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Elizabeth Jane Delowery
b.17 May 1882 Walworth, Surrey, England
d.26 Oct 1968 Brentwood, Essex, England
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m. Est 1879
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m. 29 Jun 1913
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Elizabeth Jane Delowry / Delowery / De Lowery (a number of variations of spelling were used by this family) was the second child of Edward Delowery and Eliza Mary Kirkham. Edward worked many different manual labour-type jobs, including messenger, rug-weaver, poulterer, check clerk, handyman and theatre bill poster. There is a family legend that he was a "one-armed bill poster". So far it hasn't been proved whether this was a joke that has turned into family myth or if there was any truth to it. Edward had married Emily Lloyd in 1872 and they lost a daughter born prematurely in 1873. It's not yet known what happened to Emily over the next few years - it's possible that she died and the record has not yet been found, but it seems more likely that the relationship broke down and Emily went back to using her maiden name, as there are possible census records for Emily in Battersea in 1881 and Portsmouth in 1901. No divorce record has yet been found for the couple, and no marriage record has been found for Edward and his next "wife", Eliza Kirkham. Elizabeth's mother Eliza Kirkham had emigrated to Australia at the age of 16 as a domestic servant. Shortly after arriving in Queensland Eliza married young sail maker Henry Edward Swain and had two children, only one of whom, Henry Victor Swain b. 1875, survived. Eliza then left her husband in Australia and returned to London, where she began a relationship with Edward Delowery. Their first child, Annie Eliza Delowery, was born in Walworth in 1880. Elizabeth was born 17 May 1882 at 40 Trafalgar Street in Walworth, London. No record has yet been found for Elizabeth or her siblings baptism in the Anglican church except for her youngest sister Ada Beatrice, who was baptised at St. Peter's Church, Walworth, in 1888. At the time the family's location was listed as living at 2 Caroline Place, Walworth, and Edward's occupation was listed as "check clerk". On 19 March 1888, Elizabeth was admitted to Leipsic (now Comber Grove) school, which was right next to Caroline Place. According to her admission she had already spent a year at East Lane school. On 17 June 1889 Elizabeth's brother John was admitted to Sleaford Street school, with the family's address listed as nearby 9 Thessaly Terrace. It is interesting to note that John's parents claimed exemption from religious instruction - with the family's Irish roots, it's possible they were Catholic. In the 1891 census Elizabeth was living with her family at 5 Acre Street, Battersea. On voting lists it is recorded that Edward Delowry occupied 3 rooms on the 1st floor of 3 Acre House, Nine Elms, S.W., with the landlord Robert Gare living at the same address. Elizabeth's half-brother Henry is listed as Henry V. S. Delowery, Edward's son. He wasn't with Edward & Eliza in the 1881 census so perhaps he hadn't returned to England until 1883 when he is found in London school registration records. Henry married in 1897 and went on to have eight children. Of Elizabeth's other siblings, one sister, Ada Beatrice was born 1888 and died a year later, and her younger brother John James hasn't yet been traced past 1891. He would have been 15 in the 1901 census so could have been expected to be living with his mother, but is not. Perhaps he was working as an apprentice somewhere, or living with a relative we don't yet know about, or perhaps he had already died. One other sibling of Elizabeth has been traced past 1891: her elder sister Annie who married Henry Joseph Bowers in 1903. Elizabeth's future husband George Gorringe was a witness at the wedding, so the Gorringe and Delowery families knew each other for at least 10 years before Elizabeth and George married in 1913. In fact George was living with Elizabeth's mother Eliza and stepfather Alfred Hannington in Neasden in the 1911 census. Alfred was a boiler maker, and George was a boiler makers assistant, so he probably learned the trade from his future step-father-in-law. When Elizabeth was 18 her father Edward died at 10 John Street, Battersea on 1 Jan 1900 at the age of 53 from gout and cirrhotic kidneys. Elizabeth's mother Eliza soon remarried on 3 Jun 1900 to boiler maker Alfred Ernest Hannington. They were married at St. Andrew's Church, Battersea with an E. Dyson one of the witnesses (the other witness name is difficult to read). In the 1901 census Elizabeth was working as a domestic housemaid, living at 622 Wandsworth Road, Clapham, with the Manning family headed by Charles, a dining room keeper. In the 1911 census Elizabeth was living at 78 High St, Willesden with the Day family, and working as a waitress at the coffee house owned by the widow Clara Jane Day. In 1913 Elizabeth and George were living at 31 Tidemore Street in Wandsworth. They married June 29th 1913 at St George's Church in Battersea, London. They had two sons: Alfred Victor George, b. 10 Sep 1913 at 4 Swete Street, West Ham, and Stanley Edward James, whose birth was registered in West Ham but baptised at St. Jude's Church, Kensal Green on 11 Mar 1917. At the time of Stanley's baptism their address was given as 24 Enbrook St, which is where George's adopted/half-brother Charles Kelly Gorringe lived with his wife and children. George worked as a railway boiler makers assistant from 1901 to his death at the age of 46. He died at 105 Ranelagh Road, West Ham on 26 May 1924 from heart disease and bronchitis. In 1939 Elizabeth was working as an office cleaner and living at 104 Fairlop Road, Leyton, Essex with her son Victor, his wife-to-be, Bessie Radley, and Bessie's sister. Elizabeth later moved and was living at 42 Long Ridings Avenue when she died on 26 Oct 1968 in the Brentwood District Hospital due to cerebral thrombosis. References
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