THE LITTLEMORES

notes by P John Partington

INTRODUCTION

I’m still trying to trace our eighteenth-century Littlemore ancestors, but it seems probable that a John Littlemore was born in 1752, married Elizabeth Hobson on 10 September 1772 and had at least two sons – James and John.  John senior died in 1832.

 JAMES LITTLEMORE (bef. 1807 - aft. 1840)

Our earliest proven Littlemore ancestor is James, born sometime before 1807 and believed to be the ‘James’ referred to in the paragraph above.  He had at least one child, John, born in Linslade, Bucks, in 1822/3. In 1841 James was recorded as a labourer.  Nothing further is known of him for certain at present, but it seems likely that he married a Hannah and had other children – Mary and Sarah born in 1825/6, Ann in 1828/9, Jane in 1832/3 and William in 1833/4.

THE CHILDREN OF JAMES (bef. 1807 - aft. 1840)

James had at least one child, John, born in Linslade, Bucks in 1822/3.  On 29 October 1841 John married Mary Dew in Linslade Parish church;  his residence at the time was given as Chelsea (an area of Linslade), and his occupation as “labourer”, and both he and Mary were illiterate.  John and Mary had eight children:  Ann born in about 1846, Amelia Elizabeth in 1849, John William in about 1852, George Thomas in about 1854, John Richard in about 1856, Mary Dew in about 1858, Jane Ada in about 1861 and Emily H in about 1864 (see below, page 1).  In 1849 John was working as a labourer, and living at 69 Grove Street, Camden Terrace.  In 1851 John & Mary were living with their first two young children at 45 Ferdinand Street, St Pancras;  John was working as a ‘platelayer’.  Ten and twenty years later the family were at 3 Grange Street, St Pancras – John working as a ‘railway pointsman’ and ‘bindsman in railway’.  In 1881 John & Mary were living at 367 Kentish Town Road in London with their daughter Amelia Elizabeth and her family:  John is described as a “picture-frame maker”.  Ten years later they were in almshouses in St Pancras – both described as “retired railway servants”.  It seems from the Registry Office index that they died in 1891 and 1893 respectively.

THE CHILDREN OF JOHN (1822/3 - aft. 1880)

John’s first child, Ann, was born in Camden Town in about 1846.  In 1851 she was living with her parents at 45 Ferdinand Street, St Pancras, and ten years later at 3 Grange Street.  Nothing else is known of her at present.

John’s second child, Amelia Elizabeth, was born on 1 September 1849 at 69 Grove Street, Camden Town, and baptized on 14 June the following year at St Pancras Old Church.  In 1851 she was living with her parents at 45 Ferdinand Street, St Pancras and ten years later at 3 Grange Street.. Family memory has it that she sang at the Crystal Palace before Queen Victoria. On 5 October 1870 she married Harry Alfred Pavey at Pancras Registry Office; she was living at the time at 3 Grange Road. They had seven children: Mary born in about 1873, Harry A in about 1878, Amelia Annie in 1879, Harold Gilbert in about 1882, Charles Allen Dew on 10 May 1883, Arthur Eli in 1886 and Ralph in about 1890.  The 1871 census records Amelia an Harry, and their young firstborn, living at 65 Prince of Wales Road with Harry’s parents:  Harry was recorded as a ‘blind-maker’.  The 1881 census records the family at 367 Kentish Town Road, sharing the house with Amelia’s father’s family. In 1891 and 1901 the family were living at 318 Kentish Town Road, with Harry working as a picture-frame maker.  In 1911 she and Harry were living at 110 Highgate Hill in Upper Holloway, with unmarried sons Harry Alfred and Ralph Edgar.  Amelia was widowed in 1914.

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