Person:Augustus Timothy (1)

Augustus Frederick Timothy was born on 8th October 1829 and baptised the following month in the parish of St Giles without Cripplegate in the City of London. He was the son of Jane Timothy, formerly Cassanet, and her husband David Timothy, a feather and bedding merchant. The family lived on the street called Barbican.

The 1841 census finds Augustus at a boy's boarding school on Wood Street in Barnet - it is not explicitly named, but presumably was Queen Elizabeth's School. By 1851 Augustus was living in the Southwark area and working as a clerk.

On 31st March 1853, aged 23, Augustus married Emma Annie Roberts. She had been working as governess in London, but was originally from Chesterfield in Derbyshire, which is where they married. Augustus's older sister Mary had also married Emma's maternal uncle George Barker in 1846, which is likely how they knew each other.

Augustus and Emma had one child, a boy called Percy Augustus born in the Bermondsey area in 1857. The 1861 census finds Augustus and a cook living at 2 Kidbrooke Cottages in Kidbrooke in Kent, in the south-eastern suburbs of London. Augustus described himself as a wharfinger (harbourmaster). Emma and her son Percy were not at home on census night; they were staying with Emma's sisters back in Chesterfield.

In 1863, Augustus's mother died.

Emma returned to Kidbrooke. She died at home at Kidbrooke Cottage on 2nd January 1864, aged 32. She was buried back in Chesterfield six days later.

On 25th July 1865, aged 35, Augustus married again. His second wife was Margaret Jane Keighley, who was originally from Hull but had moved with her family to Lee in the south-eastern suburbs of London. They married at Christ Church in Lee. Augustus was nearly sixteen years her senior. Augustus and Margaret went on to have another eight children together between 1866 and 1880, although one died as a baby in 1874. Augustus's father died in 1868.

Augustus and Margaret were relatively well off. They lived in a large house at 1 Percy Villas on the High Street in Eltham, appearing there in both the 1871 and 1881 censuses. In 1881 they had five servants living with them, and in 1881 they had seven servants.

Augustus died on 20th April 1881, at home at 1 Percy Villas. He was 51. His estate was valued at over £26,000, which was a substantial amount of money at the time. Margaret survived him by nearly 42 years.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Baptisms register, in Church of England. St. Giles Cripplegate Church (London). Parish registers of St. Giles Cripplegate Church (London), 1559-1936. (London: London Metropolitan Archives).

   BAPTISMS solemnized in the Parish of ST. GILES, without Cripplegate, in the City of LONDON, in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and twenty nine
   No.	When Baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents' Name		Abode	Quality, Trade, or Profession	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   			Christian	Surname
   9719	Nov[embe]r 1	Augustus Frederick B[orn] 8 Oct[obe]r	David & Jane	Timothy	Barbican	Upholder	J.H. Alt

2. ↑ England. 1841 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 HO107; Piece 438; Book 4; Folio 27; Page 9, 6 Jun 1841.

   Address: Wood Street, Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire
   Household headed by a schoolmaster (John Goodyear) with 3 teachers, 3 servants and 82 scholars (all boys), including:
   Augustus Timothy, male, 11 [1829/30], scholar, not born in county

3. ↑ England. 1851 Census Returns for England and Wales. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 1559; Folio 361; Page 40, 30 Mar 1851.

   Address: 49 Gainsford Street, Southwark (St John Horsleydown), Surrey
   John Cook, head, married, male, 30 [1820/1], Foreman Lighterman, b. Bexley, Kent
   Sarah Ann Cook, wife, married, female, 26 [1824/5], b. Limehouse, Middlesex
   Eliza Ann Cook, daughter, unmarried, female, 7 [1843/4], Scholar, b. Stepney, Middlesex
   Rob[er]t Aubrey Cook, son, unmarried, male, 5 [1845/6], Scholar, b. Stepney
   Mary Cook, daughter, female, 2 [1848/9], b. Southwark, Surrey
   Mary Ann Marshall, servant, female, 16 [1834/5], House Servant, b. Southwark, Surrey
   Augustus F. Timothy, visitor, male, 20 [1830/1], Clerk, b. Barbican, Middlesex

4. ↑ England. 1861 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 RG9; Piece 413; Folio 5; Page 7, 7 Apr 1861.

   Address: 2 Kidbrooke Cottages, Kidbrooke, Kent
   Augustus F. Timothy, head, married, male, 31 [1829/30], Wharfinger, b. City of London
   Mary Ann Boon, servant, unmarried, female, 24 [1836/7], Cook, b. Fordham, Cambridgeshire

5. ↑ England. England and Wales. 1871 Census Schedules. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG10; Piece 762; Folio 83; Page 25, 2 Apr 1871.

   Address: 1 Percy Villas, Eltham, Kent
   Augustus F. Timothy, head, married, male, 41 [1829/30], Wharfinger, b. Cripplegate, Middlesex
   Margaret J. Timothy, wife, married, female, 24 [1846/7], b. Hull
   Sydney F. Timothy, son, male, 4 [1866/7], b. Eltham, Kent
   Charles B. Timothy, son, male, 3 [1867/8], b. Eltham, Kent
   Margaret A. Timothy, daughter, female, 2 [1868/9], b. Eltham, Kent
   Frederick W. Timothy, son, male, 9mo [1870], b. Eltham, Kent
   Adeline Jones, servant, widow, female, 37 [1833/4], Nurse, b. Canada E. Montreal
   Elizabeth Bristow, servant, unmarried, female, 28 [1842/3], Cook, b. Worthing, Sussex
   Mary Rogers, servant, unmarried, female, 19 [1851/2], Housemaid, b. Corscombe, Dorset
   Lydia Cromwell, servant, unmarried, female, 21 [1849/50], Under Nurse, b. Windsor, Berkshire
   Ellen Fitzgerald, servant, unmarried, female, 17 [1853/4], Under Housemaid, b. [faded]

6. ↑ 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 728; Folio 90; Page 47, 3 Apr 1881.

   Address: 1 Percy Villas, High Street, Eltham, Kent
   Alfred [sic] F. Timothy, head, married, male, 48 [1832/3], Wharfinger, b. Rotherhithe, Surrey
   Mary [sic] Timothy, wife, married, female, 34 [1846/7], b. Hull, Yorkshire
   Percy Timothy, son, unmarried, male, 22 [1858/9], Clerk to Wh[ar]fing[e]r, b. Blackheath, Kent
   Florence M. Timothy, daughter, unmarried, female, 8 [1872/3], Scholar, b. Eltham, Kent
   Robert E. Timothy, son, unmarried, male, 5 [1875/6], Scholar, b. Eltham, Kent
   Florence Aldham, governess, unmarried, female, 23 [1857/8], Governess (Domes[tic]), b. Bombay, India
   Eliza Wedmore, nurse, unmarried, female, 33 [1847/8], Nurse Domes[tic] Ser[van]t, b. Swansea, Somerset
   Elizabeth Coren, cook, unmarried, female, 20 [1860/1], Domes[tic] Ser[van]t, b. Twickenham, Middlesex
   Grace Andrews, servant, unmarried, female, 21 [1859/60], Housemaid, b. Woodbridge, Suffolk
   Kate Donnelly, servant, unmarried, female, 18 [1862/3], Und[e]r Housem[ai]d, b. Plumstead, Kent
   William Rogers, servant, married, male, 25 [1855/6], Coachman Domes[tic] Ser[van]t, b. Somersetshire
   Mary Harris, servant, unmarried, female, 27 [1853/4], Profess[iona]l Nurse, b. Hackney, London

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

   d. Augustus Frederick TIMOTHY, June Quarter 1881, Lewisham Registration District, Volume 1d, page 573, aged 51 [1829/30]

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

   1881
   TIMOTHY Augustus Frederick.
   Personal Estate £26,342 10s.
   24 June. The Will of Augustus Frederick Timothy formerly of 3 New-London-street Fenchurch-street but late of 14 Cooper's-row Crutched Friars both in the City of London Wharfinger who died 20 April 1881 at 1 Percy-villas Eltham in the County of Kent was proved at the Principal Registry by George Green of Watford in the County of Hertford Wharfinger and Charles Crowther of 255 Upper-Lewisham-road New Cross in the County of Kent Merchant two of the Executors.