Family of David Usborne STILL and Ellen Agnes KIMPTON

Husband:	David Usborne STILL (bef1846-1932)
Wife:	Ellen Agnes KIMPTON (1849-1931)
Children:	Mabel Agnes STILL (1873-1873)
	Eleanor Annie STILL (1874-1896)
	Harold Usborne STILL (1876-1879)
	Lilian Dora STILL (1877-1892)
	Marian Maud STILL (1881-1980)
	Christina May STILL (1885-1886)
Marriage	30 Sep 1871	Nutfield, Surrey 1,2
Census (family)	5 Apr 1891	Woolwich, Kent 3

Additional Information

Marriage	The Parish Church, Nutfield, Surrey
Census (family)	36 Church Street, Woolwich, Kent

Husband: David Usborne STILL

	David Usborne STILL		David Usborne STILL		David Usborne STILL, Usborne		David Usborne STILL, D U Still 2

	David Usborne STILL, D U Still 1877 west kent yeoman		David Usborne STILL, D U Still 4		David Usborne STILL, D U Still 5		David Usborne STILL, D U Still age 18

	David Usborne STILL, D U Still age 70		David Usborne STILL, D U Still apothacary chest

Name:	David Usborne STILL 4
Sex:	Male
Father:	George STILL (1794-1869)
Mother:	Mary Ann OSBORNE (1809?-1864)
Birth	bef 20 Jan 1846	Staplehurst, Kent 4,5
Christening	20 Jan 1846 (age 0)	Staplehurst Parish Church, Staplehurst, Kent 4
Census (1)	7 Apr 1861 (age 15)	Staplehurst, Kent 6
Occupation (1)	7 Apr 1861 (age 15)	Farmer's son; Staplehurst, Kent 6
Census (2)	2 Apr 1871 (age 25)	Nutfield, Reigate, Surrey 7
Census (3)	3 Apr 1881 (age 35)	Woolwich, Kent 8
Occupation (2)		Farmer [1871]: Chemist and Druggist 9
Census (4)	31 Mar 1901 (age 55)	Woolwich, Kent 10
Occupation (3)	31 Mar 1901 (age 55)	Chemist Drug; Woolwich, Kent 10
Death	19 Jan 1932 (age 85)

Additional Information

Census (1)	Bletchingly Farm "Farm House", Staplehurst, Kent
Census (2)	Red House, Nutfield, Reigate, Surrey
Census (3)	42 Chapel Street, Woolwich, Kent RG11/0744/16/26
Census (4)	36 Church Street

Wife: Ellen Agnes KIMPTON

	Ellen Agnes KIMPTON		Ellen Agnes KIMPTON		Ellen Agnes KIMPTON, Ellen Agnes Still 1		Ellen Agnes KIMPTON, Ellen Agnes Still 2

	Ellen Agnes KIMPTON		Ellen Agnes KIMPTON, Ellen Agnes Still 3 c 1875		Ellen Agnes KIMPTON, Ellen Agnes Still 4		Ellen Agnes KIMPTON, Ellen Agnes Still's sewing chest

	Ellen Agnes KIMPTON, David and Ellen Still

Name:	Ellen Agnes KIMPTON 9,11
Sex:	Female
Father:	Richard Frederick KIMPTON (1825-1872)
Mother:	Mary Ann BISHOP (1819-1908)
Birth	5 Apr 1849	Mildenhall, Suffolk 12,13
Christening	1855 (age 5-6)	Islington, Middlesex 13
Census (1)	2 Apr 1871 (age 21)	Nutfield, Reigate, Surrey 7
Census (2)	3 Apr 1881 (age 31)	Woolwich, Kent 8
Census (3)	31 Mar 1901 (age 51)	Woolwich, Kent 10
Death	18 Mar 1931 (age 81)

Additional Information

Christening	St Mary's Islington, Middlesex
Census (1)	Red House, Nutfield, Reigate, Surrey
Census (2)	42 Chapel Street, Woolwich, Kent RG11/0744/16/26
Census (3)	36 Church Street
Death	died aged 81 years and 11 months

Child 1: Mabel Agnes STILL

Name:	Mabel Agnes STILL
Sex:	Female
Birth	19 Mar 1873	Edenbridge, Kent 13,14
Death	28 Apr 1873 (age 0)	Edenbridge, Kent 13,15

Additional Information

Birth	Marsh Green Farm, Edenbridge, Kent
Death	Bible: "aged 5 wks 5 days"

Child 2: Eleanor Annie STILL

	Eleanor Annie STILL		Eleanor Annie STILL, Nelsie Still		Eleanor Annie STILL, Nelsie memoriam		Eleanor Annie STILL, Dora and Nelsie Still

	Eleanor Annie STILL, Isobel and Nelsie Still

Name:	Eleanor Annie STILL 2,9
Sex:	Female
Birth	25 Oct 1874	Edenbridge, Kent 9,13,14,16
Census (1)	3 Apr 1881 (age 6)	Woolwich, Kent 17
Census (2)	5 Apr 1891 (age 16)	Woolwich, Kent 3
Occupation		Pupil School Teacher [1891]; 3
Death	19 Sep 1896 (age 21) 18,19

Additional Information

Birth	Marsh Green Farm, Edenbridge, Kent
Census (1)	42 Chapel Street, Woolwich, Kent RG11/0744/16/26
Census (2)	36 Church Street, Woolwich, Kent

Child 3: Harold Usborne STILL

Name:	Harold Usborne STILL
Sex:	Male
Birth	22 Jan 1876	Edenbridge, Kent 13,14,20
Death	23 May 1879 (age 3)	Deptford, Kent 13,21,22

Additional Information

Birth	Marsh Green Farm, Edenbridge, Kent
Death	Cause: Scarlet Fever Bible: "aged 3 years and 4 months"

Child 4: Lilian Dora STILL

	Lilian Dora STILL		Lilian Dora STILL, Dora and Nelsie Still		Lilian Dora STILL, Dora Still memoriam card		Lilian Dora STILL

Name:	Lilian Dora STILL 9
Sex:	Female
Birth	11 Feb 1877	Edenbridge, Kent 9,14,23
Census (1)	3 Apr 1881 (age 4)	Woolwich, Kent 8
Census (2)	5 Apr 1891 (age 14)	Woolwich, Kent 3
Death	24 Oct 1892 (age 15)	Woolwich, Kent 24,25

Additional Information

Birth	Marsh Green Farm, Edenbridge, Kent
Census (1)	42 Chapel Street, Woolwich, Kent RG11/0744/16/26
Census (2)	36 Church Street, Woolwich, Kent
Death	Cause: Typhoid Address: 36 Church Street, Woolwich, Kent Newspaper clippings pasted in Bible: "In Memoriam: In fond remembrance of our dear child Lilian Dora Still, who died at 36 Church Street, Woolwich,on 24th October 1892, in the 16th year of her age. 'To live in the hearts oif those we love is not to die'" "STILL- on 24th October 1892, after seven days illness at Church Street, Woolwich, Lilian Dora, the second dearly beloved daughter of David Usborne and Ellen Agnes Still, late of Marsh Green House, Edenbridge, Kent, aged 15 years"

Child 5: Marian Maud STILL

	Marian Maud STILL		Marian Maud STILL		Marian Maud STILL		Marian Maud STILL

	Marian Maud STILL		Marian Maud STILL		Spouse: James George TRINGHAM		Spouse: James George TRINGHAM

	Spouse: James George TRINGHAM		Spouse: James George TRINGHAM		Spouse: James George TRINGHAM		Spouse: James George TRINGHAM

Name:	Marian Maud STILL 3
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	James George TRINGHAM (1880-1940)
Birth	29 Jun 1881	Woolwich, Kent 3,26,27
Christening	6 Nov 1881 (age 0)	Woolwich, Kent 28
Census (1)	5 Apr 1891 (age 9)	Woolwich, Kent 3
Census (2)	31 Mar 1901 (age 19)	Woolwich, Kent 10
Occupation	31 Mar 1901 (age 19)	School Teacher; Woolwich, Kent 10
Death	1980 (age 98-99)

Additional Information

Birth	42 Chapel Street, Woolwich, Kent
Christening	Saint Mary Magdalene, Woolwich
Census (1)	36 Church Street, Woolwich, Kent
Census (2)	36 Church Street

Child 6: Christina May STILL

Name:	Christina May STILL 29
Sex:	Female
Birth	21 Dec 1885	Woolwich, Kent 30,31,32
Christening	15 Feb 1886 (age 0)	Woolwich, Kent 32
Death	19 Feb 1886 (age 0)	Woolwich, Kent 13,29,33
Burial	24 Feb 1886 (as an infant)	Plumstead, Woolwich, London 29,34

Additional Information

Birth	37 Church Street, Woolwich, Kent
Christening	Saint Mary Magdalene, Woolwich
Death	37 Church Street, Woolwich, Kent Bible: "aged 2 months" (Parish register "9 weeks")
Burial	St Nicholas Churchyard, Plumstead, Woolwich, London Service at Saint Margaret, Plumstead. Age 9 weeks

Note on Husband: David Usborne STILL (1)

My Father was the fourth son & sixth child of George Still and Mary Ann Usborne they were first cousins & their children all much alike - dark curling hair - blue eyes good complexions - sturdy but no height except my father who was 5 feet 9 inches - he was the handsome one among them.

 

He and his brother Tom were apprenticed to a Mr. Quested - a chemist of Margate & among the old letters is the indentures of David - he was fifteen & signs his name well - also a letter from his Mother to Thomas - telling him to look after David. David was homesick & used to look away across the country towards Staplehurst & weep a bit for his Mother. He was not to see much more of her because while still serving his apprenticeship she died aged 52. David being then eighteen - Her children all came in to a little money then & bought themselves a gold watch each. But my Father missed his Mother - He never forgot her cooking - Years after my own Mother used to say "You remember your mother's puddings but did she never say anything wise" -

 

David was a chemist's assistant at Canterbury & then went to London to Savoury & Moore - a very high class shop. Here his father died in 1869, aged [blank] & my father gave up his chemistry & went to the Isle of Sheppey to learn farming from his brother George - this brother was the only one to have been set up in a farm. Ramham [sp. third letter may not be m] Farm Eastchurch - & here he met my Mother - Miss Ellen Agnes Kimpton who was governess to the children of a farmer Mr. Alexander Till. My Mother had no financial need to be a governess but she was tired of being at home with nothing special to do. They were married in 1871 September 30th. Their first home was the Marsh Green Farm Edenbridge Kent. About then the farmers were having a bad time and many farmers were to go under. It was a hop farm.²⁹

Note on Husband: David Usborne STILL (2)

After eight years of struggle more or less against adversity they left this farm for another - It was clutching at a straw & they were only six months at the new place - The Manor Farm Frant near Tunbridge Wells. The day they moved there was very wet & their belongings were taken in open farm carts & a most miserable time they had of it. After six months everything was sold to pay off the debts. My Mother with Nelsie & Dora - my Father with Harold went to separate relatives - Grandma Kimpton & Aunt Polly.

 

Later they went to apartments in New Cross London while your Grandfather attended Mr. Will's College daily to study for the chemists examination. He did not take to study & my Mother helped him so much that she could have passed the exam herself. After passing he became assistant to a chemist's widow in Evelyn Street Deptford - while here their little boy Harold Usborne died of Scarlet Fever aged three & a half years - a sad blow for they only had the one son. And so they lost a second child, for Mabel Agnes had died at the Farm aged a few months only.²⁹

Note on Husband: David Usborne STILL (3)

About this time a great change came in our lives. Papa took a new branch shop at Clacton-on-Sea. He took this step in an attempt to get us all away from Church Street to a healthier place. Mama's health was very poor indeed by now but she still had her three girls. It was a brave effort, & took us all away by the sea to live there in a fine new house & shop for about two years. The second season was a failure because the boats from London stopped running & in any case there was only a six weeks season. At this time 1885 - 1886 Clacton was only a very small place indeed. Our back garden backed on to fields. Our address was "Delane House" North Avenue. The shop was beautifully fitted up with mahogany & cut glass. The glory of the house was the crystal cut-glass hanging chandelier in the drawing room over the shop. There was a fine bathroom too. Papa did not come with us he stayed behind to look after the Woolwich shops. A young assistant Mr. Herbert Bailey aged nineteen was to look after the shop. A very amiable young man we all liked. I used to ride on his shoulders into the confectioners shop near-by where he was courting the proprietor's sister. He was in fact already married though we did not know it.²⁹

Note on Husband: David Usborne STILL (4)

Papa had an underlying streak of melancholy. Fortunately he had to work so hard he never had time to dwell upon it.

 

About this time Papa joined the Choir at Holy Trinity Church Charlton & he also became a Sunday School Teacher. His energy must have been enormous. We all went to morning service as well & the shop was kept open on Saturday night till after 11.30 p.m. Then we opened again on Sunday evening from 6 - 8 p.m. He had no rest.

 

Papa drew out teeth & poisoned with prussic acid both cats and dogs. The dogs died there on the spot but the cats always had a run for it up the garden. He made all his own pills and his own Eau de Cologne & Lavender Water. The filter papers we used to keep & put away among our things. He made up many proprietary medicines & people would write for them from various places - mostly soldiers. Also he had a hair dye which had a good post sale. He was a 'prescribing' chemist & customers would say "Is the doctor in?" or "Is the guvnor in?".

 

Being on a hill we had a lot of accidents brought in & Papa gave first aid. A crowd always surrounded the place at these times - mostly a lot of drunken people. As no one had any money to pay for these services when finished Papa would begin by saying "Who is going to pay." Sometimes the accident was serious. A tram conductor was run over & brought in. He was too bad for first-aid & my Mother made him a cup of tea. The ambulance always took at least half an hour to arrive. Once a woman was brought in whose husband had cut her throat on top of a tram car. By the time she had gone the shop was in an awful state. Papa was out so Mama with my help had to clear it up & no one to pay anything that time. Dog-bites too were very common & were cauterised. Mama was as clever as Papa with strapping up cuts and wounds. She pinned her faith to Friar's Balsam.

 

In the summer we would go with Papa to Abbey Wood & gather elder-flower - his great Gladstone bag full. These were for Elderflower Water & Elderflower ointment. I used to love the smell but got tired out of picking off the petals - a job Dora & I had to do. She & I also used to take out medicines to certain addresses & often take goods to the little shop at Charlton. We never took the tram but always walked. I don't remember my sister Nelsie doing these things. Later on Papa was to have a shop-boy but not yet.²⁹

Note on Husband: David Usborne STILL (5)

In the summer we went away together just Nelsie & I. Mama seldom came. We went to relations or friends. Papa took to going abroad for his holidays. To Cork, or Isle of Man, Antwerp or Bordeaux. He went up to Scotland too. Cousin Ernest often went with him. They were very good friends & used to laugh a lot together. Papa never quarrelled with him like he did with Uncle Tom. Papa was now to buy a new business at 39, Artillery Place, Woolwich. And now at last he began to make a little more money. It was never quite so scarce after this. And from then on we began to have an assistant living in the house. So Nelsie & I came lower down & had the bed-room underneath still looking over the garden. These young men were a general source of interest to my Mother she liked to talk to them. I was always spoken of as "Miss Marion". Papa no longer took any interest in the garden but kept chickens instead which spoilt it & later bulldogs which ruined it. But the green house was always kept in good order & looked pretty from the parlour.

 

A new shop front was put in to replace the old fashioned small panes & the heavy shutters done away with. Instead Papa had a white blind to draw down. This was a great improvement to the shop & we no longer had the Sunday darkness in there. We also had a shop-boy who carried the medicines out or took parcels to the other shops. There was no question of our moving to Artillery Place though it was so near the Common & a better though old house, because of the soldiers. It was just opposite the Cambridge Barracks archway & the soldiers were constantly going in and out. Mama thought it not suitable for us. Some years later Papa was to have this shop pulled down & rebuilt. And it was to be sold by me in 1941. Papa now took to an allotment at Abbey Wood, he had three plots I think. This was a splendid thing for him as it took him away from the shop quite [a] lot & he did love it there. He was always a countryman at heart.

Note on Husband: David Usborne STILL (6)

Mama seemed to be indoors a great deal. She had the treasure of a well-stocked mind no doubt but her health was rather poor. She suffered so much from headaches, sometimes lying all day in a darkened room. She continued to write for the papers & articles signed E.A.S. were not uncommon in the local papers. She reported the University Extension Lectures to which she went with Nelsie - Mr. Wightman also went. Nelsie used to hope that as their initials were the same, people would not think the reports were hers. For Mama made people laugh & Nelsie would have been more serious & exact.

Note on Wife: Ellen Agnes KIMPTON (1)

My mother was a Londoner & knew nothing a farmers ways. She was a very handsome young woman of 22 when she married my Father - he too was very good looking with his dark curling hair blue eyes, splendid teeth - so I was told. He was 26 by now & for the time being the chemist shop was a thing of the past. My mother was fair - with a quantity of hair and very steady large clear grey eyes & fine features. She was a witty talker, a great reader so found the country folks in those days very dull.

 

My father gave up his chemistry & went to the Isle of Sheppey ... & here he met my Mother - Miss Ellen Agnes Kimpton who was governess to the children of a farmer Mr. Alexander Till. My Mother had no financial need to be a governess but she was tired of being at home with nothing special to do. They were married in 1871 September 30th. Their first home was the Marsh Green Farm Edenbridge Kent.²⁹

Note on Wife: Ellen Agnes KIMPTON (2)

About Christmas time 1885 Mama had her last baby, Christina May. But the child only lived a few months & I [Marion Maud Still] continued to be called "Baby" until I was seven. After this Mama's health got very bad - the Doctor even said she was threatened with consumption. I think she was too much indoors.

 

Mama & Nelsie were much together while Dora & I played around - I was rather a nervous little child, so afraid something might happen to my Mother. In the early days I had called her "Bovewhere" i.e. "Lovedear". If after some words with our Father she was in tears, as so often happened, I would run to her & say "Oh kiss my wiggit" - meaning "kiss my head". I always thought that would comfort her. She never cried but I cried too. I sometimes could not sleep less there was any trouble downstairs. At the sound of any altercation I would run down in my night gown while both my sisters were comfortably asleep.²⁹

Note on Wife: Ellen Agnes KIMPTON (3)

Every Sunday morning we went to Church without fail, except Mama who cooked the dinner. Somehow she "had lost her religion", a great grief "worse than losing the children". Anyhow she never ever came with us to Church.

 

. I was brought up amongst religious controversy at home, between Cousin Ernest & Mr. Wightman my Mother & even Grandma & the Rev. Long, all if not agnostics were very unorthodox. Though Grandma read the Psalms every day, like Mama she had "lost her religion". Later on my Mother was to become a Spiritualist & would vouchsafe for the authenticity of its tenets. She certainly drew comfort from its meetings.

Note on Wife: Ellen Agnes KIMPTON (4)

About this time [1885 / 1886] a great change came in our lives. Papa took a new branch shop at Clacton-on-Sea. He took this step in an attempt to get us all away from Church Street to a healthier place. Mama's health was very poor indeed by now but she still had her three girls.²⁹

Note on Wife: Ellen Agnes KIMPTON (5)

Mama always sang at her work. Then she started writing to the papers. Letters to begin with, which got published in the local papers. Then articles - sometimes she got 10/- for these. And once she had £5 for a long tale. "Sala's Journal" a weekly periodical published some of her articles. No doubt had she been able to devote herself to writing she could have made her mark. She was a good reader & well versed in the poets. She had fire & life & imagination & was distinguished in appearance. My sisters used to wish they were like "Mama". Papa had an underlying streak of melancholy. Fortunately he had to work so hard he never had time to dwell upon it. My Mother would liken herself to "a race horse tied to a feather-bed". - stuffed full of misery" - her motto was "Do the next thing" - also for us children "Do what you ought come what may."

 

Mama joined the Natural History Society connected with the Church in Beresford's Square. She wrote a paper & read it. & joined in the debates. For the exhibition they had, she made a "trophy" in the baby's basket she had. It was composed of seeds only all arranged in a wonderful pattern. Perhaps dried flowers too arranged in a pattern & some standing up high - most of these seeds came from the shop - coriander & linseed & poppy heads. A great variety & it was quite a triumph. I remember her carrying it through the town to the Hall.

 

We all thought the world of Mama. My sisters used to wish they "looked more like Mama".

 

My sister often went away to stay with old friends of my Mother, made during the farm days - the Fenns the Holmes' & Mrs. Mellish. These friends also came to stay with us. It was nearly a week before they could get to sleep at night because of the noise in the street. Mama used to take them up to London to see the sights. Of course being a Londoner she knew it well & was used to the traffic.²⁹

Note on Wife: Ellen Agnes KIMPTON (6)

We were to have some very interesting relations of Mama's come to live at Plumstead - the Walter Bishops' They were most friendly & Cousin Walter very musical indeed so that he was quite an addition to our musical evenings. Cousin Lizzie we liked very much. Harold & May were round about my age & we were to see a great deal of them a little later on. They were Congregationalists & all the family went to the Rectory Place Chapel Woolwich. And Cousin Walter ran a Literary & Debating Society there. And Mama joined it & wrote papers for it spoke at the meetings, & reported them for the local papers. It took the place of the Natural History Society.

Note on Wife: Ellen Agnes KIMPTON (7)

. Mama's health was always an anxiety, & lately she had become very asthmatic. Once she was very ill & Mrs. Power came up to nurse her. I remember Papa & I both crying in the drug-room because the Doctor said Mama's life "hung on a thread". Life was terribly dark when Mama was so ill. But she always recovered very quickly & was her own bright self again - singing at her work & running up the stairs. She & I has a very delightful holiday at Overseal in Derbyshire when I was nineteen. We stayed with Herbert & Edie Holmes. Their parents had lived at Edenbridge years old when my Parents were at the farm - their father was the doctor of the place. Now both their parents were dead. Herbert was now 35 & a widower. For he had married the Vicar's sister years older than he, & she had died leaving him a fortune. He had been a bank clerk at Swadlingcote but after his marriage he did no more work. The lady had only lived two years. He made a very pleasant host. & Edith had been a friend of Nelsie's. They had a fine country house & large garden & orchard. but no carriage as Herbert was too nervous. I used to use Edith bicycle & cycle around with Herbert. He took me to see the stained glass window he had put in the Church in memory of his wife.

 

Their near neighbour had two carriages - one a kind of wagonette & in that we all went on trips around - to Ashby & to Burton-on-Trent. One amusing incident was our visit to a Clairvoyant - an old person who had tracked down a murderer so it was said. She was dressed in old gold velvet & on the table was a large crystal. My mother & I & the neighbour's wife were there. I was the first to be told - she looked at my hand & said I should have three lovers - one dark & one brown & one fair haired. But she added "Beware of the fair one - he will fluctuate" !! So much for my hand. Then she looked at Mama & said "You are the one who sees - I have nothing to tell you" - then she added "How old are you ?" & Mama said "fifty-one". Then the Clairvoyant said "If you are only 51 - you bears your years very heavy". And she refused to tell Mama anything. She read the other lady's hand. Then I got a surprise. Our holiday was nearing its end. We had so much enjoyed it & Mama & I . Mama had done so much talking & had been so happy. A day or so before we left Mama said to me - "If you would like to marry Herbert you have but to raise your little finger" - I had not thought of it. And when he said to me "Why Marion I am afraid I am old enough to be your Father" which he was not - I replied "Of course you are" - & ran away.

 

Poor Mama. She and Herbert had been discussing the matter - but I would not listen to either of them. Later he said to Mama "She is only a child" - which was true. Eight years afterwards Herbert was to give to Jamie a very nice silver serviette ring. I have it now. [I think that this is the one that I still have. Roger. Jan 2005.] It was a christening present. He was still unmarried & was staying with Mama at the Village at the time. Years later he was to marry another elderly lady. Was the old clairvoyant right - & I was to have three lovers ? Herbert was brown haired with dark eyes, nice looking in a neat way & about 5 ft 9in in height. Daddy was certainly fair ! & Bernherd must be the dark haired one ? And so we said Goodbye to our very pleasant friends Herbert & Edith Holmes. Soon afterwards they both took a trip across America to Vancouver to see their brother Charles. But we were to see them both again before long.

 

I remember our return from this holiday - we arrived about eight o'clock at night - my Mother & I. After a holiday the street & shop always looked strange. And into the dark house, Papa was very busy though glad to see us back & upstairs Ada "the girl" was on her knees scrubbing the bed-room floor with plenty of water. The holiday at Overseal did Mama a deal of good. The year before she had been in a very poor state of health & with Uncle Joseph's financial help she had gone to Worthing for six weeks by herself.²⁹

Note on Wife: Ellen Agnes KIMPTON (8)

Grandfather's Letter to Me

 

45 Goswell St

Oct 30th 1858.

 

My Dear Girl

I received your very kind letter yesterday with your many kind wishes for many happy returns of my birthday. I thanks you my dear girl for the letter it is very nicely written.

And I thank you and Lizzie & Emily for the very pretty book marker, as it seems to be a gift from all three. I am very pleased to accept it and send you my love and many kisses from

Your Affectionate

Grandfather

J. Bishop

 

To Miss Ellen Kimpton - A last letter from Lowestoft

 

35 Marine Parade

July 10th 1865

 

My Dear Girl

I thought I should have seen you before I came away. I wanted to see you to tell you to take the children to Holloway to gather some of the fruit there is lots of it. Let the children go if you do not. How do you get on about the house at Holborn & how is dear Fred getting on. This is a very nice place and I do hope that it will do me good, but I have been very sadly since I have been here till to-day. This afternoon we had a heavy thunderstorm. My kind regards to Richard. Mother joins me in kind love to you all from

Your Affectionate Father

J. Bishop

 

[pencil note added … to Mrs Kimpton]³⁵

Sources

1

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "1881 Census - Family Search Website" (Online 1881 Census for England and Wales). Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: Type: MARRIAGES Start date: Sep 1871 End date: Sep 1871 Volume: 2a Page: 225 Whilst FreeBMD makes every effort to ensure accurate transcription, errors exist in both the original index and the transcription. You are advised to verify the reference given from a copy of the index before ordering a certificate. Surname First name(s) District Vol Page -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marriages Sep 1871 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kimpton Ellen Agnes Reigate 2a 225 STILL David Osborne Reigate 2a 225

2	Marion Maud Tringham nee Still, "Your Great Grand Parents - by Marion Maud Tringham nee Still".
	Graham Hoadly.

3	GRO, "1891 Census". RG12/530/7/8. Assessment: Primary evidence.

4	Staplehurst Baptismal Registers (Microfilm).
	Centre for Kentish Studies / Kent County Archives Service, Sessions House County Hall Maidstone Kent ME14 1XQ. Tel: 01622 694 363.

5	"Information from Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths website: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/" (Internet). Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: Births Mar 1846 (>99%) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Still David Usborne Maidstone 5 347
	Internet. Call Number: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ (electronic).

	Source: Free BMD website, marriage certificate - Lucy Jaques Alexander Davis - 25Dec 1902

6	"Census 1861 (George Still) Staplehurst, Kent RG9/498/90/15". Assessment: Primary evidence.

7	1871 census (Microfilm). RG10/835/66/3. Assessment: Primary evidence.
	Family Records Centre, 1 Myddleton Street LONDON EC1R 1UW. Tel: 020 8392 5300.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "1881 Census - Family Search Website" (Online 1881 Census for England and Wales). RG11/0744/16/26. Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: Household Record 1881 British Census Search results | Download Previous Household Next Household -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Household: Name Relation Marital Status Gender Age Birthplace Occupation Disability David U. STILL Head M Male 35 Staplehurst, Kent, England Chemist & Druggist Ellen A. STILL Wife M Female 31 Milden Hall, Suffolk, England Chemists Wife Eleanor A. STILL Daur Female 6 Edenbridge, Kent, England Scholar Lilian D. STILL Daur Female 4 Edenbridge, Kent, England Scholar -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source Information: Dwelling 42 Chapel Street Census Place Woolwich, Kent, England Family History Library Film 1341174 Public Records Office Reference RG11 Piece / Folio 0744 / 16 Page Number 26

9	1881 census entry.

10	"Census 1901 (David U. Still) Woolwich, Kent RG13/567/11/14". Assessment: Primary evidence.

11

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "1881 Census - Family Search Website" (Online 1881 Census for England and Wales). Text From Source: Type: MARRIAGES Start date: Sep 1871 End date: Sep 1871 Volume: 2a Page: 225 Surname First name(s) District Vol Page -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marriages Sep 1871 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kimpton Ellen Agnes Reigate 2a 225 STILL David Osborne Reigate 2a 225

12	"Information from Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths website: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/" (Internet). Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1983 about Ellen Agnes Kimpton Name: Ellen Agnes Kimpton Year of Registration: 1849 Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun District: Mildenhall County: Suffolk Volume: 13 Page: 495
	Internet. Call Number: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ (electronic).

	Source: Free BMD website, marriage certificate - Lucy Jaques Alexander Davis - 25Dec 1902

13	"Kimpton / Bishop Family Bible".
	Roger Tringham, Hallow Worcestershire.

14	Marion Maud Tringham nee Still, "Your Great Grand Parents - by Marion Maud Tringham nee Still". Text From Source: They were married in 1871 September 30th. Their first home was the Marsh Green Farm Edenbridge Kent. The children born here were Mabel Agnes - Eleanor Annie, Harold Usborne & Lilian Dora
	Graham Hoadly.

15

"Information from Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths website: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/" (Internet). Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1983 about Mabel Agnes Still Name: Mabel Agnes Still Estimated birth year: abt 1873 Year of Registration: 1873 Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun Age at Death: 0 District: Sevenoaks County: Kent Volume: 2a Page: 287

Internet. Call Number: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ (electronic).

	Source: Free BMD website, marriage certificate - Lucy Jaques Alexander Davis - 25Dec 1902

16

Ibid. Text From Source: Surname First name(s) District Vol Page -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Births Dec 1874 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Still Eleanor Annie Sevenoaks 2a 518 Still Eleanor Annie Sevenoaks 2a 548

	Source: Free BMD website, marriage certificate - Lucy Jaques Alexander Davis - 25Dec 1902

17	The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "1881 Census - Family Search Website" (Online 1881 Census for England and Wales). RG11/0744/16/26.

18

Marion Maud Tringham nee Still, "Your Great Grand Parents - by Marion Maud Tringham nee Still". Assessment: Primary evidence. Text From Source: But a very tragic event was about to happen & once more Death was to take its toll of our little family. On September 15th 1896 or rather 14th we had gone to school as usual & Nelsie had gone out to tea at the Jacobson's by herself - After supper Mr Wightman saw her home as he had done so many times before. She & I had just gone to bed when she remembered she had not read a letter that had come from Aunt Annie & I said "Oh read it in the morning". But she would go into Mama's room for it. After reading it we went to bed & asleep. As you know I was awakened at about 3 o'clock in the morning by the queer noise my sister was making. Thinking it was indigestion I rubbed her back. She did not speak & all was quiet. I almost thought of going to sleep again but the room was so dead quiet I felt something was wrong & called my Mother. Rather to my surprise both Mama & Papa came at once. But we were all in the dark & no matches to be found. I remember my Mother's agonising call up the stairs "For God's sake Mr. Harvey bring some matches". At last a light was got & our Father took the candle in one hand & placed his arm round Nelsie to gently raise her up. I stood in the doorway with mama while Papa was doing this. Then he said quietly "She's gone" and Mama replied "Thank God" - .

Graham Hoadly.

19

"Information from Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths website: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/" (Internet). Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1983 about Eleanor Annie Still Name: Eleanor Annie Still Estimated birth year: abt 1875 Year of Registration: 1896 Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep Age at Death: 21 District: Woolwich County: Greater London, Kent, London Volume: 1d Page: 746

Internet. Call Number: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ (electronic).

	Source: Free BMD website, marriage certificate - Lucy Jaques Alexander Davis - 25Dec 1902

20	Ibid. Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1983 about Harold Usborne Still Name: Harold Usborne Still Year of Registration: 1876 Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar District: Sevenoaks County: Kent Volume: 2a Page: 5*9

	Source: Free BMD website, marriage certificate - Lucy Jaques Alexander Davis - 25Dec 1902

21

Ibid. Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1983 about Harold Usborne Still Name: Harold Usborne Still Estimated birth year: abt 1876 Year of Registration: 1879 Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun Age at Death: 3 District: Greenwich County: Greater London, Kent, London, Surrey Volume: 1d Page: 551

	Source: Free BMD website, marriage certificate - Lucy Jaques Alexander Davis - 25Dec 1902

22	Marion Maud Tringham nee Still, "Your Great Grand Parents - by Marion Maud Tringham nee Still". Assessment: Primary evidence. Text From Source: After passing [David] became assistant to a chemist's widow in Evelyn Street Deptford - while here their little boy Harold Usborne died of Scarlet Fever aged three & a half years - a sad blow for they only had the one son.
	Graham Hoadly.

23	"Information from Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths website: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/" (Internet). Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1983 about Lilian Dora Still Name: Lilian Dora Still Year of Registration: 1877 Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar District: Sevenoaks County: Kent Volume: 2a Page: 609
	Internet. Call Number: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ (electronic).

	Source: Free BMD website, marriage certificate - Lucy Jaques Alexander Davis - 25Dec 1902

24

Ibid. Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1983 about Lilian Dora Still Name: Lilian Dora Still Estimated birth year: abt 1877 Year of Registration: 1892 Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec Age at Death: 15 District: Woolwich County: Greater London, Kent, London Volume: 1d Page: 687

	Source: Free BMD website, marriage certificate - Lucy Jaques Alexander Davis - 25Dec 1902

25	Marion Maud Tringham nee Still, "Your Great Grand Parents - by Marion Maud Tringham nee Still". Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: She had died on October 24th 1892 a day before Nelsie's 18th birthday & I was now eleven years & a few months.
	Graham Hoadly.

26	GRO Indexes. Assessment: Primary evidence. Text From Source: Births Sep 1881 Marion Maud Still Woolwich 1d 1098
	Family Records Centre, 1 Myddleton Street LONDON EC1R 1UW. Tel: 020 8392 5300.

	Source: GRO Indexes, Frederich Charles Jaques Martha Kearns Marr 1907

27

Marion Maud Tringham nee Still, "Your Great Grand Parents - by Marion Maud Tringham nee Still". Assessment: Primary evidence. Text From Source: The first shop my father took was at Woolwich - 42 Chapel Street which ran straight up from the main Dockyard Gate. It had been a doctors surgery - and was quite small in all ways. Here in 1881 on the 29th of June while the thermometer stood at 91* in the shade - I your Mother was born.

Graham Hoadly.

28	"Marian Maud Still 1881". Assessment: Primary evidence.

29	Marion Maud Tringham nee Still, "Your Great Grand Parents - by Marion Maud Tringham nee Still". Assessment: Primary evidence.
	Graham Hoadly.

30	Ibid. Assessment: Primary evidence. Text From Source: About Christmas time 1885 Mama had her last baby, Christina May. But the child only lived a few months

31	"Information from Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths website: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/" (Internet). Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1983 about Christina May Still Name: Christina May Still Year of Registration: 1886 Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar District: Woolwich County: Greater London, Kent, London Volume: 1d Page: 1262
	Internet. Call Number: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ (electronic).

	Source: Free BMD website, marriage certificate - Lucy Jaques Alexander Davis - 25Dec 1902

32	"Christina May Still 1886". Assessment: Primary evidence.

33

"Information from Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths website: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/" (Internet). Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1983 about Christina May Still Name: Christina May Still Estimated birth year: abt 1886 Year of Registration: 1886 Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar Age at Death: 0 District: Woolwich County: Greater London, Kent, London Volume: 1d Page: 875

Internet. Call Number: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ (electronic).

	Source: Free BMD website, marriage certificate - Lucy Jaques Alexander Davis - 25Dec 1902

34	"Christina May Still 1886". Assessment: Primary evidence.

35	Ellen Agnes Kimpton, "Mary Ann Bishop's account of her Father and Family".
	Roger Tringham, Hallow Worcestershire.