See also
Ellen Maud Hawkins, 1910?, age 21
Name:
Ellen Maud Hawkins
Sex:
Female
Father:
Mother:
1889, Register Entry for Baptism Ellen Maude Hawkins
1972, Certified Copy of an Entry of Death for Ellen Maud Luscombe
1972, Grant of Probate for Ellen Maud Luscombe
Birth:
15 Oct 1889
Address: 34 East Street
Birth Registration:
14 Nov 1889 (age 0)
Register Office3
Address: East Stonehouse, Devon
Baptism:
21 Nov 1889 (age 0)
St Matthew's Parish Church4
Address: Stonehouse, Devon
Census (living with parents):
5 Apr 1891 (age 1)
1891 Census - living with parents
Education:
frm 1894 to 1903 (age 4-14)
-; St Catherine's School5
Address: Devonport, Devon
On finishing her education she was kept on as a Pupil Teacher before becoming a draper's assistant.
Census (living with parents):
31 Mar 1901 (age 11)
1901 Census - living with parents
Occupation:
frm 1904 to 1907 (age 14-18)
Draper's Assistant; Plymouth, Devon6
She learnt to make a ladies blouse by draping material from a roll over the customer's torso and cutting it stitching it in place.
Witness:
6 Sep 1905 (age 15)
Ellen witnessed the Marriage of Ernest James Luscombe and Elizabeth Ann Roberts
Ellen was the bride's cousin.
Residence:
frm 1908 to 1920 (age 18-31)
13 Neswick Street, East Stonehouse, Devon7
HKL said that Doris (Luscombe) was born in Neswick Street which gives a date of 1908. Also Daniel Hawkin's Death Certificate gives Harry's address in 1920 as 13 Neswick Street.
Parent:
22 Nov 1908 (age 19)
Baptism of daughter Doris Winifred
Parent:
1 Oct 1911 (age 21)
Baptism of son George Henry
Parent:
1 Mar 1914 (age 24)
Baptism of daughter Gladys May
Parent:
23 Jul 1924 (age 34)
Baptism of son Harry Kenneth
Witness:
Feb 1925 (age 35)
Witnessed Confirmation of Doris Luscombe
Daughter's marriage:
20 Feb 1931 (age 41)
Marriage of daughter Doris to Leslie John William Henry Wallace
Witness:
3 Jun 1936 (age 46)
Ellen witnessed the Marriage of George William Isaac and Gladys May Luscombe
Residence:
1941 (age 51-52)
Horrobridge, Devon
after being bombed out of Chapel Street.
Residence:
frm 1946 to 1968 (age 56-79)
Stonehouse, Plymouth
Address: Durnford Street
Occupation:
frm Nov 1946 to 1954 (age 57-65)
sub-postmaster; Stonehouse, Devon8
Address: Durnford Street
After her husband's death she took over the post office and newsagent. Her son Harry helped with the bookkeeping and her daughter Doris and Granddaughter Pat were counter staff. Pat gave up after she married Don and moved to Lymstone. Doris continued to work there until Plymouth City Council compulsorily purchased the property as part of their redevelopment of Stonehouse after the Blitz. The Council gave Ellen and Doris a Council bungalow where they lived until they moved to Exeter 1968
Spouse:
11 Nov 1946 (age 57)
Funeral of spouse Henry
Residence:
frm 1968 to 1972 (age 78-83)
In the late 1960s her daughter Doris persuaded her to move to from Plymouth where she had lived all her married life to Exeter on the grounds that it would be a more central location for the various member of her family to visit her (PHW in conversation with JPWW). There they shared a Council Flat which Doris had obtained by exchanging her Council flat in Plymouth with someone who wished to move there. Later she moved to a Nursing Home and her son Harry Luscombe records the following anecdote from one of his visits. As he couldn't see his Mother in the day room he asked the other residents where Mrs. Luscombe was, 'Oh, you mean the Matron!' came the reply which was indicative of her 'managerial' qualities.
Death:
28 Sep 1972 (age 82)
the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital11
Cause: bronchopneumonia and congestive cardiac failure
Address: Heavitree, Exeter, Devon
Probate:
29 Dec 1972
Bristol12
Address: 52 Magdalen Road
The value was £1,494. The entry in the register does not say who the probate was granted to.
Family of Henry Northcott Luscombe and Ellen Maud Hawkins, c. 1914
Spouse: Henry Northcott Luscombe, c. 1939, age 53
Daughter: Doris Winifred Luscombe, 1931, age 23
1911, 1911 Census for Household of Harry Luscombe in Devonport, Devon
1921, 1921 Census for Household of Harry Luscombe in Stonehouse, Devon
1939, 1939 Register for Household of Harry Luscombe in Plymouth, Devon Page 1
1939, 1939 Register for Household of Harry Luscombe in Plymouth, Devon Page 2
Spouse:
Children:
Marriage:
9 Oct 1907 (age 17)
Address: Plymouth, Devon
Ernest was the half-brother of the groom and Elizabeth was his great-aunt. Both the Groom and the Bride are shown as living at 26 Treville Street. The groom gave his name as Harry Luscombe by which he was known for most of his life although his full name was Henry Northcott Luscombe. Harry gave his father's name as John Luscombe. This is a fictitious person. Harry was illegitimate although he may not have known it at the time of his marriage. His biological father was a Northcott (hence his second Christian name). John Luscombe was the name of his grandfather who was a carpenter and joiner. The Yeoman of Signals is fictitious and it is probable that Harry's mother Clara gave her son his fictitious father's details when he started to ask about his father. This probability is supported by the fact that Harry's half-brother Ernest (same mother but a different father) also used John Luscombe, Yeoman of Signals, as his father on his marriage certificate. The bride's age is shown as 18. She was in fact a few days short of her 18th birthday on the day of her marriage.
Daniel and Elizabeth Hawkins may have provided the wedding breakfast as Daniel had his own catering business. An interesting piece of ephemera associated with the wedding is a notification by the couple of the event. Whether this was part of a place setting at the wedding breakfast to remind guests of the event or sent out afterwards with perhaps a piece of wedding cake to people who were not invited to inform them of the event is not known - probably the latter.
Census for household:
2 Apr 1911 (age 21)
Stoke, Devonport, Devon15
Address: 180 Pasley Street
The household consisted of Harry, his wife Ellen and their children Doris (age 2) and George (age 5 months). They had 3 rooms in an 8 roomed house and shared the house with 2 other families. A family of three who had 3 rooms and a family of three who had 2 rooms.
Census for household:
19 Jun 1921 (age 31)
East Sonehouse, Devon16
Address: 126 Union Street
The household consisted of Harry, his wife Ellen and their daughters Doris (age 12) and Gladys (age 7). They had the house which had 5 rooms to themselves.
1939 Register (Household):
29 Sep 1939 (age 49)
Plymouth, Devon17
Address: 35 Chapel Street
The household consisted of Harry, his wife Ellen and their son Harry
Friends before her marriage to Harry Luscombe
A girl with the surname of Little whose father was a pilot.
Alice who was the daughter of one of the seven military families who lived on Drake's Island in Plymouth Sound. Every (school) day Alice would be rowed aross to the Corinthian Yacht Club where Nellie's father Daniel was the Steward and together they would walk to school.18
Visit of a Hockin ship to Plymouth
She can remember looking down on the deck of one of the Hockin ships alongside at the Barbican with its pens of pigs and chickens on deck. (In those days before refrigeration ships carried their fresh meat alive to be slaughtered as required.) Such a visit is not improbable. From Census information the Hockin ships were obviously small coastal trading vessels based on Newquay. It may have called in at Plymouth to discharge or load cargo, shelter from the weather or even for the Captain to visit his sister (Nellie's mother - Sarah Elizabeth Hockin), although the last is unlikely as time was money. However, if the ship was in alongside at the Barbican for trade or weather it is quite likely that the Captain would have called on his sister at West Hoe.18
Knowledge ships and boats
As her father was the Steward at the West Hoe Yacht Club it is quite natural that she learnt about boats and the water as a girl. Much of the knowledge may have come from the Little family.
Her son Harry recalls her telling what type of vessel it was when he showed her a drawing of ship with words like, 'That's only a bark, not even a barkentine.'18
General Register Office, Certified Copy of an Entry of Birth for Ellen Maud Hawkins. Custom Id: BCA105089; Date of birth. Cit. Date: 5 August 1981. Pat Ward.
Doris Winifred Wallace (née Luscombe), Note on the Descendents of Daniel Hawkins, (c. 1988). Custom Id: DWL 02; Child of Daniel Hawkins & Sarah Elizabeth Hockin. Cit. Date: 15 October 1889. Pat Ward.
General Register Office, Certified Copy of an Entry of Birth for Ellen Maud Hawkins. Custom Id: BCA105089; Date registered. Cit. Date: 14 November 1889. Pat Ward.
Parish Register for Baptism of Ellen Maude Hawkins, St Matthew, Stonehouse, Devon, 21 November 1889, Plymouth and West Devon Record Office.
Harry K. Luscombe, Letter from Harry K Luscombe to Pat & Jack Ward dated 7 January 2006. Custom Id: HKL 2006-01-07; Page 3. Cit. Date: 7 January 2006. Pat Ward.
Ibid. Cit. Date: from 1904 to 1907. Pat Ward.
Wm H. Lamb (Devonport Registrar), Certified Copy of an Entry of Death for Daniel Hawkins, (Registration Date 6 Sep 1920). Custom Id: B314429; Name & Address of Informant. Pat Ward.
Letter from Harry Kenneth Luscombe to Pat Ward, 25 July 2012, Pages 1 & 2.
Harry K Luscombe, Letter from Harry Luscombe to his Niece Pat Ward dated 5 Jul 2005. Custom Id: HKL 2005-06-05; City of Plymouth p2 (p5 of scan). Cit. Date: circa 1946. Pat Ward.
Jack Ward, Move of Doris and Ellen Luscombe from Plymouth to Exeter. Cit. Date: from 1968 to 1972. Dowell-Wallace Data Base.
General Register Office, Certified Copy of an Entry of Death of Ellen Maud Luscombe, (16 Dec 2005 by General Register Office in response to Application No. COL040472). Custom Id: QBDX515403; Date of death. Cit. Date: 28 September 1972. Pat Ward.
Grant of Probate: Ellen Maud Luscombe, 29 December 1972, Principal Probate Registry, Page 687.
Rev. Henry A. Hartwood Curate-Assistant, Certified Copy for an Entry of Marriage for Harry Luscombe and Ellen Maud Hawkins, (9 Oct 1907). Custom Id: MX 643822; Cit. Date: 9 October 1907. Pat Ward.
Marriage Notification by Mr & Mrs H Luscombe, 9 October 1907, Pat Ward.
1911 England Census for Household of Harry Luscombe in Devonport, Devon, (FMP website). Custom Id: RG14/13041/RG78/PN752; Cit. Date: 2 April 1911. National Archives. Call Number: RG14/13041.
1921 England, Wales & Scotland census, 126 Union Street, East Sonehouse, Devon, head of household: Harry Luscombe, National Archives.
1939 register entry of Harry Luscombe, 29 September 1939, National Archives.
Harry K Luscombe, Letter from Harry Luscombe to his Niece Pat Ward dated 5 Jul 2005. Custom Id: HKL 2005-06-05; Section headed A Loose Leaf p2 (p7 of scan). Pat Ward.