Person:Amelia Allen (1)

Amelia Mary Elizabeth Veale was born on 6th February 1879 at Plymouth in Devon, daughter of Mary Ann Allen, formerly Harry, and her husband John Burridge Allen, a seaman. She was baptised the following month, alongside her two elder siblings. At the time of their baptism the family was living at 11 John Street in Plymouth. The 1881 census finds Amelia, her siblings and their mother living at 11 John Street; presumably their father was at sea on census night.

For a time in the mid 1880s the family lived at 3 Claremont Place, which was Amelia's recently widowed grandmother's home. By 1889 they had moved to 15 Wake Street in Devonport, where the family also appears in the 1891 census.

Amelia's mother died in 1895. Later that year her father married again, but he died three years later. Amelia had therefore lost both parents by the time she was nineteen.

Amelia's next sighting is in 1904, aged about 25, when she married Bertram George Veale. He was from Devonport, but they did not marry in the Plymouth area at all, but over 300 miles away in the Hull area of east Yorkshire. Why they married there is unclear. After their marriage they moved another considerable distance to Weymouth in Dorset, where they had a son in 1908. The 1911 census finds them living in a five roomed house in Weymouth and describes Bertram as a shop assistant working for a stationer and fancy book seller. They stayed in Weymouth for a few years, having a daughter there in 1918.

Their next sighting is in 1946, when they were living in Torquay, back in Devon. Bertram died there at Torbay Hospital in 1946. Amelia outlived him by seven years, in which time she returned to her native Plymouth, where she died in 1953, aged 74.

1. ↑ Births index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   b. Amelia Mary E. ALLEN, March Quarter 1879, Plymouth Registration District, Vol. 5b, page 268

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Baptisms register, in Church of England. Parish Registers of Christ Church. (Plymouth: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office).

   BAPTISMS Solemnized in the Parish of CHRIST CHURCH, PLYMOUTH, in the County of DEVON, in the year 1879
   When Born: Feby. 6 1879 No.2,382
   When Baptised: March 13, 1879
   Child's Christian Name: Amelia Mary Elizabeth
   Parents' Name - Christian: John Burridge & Mary Ann
   Parents' Name - Surname: Allen
   Abode: 11 John St. Plymouth
   Quality, Trade, or Profession: Seaman R.N.
   By whom the Ceremony was performed: W. Hayden Phillips

   Amelia was baptised at the same time as her two siblings.

3. ↑ England. 1881 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands: . (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG11; Piece 2194; Folio 7; Page 19, 3 Apr 1881.

   Address: 10 John Street, Plymouth (Charles), Devon
   Mary A. Allen, wife, married, female, 27 [1853/4], Sailor's Wife, b. Portsmouth, Hampshire
   Lilian Allen, daughter, female, 9 [1871/2], Scholar, b. Plymouth, Devon
   John B. Allen, son, male, 6 [1874/5], Scholar, b. Plymouth, Devon
   Amelia M. Allen, daughter, female, 2 [1878/9], b. Plymouth, Devon

4. ↑ England. 1891 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG12; Piece 1744; Folio 141; Page 45, 5 Apr 1891.

   Address: 15 Wake Street, Devonport, Stoke Damerel, Devon
   2 rooms occupied
   J.B. Allen, head, married, male, 48 [1842/3], Seaman, employed, b. Plymouth, Devon
   M.A. Allen, wife, married, female, 38 [1852/3], b. Portsmouth, Hampshire
   A.M. Allen, daughter, female, 12 [1878/9], Scholar, b. Plymouth, Devon
   A.S. Allen, son, male, 6 [1884/5], Scholar, b. Plymouth, Devon
   G.B. Allen, son, male, 4 [1886/7], Scholar, b. Plymouth, Devon
   W.H. Allen, son, male, 2 [1888/9], b. Devonport, Devon
   W.M. Allen, daughter, female, 1 [1889/90], b. Devonport, Devon

5. ↑ England. 1911 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom: The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), (formerly the UK General Register Office.))
   Class RG14; Piece 12358; Schedule 279, 2 Apr 1911.

   Address: 4 Andover Terrace, Westham, Weymouth, Dorset
   Five rooms occupied
   Bertram Veale, head, male, 30 [1880/1], married, Shop assistant - Stationery, Fancy Bookselling etc., worker, b. Devonport, Devon
   Amelia Veale, wife, female, 32 [1878/9], married 7 years, 1 child born, 1 child still living, b. Plymouth, Devon
   Edgar Veale, son, male, 2 [1908/9], b. Weymouth, Dorset

6. ↑ Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. Amelia M.E. VEALE, December Quarter 1953, Plymouth Registration District, Volume 7a, page 650, aged 74 [1878/9]

7.   England. National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1858 onwards. (Ancestry.com).

   1946
   VEALE Bertram George of 26 Ellacombe Church-road Torquay died 21 May 1946 at Torbay Hospital Torquay Administration London 28 June to Amelia Mary Elizabeth Veale widow.
   Effects £1141 19s.11d.