Person:Mabel Timothy (1)

Mabel Constance Timothy was born on 28th February 1874 at 3 Camden Villas in Lewisham in Kent, in the south-eastern suburbs of London. She was the daughter of Elizabeth Timothy, formerly Hutchings, and her husband Peter Vincent Timothy, a surgeon and physician. Mabel was the ninth of the couple's ten children. They did not stay long in Lewisham after Mabel's birth; her younger sister was born in 1875 at Hastings on the Sussex coast.

Mabel's parents appear to have separated around the late 1870s or early 1880s. The 1881 census finds Mabel living with her mother and siblings at Southport on the Lancashire coast, whilst her father was living with another woman (with whom he would have a son later that year) in Manchester.

In 1891 Mabel was visiting her older brother Eustace, who had moved to Wivenhoe in Essex. After 1891, no trace of Mabel has been found for the next twenty years. In this time, her mother died in the Bury area north of Manchester in 1904.

Mabel's next sighting is in the 1911 census, when she was living as companion to an older lady in a relatively large house in Hampstead in London.

Mabel's father died in Norfolk in 1919.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Mabel was living at a house called The Vatch, in the village of Hadley Down in Sussex. She was described as being of private means.

Mabel lived to be 96 years old. She died on 5th August 1970 at Hove in Sussex.

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

   b. Mabel Constance TIMOTHY, June Quarter 1874, Lewisham Registration District, Volume 1d, page 909, mother's maiden name Hutchings

2. ↑ Morning Post (London), in United Kingdom. The British Newspaper Archive
   Page 8, 4 Mar 1874.

   BIRTHS.
   TIMOTHY. - On the 28th ult., at 3 Camden-villas, Lewisham, the wife of P.V. Timothy, L.R.C.P. Lond., of a daughter.

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 3751; Folio 14; Page 22, 3 Apr 1881.

   Address: 20 Princes Street, North Meols (Township), Southport (Borough), Lancashire
   Elizabeth Timothy, wife, married, female, 42 [1838/9], Broker's Wife, b. Dorney, Buckinghamshire
   Edith L. Timothy, daughter, unmarried, female, 17 [1863/4], b. Markyate Street, Bedfordshire
   Beatrice E. Timothy, daughter, unmarried, female, 15 [1865/6], Scholar, b. Markyate Street, Bedfordshire
   Alice B. Timothy, daughter, unmarried, female, 14 [1866/7], Scholar, b. Markyate Street, Bedfordshire
   Victor L. Timothy, son, male, 10 [1870/1], Scholar, b. Shoreditch, Middlesex
   Gustave T. Timothy, son, male, 8 [1872/3], Scholar, b. Lewisham, Kent
   Mabel C. Timothy, daughter, female, 7 [1873/4], Scholar, b. Lewisham, Kent
   Cordelia I.J. Timothy, daughter, female, 5 [1875/6], Scholar, b. Hastings, Sussex
   Mary [illegible surname], servant, unmarried, female, 25 [1855/6], Cook Domestic Servant, b. Castletown, Ireland
   Elizabeth A. Holmes, servant, unmarried, female, 15 [1865/6], Housemaid Domestic Servant, b. Barrow, Lancashire

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 1413; Folio 9; Page 10, 5 Apr 1891.

   Address: High Street, Wivenhoe, Essex
   Eustace B. Timothy, head, married, male, 29 [1861/2], Naval Architect, employed, b. Whitlesy [sic], Cambridgshire
   Agnes Timothy, wife, married, female, 31 [1859/60], b. Mount Sorrel, Leicestershire
   Vivian B. Timothy, son, male, 4 [1886/7], b. Greenwich, Kent
   Aubrey C. Timothy, son, male, 1 [1889/90], b. Wivenhoe, Essex
   Mabel C. Timothy, sister, female, 17 [1873/4], b. Lewisham, Kent
   Kezia Hardy, servant, female, 19 [1871/2], General Serv[an]t, employed, b. Mersea, Essex

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 603; Schedule 241, 2 Apr 1911.

   Address: 36 Heath Hurst Road, Hampstead, London
   9 rooms occupied
   Fanny Jane Evans Smither, head, female, 74 [1836/7], single, b. Clapham Common, London
   Mabel Constance Timothy, companion, female, 33 [1877/8], single, b. Lewisham, London
   Charlotte Cavaliero Estcourt, servant, female, 41 [1869/70], single, b. Islington, London
   Mary McCollock Stewart, servant, female, 40 [1870/1], single, b. Kirkintillock, Dumbartonshire

6. ↑ General Register Office. 1939 Register
   Uckfield Rural District, 29 Sep 1939.

   Address: The Vatch, Hadley Down, Sussex
   Lott, Hilda / female / 8 May 1880 / widow / Private means
   Timothy Mabel C. / female / 28 Feb 1881 / single / Private means
   Martin, Gladys Ivy / female / 10 Jan 1910 / single / Hospital Nurse
   Thomas, Elizabeth / female / 22 Sep 1867 [later hand changed to 29 Sep 1869] / single / Housekeeper
   [one record closed]

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

   d. Mabel Constance TIMOTHY, September Quarter 1970, Hove Registration District, Volume 5h, page 1133, b. 28 Feb 1874

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

   1970
   TIMOTHY Mabel Constance of 8 Walsingham Rd Hove died 5 August 1970 Probate London 3 November. £4206.