36 1936 Not held by National Archives
DV7/37 1937
Address: 8, Devonshire Road, South Lambeth, S.W.
Date of Enrolment: June 22 1925
DV7/38 Roll of Practicing Midwives 1937-38
Number: 65746
Name: Alice Eleanor Richmond
Address: 8, Allen Edwards Road, South Lambeth, S.W.8
Date of Enrolment: 9 April 1925
DV7/39 Roll of Practicing Midwives 1938-39
Correct up to 31 March 1940
Number: 65746
Alice Eleanor Richmond
25, Rhodesia Road, Stockwell, S.W.9
Date of Enrolment: 9-4-25 Qualification: CMB Examination
DV7/40 Roll of Practicing Midwives 1939-40
Correct up to 31 March 1941
Number: 65746
Alice Eleanor Richmond
25, Rhodesia Road, Stockwell, S.W.9
Date of Enrolment: 9-4-25 Qualification: CMB Examination
DV7/41 Roll of Practicing Midwives 1940-41
Number: 65746
Alice Eleanor Richmond
c/o London County Council, County Hall, Westminster, S.W.7
Date of Enrolment: 9-4-25 Qualification: CMB Examination
DV7/42 Roll of Practicing Midwives 1941-42
Number: 65746
Alice Eleanor Richmond
c/o London County Council, County Hall, Westminster, S.W.7
Date of Enrolment: 9-4-25Qualification: CMB Examination
DV7/43 Roll of Practicing Midwives 1942-43
Correct up to 31 March 1944
Number: 65746
Alice Eleanor Richmond
c/o London County Council, County Hall, Westminster Bridge, S.E.1
Date of Enrolment: 9-4-25Qualification: CMB Examination
DV7/44 Roll of Practicing Midwives 1943-44
Correct up to 30 June 1945
Number: 65746
Alice Eleanor Richmond
c/o London County Council, County Hall, Westminster Bridge, S.E.1
Date of Enrolment: 9-4-25Qualification: CMB Examination
DV7/45 Roll of Practicing Midwives 1944-45
Correct up to
Number: 65746
Richmond, Alice Eleanor
Kimberly Emergency Maternity Home, New South Promenade, Blackpool, Lancs.
Date of Enrolment: 9-4-25Qualification: CMB Examination
DV7/46 Roll of Practicing Midwives 1945-46
Correct up to 30 June 1945
Number: 65746
Richmond, Alice Eleanor
Kimberly Emergency Maternity Home, New South Promenade, Blackpool, Lancs.
Date of Enrolment: 9-4-25Qualification: CMB Examination
DV7/47 The Midwives Roll 1946
Correct up to 31 December 1945; addresses up to 31 August 1946
Number: 65746
Richmond, Alice Eleanor
Kimberly Emergency Maternity Home, New South Promenade, Blackpool, Lancs.
Date of Enrolment: 9-4-25Qualification: CMB Examination
DV7/48 Roll of Practicing Midwives 1946-47
Correct up to
Number: 65746
Richmond, Alice Eleanor
55, Binfield Road, S.W.4
Date of Enrolment: 9-4-25Qualification: CMB Examination
Transcribed from CMB Midwives Roll (National Archives DV 7) by her son Jack Ward on 21 Oct 2010.
Central Midwives Board, Registration as a Midwife. Cit. Date: 1925. National Archives.
Central Midwives Board Register for Alice Eleanor Dowell (7)
Compiled by her son Jack Ward on 21 Oct 2010 from the CMB Midwives Roll (National Archives DV 7)
The Central Midwives Board (CMB)
Alice’s Registration Number was 65746 and she qualified by CMB Examination. However, it is not known where she trained. She talked a lot about St Thomas’ Hospital and initially it was thought that she trained there. However, she also talked about her experiences as a midwife working in Rotherhithe. As none of the residential addresses given in the rolls put her within cycling distance of Rotherhithe it is more likely that she trained at the Bermondsey & Rotherhithe Hospital and her experiences related to her final year of training or shortly after she was trained when she was still resident at the hospital or its staff accommodation. The National Archives do not hold information on where individual midwives trained.
She also trained as a nurse, or at least started training as a nurse, and she may have done this at St Thomas’ Hospital before switching to midwifery.
The Rolls held by the National Archives appear to have come from a variety of sources and some years are missing. The following transcripts from the Rolls held at the National Archives are relevant to Alice Eleanor Dowell:-
DV7/22 1924
Midwives admitted up to September 30 1924. She is not listed
DV7/23 1925 Not held by the National Archives
DV7/24 1926 – Notification of Intention to Practice
Number: 65746
Name: Dowell, Alice Eleanor
211, Hackney Road, E.
Date of Enrolment: October 30 1925
DV7/25 1927 Not held by the National Archives
DV7/26 1928
Number: 65746
Name: Dowell, Alice Eleanor
Address: 30, Surrey Square, Walworth, S.E.
Date of Enrolment: 9 April 1925
DV7/27 1929 Not held by National Archives
DV7/28 1930 Not held by National Archives
DV7/30 1931 Available – not transcribed
DV7/31 1932 Not held by National Archives
DV7/32 1933 This was the CMB’s copy of the Midwives Roll containing printed corrections up to 17 March 1933 and then amended in manuscript using red ink up to 31 December 1933.
Number: 65746
Name: Dowell, Alice Eleanor
Original printed entry
Address: 65 Fawcett Road, Bermondsey, S.E.
Crossed out in red ink and address amended to:
119, Newington Road, Ramsgate, Kent
Crossed out in red ink and amended to:
26, Manston Road, Ramsgate, Kent
DV7/34 1934 Not held by National Archives
DV7/35 1935
Address: 26, Manston Road, Ramsgate, Kent
Date of Enrolment: February 23 1925
Qualifications: CMB Examination
DV7/36 1936 Not held by National Archives
DV7/37 1937
Address: 8, Devonshire Road, South Lambeth, S.W.
Date of Enrolment: June 22 1925
DV7/38 Roll of Practicing Midwives 1937-38
Number: 65746
Name: Alice Eleanor Richmond
Address: 8, Allen Edwards Road, South Lambeth, S.W.8
Date of Enrolment: 9 April 1925
Strangely the annual Rolls do not all agree on her Date of Enrolment. However, they do agree that the year was 1925.
Central Midwives Board
1, Queen Anne’s Gate Buildings
Westminster, S.W.1
The CMB was responsible for the training, certification and conduct of midwives in England and Wales. It was set up by the Midwives Act 1902, whose provisions prohibited unqualified and unregistered women from practising midwifery. The aims of the act were 'to secure the better training of midwives and to regulate their practice'. Only midwives certified under this act could practice in England and Wales.
A midwife could be certified under section 2 of the 1902 Act, provided that she held a certificate in midwifery from "the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, or from the Obstetrical Society of London or the Coombe lying-in Hospital and Guiness's Dispensary, or the Rotunda Hospital for the Relief of the Poor lying-in Women of Dublin, or such other certificate as may be approved by the Central Midwives Board", or that "at the passing of the Midwives Act, 1902 she had been for at least one year in bona fide practice as a midwife, and that she bears a good character".
Section 6 of the 1902 Act stated that 'there shall be a roll of midwives, containing:-
(1) The names of those midwives who have been certified under section two of the act;
(2) The names of all other midwives who have been certified under this act.'
The secretary of the CMB was charged with the custody of the Midwives Roll and its publication.
On the passing of the Midwives Act, 1902, local councils of counties and county boroughs became "local supervisory bodies", and were charged with the supervision of midwives within the areas of their jurisdiction. Midwives intending to practice (and certified under the act) had to give notice in writing of their intention to do so to their local supervisory body by January of the year preceding that during which they intended to practice. Local supervisory bodies were responsible for investigating cases of malpractice and negligence, discipline of midwives, and for supplying the secretary of the Central Midwives Board with the names and addresses of all midwives in their area who had notified them of their intention to practice. These notifications were then compiled by the Central Midwives Board to form the Midwives Roll.
The Board also had powers in England and Wales to provide training and examination as a prerequisite to enrolment, and to draw up rules of conduct both for themselves, and for those practising as midwives.
Under the 1902 Act, the following institutions each appointed a registered medical practitioner to the Board: the Royal College of Physicians of London; the Royal College of Surgeons of England; the Society of Apothecaries; and the Incorporated Midwives. The Association of County Councils, the Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses and the Royal British Nurses Association each appointed a member; whilst the Lord President of the Council appointed two further members, one of whom was to be a woman. The Privy Council had general supervisory powers over the Board.
When the Ministry of Health was set up in 1919, the minister took over the powers of the Privy Council and the Lord President relating to the Board.
In 1983 the Central Midwives Board ceased to exist, under the provision of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979, which established a United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting.
CMB Midwives Roll
The Roll was published annually as a hard cover book. The Rolls give the Registration Number, Name, Address, Date of Enrolment, Qualification and whether the midwife intends to practice. They also contain ancillary information such as the names of board members, approved training institutions, the names of examiners and the text of the Midwives Act. Unlike the Nursing Council registers they do not give the place where the midwife trained and DV8 - Central Midwives Board: Training and Examination Files has been removed from the National Archives because it did not contain material that was worth keeping.
Approved Training Institutions in the London Area where Alice is known to have trained and worked are:-
•St Thomas’ Hospital, Lambeth, S.E.1
•London Hospital, Whitechapel, E.1
•Poor Law Institutions
•Bermondsey & Rotherhithe Hospital, Lower Rd, S.E.16
•Shoreditch St Leonard’s Hospital, Hoxton St, N.1
Testamentary records, England, 4 August 1985, Alice Eleanor Ward, Will, Jack Ward.
Will of Alice Eleanor Ward (7)
This is the last Will and Testament of me Alice Eleanor Of Waterhouse, Monkton Combe, Bath in the County of Avon, Midwife (retired), made on this Fourth day of August, 1985.
I hereby revoke all Wills and Codicils made by me at any time heretobefore, I appoint my son Jack Peter William Ward of Ensleigh Cottage, Granville Road, Bath in the County of Avon, Naval Officer, to be my Executor, and direct all that my Debts and Funeral Expenses shall be paid as soon as conveniently may be after my decease.
I give and bequeath unto the said Jack Peter William Ward all my property.
Signed by the said Testator Alice Eleanor Ward in the presence of both of us as, present at the same time, who at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses.
A E Ward
S Parley 5 Downside Rd, Westbury, Wilts
C. Dowling 12 Bratton Rd, West Ashton, Trowbridge, Wilts
The whereabouts of the original holograph will is unknown. Presumably it is held by the Dist Probate Registry at Bristol.
Will of Alice Eleanor Ward
Trobridge Register Office, Certified Copy of an Entry of Death for Alice Eleanor Ward, (Original Certificate issued by D. R. Hollis, Deputy Registrar). Custom Id: IX 554772; Cit. Date: 19 June 1987. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
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Certified Copy of an Entry of Death for Alice Eleanor Ward (7)
Registration District: Trowbridge
Application No: Original certificate
Issued By: D. R. Harris
Issue Date: 19 June 1987
Certificate No: IX554772
Registration District |
Trowbridge |
Sub-district |
Trowbridge |
Administrative Area |
County of Wiltshire |
Date of Death |
17 June 1987 |
Place of Death |
Waterhouse, Limpley Stoke, Wilts |
Name |
Alice Eleanor WARD |
Sex |
Female |
Maiden Name |
DOWELL |
Date of Birth |
13 May 1896 |
Place of Birth |
Hoxton, London |
Occupation |
Domiciliary Midwife (retired) Widow of William Charles John WARD, Schoolmaster (retired) |
Usual Address |
Waterhouse, Limpley Stoke, Wilts |
Name of Informant |
Jack Peter William WARD |
Qualification |
Son |
Usual Address |
Blackwithies, Bere Aller, Langport, Somerset |
Cause of Death |
1a Bronchopneumonia b Cerebral haemorrhage 2 Diabetes Mellitis |
Certified by |
J Heber M.B. |
Informant's signature |
J. P. W. Ward |
Date Registered |
19 June 1897 |
Registrar |
D. R. Harris Deputy Registrar |
Certified Copy of an Entry of Death for Alice Eleanor Ward
J P W Ward, As I Remember It, (Not published). Chapter 10Farewell To The Navy and Hello to Civilian Life. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
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As I Remember It
Autobiography of Jack Ward (aka Jack Dowell and Jack Richmond)
Introduction
Chapter 1Early Years 1934-1939
Chapter 2Evacuation 1939-1944
Chapter 3A Boy in London 1944 - 1951
Chapter 4The Navy – Under Training
Chapter 5The Surface Fleet
Chapter 6Polaris and Tident
Chapter 7Retirement
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Testamentary records, England, 30 July 1987, Alice Eleanor Ward, Grant of Probate, Jack Ward.
Grant of Probate for Estate of Alice Eleanor Ward (7)
Probate Registry |
Bristol |
Name |
Alice Eleanor Ward |
Date of Death |
17 June 1987 |
Domiciled in |
England and Wales |
Administrator |
Jack Peter William Ward |
Address |
Blackwithies Aller Langport Somerset |
Date of Grant |
30 July 1987 |
Probate Officer |
P F Cullan |
Grant of Probate for Estate of Alice Eleanor Ward