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Warning to
Genealogists If you are
a genealogist you are likely to disbelieve the story presented here at
first. I know I would! You may
think it is too convoluted and that people just don’t change their names as
much as the women in this tale do.
This is certainly a very complicated line! Ë
If you want to know how and why we’ve drawn these
conclusions read the Research Log which
takes you through the whole process. Ë
For the conclusions and some key evidence read The Second Theory. Ë
The Chronology
of Women’s Names shows what they called themselves over the years. Ë
To read the life story of Elizabeth Smith,
aka Betsey Parkhouse, aka Elizabeth Baskerville, aka Ellen
Parkhouse, aka Elizabeth Larkman, aka Elizabeth Phillips,
go to Betsey’s Story. Ë
For the Sources, Evidence and Notes go to the Time-Line colour-coded by family name. Green = Baskerville Blue = Parkhouse Red = Larkman
Plum = Westcott Promise to
Genealogists I
promise that: Ë
I have doubted everything until I’ve seen evidence. Ë
Facts and suppositions are clearly differentiated. Ë
Everything presented here fits the evidence we have
available. There
are also Updates in the text with additional information received since the
original research. Kay Rodbourn If you
have comments, questions or information please email me. |
When I started researching this
line I was stuck for a long time looking for information about my
great-grandmother whom I now know was Maud Elizabeth Ellen Westcott and my
great-grandfather, John Henry Craig.
One difficulty was that Maud used various
combinations of her name at different stages of her life; another was that
John was a musician and they travelled for a time with a circus, taking my
grandmother with them but leaving the other children in Bristol, and the third
was that he was born in Manchester, not Edinburgh as Oral Family History had
lead me to believe. I eventually found them in the 1901 British Census, where Maud was listed as
“Nelly”
I thought that having cleared that
hurdle I would make good progress, as I had with other lines, but John and Maud
remained elusive. I still haven’t found
any record of their marriage, which was between 1891 and 1901 according to the
censuses, but I did find Maud’s birth record (21
Mar 1875). The certificate shows
her father as Thomas Westcott and her mother as Ellen Westcott, formerly
Baskerville.
I was quite excited when the
Baskerville name appeared as the Mother on my great-grandmother's Birth
Certificate, partly because of the romance of the name but also because I
thought it would be relatively easy to research. Though I found plenty of Baskerville information on the internet,
I could not find any that appeared to have any connection with Ellen. I searched the GRO for Baskerville/Westcott
marriages but found none. The only
references that I could find to Ellen Baskerville were in the 1861 British Census where she is aged
10 and living with her mother, Elizabeth Baskerville (35), brothers William
(15) and Ralph Baskerville (8) and sister Emma Baskerville (7) and in the 1871 British Census where she, Ralph
and Ellen were living as Boarders in Bristol at the home of Henry
Phillips (50) and his wife Elizabeth (45) Phillips.
I was at this stage when I was
contacted by Melanie Westcott-Brown in September 2005 who was also researching
Thomas and Ellen Westcott and had seen a posting I had made on a genforum. She proposed a theory she had developed with
Norman Baskerville who was is a descendant of William Baskerville. Their theory was that Ellen wasn't really a
Baskerville at all.
Their theory was that an Elizabeth
Smith married William Baskerville in 1845, they had William Albert Baskerville
in about 1846 and then William the father died in 1847. Elizabeth went on
to marry (or not as we can't find the record) Edward Larkman and have 3
children, Ellen, Ralph and Emma. Assuming this is true, it means that Ellen’s
real name was Larkman. Edward then left
them and Elizabeth reverted to the Baskerville name, as did all her children
including those who weren't really Baskervilles at all. We wondered if
perhaps the Baskerville family were supporting them as young William Albert
Baskerville was with them. Elizabeth then married a Mr Phillips, which
would explain why Ellen Ralph and Emma Baskerville turn up as Boarders in their
house in 1871.
Ralph continued to use the
Baskerville name all his life but Ellen and Emma Baskerville seemed to
disappear from all records until Ellen Baskerville turned up as Maud’s mother on
her Birth Certificate in 1875.
I was reluctant to accept this
theory at first because it seemed so convoluted, I didn’t have enough evidence
and I rather liked the Baskerville name and wanted to hold on to it. I continued to look for Ellen Baskerville,
her mother Elizabeth and her siblings in censuses and Birth, Marriage and Death
indexes, re-checking records I had searched before. I still couldn’t find them and was eventually persuaded that The
First Theory may be correct by the way story fitted in with the evidence we did
have and the distinct lack of any contradictory information.
A Thomas Westcott, whose details
matched Maud Westcott’s father, did marry an Ellen Larkman in
Bristol on the 14th April 1873, exactly the time I’d been looking for his
marriage to Ellen Baskerville. According
to the First Theory, Ellen Baskerville and Ellen Larkman were the same
person. The Marriage Certificate gave
Thomas’ occupation as Stoker, which tied in with his occupation as Gas Fitter
on Maud Westcott’s Birth Certificate in 1875,
and later occupations of Stoker at Gas
Works and Gas Stoker. This, I believe, confirmed that the Thomas
Westcott who married Ellen Larkman was the same Thomas Westcott who was Maud’s
father. As Maud was born just two years
after Thomas married Ellen Larkman, either the Ellen Baskerville on her birth
certificate replaced Ellen Larkman or they were one and the same person.
Thomas Westcott’s father was given
as William Westcott, a
Labourer and Ellen Larkman’s father was Edward Larkman, a Clerk.
There was also a record of an Emma Baskerville Larkman marrying in
Bristol in 1875 which, I thought, was likely to have been Ellen’s sister
who we find as Ellen Baskerville in the 1861
and 1871 Censuses. It certainly confirmed that there was some
link between the two names. UPDATE!
This convinced me that the First Theory was probably correct so I set out to prove
it. I couldn’t find a birth record for an
Ellen Larkman at the right time but there was an Ellen Booth Larkman born in
1850. I sent for the certificate
expecting her mother’s name to be Elizabeth Larkman, formerly Baskerville,
formerly Smith, which, I felt, would be the final proof of the First
Theory. It was a real shock when it
arrived to read that Ellen Booth Larkman’s mother was "Ellen Parkhouse
Larkman formerly Parkhouse" (exact
transcription). Melanie and I watched the theory collapse around us
and were now completely confused. We
both had to take a break for a while because the more we thought about it, the
less sense it made.
After that I decided to review all
the evidence and started to make a Time-Line to
separate fact from conjecture. This has
taken quite a while, is still growing and there’s more about it later.
After the initial shock Melanie
and I realised that the Parkhouse name was really rather interesting because it
had kept cropping up in our previous research.
I hadn’t taken much notice of it as it had seemed so peripheral but it
now had new significance so we set out to see what we could find.
We started with the information we
already had which was that an Edwin Parkhouse had lodged with Elizabeth
Baskerville and her children in 1861
and 1871, though by 1871 she was Elizabeth Phillips. We also knew that a Matilda Parkhouse was a Witness at the Marriage of
William Baskerville and Elizabeth Smith in 1845 and was also Ralph
Baskerville’s Mother-in-Law according to the 1891 British Census. We had also found an Albert Baskerville (5)
living with his grandmother, Elizabeth Parkhouse (51) in the 1851 British Census.
Confused? Yeah, so were we!
Luckily the 1841 British Census for
Gloucestershire had just come online and I found an Ellen Parkhouse (11) living
in Westbury-on-Trym near Bristol with an Elizabeth Parkhouse (40), Betsey
Parkhouse (15), Caroline Parkhouse (10) and Edwin Parkhouse (4). Relationships are not given on the 1841 but
presumably Elizabeth is the mother and the others her children.
Matilda Parkhouse and her daughter
Sarah, who later married Ralph Baskerville, were also living in Westbury in a
different household in 1841. One of the odd things about this line is
that the women often turn up as Head of Household, sometimes shown as married
but their husbands are often not there and they also seem to use their maiden
names a lot. (I'm a fine one to talk -
I'm married but Rodbourn is my maiden name and I use whichever I want in
different contexts - oh and by the way, Kay is short for Kathryn!).
After going through the evidence
in the Time-Line and particularly looking for Elizabeth Parkhouse I started to notice
some interesting similarities and differences in the information about some of
the women in this line and came to a rather surprising conclusion. The obvious conclusion to draw from the
Parkhouse family in the 1841
Census would be that Ellen Parkhouse then aged 11 went on to be the “Ellen Parkhouse
Larkman formerly Parkhouse” who is shown as the mother on Ellen Booth Larkman’s Birth Certificate. I don’t think she was, I think Ellen Booth
Larkman’s mother was Betsey.
Ë I already
knew that my Great-grandmother, Maud Elizabeth Ellen Westcott had used various combinations of her name at different stages of
her life which had made her very difficult to research. She didn’t even use her full name on her own
daughter’s birth certificate! She is
shown there just as “Ellen Elizabeth Craig
formerly Westcott”. No mention of
Maud at all!
Ë I also
knew that Maud’s mother, who was listed as “Ellen Westcott, formerly
Baskerville” on Maud’s Birth Certificate in 1875, had used the name “Ellen
Larkman” on her Marriage Certificate to Thomas Westcott in 1873.
Ë What if her
mother had done the same thing?
Ë What if Ellen
Booth Larkman’s mother (“Ellen Parkhouse Larkman formerly Parkhouse”)
might not really be “Ellen”?
I looked
at the evidence again and that was when I started to think that the Betsey
Parkhouse we find in 1841 could really be the “Ellen Parkhouse Larkman
formerly Parkhouse” on Ellen Larkman’s Birth Certificate.
Ë Ellen
Booth Larkman is born to Edward Brooke Larkman, an Accountant and the
mysterious “Ellen Parkhouse Larkman formerly Parkhouse” in Bridgwater on
the 12th September 1850. In just 1851 we find an Edward Larkman
(30), a Clerk, with his wife Elizabeth (24, born in London) and baby daughter
Ellen who is just 6 months old still living in Bridgwater. I think we can be confident that this is the
same family which means that “Ellen Parkhouse Larkman formerly
Parkhouse”:
Ë Was also
known as Elizabeth.
Ë Was born in
London.
Ë Was born
in 1826-1827.
All this
matches Betsey Parkhouse in 1841 much better than it
does her sister Ellen.
q
Information from 1841 British Census about Ellen
Parkhouse and Betsey Parkhouse
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Source
& Date |
Name |
Date
of Birth |
Where
Born |
Occupation |
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Betsey
(probably Elizabeth) Parkhouse |
1825-1826 |
Outside
of Gloucestershire |
Straw
Bonnet Maker |
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Ellen
Parkhouse |
1830-1831 |
Gloucestershire |
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Ë Betsey’s
details also match those of Elizabeth Baskerville (35, from Whitechapel,
London) in the 1861 Census and her
daughter Ellen, (11, from Bridgwater), is there too as Ellen Baskerville. Assuming that these are our Ellen Booth
Larkman and her mother, the 1861 Census tells us that “Ellen Parkhouse
Larkman formerly Parkhouse” aka Elizabeth:
Ë Was also
known as Elizabeth Baskerville.
Ë Was born
specifically in Whitechapel in London.
Ë Was a
Straw Bonnet Maker, as was Betsey in 1841.
Ë Had a
daughter called Ellen who’s details match those of Ellen Booth Larkman.
Ë It also
tells us that Ellen Booth Larkman was also known as Ellen Baskerville
which takes us to the 1871 Census
where we find her living with her brother and sister in the home of Elizabeth
and Henry Phillips. We already knew
that an Elizabeth Baskerville married a Henry Phillips in 1869 so I sent for
the Marriage Certificate
which did not give Elizabeth’s occupation but gave her a Date of Birth of about
1825-1826 and had Ellen Baskerville as a Witness. This strongly suggests that the three boarders, Ellen, Ralph and
Emma Baskerville that we find living with Henry and Elizabeth Phillips in 1871
were in fact Elizabeth’s children.
q
Sources and Information about Ellen Booth Larkman’s
Mother
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Source
& Date |
Name |
Date
of Birth |
Where
Born |
Occupation |
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Ellen |
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Elizabeth
Larkman |
1826-1827 |
London |
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Elizabeth
Baskerville |
1826-1827 |
Whitechapel,
(London) |
Straw
Bonnet Maker |
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Elizabeth
Phillips |
1826-1827 |
Whitechapel,
(London) |
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To accept this theory you have to
remember how Maud Elizabeth Ellen Westcott, Ellen Booth Larkman’s daughter,
later used each of her given names at different
stages of her life. It seems this
was a family trait! The names Elizabeth
and Ellen are scattered liberally through the generations in this family and I
think it is very likely that Betsey Parkhouse may really have been “Elizabeth
Ellen Parkhouse” though we have yet to find her birth record.
Link to Chronology of Women's Names
This begs the question, if Betsey
is Ellen Booth Larkman’s mother, what happened to Betsey’s sister, the other
Ellen Parkhouse that appears in the 1841 Census? It seemed to me that finding evidence of her living a different life
would prove that she was not Ellen Booth Larkman’s mother and so prove at least
that part of the theory. Here’s what I
have on her:
Sources and Information about Betsey’s sister Ellen
Parkhouse
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Source & Date |
Name |
Date of Birth |
Where Born |
Occupation |
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Ellen
Parkhouse |
1830 -
1831 |
Gloucestershire |
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Ellen
Parkhouse |
1830 -
1831 |
Bristol,
Gloucestershire |
Milliner |
Notes for 1851 Entry for Ellen
Parkhouse
1. Though a
Milliner does make hats, probably including Bonnets, Ellen’s sister Caroline is
listed in the same entry as a Straw Bonnet Maker showing that they saw them as
different occupations.
2. Ellen is
shown as unmarried. If she were Ellen
Booth Larkman’s Mother she wasn’t married when she had her. Also, why isn’t the baby with her? Where is she? In fact we find the
baby aged 6 months living with her parents Edward and Elizabeth (Betsey)
Larkman in Bridgwater in 1851.
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Source
& Date |
Names |
Date
of Birth |
Father’s
Name |
Father’s
Occupation |
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Marriage Record for Ellen Parkhouse in Bedminster, Bristol. 20 or 28 Oct 1852 |
Ellen
Parkhouse & Henry
Hyfield Horton |
Age on
Marriage Cert is 22 so her Date of Birth would be c1830 |
Edward
Larkman |
Either
the original doc is damaged or I have a poor copy but it is illegible. |
Notes for Marriage Entry for Ellen
Parkhouse.
1. Her
husband’s name is Henry Hyfield Horton.
This explains why a baby called Elizabeth E Horton is living with Elizabeth
Baskerville (Betsey) as her niece in 1861. I can’t help wondering if Elizabeth E Horton
is another Elizabeth Ellen.
2. The fact
that Ellen married someone else and went on to have a different life proves
that she cannot be Ellen Booth Larkman’s Mum and that Betsey
is.
If you
have comments, questions or information please email me.
We know that William Baskerville
(15) was living with his mother, Elizabeth Baskerville (aka Betsey), in 1861.
We also know that his father, William, married Elizabeth Smith in 1845 so, if the theory is
correct, Betsy must have originally been called Smith. Elizabeth (Betsey) Smith’s father is listed
as Samuel Smith on the Baskerville/Smith Marriage Certificate in 1845.
Melanie has found a record on the
IGI of a Samuel Smith marrying an
Elizabeth Smith on the 29th Aug 1821 at Charlton Kings in Gloucester which
is very likely to have been Betsey’s parents.
All this shows that Betsey and her mother Elizabeth would both have had
the birth name of Elizabeth Smith.
In 1869 Elizabeth (Betsey)
Baskerville (Widow) married
Henry Phillips in Bedminster, Bristol.
Her father is listed here as Samuel Smith which also supports the above
theory. The fact that she married using
the Baskerville name, which she got from her first husband, William
Baskerville, supports the idea that she never married Edward Larkman despite living
with him and having his children.
Elizabeth Smith
Born in
about 1825-1826 in Whitechapel, London Also Known As |
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Betsey Parkhouse |
British Census |
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Elizabeth Baskerville |
After her Marriage to William Baskerville |
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Ellen Parkhouse |
Birth Cert. for Ellen Booth Larkman, her daughter |
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Elizabeth Larkman |
British Census |
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Elizabeth Baskerville |
British Census |
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Elizabeth Baskerville |
Her Marriage Certificate to Henry aka Harry Phillips |
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Elizabeth Phillips |
After her Marriage Certificate to Henry aka Harry Phillips |
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Elizabeth Phillips |
British Census |
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Ellen Booth LarkmanBorn on
12th September 1850 in Bridgwater, Somerset Also Known As |
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Ellen Larkman |
British Census |
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Ellen Baskerville |
British Census |
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Ellen Baskerville |
British Census |
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Ellen Larkman |
Her Marriage Certificate to Thomas Westcott |
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Ellen Westcott |
After her Marriage to Thomas Westcott |
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Ellen Baskerville |
Birth Cert. for Maud Elizabeth Ellen Westcott, her
daughter |
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Ellen Westcott |
British Census |
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Ellen Westcott |
British Census |
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Ellen Westcott |
British Census |
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Maud Elizabeth Ellen WestcottBorn on 21st March 1875 in Bristol Also Known As |
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Maud Westcott |
British Census |
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Maud Westcott |
British Census |
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Ellen Elizabeth Craig |
Birth Cert. for Alice Elsie Craig, her daughter |
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Nelly Craig |
British Census |
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Ellen Maud Craig |
1914 |
In Memoriam Card for Mary Colston Craig |
If you
have comments, questions or information please email me.
Betsey was born to Samuel and
Elizabeth Smith in Whitechapel in London in about 1825 or 1826. Elizabeth was born in Bristol but we don’t
know yet where Samuel came from. We assume
that Betsey’s birth name was Elizabeth Smith and was probably Elizabeth Ellen
Smith.
We don’t know what happened to
Samuel but by the time that Betsey’s half-sister Emma was born in about 1830 in
Bristol, Elizabeth Smith had become Elizabeth Parkhouse. Emma’s father was Edward Parkhouse. By 1841 Elizabeth had three
more children, Caroline, Edwin and Emma Parkhouse. Betsey is also listed as a Parkhouse in the 1841 Census. She is 15 and a Straw Bonnet Maker and they
are all living in Westbury-on-Trym, just outside of Bristol.
On the 29th of December 1845 Betsey married William
Baskerville at the Parish Church of St Philip and St Jacob in Bristol using her
birth-name of Elizabeth Smith. He
was a Cabinet Maker and they were both
living in St Philips in Bristol. One of
the Witnesses at the wedding was Matilda Parkhouse who was also living in
Westbury-on-Trym near Bristol in 1841. In about 1846 they had a son, William Albert
Baskerville but William the father died
on the 24th May 1847 aged only 23. leaving Betsey as widow aged
about 22.
Sometime between William’s death
in 1847 and 1850 Betsey got together with Edward Brooke Larkman, an
Accountant/Clerk from Kent. They
probably never married but they had a daughter, Ellen Booth Larkman, on the 12th
of September 1850 in Bridgwater in
Somerset. Betsey is listed on her
daughter’s Birth Certificate as "Ellen Parkhouse Larkman formerly
Parkhouse". We find the three of
them living in Bath Road, Bridgwater in 1851 where Betsey is listed as
Elizabeth Larkman and described as Edward’s wife. Betsey’s son William
Albert Baskerville, then aged 5, was living in Bristol with his widowed
grandmother, Elizabeth Parkhouse and his aunts, Ellen and Caroline Parkhouse.
Betsey and Edward Larkman went on
to have two more children, Ralph who was born in about 1852 in Bridgwater and
Emma who was born in about 1854 in Yeovil in Somerset.
The relationship with Edward
Larkman must have broken down because we next find Betsey in 1861 using the name Elizabeth
Baskerville and living with her children William Albert, Ellen, Ralph and Emma
in Bristol. Betsey was working again as
a Straw Bonnet Maker and is shown as married and the Head of Household. The children are all listed as Baskervilles
even though only William Albert really was a Baskerville. William Albert was 15 by then and working as
a Clerk in the “Mercury Newspaper” offices.
Betsey’s brother, Edwin Parkhouse was also living there as a
Lodger. Betsey was also looking after
her sister Ellen’s baby daughter, Elizabeth E Horton who was only one year old. Ellen Parkhouse had married Henry Hyfield
Horton in October 1852 in
Bedminster in Bristol.
We will never know the full story
of Betsey and Edward Larkman but what we do know doesn’t cast Edward in a very
good light. The fact that the whole
family, including Edward’s children take the Baskerville name after he has gone
suggests that they did not hold him in very high regard. His daughters appear only to use the Larkman
name in later life when they can’t avoid it; Ellen Booth Larkman married Thomas
Westcott in 1873 as Ellen
Larkman but then gives her maiden name as Ellen Baskerville in 1875 on her daughter, Maud’s, Birth
Certificate. There is also a marriage
record for an Emma Baskerville Larkman in 1875 which is probably Betsey
and Edward Larkman’s youngest child. As
far as we can tell their son Ralph never uses the Larkman name at all. There is an anomaly remaining here because
when Ralph marries Sarah Parkhouse 1875
(daughter of the Matilda Parkhouse who was a Witness at Betsey’s marriage to
William Baskerville in 1845)
his father’s name is listed as Edwin Baskerville, not Edward Larkman. The lack of any birth record for a Ralph
Baskerville at that time plus the fact that his older and younger sister were
both fathered by Edward Brooke Larkman suggest that this was untrue. I have recently sent for the Birth
Certificate for a Ralph Ashton Larkman who was born in 1853 in Bridgwater which
should clarify this.
After Betsey and Edward Brooke
Larkman separated sometime between 1854 and 1861 he turns up again in 1881 aged 60, married to Phoebe
Eliza Larkman who is 43 and with seven of his children aged between 2 and
19. There is also a record in 1861 of an Edward Larkman, aged 11, who
is listed as a “Deserted Child” and living in the Isle of Thanet Union
Workhouse in Kent, where Edward Brooke Larkman was born. He may be completely unconnected to Edward
Brooke Larkman but he also could be another son. None of Edward’s later sons are named after him and this poor
child would have been born in 1849 or 1850, when Edward was about 29 and about
a year before he had his first child with Betsey.
On the 2nd of November 1869 Betsey married Henry
(aka Harry) Phillips in Bedminster in Bristol.
On the Marriage Certificate Betsey is called Elizabeth Baskerville, a
widow and one of the Witnesses was Ellen Baskerville, probably her
daughter. Two years later in 1871 we find Betsey, now Elizabeth
Phillips, living with her new husband Henry and his children, Eliza, John and Clara
Phillips at 17 Hillsbridge Parade in Bedminster, Bristol. Betsey’s children, Ellen, Ralph and Emma
Baskerville are also living there as Boarders and Betsey’s brother, Edwin
Parkhouse is also there as a Lodger.
This is the last confirmed
information I have on Betsey but an Elizabeth Phillips is listed as dying in
Bedminster, Bristol aged 54 in 1878 and another aged 55 in 1879.
Link to Researching Ellen Parkhouse
aka Betsey Parkhouse
Link to Chronology of Women's Names:
Elizabeth Smith aka Betsey Parkhousee
If you
have comments, questions or information please email me.
Bold
= Have Evidence Orange = Added by Melanie Westcott-Brown
Green = Baskerville Blue = Parkhouse Red = Larkman Plum = Westcott
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Sources, Evidence, Thoughts & Queries
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29 Aug 1821 |
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A Samuel Smith married
an Elizabeth Smith in Charlton Kings, Gloucester, England |
IGI (from Melanie) Source Information: Batch Number: 7318006 Sheet: 17
Source Call No: 0822813 Type: Film |
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Jul-Aug 1837 |
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An Emma Parkhouse died
in Bedminster: 11 111. No age given |
FreeBMD Death Index |
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Oct-Dec 1837 |
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An Emma Parkhouse died
in Bedminster: 5c 410. No age given |
FreeBMD Death Index |
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1841 |
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In 1841 there
is a Matilda Parkhouse (22), a Shoe Binder,
living in Westbury on Trym, Nr Bristol.
Also present are John Parkhouse (79)
who is a Gardener, Hannah Parkhouse (60) and
a Shoe Binder and Sarah Parkhouse (4 months). |
1841 Census 1. Matilda’s age matches later censuses which give her as being born in Westbury-on-Trym. 2. Who are John & Hannah Parkhouse? The 1841 doesn’t give family relationships but if she is a Parkhouse here either she is living with her in-laws, has reverted to her maiden name, or she never married. 3. The Sarah’s dates do not tie up with Matilda’s daughter Sarah who was b. 1842-1844 according to the 1881 & 1891 censuses although the transcriber may have possibly made an error and recorded her age as 4 rather than 4 months. I think you’re right! |
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In 1841 there
is an Elizabeth Parkhouse (40), a Dress
Maker, living at Abbot’s Court, Westbury-on-Trym on the outskirts of
Bristol. Also there are Betsey (probably Elizabeth)
(15), A Straw Bonnet Maker, Ellen (11), Caroline, (10) and Edwin
(4). They are all born in the County
except for Betsey Parkhouse. |
1841 Census 1. Elizabeth Parkhouse’s (40) dates match with those (age 51) in the 1851. 2. Betsey’s DOB is c1826. Assuming that Betsey’s real name is Elizabeth Parkhouse, her details match the Elizabeth shown as Edward Larkman’s wife and Ellen Parkhouse’s mother in the 1851 Census and of Elizabeth Phillips in 1871. 3. Q: If Betsey is the Ellen Parkhouse shown as mother on Ellen Booth Larkman’s Birth Cert in 1850 and as Edward Larkman’s wife in 1851, where is this Ellen Parkhouse in 1851? A: Living with her mother, Elizabeth Parkhouse. |
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Edward Brooke Larkman
married someone in the 2nd Quarter of 1843, St James, Westminster,
London, Middlesex Vol 1 p123 (A closer look at the actual
entry appears to reveal that the record in actually on page 128, not 123- so
was transcribed incorrectly. There MAY be an odd number of entries on page
128 so still no answers. However, there is an Elizabeth Jewel listed n the
entry..? ) |
FreeBMD I have checked the indexes for p123 and it was not any Parkhouse or Baskerville, Elizabeth, Ellen or Emma Smith |
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29 Dec 1845 |
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William
Baskerville, Cabinet Maker, married Elizabeth Smith in Bristol. They were Bachelor & Spinster & of
Full Age. Father of William
Baskerville: William James Baskerville,
Cabinet Maker Father of Elizabeth Smith: Samuel Smith, Hair Dresser
(?) Witness: Matilda Parkhouse. |
William Baskerville & Elizabeth Smith Marr Cert 1845 1. We believe this Elizabeth Smith is also known as Betsey Parkhouse b. abt. 1826 in the 1841 Census. |
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24 May 1847 |
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William
Baskerville died, aged 23 |
William Baskerville Death
Cert 1847 |
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4 Feb 1849 |
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Thomas Westcott born
to William Westcott, Labourer & Mary Westcott nee Bishop in Bishops Lydeard |
Thomas Westcott
Birth Cert 1849 |
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12 Sept 1850 |
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Ellen Booth
Larkman born to Edward
Brooke Larkman, Accountant & Ellen |
Ellen Booth Larkman Birth Cert 1850 1. Despite appearances, I don’t think this is the same Ellen Parkhouse (b. abt. 1831) that we find living with her mother Elizabeth Parkhouse in the 1841 & 1851. Censuses. To see why Link to The Second Theory 2. Assuming this Ellen is Betsey Parkhouse shown in 1841, she would be 24. |
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1851 |
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There is an Edw? Parkhouse
(the “?” is on the original doc) (8) grandson born in Westbury,
Bristol. Head of Household is William
Fry (68) and his wife Elizabeth (60) is also there. They are all living at 9 Paul Street, Westbury-on-Trym. William Fry is a Gardener. |
1851 Census 1. If this is our Edwin Parkhouse, his DOB here is 1842-3, but we have his DOB as 1837-1838 from the 1861 & 1871 censuses. However, if the census-taker didn’t get the correct name (hence the “?”), could the age be wrong too? I haven’t found him anywhere else in 1851. We do know the Parkhouse family came from Westbury-on-Trym. |
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1851 |
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Elizabeth
Parkhouse (51), widow, is living with her children Ellen (20) and Caroline
(19) Parkhouse and her grandson Albert Baskerville (5). All of them are from Bristol. Elizabeth
Parkhouse is the “House Proprietor”, Ellen
is a Milliner and Caroline is a Straw Bonnet
Maker and both are unmarried. |
1851 Census 1. Despite appearances, I don’t think this is the same Ellen Parkhouse (b. abt. 1831) that we find living with her mother Elizabeth Parkhouse in the 1841 & 1851. Censuses. To see why Link to The Second Theory 2. Who is Albert Baskerville? Is he William Albert Baskerville as we previously thought or another one? a) Correspondence with Norman Baskerville, a direct descendant, confirms that Albert consistently changed his name between William and Albert on the documents he has managed to obtain. b) In that case it supports the theory that Betsey Parkhouse married William Baskerville and produced Albert. If Ellen were the mother she would be a widow. 3. Interesting that Caroline
is a Straw Bonnet Maker like Elizabeth
Baskerville in 1861 and Betsey Parkhouse
(Elizabeth) in 1841. |
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1851 |
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There
is an Edward Larkman (30) living with his wife
Elizabeth (24) and baby daughter Ellen (6 months) in Bridgwater. Edward is a
Clerk from Rochester in Kent and Elizabeth and
Ellen are from London. |
1851 Census 1. Ellen Larkman’s age is right to be the child born to
Edward Larkman & Ellen
2. Ellen Larkman’s birth
certificate gives her mother’s name as Ellen 3. Elizabeth is the right age to be Betsey Parkhouse in 1841. |
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20 or 28 Oct 1852 |
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Ellen Parkhouse (22)
married Henry Hyfield Horton (24) in Bedminster, Bristol. She was a Spinster and he was a Bachelor
and an Accountant. Henry’s father was
William Horton, a Gentleman and Ellen’s father was Edward
Parkhouse. Either the original
doc is damaged or I have a poor copy but Edward’s
occupation is illegible. |
Marriage Certificate for Henry Hyfield Horton & Ellen Parkhouse 1. Her husband’s name is Henry Hyfield Horton. This explains why a baby called Elizabeth E Horton is living with Elizabeth Baskerville (Betsey) as her niece in 1861. 2. The fact that Ellen Parkhouse married someone else and went on to have a different life proves the theory that she cannot be Ellen Booth Larkman’s mother and that Betsey is. |
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Jan-Mar 1860 |
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An Elizabeth Parkhouse
died in Bedminster: 5c 591. No age
given. |
FreeBMD Death Index |
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1861 |
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There is
an Edward Larkman (11), a Deserted Child living
in the Isle of Thanet Union Workhouse in Kent. It does not give his place of birth, the only one missing on
the page. |
1861 Census 1. What is his relationship to Edward Brooke Larkman, if any? 2. Edward Brooke Larkman was born in Kent and would have been about 29 when this Edward was born. |
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1861 |
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In 1861 Elizabeth Baskerville (35) is living in
Bristol with her children William (15), Ellen (10), Ralph
(8) and Emma (7) Baskerville. Elizabeth
is a Straw Bonnet Maker from Whitechapel.
William Baskerville is a Clerk in
the Mercury Newspaper Office and was born in Bristol. Ellen &
Ralph Baskerville were born in Bridgwater and Emma
Baskerville in Yeovil. Also present is Edwin
Parkhouse (23), Lodger and Painter from Bristol and Elizabeth E Horton
(1), Elizabeth Baskerville’s niece, born
in Bedminster. |
1861 Census 1. Ellen, Ralph & Emma Baskerville’s details match those in the 1871 Census. 2. Elizabeth Baskerville’s details match those of Elizabeth Phillips in 1871 and of Betsey Parkhouse in 1841 who is also a Straw Bonnet Maker. 3. Edwin Parkhouse’s details match those in 1871. 4. Elizabeth E Horton is likely to be the daughter of Betsey’s sister Ellen Parkhouse who married Henry Hyfield Horton in Bedminster in October 1852. 7. Link to Chronology of Women's Names |
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2nd Nov
1869 |
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An Elizabeth Baskerville (44) married Henry Phillips (48) in Bedminster
Parish Church on the 2nd of November 1869. Henry is a Widower and Elizabeth is a Widow. Henry is a Boot Maker and his father was John Phillips, a Wheelwright. Elizabeth’s
father is Samuel Smith, a Hair Dresser (I think). One of the Witnesses was Ellen
Baskerville. The Residence at time of Marriage appears to be
“Illsbridge Parade” but according to the 1871 Census they lived at
Hillsbridge Parade. |
Marriage Certificate for Henry Phillips & Elizabeth Baskerville 1869 1. Henry is listed as Harry Phillips, which is a nickname for Henry. 2. This is Betsey Parkhouse nee Smith marrying under her married name of Baskerville, which adds credence to the idea that she never married Edward Larkman. 3. This confirms that the Samuel Smith who married Elizabeth Smith in 1821 is Betsey’s father. 4. The Witness Ellen Baskerville is probably Betsey’s daughter Ellen Booth Larkman who is listed as Ellen Baskerville in the 1861 & 1871 Censuses and on her daughter Maud Elizabeth Ellen Westcott’s Birth Certificate. |
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1871 |
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In 1871 Ellen (21), Ralph (19) & Emma (17) Baskerville
were living as Boarders at 17 Hillsbridge Parade, Bedminster, Bristol at the
home of Henry (50) & Elizabeth (45) Phillips. Elizabeth is from Whitechapel, London. Ellen
Baskerville is a Shopwoman Linen Draper from Bridgwater, Somerset. Ralph
Baskerville is a Shopman also from Bridgwater and Emma is a Dressmaker from Yeovil, Somerset. Also present are the 3 Phillips children: Eliza (21),
John (14) & Clara (10) Phillips. and Edwin
Parkhouse (33), Lodger and Horse Collar Maker from St Augustine,
Bristol. |
1871 Census 1. Ellen Baskerville is same name as on Maud Elizabeth Ellen Westcott’s Birth Certificate. 2. Ellen Baskerville is same DOB as Ellen Larkman who marries Thomas Westcott in 1873 as her birthday isn’t until September. 3. We believe this Elizabeth Phillips is Betsey Parkhouse nee Smith, who married William Baskerville and was later with Edward Larkman. She is the mother of Ellen, Ralph & Emma Baskerville and the sister of Edwin Parkhouse. 6.
Link to Chronology
of Women's Names |
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14 Apr 1873 |
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Thomas
Westcott, Stoker, married Ellen Larkman, Bachelor & Spinster. 23 & 22 in Bristol. Father of Thomas Westcott:
William Westcott, Labourer. Father of Ellen Larkman:
Edward Larkman, Clerk. |
Thomas Westcott & Ellen Larkman Marr Cert 1873 1. This is Ellen Booth Larkman b 12 Sept 1850. She is also known as Ellen Baskerville on the 1861 & 1871 Censuses and in 1875 on her daughter, Maud Elizabeth Ellen Westcott’s Birth Certificate. 4. Link to Chronology of Women's Names |
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21 Mar 1875 |
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Maud
Elizabeth Ellen Westcott born to Thomas
Westcott, Gas Fitter and Ellen Westcott
nee Baskerville in Bristol. |
Maud Elizabeth Ellen
Westcott Birth Cert 1875 1. This Ellen Baskerville is really Ellen Booth Larkman b 12 Sept 1850. She is also known as Ellen Baskerville on the 1861 & 1871 Censuses. |
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25th
May 1875 |
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Ralph
Baskerville (24 or 25) married Sarah
Parkhouse (35) at St Andrews Parish Church in Clevedon, Nr
Bristol. Ralph was an Engineer living
in Bristol and Sarah was living in
Clevedon. Ralph’s
father is given as Edwin Baskerville, a
Railway Superintendent and Sarah’s father was
John Parkhouse a Gardener. |
Ralph Baskerville & Sarah Parkhouse Marr Cert 1875 & Parish Records or St Andrews Parish Church, Clevedon @ http://www.clevedon-civic-society.org.uk/weddings/1871_1885.htm . 1. Sarah Parkhouse’s details match those in 1841 where we also find Matilda Parkhouse who was her mother. 2. This gives Sarah’s father as John Parkhouse which suggests that her mother Matilda was not born a Parkhouse but married into the name. 3. Matilda Parkhouse was a Witness at the Marriage of William Baskerville and Elizabeth Smith (aka Betsey Parkhouse) in 1845. 4. This is NOT the father I was expecting for Ralph (ie Edward Brooke Larkman). Is Ralph Baskerville lying about his name or did Elizabeth Baskerville (Betsey Parkhouse nee Smith) have children by yet another man? 6. I have not been able to find a birth record for a Ralph Baskerville at the correct time but have found one for a Ralph Ashton Larkman in Bridgwater in Somerset in 1853 (all correct). Cert Sent For 24/5/06. |
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19th
Sept 1875 |
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Emma Baskerville
Larkman married Walter Samuel Hodges in
Bristol. They are both aged 21 and he
is an Engineer. His father was Samuel
Hodges, an Engine Driver. Emma’s
father is Brooke Larkman, a Station
Master. The Witnesses were James Westcott and Ellen
Westcott. |
FreeBMD Marriage Index GRO Ref: 6a 101. 1. Emma’s age gives the correct DOB for Emma Baskerville in the 1861 & 1871 Censuses. 2. Emma’s Father: This name is very close to the “Edward Brooke Larkman” we expected. A transcription error or another example of his children denying him? 3. Confirms a link between the Baskerville and Larkman names. 4. This would explain Maud Westcott being a niece in the Hodges household in the 1881 Census: Maud (born 1875) is the daughter of Emma’s sister Ellen Booth Larkman aka Ellen Baskerville aka Ellen Westcott. |
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Q1 1878 |
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An Elizabeth Phillips died in Bedminster, Bristol, aged
54. |
FreeBMD Death Index. 1. Vol 5c Page 569 (though the FreeBMD transcriptions is 509) CERT ORDERED 29 May 06. |
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An Elizabeth Phillips died in Bedminster, Bristol, aged
55 |
FreeBMD Death Index. 1. Vol 5c Page 567 |
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1881 |
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Edward Brooke
Larkman (60) is living in Southwark with his wife Phoebe Eliza Larkman (43) and 7 of his children aged 2 to
19! Edward
Brooke Larkman is an Accountant from Rochester in Kent. Phoebe is a
Governess from Ashford in Kent. |
Ellen Booth Larkman Birth Cert 1850 1851 Census 1881 Census 1. These children are all younger than Ellen Booth Larkman born to Edward Brooke Larkman and Ellen (Betsey) nee Parkhouse in 1850. 2. Edward Brooke Larkman must have married Phoebe Eliza between 1850 and 1881 3. Edward Brooke Larkman must have separated from Ellen |
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1881 |
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Matilda
Parkhouse (60) is a Servant (Cook) at Devon House in Caterham,
Surrey. She is unmarried and from
Westbury-on-Trym, (Nr Bristol) Gloster. |
1881 Census 1. Is this the same Matilda Parkhouse who was Witness at the Wedding of William Baskerville & Elizabeth Smith in 1845? (36 years before.) 2. Matilda’s details match those in 1891 where she is Ralph Baskerville’s Mother-in-Law except that she is shown as a Widow there. |
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1881 |
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Thomas
Westcott, Patient, Married, 29, Stoker at Gas Works. Res: Mineral Water Hospital, Bath. Born: Bishops Lydeard, Somerset. |
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Ellen
Westcott, Wife (Head), Married, 28.
Res: Bedminster, Bristol. Born: Bridgwater. With children Ralph 8, Alice 5 & Albert
Westcott, all born in Bristol. |
1881 Census 1. This is Ellen Booth Larkman b 12 Sept 1850. She is also known as Ellen Baskerville on the 1861 & 1871 Censuses and in 1875 on her daughter, Maud Elizabeth Ellen Westcott’s Birth Certificate. |
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Maud Westcott, Niece, 6, Born: Bristol. Res: Exeter, Somerset, with Walter S
Hodges, Head, & Amy Hodges, Wife, 25, born Yeovil, Somerset. |
1881 Census 1. This is Maud Elizabeth Ellen Westcott b21 March 1875, daughter of Thomas Westcott & Ellen Westcott nee Ellen Booth Larkman b12 Sept 1850, also known as Ellen Baskerville on the 1861 & 1871 Censuses and on Maud’s Birth Cert. 2.
Amy
Hodges is Emma Larkman/Baskerville Hodges- transcribed incorrectly as Amy.
She married Walter Hodges in 1875 Bristol. |
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Ralph
Baskerville (29) is living with his wife Sarah
(39) & daughter Milly (4) Baskerville at 26 Bridge Street, St Philips
& St Jacob’s Bristol. Ralph is an Engine Fireman from Bridgwater. Sarah
is from Kingsdown in Bristol & Milly
was born in St Philip’s Bristol |
1881 Census 1. Ralph Baskerville’s details match those in 1871 & 1861. 2. Sarah is Sarah Parkhouse who he married in 1875 and we find in the 1841 Census living with her mother Matilda Parkhouse. |
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1891 |
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Ralph Baskerville
(39) is living with his wife Sarah (37)
& daughter Milly (14) Baskerville in at 4 Midland Terrace, Long Eaton,
Derby. Ralph
is a Railway Engine Driver from London.
Sarah & Milly are from Bristol. Also present is Ralph’s
Mother-in-Law, Matilda Parkhouse (70), a
widow from Bristol. NEXT DOOR at 3 Midland Terrace, Long Eaton, Derbyshire
are William Parkhouse (31), a Stationary Engine
Driver from Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, his wife, Elizabeth
(30) from Derby and their son, George W Parkhouse
(5 months), born in Long Eaton, Derbyshire |
1891 Census 1. Ralph Baskerville’s details match those in 1861, 1871 & 1881 except that here he is shown as being from London. 2. Sarah Baskerville must be nee Parkhouse as Matilda Parkhouse is Ralph’s Mother-in-Law 3. Matilda Parkhouse’s details match those 1841 and 1881 except that she shown as unmarried in the latter. 4. I haven’t looked at the neighbours at No3 yet. |
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1891 |
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Thomas
Westcott (40) is living in Bristol with his wife Ellen (38) Westcott
and 7 children. Thomas is a Gas-Stoker from
Taunton, Somerset and Ellen is from
Bridgwater. The children are Thomas R (18), Maud
(16), Alice (14), Albert
(12), Mabel (9), James
(7) and Florence (4) Westcott, all born in Bristol. Thomas R
Westcott is a Wagon Works Labourer and Maud
is a Domestic Servant. |
1891 Census 1. Thomas & Ellen Westcott’s details match those in 1881. 2. This Ellen Westcott is Ellen Booth Larkman b 12 Sept 1850. She is also known as Ellen Baskerville on the 1861 & 1871 Censuses and in 1875 on her daughter, Maud Elizabeth Ellen Westcott’s Birth Certificate. 3. This Maud Westcott is Maud Elizabeth Ellen Westcott b21 March 1875. |
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1891 |
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Edwin Parkhouse (64) is an Inmate in the Bedminster
Union Workhouse, Long Ashton, Somerset.
He is a Printer & Unmarried |
1891 Census 1. If this is Edwin, brother to Betsey, Ellen & Caroline, his DOB is 10 years earlier than on the 1841. We do have him as either a Printer or Painter in the 1861 and 1871 Censuses |
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Apr-June1892 |
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An Edwin Parkhouse died
(65) in Bedminster, Bristol: 5c 470 |
FreeBMD Death Index 1. This puts his DOB as 1827, 10 years early for our Edwin Parkhouse based on the 1861 and 1871 Censuses but is correct for the 1891 Census. |
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9 March 1897 |
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Alice Elsie
Craig is born to John Henry Craig and Ellen
Elizabeth Craig formerly Westcott
in Bristol. |
Birth Certificate for Alice Elsie Craig 1897 1. Ellen Elizabeth Craig formerly Westcott is really Maud Elizabeth Ellen Westcott. |
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Oct-Dec 1897 |
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An Emma Parkhouse died
in Bedminster: 5c 410. Born abt 1837 |
FreeBMD Death Index |
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1901 |
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Ralph Baskerville
(49) is living with his wife Sarah (59)
& daughter Milly (24) Baskerville in Derby. Ralph is a Railway Engine
Driver from Bristol. Sarah & Milly
are from Bristol. Also present is Ralph’s
Mother-in-Law, Matilda Parkhouse (82), a
widow from Bristol. |
1901 Census 1. Ralph, Sarah & Milly Baskerville’s details match those in 1861, 1871 & 1881 except that here Sarah has gained 2 years and Ralph is shown as being born in Bristol. 5. Sarah Baskerville must be nee Parkhouse as Matilda Parkhouse is Ralph’s Mother-in-Law 2. Matilda Parkhouse’s details match those 1841 and 1881 except that she shown as unmarried in the latter and has gained 2 years here. |
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1901 |
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Thomas
Westcott (52) is living in Bristol with his wife Ellen (49) Westcott
and 6 children. Thomas is a Gas-Stoker but
is shown from Bridgwater, Somerset and Ellen
is also from Bridgwater. The children
are Alice (24), Albert (22), Mabel (19), James
(17), Florence (13) and Charley Westcott (11) all born in Bristol. Also present are two visitors: Frances Craig (6) from
London and Florence Craig (1) from Reading |
1901 Census 1. Thomas Westcott’s details match previous censuses except that here he is shown from Bridgwater. 2. The children all match. 3. This Ellen Westcott is Ellen Booth Larkman b 12 Sept 1850. She is also known as Ellen Baskerville on the 1861 & 1871 Censuses and in 1875 on her daughter, Maud Elizabeth Ellen Westcott’s Birth Certificate. 6. Link to Chronology of Women's Names 7. Frances and Florence Craig’s details match those of Maud Westcott’s children with John Henry Craig: Frances Craig b.1895 & Florence E Craig b.1900. |
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1901 |
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John (37), Nelly (26) and Elsie Craig (4) are living as Boarders at 41 Oxford Street, Spittlegate in London. John is a Musician from Manchester and Nelly and Elsie are from Bristol |
1901 Census 1. This is John Henry Craig, Nelly is Maud Elizabeth Ellen Craig nee Westcott and Elsie is Alice Elsie Craig. 2. Link to Chronology of Women's Names: Maud Elizabeth Ellen Westcott |
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Jul-Sept 1908 |
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In 1908 Q3 an Ellen Elizabeth
Parkhouse married in St Marylebone (1902-1977), Greater London,
London: 1a 1371. There are 4 names on the page inc 2 men: Thomas Alfred
Springett & Ernest Warner |
FreeBMD Marriage Index 1. Who is this Ellen Elizabeth Parkhouse? |
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22 Apr 1910 |
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Thomas Westcott, Gas
Stoker, died in Bristol aged 60.
Informant: W Stevens, Son-in-law. |
Thomas Westcott
Death Cert 1910 |
Link to Researching Ellen Parkhouse
aka Betsey Parkhouse
Link to Chronology of Women's Names:
Elizabeth Smith aka Betsey Parkhouse
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