Person:Mary Chapman (116)

Mary Ellen Chapman was born on 11th August 1874 at Preston in Lancashire, daughter of Ellen Chapman, formerly Hegarty, and her husband Isaac Chapman. The family was not from Lancashire; Isaac was from Ely in Cambridgeshire and Ellen was from Ireland. Indeed, Isaac and Ellen had married in Ireland the previous November, marrying at Buttevant in County Cork, where Isaac had been serving as a soldier with the 20th Regiment. By the time Mary's younger sister Annie Elizabeth was born in 1877 the family had moved to London.

The 1881 census finds Mary living with her parents and siblings at 2 Stanhope Road in the New Southgate area in Middlesex, in the rapidly expanding northern suburbs of London. By 1891 Mary had left home and was working as a domestic servant for a wholesale druggist at 2 Grove Road in New Southgate.

On 1st August 1896, aged 21, Mary married James Moles at St Paul's Church in New Southgate. They went on to have six children together between 1898 and 1910, all born in the Southgate area. The 1901 census finds James, Mary and their children living in two rooms at 27 Lower Park Road in Southgate. By 1911 they were living in a four-roomed house at 17 Palmers Road in New Southgate. James worked as a labourer in the building trade.

By the end of the First World War the family had moved to 45 The Avenue, which was just over the border from Southgate into the neighbouring Friern Barnet Urban District. Some of the electoral rolls give Mary's name as 'May Ellen Moles', suggesting she may have been known as May rather than Mary. James died in 1928, aged 55.

For the first couple of years after James's death Mary continued to live at 45 The Avenue with her youngest two children, James Frederick and Mary Kathleen. Around 1935 they moved a few doors down to 52 The Avenue, and some time between 1937 and 1939 they moved again to 7 The Homestead on Waterfall Road. Although only just around the corner and still in the general New Southgate area, 7 The Homestead administratively fell within the East Barnet Urban District in Hertfordshire.

Mary died in the Barnet district in 1959, aged 84.

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

   b. Mary Ellen CHAPMAN, December Quarter 1874, Preston Registration District, Volume 8e, page 633, mother's maiden name Hagarty

2. ↑ 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 1373; Folio 75; Page 62, 3 Apr 1881.

   Address: 2 Stanhope Road, New Southgate, Friern Barnet, Middlesex
   Isaac Chapman, head, married, male, 38 [1842/3], Labourer, b. Ely, Cambridgeshire
   Ellen Chapman, wife, married, female, 37 [1843/4], b. Ireland
   Mary E. Chapman, daughter, female, 6 [1874/5], Scholar, b. Preston, Lancashire
   Annie E. Chapman, daughter, female, 4 [1876/7], b. London, Middlesex
   Alice Chapman, daughter, female, 1 [1879/80], b. Friern Barnet, Middlesex

3. ↑ 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 1084; Folio 99; Page 26, 5 Apr 1891.

   Address: 2 Grove Road, New Southgate, Southgate (Urban Sanitary District), Edmonton (Civil Parish), Middlesex
   Herbert J. Willows, head, single, male, 27 [1863/4], Wholesale Druggist (Manager), employed, b. London
   Mary E. Willows, sister, single, female, 29 [1861/2], Living on her own means, b. London
   Alice E. Willows, sister, single, female, 24 [1866/7], Living on her own means, b. London
   Mary E. Chapman, servant, single, female, 17 [1873/4], General Domestic Servant, b. Preston, Lancashire

4. ↑ England. England. 1901 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 RG13; Piece 1267; Folio 63; Page 14, 31 Mar 1901.

   Address: 27 Lower Park Road, Southgate, Middlesex
   2 rooms occupied
   James Moles, head, married, male, 27 [1873/4], General Labourer, worker, b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
   May Moles, wife, married, female, 26 [1874/5], b. Preston, Lancashire
   Ellen M. Moles, daughter, female, 2 [1898/9], b. New Southgate, Middlesex
   Florence F. Moles, daughter, female, 1 [1899/1900], b. New Southgate, Middlesex

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 7404; Schedule 8, 2 Apr 1911.

   Address: 17 Palmers Road, New Southgate, Southgate, Middlesex
   4 rooms occupied
   James Moles, head, male, 36 [1874/5], Labourer - Building, worker, b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
   Mary Moles, wife, female, 35 [1875/6], married 14 years, 6 children born alive, 6 children still living, b. Preston, Lancashire
   Ellen Moles, daughter, female, 12 [1898/9], b. Southgate, Middlesex
   Florence Moles, daughter, female, 11 [1899/1900], b. Southgate, Middlesex
   Hilda Moles, daughter, female, 10 [1900/1], b. Southgate, Middlesex
   Dorothy Moles, daughter, female, 6 [1904/5], b. Southgate, Middlesex
   James Moles, son, male, 5 [1905/6], b. Southgate, Middlesex
   Mary Moles, daughter, female, 8 months [1910], b. Southgate, Middlesex

6.   London, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 (London Metropolitan Archives / ancestry.co.uk).

   1918: 45 The Avenue, Friern Barnet
   Moles, May Ellen
   Moles, James
   Same in 1919, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924
   
   1925: 45 The Avenue, Friern Barnet
   Moles, May Ellen
   Moles, James
   Perry, Richard
   No change in 1926, 1927, 1928
   
   1930: 45 The Avenue, Friern Barnet
   Moles, May Ellen
   Moles, James
   Perry, Dorothy Elizabeth
   Perry, Richard
   
   1932: 45 The Avenue, Friern Barnet
   Moles, James Frederick
   Moles, Mary Ellen
   Moles, Mary Kathleen
   Perry, Dorothy Elizabeth
   Perry, William Richard
   Stephens, Helen May
   Stephens, William Joseph
   
   1934: 45 The Avenue, Friern Barnet
   Moles, James Frederick
   Moles, Mary Ellen
   Moles, Mary Kathleen
   Perry, Dorothy Elizabeth
   Perry, William Richard
   
   1935: 52 The Avenue, Friern Barnet
   Moles, James Frederick
   Moles, Mary Ellen
   Moles, Mary Kathleen
   
   1937: 52 The Avenue, Friern Barnet
   Foxon, Elizabeth Mary
   Moles, James Frederick
   Moles, Mary Ellen
   Moles, Mary Kathleen
   
   1949: 7 The Homestead, Waterfall Road, East Barnet, Hertfordshire
   Moles, James F.
   Moles, Mary E.

7. ↑ ^7.0 7.1 General Register Office. 1939 Register
   East Barnet Urban District, 29 Sep 1939.

   Address: 7 Waterfall Road N11, East Barnet, Hertfordshire
   Moles [later crossed out and replaced with 'Kaiser'], Mary K. / female / 8 Aug 1910 / single / Factory Hand Cork Stopper Works
   Moles, James F. / male / 25 June 1905 / single / Golf Course Groundsman
   Moles, Mary E. / female / 11 Aug 1874 / widow / Unpaid Domestic Duties

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

   d. Mary E. MOLES, March Quarter 1959, Barnet Registration District, Volume 5a, page 963, aged 83 [1875/6]