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THE SCOVELLS
some notes by P John Partington
GEORGE SCOVELL (1831/2 - aft 1885) AND HIS FOREBEARS
Little is known yet about the Scovell family before our ancestor, George, who was born in 1831/2 in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, though we know from his marriage certificate that his father was also a George. The younger George was living at St Pancras when he married Martha Baker on 5 May 1857 at Shalford in Surrey; the register describes him as a ‘gentleman’. The couple had five children: Mary Elizabeth born in 1859/60 and Fanny in 1862/3 in Kensington; and Emily J in 1865/6, Annie in 1868/9 and Richard H in 1875/6 in Twickenham. In 1881 George was living in The Mall, Hampton Road, Twickenham, and is described as a “Retired Italian Warehouseman”. In 1886 he was still there, described as a ‘gentleman’. In 1911 George & Martha were living at 50 Princes Road, Teddington, with Emily, Annie and Richard (who were all still unmarried); George is still a “Retired Italian Warehouseman”. Richard died within the next couple of years, and Martha a year or so after him.
THE CHILDREN OF GEORGE (1831/2 - aft 1885)
George’s first child, Mary Elizabeth, was born in Kensington in 1859/60. In 1881 she was living with the rest of her family at The Mall, Hampton Road, Twickenham, and in 1886 she was a witness at her sister Fanny’s wedding. It seems likely that she herself married a couple of years later.
George’s second child, Fanny, was born in Kensington in 1862. In 1881 she was living with the rest of her family at The Mall, Hampton Road, Twickenham. On 12 August 1886 she married Hodgson William Brettell at Holy Trinity, Twickenham: her residence at the time was given as “The Mall, Twickenham”. They had four children: the first died at birth, in 1887, Walter was born the following year, George in 1891 and Norman in 1894. In 1911 the family (without Norman) were living at 22 Cumington Road in Ealing.
George’s third child, Emily J, was born in 1865/6, his fourth, Annie, in 1868/9, and his fifth, Richard H, in 1875/6, all in Twickenham. In 1881 they were living with their parents at The Mall, Hampton Road. Thirty years later they were still with their parents, and still unmarried, at 50 Princes Road, Teddington: Emily and Annie were “assisting in house”, and Richard was an “Auctioneers Manager and Estate Agent”.
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