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ABODES:
1869 (Birth) Jun qtr - 2b 467 - Portsmouth, Hants.
1881 (Census) - Baileys Road, 6 Caernavon Terrace, Portsmouth, Hants.NOTES from John Bridgen:
My grandfather Ernest Alfred was reputedly a tear away, joining the 12th Lances at the age of 17. His regiment ordered to India, Ernest regretted his rashness and begged his sister Carry to buy him out and she did go the barracks to see what could be done. In the event she had to await his return after a short tour of duty and bought him out then.(Entry no.199, page 100 of the parish of Portsea, county of Southampton) - Ernest was a tobacconist of 5, Fawcett Road, Charles Pear Smith, Jessie's father, was described as a Hatter, and Jessie herself as a milliner (draper's apprentice) in either Portsmouth or Southsea.
I have a note of what I take to be his marriage at Tisbury, north east of Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire, and north of the A30 (Volume 5a.471 Oct-Dec.1866). The match-maker for the marriage was Amelia, Ernest's mother.
After the marriage (7th Feb.1892) Ernest was given a pub which he sold for a sovereign when under the influence.
Later, when manager of the New Cross Empire (London?), Ernest met Beattie who was cashier there. They maintained a long-term relationship until Jessie's death in 1941 when they married.
I met her first when Ernest was dying in their house in Shoreham in September 1944. (He died in October but by that time I had gone up to Cambridge.) I next met her in 1966 on my return from Tanganyika as it then was. She was by then a very old but remarkably capable old lady who commanded respect. She lingered on for a year or so afterwards.
The "old man", as 'the mater' and my mother always referred to Ernest Alfred, delighted his grandchildren with stories of his service life in India with punishments of digging holes and filling them in again afterwards, and more particularly by his fine repertoire of old music hall songs.
NOTES: from John Bridgen
My paternal grandmother (Jessie) was immensely fond of her brother, Herbert Smith, who owned a drapery in Ilkeston and was grandmaster of a masonic lodge, he and his wife being most puritanical in that never a profane word was uttered in their presence and having their own pew in church.Jessie was also fond of an aunt Helen (Smith?) who married George Millar and lived at the Mill House, Emsworth. When I saw it in the early 1980s it had become the dairy. My uncle Harold had very happy memories of his childhood holidays, a month each summer, playing with Ted Phillips, gathering cockles, pumping water from the well and rowing on the mill-pond.
Of the mill house the stone floor was a firm recollection. My own father arrived on the scene too late to play any great part in these. I seldom heard him speak of Emsworth.
Jessie was very fond of Frankie (2nd wife of brother-in-law Harry). She was often visited by their children, Bill and Gerald, in their early manhood.
(Entry no.199, page 100 of the parish of Portsea, county of Southampton) - Ernest was a tobacconist of 5, Fawcett Road, Charles Pear Smith, Jessie's father, was described as a Hatter, and Jessie herself as a milliner (draper's apprentice) in either Portsmouth or Southsea.
I have a note of what I take to be her marriage at Tisbury, north east of Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire, and north of the A30 (Volume 5a.471 Oct-Dec.1866). The match-maker for the marriage was Amelia, Ernest's mother.
At the time of her marriage Jessie was living with a number of other girls, possibly above the shop, in Jubilee Terrace, Portsmouth, where they were all apprentices together. My mother understood these carefree days to have been the happiest in her mother-in-law's life, but then my mother's own view of married life was not a cheerful one. After the marriage (7th Feb.1892) her husband Ernest was given a pub which he sold for a sovereign when under the influence. Harold (her son) told stories of his mother serving behind the bar when her own up-bringing had been thoroughly puritanical. Both he and my father spoke of their mother with the utmost fondness, as of course did her daughter Ruby May.
My own memories of her are of an extremely kind and loving, caring lady. My mother, not noted for her praise of others, would have whole-heartedly endorsed that judgment.
1881 Census: (Possibly Jessie)
Dwelling: Clarendon Rd Oxford House
Census Place: Portsea, Hampshire, England
Source: FHL Film 1341285 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 1162 Folio 71 Page 31
Marr Age Sex Birthplace
Frederick G. FRANCIS M 29 M Wool, Dorset, England
Rel: Head
Occ: Butcher
Mary FRANCIS M 28 F Potton, Bedford, England
Rel: Wife
Edith FRANCIS 1 F Southsea, Hampshire, England
Rel: Dautr
Infant FRANCIS 1 m M Southsea, Hampshire, England
Rel: Son
Rose WOODROW U 21 F Gosport, Hampshire, England
Rel: Servt
Occ: General Servant
Jessie SMITH U 15 F Southsea, Hampshire, England
Rel: Servt
Occ: Nurse Girl
NOTES from John Bridgen:
Jessie's parents were reputed to have died together in a railway accident in or about 1877 and to have been buried at Liskeard, Cornwall, but my investigations drew a blank.Possible findings:
Deaths Sep 1874
SMITH Charles Pear, aged 37, St. Geo. East 1c 2981881 census: H.M.S. Duke Of Wellington" Portsmouth Harbour
Charles P. SMITH Occ: Sun Lieutenant (no age given)
NOTES: from John Bridgen
My paternal grandmother (Jessie) was immensely fond of her brother, Herbert Smith, who owned a drapery in Ilkeston and was grandmaster of a masonic lodge, he and his wife being most puritanical in that never a profane word was uttered in their presence and having their own pew in church.
Director. J.R.Martin &Co.Ltd., Merchant Shippers, 31 Budge Row,Cannon St., London EC. to 1947, and Thomson Savage Clothing (Pty) Ltd.,Durban, 1947 to 1964
NOTES: from his son Robert (Bob) June 2002
Harold Ernest Bridgen, born 1894, he fought in the 1st world war.
Apart from my sister our family emigrated to Durban in 1948; Babs joined us about 1950. ***************************************************NOTES: from John Bridgen (nephew)
Harold served throughout WW1 in the Royal Corps of Signals. When I joined him in Durban in 1965 he gave me a session in which he got out all his old maps, photographs and papers and talked of his experiences. - going forward under sniper fire to achieve telecommunications with the front line, running out the wiring as he went, all this at that possibly worst of all hell-holes, Passchaendale.Dick, my elder brother, who likewise had talked with Harold and who himself had fought through the Italian campaign in WW2, was convinced that Harold should be rated a hero.
Harold and my father had derived from their father’s brief service career in the 12th Lancers (and also from the habits ingrained in WW1) a fetish that all males should when out for a walk keep in step. I recall walking with Harold, when he was visiting this country in his 80s, when he was constantly changing his step. It was ages before I tumbled to what it was all about. I had forgotten that my father did exactly the same although he would have imposed the burden on his sons rather than himself have to conform to their pace. I was pouring through my photograph album recently and found to my amusement that Ernest, Harold and Jack and another man were all in step with each other as they walked along the sea-front. In Whitehall when passing the cenotaph my father would insist on a smart ‘eyes right’ or ‘left’ as the case may be.
NOTES: from Tim Gray (cousin)
My Mother remained in contact with her cousin Harold Bridgen and it was really his influence that saw us move from the U.K to Durban, after having returned from India in 1946 to very little for my Father,who had been a Tea and Rubber Plantation Manager before being called up in 1940. Harold had moved from a position in the City to become a Director of Thomson Savage, a large Clothing company in Durban.
I remember him as a very fit, genial man, cheerful, friendly and sympathetic, promoting life. A prolific reader, he always seemed to have a book under his arm ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------Free BMD: Jun qtr 1894 - Bridgen Harold Ernest - Portsea 2b 485
Frederick Holdsworth Broadbent
According to the late Mother of Tim Gray Elizabeth's first spouse was a nephew of Sir William Broadbent
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1881 Census - Hipswell Lodge, Hipswell, York, England
Source: FHL Film 1342174 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 4880 Folio 71 Page 5
Marr Age Sex Birthplace
Charles Sidney BRADLEY M 49 M Richmond, York, England
Rel: Head
Occ: Leut Colonel Occupying 800 Acres Of Land Employing 4 Labourers & 1 Boy
Frederick Holdsworth BROADBENT U 24 M Harrogate, York, England
Rel: Boarder
Occ: Agricultural Student
Hannah DE LA FIELD U 22 F Appleton Wisk, York, England
Rel: Servant
Occ: Cook
Eliza TUNSTILL W 28 F Hunton, York, England
Rel: Servant
Occ: Housemaid
ABODES:
1865 (Birth) - Portsmouth, Hants.
1881 (Census) - Baileys Road, 6 Caernavon Terrace, Portsmouth, Hants.
1884 (Marriage to Joseph) - WinchesterGRO: Mar qtr 1865, Portsea, 2b 445
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Elizabeth's Granddaughter Phyllis has told Tim Gray that Elizabeth had lots of children by her three marriages.Notes from John Bridgen:
Elizabeth I have a note to have had six children in all by her three husbands. My cousin, Margaret, however in a discussion of 1990, thought the number more likely to have been 12 or 13.I have also discovered a note from Harold written down at Betty Russell’s direction stating that Lizzie had the following progeny: Ethel, May, Fred, Harold and additional up to 12 or 13.
Found 1881 Census:
Dwelling: 12 Kings Rd
Census Place: Portsea, Hampshire, England
Source: FHL Film 1341284 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 1158 Folio 52 Page 11
Marr Age Sex Birthplace
Joseph STIER U 24 M Bath, Somerset, England
Rel: Head
Occ: Jeweller & Tobacconist
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Joseph's Granddaughter Phyllis is adamant that Joseph was an eminent orchestra leader.A "Joseph Stier" was a pupil at Ampleforth College, Yorkshire in 1867
ABODES:
1865 (Birth) - Portsmouth, Hants.
1881 (Census) - Baileys Road, 6 Caernavon Terrace, Portsmouth, Hants.
1884 (Marriage to Joseph) - WinchesterGRO: Mar qtr 1865, Portsea, 2b 445
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Elizabeth's Granddaughter Phyllis has told Tim Gray that Elizabeth had lots of children by her three marriages.Notes from John Bridgen:
Elizabeth I have a note to have had six children in all by her three husbands. My cousin, Margaret, however in a discussion of 1990, thought the number more likely to have been 12 or 13.I have also discovered a note from Harold written down at Betty Russell’s direction stating that Lizzie had the following progeny: Ethel, May, Fred, Harold and additional up to 12 or 13.