Marianette Kingham (1859-1916)
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Marianette Kingham (1859 - 1916)
Spouse : Joseph Samuel Ford (1859 - C1916)
MARIANETTE KINGHAM Birth Father Mother Occupation Marriage Spouse Children Death Cause of Death Burial | Feb. 10, 1859 at St. Albans Road, Wheathamstead, Hertfordshire George Kingham - Agricultural Labourer Sarah Nash Straw Hat Sewer November 20, 1881 at St. Mary's Church, Luton, Bedfordshire, England Joseph Samuel Ford Wallace Ford Algernon Percy Ford George Dixie Ford Rose Ellen (or Rose Helen) Ford Stanley James Ford Ella Ford Hilda Gladys Ford Herbert Cyril Ford Aubrey Reginald Ford Mar. 2, 1916 at 194 Boundary Road, Tottenham, Middlesex at home of son and daughter-in-lawl, E.M. Ford Asthma & Chronic Bronchitis In a pauper’s burial on March 7, 1916, in an unmarked plot at Tottenham Cemetery, White Hart Lane, Tottenham. |
MARIANETTE KINGHAM – HER EARLY YEARS
1859 – Birth of Marianette Kingham
Marianette Kingham, my great-grandmother, began her life in the district of St. Albans in the subdistrict of Harpenden in the County of Hertfordshire on the fourth of February 1859. She was born at a house in St. Albans Road, Wheathamstead to Sarah and George Kingham. She was the fourth child born of the marriage of Sarah and George Kingham, but her older siblings had not survived their first year.
Her father, George Kingham registered her birth a week or so later. Her birth certificate tells us that her mother’s maiden-name was Sarah Nash and that her father was an agricultural labourer and could not sign his name.
1860 – Death of mother, Sarah Kingham, nee Nash
Marianette’ s mother, Sarah Kingham, nee Nash, died 14 months after the birth of her daughter, Marianette, from ‘fever’. This could have been from influenza, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, or numerous other diseases.
With the early death of Marianette’s mother, life took a serious downturn for Marianette and her father, George. Working as an agricultural labourer, George earned minimal wages and may even have struggled to find work at all.
1861 - Census
Where was Marianette living at the time of the 1861 Census? Her father, George Kingham, 39 years old and an agricultural labourer, was a lodger with William Peacock and his wife, Mary. I have not been able to prove it, but I feel sure that William Peacock is related to George Kingham through his wife, Mary. What with the stress of recent bereavement, caring for his 3-year-old daughter, and illiteracy, was “Melicent’ another Kingham daughter and Marianette not recorded? I tend to think ‘Melicent’ was Marianette. My research showed that of the four children from the marriage of George Kingham and Sarah Nash, only Marianette survived and there was no child called Melicent.
Name: George KinghamAge: 39Estimated Birth Year: 1822Relation: LodgerGender: MaleWhere born: Wheathamstead, Hertfordshire, EnglandCivil Parish: WheathamsteadCounty/Island: HertfordshireCountry: EnglandRegistration district: St AlbansSub-registration district: HarpendenHousehold Members: Name AgeWilliam Peacock 61Mary Peacock 56Sarah Thrale 12George Kingham 39Melicent Kingham 3Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1861 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
1869 – Death of father, George Kingham
What an awful start to life for poor baby Marianette. Her mother dead in April of 1860 and then her father dead just nine years later! It seems that George Kingham left the house of William Peacock to take up residence in the St. Albans Union Workhouse. He became ill, was admitted to the workhouse infirmary where he died of a fever 18 days later. He was only 43 years old.
1871 – Census
By Census night in 1871, Marianette, is a 13-year-old orphan, still living with William Peacock at Morford Cottages in Sandridge in Hertfordshire. William Peacock is 71 years old, and it appears that his wife, Mary may have died. William’s son, James Peacock, aged 46, is the only other person at the address.
Name: Merrionette KinghamAge: 13Estimated Birth Year: abt 1858Relation: OrphanGender: FemaleWhere born: Wheathamstead MarfordCivil Parish: SandridgeCounty/Island: HertfordshireCountry: EnglandRegistration district: St AlbansSub-registration district: HarpendenED, institution, or vessel: 10Household schedule number: 43Piece: 1377Folio: 86Page Number: 10Household Members: Name AgeWilliam Peacock 71James Peacock 46Merrionette Kingham 13Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1871 England Census
It is interesting to note the many variations of spelling for her name - Marionette, Marianette, Merrionette, and so on. I have opted to use the spelling – Marianette as I believe she was named after her paternal grandmother. Marianette’s father, George Kingham’s parents were James Kingham and Maria, nee Taylor.
1881 – Census
Sometime during the preceding 10 years, Marianette, aged 22 years, had moved to Luton in Bedfordshire to live with her aunt and uncle, James and Mary Gentle at 13 New Town Street. Mary Ann Kingham, sister to George Kingham, was born 1819 in Wheathamstead, married James Gentle in 1851. James Gentle is 60 years old, born in Kimpton, Hertfordshire and a bleacher. Mary was 61 years old, born in Gustard Wood in Bedfordshire and was a straw-hat sewer.
Marianette is working as a Straw-Hat Sewer. All the family work in the straw hat industry. The other person living with the family is Clara Dollinger who will be a witness at Marianette’s marriage later this year – as will Arthur Gentle, son of Mary Ann Kingham and James Gentle, who lives next door at 15 New Town Street, Luton.
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