After a long gap the blog is back!
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| Esther Titheridge 1881-1967 |
Over the past few months I have taken a rest from Titheridge / Titheradge genealogy to concentrate on researching my parents’ families. The research has been concentrated on the surnames Westcott, Molloy, France, Brannan, John and Treble. I have had most success with the Westcott surname and have written up a small booklet on the family, as well as scanning and labelling all the family photographs. I have discovered that most of my family don’t have as much Welsh blood as I thought, as many ancestors came to Newport from Somerset to find work in the industries associated with coal mining in the Welsh valleys. The Irish side of the family have caused lots of difficulty. I cannot find where in Ireland Moses Molloy came from before he appeared in Newport. You would think with a name like that it would be easy! I thought the John family from the small village of Llanstadwell in Pembrokeshire would be easy, before I discovered that in Pembrokeshire the John surname appears more common than Smith or Jones. Brick walls everywhere, so I give up for the moment!
Hence, it is with delight I return to research the Titheridge / Titheradge name. This is so much easier – you know if you find the name anywhere then they connect to the family tree somehow.
My return to Titheridge /Titheradge genealogy has been further stimulated by contacts who found out about our research from the blog or website. In the past month, I have been lucky to be contacted by three wonderful individuals all offering helpful information. One person has offered to write about a Titheradge friend, one person has found me the earliest records of the Titheridge name and I have been sent some family photographs.
Nigel has kindly sent me two wonderful pictures of his great grandmother for me to share with everyone. These are the photographs of Esther Titheridge shown.
Esther was born 1 December 1881 in West Meon, Hampshire. Her father was Charles Titheridge, who was the 4 times great grandson of John Titheridge and Ann Quallat from Cheriton. Twenty-six-year-old Charles married Ann Garrett on 3 June 1873 at West Meon. They had 8 children, the first four born in West Meon and the latter four in East Meon. The children were
Ellen Titheridge birth registered December 1877Emily Rosetta Titheridge born 3 November 1879Esther Titheridge born 1 December 1881Arthur Charles Titheridge born 2 Jun 1883 (see this link for information on Arthur)Albert Titheridge born 10 August 1885Mary Titheridge born 10 August 1885Ada Florence Titheridge birth registered December 1889Gertrude Adelaide Titheridge born 15 March 1897 (see this link for information on Gertrude)
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| Esther Titheridge in 1906 at her marriage to Walter Nicholson |
The 1891 census shows Esther living with her family in East Meon village. In the 1901 census she is working as a servant in Farlington. When Esther was 25 she married Walter Nicholson on 13 January 1906 at Bishop’s Sutton. Esther and Walter lived in Bishops Sutton, Kilmeston and then by the 1911 census they had moved to 1 Elm Cottage, Frensham, Farnham, Surrey. Walter and Esther had 5 children:
Ada May Nicholson born 1906 in Bishops SuttonArthur Edwin Nicholson born 1907 in Bishops SuttonEdith Blanche Nicholson born 1910 in KilmestonWinifred Dulcie Nicholson born 1914 in Farnham districtNora Joan Nicholson born 1917 in Alton district
The 1939 Register saw Walter and Esther living at Winters Farm in the Guildford area, with both working on the farm. Esther lived until the age of 85, she died in the March quarter of 1967 in Surrey.
3 comments:
I see from Family Search that Walter Nicholson's mother Ellen (1845-1919) had the maiden name Titheridge
Chris Pritchard
Looking into Walter's mother's connection to the Titheridge family - I believe she was a daughter of James Titheridge (1817-1883) and Jane Titheridge (born Merrett) (1815-1850).
Chris Pritchard
Thank you for sharing your find.
Chris you are a brilliant Family History detective – that is an amazing find and certainly something I completely missed! Well done.
Following Chris’s revelation, I have been able to establish the following facts.
My Family Tree Maker program tells me that Walter Nicholson and Esther Titheridge, who are photographed above, were third cousins. Their common ancestors were Esther’s Great Great Grandparents, William Titheridge and Mary Wooderson.
Walter Nicholson’s mother, Ellen Titheridge, was the daughter of James Titheridge and Jane Merrit and was born in Bishops Waltham in 1845. She married John Nicolson in the December quarter of 1863 in Alresford registration area. Ellen and John Nicholson had at least 11 children, one of the youngest being Walter, born in Cheriton in 1882. The Nicholson family are found in Cheriton on the 1881 census but by the 1891 census had moved to Coombe Farm in East Meon. By the 1901 census Walter Nicholson was living in Bishop’s Sutton.
We already know that Esther Titheridge’s family moved to East Meon around 1885, so both families came to East Meon around the same time. Bishop’s Sutton, Cheriton, West Meon and East Meon are all within 12 miles of each other.
I think the fact that two distantly related Titheridges met and married indicates that the Titheridge genes must have been quite common in this area in the 1800s.
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