Person:James Gorringe (1)

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James Gorringe
b.15 Oct 1843 Horne, Surrey, England
d.11 Jan 1910 Paddington, London, England
Parents and Siblings
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m. 10 Nov 1838
  1. William Gorringe1839 - 1894
  2. George Gorringe1841 - 1911
  3. James Gorringe1843 - 1910
  4. Edgar Gorringe1846 - 1894
  5. Sarah Ann Gorringe1848 - 1919
  6. John GorringeAbt 1851 - 1893
  7. Thomas GorringeAbt 1854 - 1925
  8. Alice GorringeAbt 1856 - 1895
  9. Henry Gorringe1858 - 1868
  10. Elizabeth Ann Gorringe1861 - 1876
Spouse and Children
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m. 12 Jun 1865
  1. James Gorringe1867 -
  2. Phillis Emily Gorringe1868 -
  3. Catherine Mary Gorringe1870 - 1916
  4. Penelope Ann Gorringe1872 - 1908
  5. Robert Victor Gorringe1876 - 1917
  6. George Gorringe1878 - 1924
Spouse and Children
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m. 12 Sep 1881
  1. Charles Frederick Kelly Gorringe1874 - 1943
  2. John Albert Gorringe1882 - 1928
  3. William Thomas Gorringe1887 - 1918
  4. Ethel May Gorringe1891 - 1974
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][25][26] James Gorringe
Alt Name[16][17][14] James Gorridge
Alt Name[18] James Gorring
Gender Male
Birth[4][2][5][1][16][10] 15 Oct 1843 Horne, Surrey, England
Alt Birth[6][10] 31 Oct 1843 Godstone, Surrey, EnglandBirth Registration
Christening[15] 12 Nov 1843 Horne, Surrey, EnglandHorne Parish Church
Alt Birth[3] Abt 1844 Hook, Surrey, England
Census[17] 1851 Horne, Surrey, EnglandChurch Lane - House near Church
Census[16] 1851 Horne, Surrey, EnglandHedge Court
Census[1] 1861 Worth, Sussex, EnglandGrocers
Occupation[9][1][2][3][4][5][19][20][11][12][21][13][14][18][22][26] From 1861 to 1910 Paddington, London, Englandcoal porter and labourer
Residence[26] 1865 Paddington, London, England11 Talbot Mews
Marriage 12 Jun 1865 Paddington, Middlesex, EnglandSt. Stephen's Church
to Jane Stringer
Census[2] 1871 Paddington, London, EnglandBrindley Street
Census[3] 1881 Paddington, London, England85 Clarendon Street
Marriage 12 Sep 1881 Kensington, London, Englandat the registry office
to Sarah Ann Kelley
Residence[12][14] From 1881 to 1882 Paddington, London, England85 Clarendon Street
Census[4] 1891 Chelsea, London, England3 Enbrook Street
Census[5] 1901 Paddington, London, England3 Enbrook Street
Death[8][13] 11 Jan 1910 Paddington, London, England
Alt Death[8][13] 12 Jan 1910 Paddington, London, EnglandDeath Registration

James Gorringe was born 15 Oct 1843 in Horne, Surrey, the third son of George Gorringe, a miller, and Elizabeth Longley. James had six brothers, all but one of whom lived until adulthood and worked as coal porters, grooms, gardeners and agricultural labourers. A brother, Henry, died at the age of ten and two sisters, Alice and Elizabeth Jane, married a bricklayer foreman and general labourer respectively.

James was counted twice on the 1851 census, once with his parents and siblings at "Hedge Court" in Horne, and again in Church Lane in a house next to the church with his grandparents Thomas and Sarah Longley and aunts Sarah and Emma Longley. At the time Thomas Longley was working as a schoolmaster and Parish Clerk.

In 1861 17 year-old James was living with the family of Michael Hall, a draper and grocer in Worth, Sussex (less than 10 miles from Horne). He is listed as a servant and working as a porter, likely for Mr Hall's grocery and drapery businesses. Also living in the same house was 14 year-old house servant Jane Huggett, who married James' younger brother Edgar in 1869. Jane may have also been a cousin by marriage, as James' aunt Emma Longley married a James Huggett, although the connection between Jane and James Huggett hasn't been determined yet. Also living in the Worth / Turner's Hill area was Jane Stringer, daughter of a local agricultural labourer. Jane and James must have known each other when they were both living in Worth. It is not yet known whether they moved to London together or at different times, but in June 1865 they were both living at 11 Talbot Mews, Paddington and 18 year-old Jane married 22 year-old James at St. Stephen's Church, Paddington, with James' older brother William and Esther Cogdell as witnesses.

Two years later their first son, James, was born, followed by daughters Phillis Emily in 1868 and Catherine Mary in 1870. In the 1871 census the family of five were sharing a house with visitor Penelope Stringer (Jane's sister), another family with three children, and a young married couple. They were living at 42 Brindley Street in Paddington (see a 1960's painting of the street here), which in Booth's 1898 map was classified as "mixed: some comfortable, others poor". Without knowing how large the house was it's difficult to know how cramped the house was, but it seems likely the Gorringe family occupied a small number of rooms on one floor of the building. James worked as a coal porter.

James and Jane's next son, Robert Victor, was born in 1876, and their sixth and final child George was born 22 Mar 1878 at 85 Clarendon Street, Paddington. James' parents George and Elizabeth Gorringe both died in 1878 in Surrey. Sadly, James' wife Jane died of acute pneumonia on 31 Jan 1880 aged just 32. James was now a widower at the age of 37 with five young children to feed. In the 1881 census he was still living at 85 Clarendon Street, with children Emily, Kate, Annie, Robert and George (eldest son James would have been 13, and as he isn't there it seems reasonable to presume that he had died). Living two streets over was charwoman Sarah Kelley, his brother-in-law's unmarried sister (Emily Stringer, Jane's sister, married Walter Kelley, Sarah's brother, in 1876).

James married Sarah Kelley at the Register Office on 12 Sep 1881, with John and Jessie Bounds as witnesses. James and Sarah's first child, John Albert Gorringe, was born 29 Jul 1882 and baptised at St. Mary Magdalene Church on 5 Oct 1882. He was followed by William Thomas, born 1887 and Ethel May born 1891. Sarah also had a son, Charles Frederick Kelley, in 1874, who adopted by James and eventually took on the Gorringe surname.In the 1891 census James, Sarah, Charles, Robert, George, John and William were living at 3 Enbrook Street, Chelsea, and sharing the house with one other couple. The 1898 Booth poverty map indicates that Enbrook street was "fairly comfortable" where the inhabitants had "good ordinary earnings".

By 1901 James' children Kate and Penelope Ann had married, and son George was living with Penelope and her husband. James was still living at 3 Enbrook Street with Sarah and children Charles, Robert, John, William, and Ethel. He was working as a coal porter, as he had done most of his life. As they grew, James' children became or married mail sorters, labourers, furnace stokers, railway carmen, warehousemen, porters, and factory hands. James died at 3 Enbrook Street on 11 Jan 1910 at the age of 66 from bronchitis (possibly related to his work as a coal porter). His descendants are currently known to live in England, Canada, and New Zealand.


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St. Mary the Virgin Church, Horne, Surrey - where James was christened
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St. Mary the Virgin Church, Horne, Surrey - where James was christened
St. Stephen's Church, Paddington, where James and Jane were married
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St. Stephen's Church, Paddington, where James and Jane were married
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Sussex, England. 1861 Census of England
    Worth, folio 10, page 14; citing PRO RG 9/580.

    1861 Census information:

    Name: James Gorringe
    Relation to head of house: Servant
    Marital status: Unm
    Age: 17
    Estimated birth year: abt 1844
    Gender: Male
    Occupation: Porter
    Birthplace: Horne, Surrey
    Disability: n/a

    Street address: Beer House ??? Grocers
    Civil parish: Worth
    Ecclesiastical parish: Chichester
    County/Island: Sussex
    Country: England
    Registration District: East Grinstead
    Sub-registration district: Worth
    ED, institution, or vessel: 1c

    Household members:
    Name Age
    James Gorringe 17
    Elizabeth Hall 26
    George Hall 28
    Mary Hall 58
    Mary Hall 60
    Mary Ann Hall 23
    Micheal Hall 58 - Head
    Jane Huggett 14 - Servant
    Alfred Riddle 12 - Apprentice publican

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 London, England. 1871 Census
    St Mary Paddington, folio 17, page 23; citing PRO RG 10/2.

    Household members:
    Name Age
    James Gorringe 28
    Jane Gorringe 24
    James Gorringe 4
    Emily Gorringe 2
    Kate Gorringe 4 months
    Peneylope Kainge? 14 - Visitor

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 London, England. 1881 Census
    St Mary Paddington, folio 47, page 42; citing PRO RG 11/3.

    Household members:
    Name:
    James Gorringe 37
    Emily Gorringe 12
    Kate Gorringe 10
    Annie Gorringe 8
    Robert Gorringe 4
    George Gorringe 3

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 London, England. 1891 Census
    Chelsea, folio 97, page 42; citing PRO RG 12/56.

    Household members:
    Name Age
    James Gorringe 48
    Sarah A. Gorringe 43
    Charles Gorringe 17
    Robert Gorringe 15
    George Gorringe 13
    John Gorringe 9
    William Gorringe 5

  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 London, England. 1901 Census
    Paddington, folio 43, page 29; citing PRO RG 13/18.

    Household members:
    Name Age
    James Gorringe 58
    Sarah Gorringe 52
    Charles F. Gorringe 26
    Robert V. Gorringe 24
    John A. Gorringe 19
    William T. Gorringe 14
    Ethel M. Gorringe 9

  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Birth Index. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
    entry for James Gorringe, volume 4, page 145, Oct-Nov-Dec quarter 1843, Godstone district.
  7. ↑ General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Marriage Index. (London, England: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
    entry for James Gorringe, volume 1a, page 343, Jul-Aug-Sep quarter 1881, Kensington district.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Death Index. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
    entry for James Gorringe, volume 1a, page 2, Jan-Feb-Mar quarter 1910, Paddington district.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Registrar General. Birth Certificate
    birth certificate for George Gorringe, born 22 Mar 1878; citing 1a/18/200, Apr-Jun quarter 1878, Paddington registration district, Saint Mary sub-district.
    George Gorringe birth certificate
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Registrar General. Birth Certificate
    birth certificate for James Gorringe, born 15 Oct 1843; citing 04/145/288, Oct-Dec quarter 1843, Godstone registration district, Godstone, Surrey sub-district.
    James Gorringe birth certificate
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Battersea, London, England. St. George the Martyr, Parish Registers
    "London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921," George Gorringe m. Elizabeth De Lowery, 29 Jun 1913; accessed 25 Sep 2009.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Paddington, London, England. St. Mary Magdalene Church, Parish Registers
    "London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906," John Albert Gorringe, bap. 5 Oct 1882; accessed 25 Sep 2009.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 General Register Office. England & Wales. Certified Copy of an Entry of Death
    death certificate for James Gorringe, died 11 Jan 1910; citing 1a/2/384, Jan-Mar quarter 1910, Paddington registration district, Paddington North sub-district.
    George Gorringe death certificate
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 General Register Office. Marriage Certificate
    marriage certificate for James Gorringe and Sarah Ann Kelly, married 12 Sep 1881; citing 1a/343/71, Jul-Sep quarter 1881, Middlesex registration district, Kensington sub-district.
    George Gorringe m. Sarah Kelley
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Horne, Surrey, England. St. Mary the Virgin, Parish Registers
    "London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906," James Gorringe, bap. 12 Nov 1843; accessed 6 Jan 2011.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Surrey, England. 1851 Census of England
    Horne, folio 8, page 8; citing PRO HO 107/1600.

    Name Age
    George Gorridge 35
    Elizabeth Gorridge 34
    William Gorridge 12
    James Gorridge 7
    George Gorridge 10
    Edgar Gorridge 5
    Sarah Gorridge 2
    John Gorridge 1 Mo
    Thomas Stone 55
    Ann Stone 53

  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Surrey, England. 1851 Census of England
    Horne, folio 11, page 14-15; citing PRO HO 107/1600.

    Name Age
    Thomas Longley 63
    Sarah Longley 63
    Sarah Longley 42
    Emma Longley 21
    James Gorridge 7

  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Kensal Green, Middlesex, England. St. Jude's Church, Parish Registers
    "London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906," William Thomas Gorring, bap. 23 Feb 1887, pg 39; accessed 4 Mar 2012.
  19. ↑ General Register Office. Marriage Certificate
    marriage certificate for George Gorringe and Elizabeth Delowery, married 29 June 1917; citing 01d/739/473, Apr-Jun quarter 1913, Wandsworth registration district.
    George Gorringe m. Elizabeth Delowery
  20. ↑ General Register Office. England & Wales. Certified Copy of an Entry of Death
    death certificate for Jane Gorringe, died 31 Jan 1880; citing 1a/16/399, Jan-Mar quarter 1880, Kensington registration district, Saint Mary Paddington sub-district.
    Jane Stringer Gorringe death certificate
  21. ↑ Kensal Green, Middlesex, England. St. Jude's Church, Parish Registers
    "London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921," Henry Cornelius Hopkins m. Penelope Ann Gorringe, 3 Sep 1898.
  22. ↑ Kensal Green, Middlesex, England. St. Jude's Church, Parish Registers
    "London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906," Ethel May Gorring, bap. 4 Oct 1891, pg 160.
  23.   London, England. Electoral Registers, 1835-1965
    vol. 1907 Kensington and Chelsea, Chelsea, No. 8 Polling District, Division 1: 382, Gorringe family at 3 Enbrook Street.

    1907, 08, 09 voter list - James and son Charles Gorringe
    1910 voter list - James Gorringe (Charles must have moved out?)

  24.   London, England. Electoral Registers, 1835-1965
    vol. 1890 Kensington and Chelsea, Chelsea, Kensal New Town District, Division 1: 282, James Gorringe at 3 Enbrook Street.

    1890, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 1900, 01, 02, 03, 05, 06 voter list - James Gorringe

  25. ↑ General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Marriage Index. (London, England: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
    entry for James Gorringe, volume 1a, page 264, Apr-Jun quarter 1865, Kensington district.
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 General Register Office. England and Wales. Civil Registration Certificates. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office)
    marriage certificate for James Gorringe and Jane Stringer, married 12 Jun 1865; citing 01a/264/28, Jun quarter 1865, Kensington registration district.
    James Gorringe m. Jane Stringer marriage certificate
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