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| Mill Cottage in Frogmore, hamlet in East Meon |
Over a 27 year period William and Elizabeth Titheridge had 15 children. Not all the children survived to adult hood and 6 of the children died aged of 7 or under. By my calculations this meant that Elizabeth spent over 11 years of her life pregnant! It obviously had no detrimental effect on her health since she lived until she was 74. I guess with the children spreadout as one child left home and got married another was born. On the 1841 they were living with 6 children aged 13 to 11 months. On the 1851 census they were living with 7 children aged 16 to 1 and on the 1861 census they were living with 2 children aged 17 and 7.
William Titheridge was born about May 1805 in the village of East Meon, Hampshire. He was the son of Thomas Titheridge and Jane Tee. He married Elizabeth Lee on 28 Jul 1827 in East Meon. They lived mainly in Frogmore which is a small hamlet to the east of the main village of East Meon. It has a mill and a few cottages which were built for the mill workers and farm labourers.
William and Elizabeth’s 15 children were all born in East Meon. Ann, John, William, Eliza, Maria, James, Elizabeth, Sarah and Frank were the children who survived to adult hood. They certainly helped to spread the Titheridge surname as William and Elizabeth had 16 grandchildren with the name Titheridge. These are their children:-
- Ann Titheridge was born about Jun 1828 she was still alive in 1841 but we do not know when she died or if she married
- John Titheridge was born about Feb 1829. He married Eliza Hastings on 19 Jul 1858 in Portsea, St Marys, Hampshire. He died in Dec 1886 in Portsea, Hampshire. John and Eliza had 3 children with the Titheridge name.
- William Titheridge was born about Jun 1831. He married Mary Moys or Moss on 08 May 1858 in East Meon. He died in Dec 1907 in Wymering. William and Mary had 7 children with the Titheridge surname.
- Harriett Titheridge was born about Jun 1833. She died about Feb 1836 in East Meon aged 3.
- Eliza Titheridge was born about May 1835. She was still alive in 1851 but we do not know when she died or if she married.
- Jane Titheridge was born about Feb 1836. She died in July 1837 in East Meon aged 1.
- Maria Titheridge was born on 21 Jul 1838. She married William Rogers on 13 Jan 1861 in East Meon.
- James Titheridge was born on 04 Feb 1840. He married Eliza Rossey Harfield on 11 Nov 1865 in Catherington. He died on 23 Apr 1923. In 1874 the family emigrated to New Zealand establishing a large family of Titheridges in New Zealand. James and Eliza had 6 children with the Titheridge surname.
- Elizabeth Titheridge was born on 04 Jan 1842 in East Meon, Hampshire. She married William Willis on 08 Apr 1860 in East Meon, Hampshire.
- Sarah Titheridge was born on 29 Jan 1844. She married William Fly on 04 Jun 1864 in East Meon, Hampshire. She died on 18 Oct 1932.
- Hannah Titheridge was born on 30 Aug 1846 in East Meon, Hampshire. She died in October 1846 in East Meon aged just a few weeks.
- Henry Titheridge was born on 28 Jul 1847 in East Meon, Hampshire. He died in July 1855 aged 7
- Ellen Titheridge was born on 13 Dec 1849 in East Meon, Hampshire. She died in Jun 1855 in Petersfield, Hampshire aged 5.
- Frank Titheridge was born in Mar 1854 in East Meon, Hampshire. He married Emily Jane Port on 13 Oct 1877 in East Meon, Hampshire. Frank and Emily had no known children.
If you can provide any more information on these individuals please add a comment or email me.
If you have a special interest in East Meon or Frogmore where William and Elizabeth lived I can recommend the following website for amazing old pictures and history of the village.
http://www.eastmeonhistory.org.uk/content/catalogue_item/frogmore
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