Pill is a village. The Birth Certificate does not give an address within the village.

She signed with her mark X.

Address: Pill, Somerset

Who else was there is not known.

Their daughter my is shown as living at 44 George Street before her marriage and this was probably the family home.

Address: 3 St Mary Street

The household consisted of Emily and her children Frank (age 12) and Ivy (age 9). Her youngest daughter Hilda (age 7) is in the Royal Albert Hospital. Emily is working at home as a finisher of duck trousers. Probably the pay is very poor but as a widow without a pension she had to work to support herself and her three children. The family had 2 rooms in a 9 roomed house which it shared with 4 other families. In one of the other families (Clanery) the husband came from Belfast and was in the R.M.L.I.; in another (Murphy) the head who came from Kerry was widowed and had a daughter who was born in India; in another (Rudge) the head (Elizabeth) was married and was not working so her husband could have been away in the military. The house was about ¼ mile from the Royal Marine Barracks and overall one gets the feeling of a military neighbourhood.

Address: 116 George's Road

The household consisted of Eliza and her children Frank, Ivy and Hilda who are all working. They lived in 2 room sharing the house with two other families - one of 5 and the other of 2. Why Eliza had decided to return to London is not known.

Cause: cardiac failure and myocarditis

Address: 1 Willow Road

Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle and is extremely difficult to diagnose to any degree of accuracy without a biopsy of the heart muscle. It can cause chest pains but as there is no associated blockage of the arteries presumable no rise in blood pressure so the doctor who certified her death may have been making an educated guess. When she died she was living with her daughter Hilda. Family oral history says that after she was widowed and her children had left home she spent 3 months with each of them. It is difficult to track people's movements after the 1911 Census and reliance has to be placed on the marriage records of her children and the birth records of their children to determine where they were. The three children who were with her at the time of the 1911 Census - Frank, Ivy and Hilda were all married in Islington between 1922 and 1925 and all their children were born there. Frank died in Plymouth in 1941; Ivy is known to have moved to Plymouth after her divorce and is thought to have died there about 1976; Hilda died in Luton in 1977 although it is known from the 1911 Census that her husband was a shipyard worker (in Plymouth) but may have well moved to Barrow to work at Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering. This leaves William, Walter, Charlotte (Lottie), Amy, Faith (Bessie) and Albert (Bert).

William is thought to have emigrated around 1915 although there is a remote possibility that he returned to England after his wife's death and died in Islington in 1929. Walter had his own boot and shoe repair business in Devonport, both his children were born in the west country and died in Totnes in 1953. Lottie married William Robinson and in the 1911 Census he is shown as a shipbuilding contractor's labourer. If he was a shipyard worker then it is remotely possible that he went to work at Vickers Shipbuilding at Barrow-in-Furness. One further clue that they moved to Barrow-in-Furness is provided by a search for the birth registrations of the father's name of Robinson and the mother's name of Wakefield which show that the birth of a George Robinson was registered in Barrow-in-Furness in 1917. (They had two other children - William born in 1907 in Stonehouse and Lottie born in 1911 in London a month before the census.) Amy who is the pricipal source for the information that Eliza spent 3 months with each of her children in later life lived in Plymouth all her life and died there in 1956.

Henry James Wakefield (1857-1907)

William Henry Benjamin Wakefield (1880-1929)

Lillian Jane S. Wakefield (1882-1908)

Walter Sydney Wakefield (1884-1953)

Charlotte Pamella L. Wakefield (1886-aft1956)

Amy Winifred Wakefield (1887-1956)

Faith Elizabeth Wakefield (1889-1960)

Albert Nathaniel James Wakefield (1891-1962)

Frank Leslie John Wakefield (1899-1941)

Ivy Ella S. Wakefield (1901-c. 1976)

Hilda Doris E. Wakefield (1904-1977)

Address: Bristol

It is assumed that Henry Lester was a friend of the Groom. Charlotte Ray was the Bride's Aunt by marriage - her husband Edmond Ray was the Bride's Uncle and it is assumed that he attended the wedding. It is not known for certain whether any other members of the family attended the wedding. It is known that the Henry had a younger brother, Frederick, and that Eliza's parents were living in Bristol at the time so they were probably there and also the Groom's mother - his father was dead.

Address: 6 Lodge Street

The household consisted of Henry, his wife Eliza and their son William who was 11 Months old. They shared the house with 3 other families and in all there were 12 people living in the house. Judging from subsequent censuses they were probably living in a single room.

Address: 2 Barton Court

The household consisted of Henry, his wife Eliza and their children William (age 10), Lilian (age 9), Walter (age 6), Charlotte (age 5), Amy (age 3) and Faith (Elizabeth) (age 1). They lived in 2 rooms and shared the house with another family of 2 who had 3 rooms. How they managed to live in2 room with such a large family defies imagination.

Address: 11 Lower College Street

The household consisted of Henry, his wife Eliza and their children Charlotte (age 15), Amy (age 14), Elizabeth (age 11), Albert (age 9) and Frank (age 2). Charlotte and Amy are working as tailoresses; Elizabeth and Albert are at school. The family lived in 4 rooms in a house which they shared with 3 other families each of which had 2 rooms. In all there were 18 people in the house.